William Hughs Hughes (1818 - 1896)

Born 12 Jan 1818 in Adair, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Died 22 Jul 1896 at age 78 in Sangamon, Illinois, United States

Biography

William Thompson Hughes (17. Elizabeth A. Jones) (1818 - 1896) m. 1847, Derinda Scott (1828 - 1894), daughter of Rev. Andrew Scott, a Christian minister. About 1843 W. T. Hughes, named for his mother’s half uncle, William Mills Thompson, left home, teaching singing school as he traveled. He settled in Sangamon County, Illinois, where he acquired various tracts of rich land. At Elkhart he established amerchandising business, and later built a stately residence in Springfield, still occupied by his grandson, William Hughes Diller. He was a dignified figure, with silk hat and gold cane, and a devoted member of the Christian Church. The children of this couple were: 1. Mary Louise 2. Adeline May

17. Elizabeth Ashby Jones (9. Robert) (March 25, 1798 - February 4, 1855) m. Dudley Hughes (February 13, 1789 - January 13, 1837), May 24, 1814, in Adair Co., Ky. (Dudley Hughes Family Bible)

Betsey Jones was born and lived near her Ashby relatives in Fauquier County,Virginia, until she was twelve years old, when her parents went to the Russell Creek community in Adair County, Kentucky. She married into the Blackmore Hughes family, which was characterized by two outstanding qualities - ability to acquire wealth and strongly religious background. Her husband, Dudley Hughes, was a man of sterling qualities and was so successful in his ventures that his family was comfortably established when death came to him early. He died when the youngest child was three months old, but Elizabeth Jones Hughes reared her family well, instilling in her children Christian principles. She was a charter member in 1839 of the Big Creek Presbyterian Church. She was buried at Union Graveyard, near Gradyville. To all her children Betsey Jones Hughes was a very wonderful woman, and from them came a continuing devotion like unto that given to her mother, Dolly Ashby Jones. The children of Elizabeth and Dudley Hughes were:

1. William Thompson 2. John Marshall 3. Harriet Newell 4. Dr. Harrison Quarles 5. Nancy Blackmore 6. Gabriel C. 7. Martha Chunn 8. Ann Dudley

Sources

http://www.goodwin-keithley.net/documents/The%20Descendants%20of%20Gabriel%20Jones%20of%20Essex%20adn%20Culpeper%20Counties%2C%20VA%20by%20Mildred%20Conway%20Jones.pdf

• Personal recollection of events witnessed by Gerald Smith as remembered 15 Apr 2018.