Rice Hughes (1773 - bef. 1850)

Born 19 Nov 1773 in Pittslvania County, Va.

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Died before 1850 before age 76 in Cooper County, Missouri

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Biography

Reece or "Rice" Hughes was the son of Samuel Hughes and Keziah Watson Hughes. He first married Sarah Elizabeth Murphy ca 1790 in Henry county, Virginia. They had at least nine children. It is thought that Sarah died in Bedford county, Tennessee.

Reece second married Cecelia Johnson, widow of Abraham Ellis, about 1812 in Tennessee. They had at least eleven children.

Reece Hughes was a wealthy plantation owner in Kentucky with six children when he married Abraham Ellis' widow, Cecelia (Johnson) Ellis. He made many trips to Memphis, Tennessee to have his cotton and tobacco hauled to be shipped by boat. On one of these trips he met the widow Ellis. After he had made a few trips, visiting her each time, he asked her to marry him. The joined family made nine children and they had eleven more, making a total of twenty children when they moved to Missouri. Two of her children married two of his.

The book "Life in Pettis County, Missouri, 1815-1973" by Hazel N. Lang states that Reece's first wife was named Susan. It lists his children with Susan as: Samuel who married Susan Ellis, Tom, who married Sallie Taylor, Laura, Sam, William, Reese Jr., Abijah (Abigail?), Sarah and Mary.

By Cecelia (Johnson) Ellis he also had a son named Reece, which was not unusual for pioneer families to give two children the same name. Cecelia and Reece and the family moved from Tennessee to Cooper county, Missouri in 1826.

Reece 'Rice' Hughes died at age 76.

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See also:

• United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPZ-NVR : 20 February 2021), Rice Hughes, Cooper, Missouri, United States; citing 195, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 73; FHL microfilm 14,854.

• United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHTF-HRN : 1 October 2021), Rice Hughes, Clear Creek Township, Cooper, Missouri, United States; citing p. 105, NARA microfilm publication , (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll ; FHL microfilm .

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL9-K33L : 6 March 2021), Rice, ; Burial, Pilot Grove, Cooper, Missouri, United States of America, Rue Family Cemetery; citing record ID 82146732, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

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