Police Officer John Robert Pugh

John Robert Pugh

Officer Pugh, a mounted police officer, was shot and mortally wounded on July 31, 1886, near Lower Wetumpka Road and Eufaula Railroad while attempting to serve a warrant on a subject when another subject shot him.

Officer Pugh, who was hit in the bowels by gunfire, succumbed to his wounds months later. The man who shot him was apprehended and sentenced to life in prison. Officer Pugh was survived by his wife and four children (two of whom died the following year).