Obedience (Sumner) Hughes (abt.1765-abt.1829)

Obedience "Biddy" Hughes formerly Sumner

Born about 1 Jan 1765 in Pennsylvania

Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Wife of Andrew Hughes — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Descendants

Mother of John Gibson Hughes, James W. Hughes, Elisha Hughes and Joel Hughes

Died about 1 Jan 1829 at about age 64 in South Carolina, USA

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Profile last modified 4 Jan 2020 | Created 27 Apr 2013

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1 Biography
- 1.1 Burial
- 1.2 Acknowledgments
2 Sources

Biography

Obedience "Biddy" Sumner Hughes was born about 1765 in Pennsylvania. She passed away about 1829 in south Carolina USA.

Obedience Hughes (born Sumner) was born in 1765, in Pennsylvania, to Hezekiah Sumner and Abigail Sumner (born Bidwell). Hezekiah was born in 1683, in Onslow, North Carolina Abigail was born in 1745, in Onslow, North Carolina Obedience had 3 brothers: Benjamin Sumner and 2 other siblings. Obedience married Andrew Charles Macger Hughes in between 1785 and 1790, at age 20 in South Carolina. Andrew was born on April 4 1755, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania They had 14 children: Andrew Hughes, Anna Hughes and 12 other children. Obedience lived in between 1763 and 1929, at address, Tennessee. Obedience passed away in 1829, at age 64 at death place, South Carolina.

Burial

Pickens Cemetery

Anderson County

South Carolina USA

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Eddie Hughes for starting this profile. Click the Change tab for the details of contributions by Eddie and others.

Sources

https://tahughesnc.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/my-earliest-hughes-ancestor-andrew-hughes-1755-1843/
Find A Grave: Memorial #177632425 Obedience "Biddy" (Sumner) Hughes

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Obedience by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Obedience:

~1.56% Tom Hughes : Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T340913 [compare], FTDNA kit #252300
~0.78% Ashley (Davis) Maggio : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A474152 [compare], Ancestry member aedmaggio