Family of Elias Ruffin Hughes

Family of Elias Ruffin Hughes

Generation #1:

William Hughes was born in 1750. His parentage is unknown at this time. He has been listed as born in Kentucky but this might be conjecture. He married Mary Sampson (born 1748 in Kentucky) about 1769 in Kentucky. The William Hughes family resided during the American Revolution in Virginia and Kentucky. He assisted in establishing American Independence while acting in the capacity of Private, Sergeant, and Captain in Colonel Thornton’s Virginia Regiment (DAR application of Hannah Collier of 3/31/92). The couple both died in Lincoln County, Kentucky: William, Sr. on November 14, 1834 and Mary 11 years later

(October 19, 1845).

Their 14 children were all born in Lincoln County, Kentucky. The children were:

1. Burkett Hughes (b-1770, m-Celia Mounts on 12/25/1797 at the age of 27)

2. Reuben Hughes (b-1772) is the second generation.

3. Elizabeth Hughes (b-1775, m-Thomas Young on 5/18/1795)

4. Thorp Hughes (b-1776)

5. Sarah Sally Hughes (b-1778)

6. Judith Hughes (b-1782, m-Joseph Russell on 6/29/1818)

7. William Hughes (b-7/5/1783, m-Mary/Polly Russell on 7/3/1810)

8. Fanny Hughes (b-1784, m-Silas Russell on 2/6/1812)

9. Mary/Molly Hughes (b-1786, m-Francis Hughes on 10/1/1807)

10. John S. Hughes (b-1788 m-Polly Morehead on 10/19/1815)

11. Thomas Hughes (b-1790)

12. Lottie Hughes (b-1792, m-Thorp Hall)

13. Pratt Hughes (b-1794)

14. Sophie Hughes (b-1796) (research of Lora Adams)

Generation # 2:

Reuben H. Hughes was the second son of William and Mary Hughes, born in 1772 in Lincoln County, Kentucky. He married Mary Dean (born 1/2/1791) in about 1805 in Kentucky. Reuben and Mary moved to Benton County, Missouri in the 1830s. Reuben died in 1842 at Warsaw, in Benton County. Mary died September 7, 1870 and is buried at the Hughes Cemetery near Windsor, in Henry, County, Missouri.

Their 4 children were all born in Kentucky (Mercer County), before their move to Missouri.

1. Elias Hughes (b-about 1805) is the third generation.

2. Issac Newton Hughes (b-8/13/1807) married 5 times with Mary Gray his first wife.

3. Richard Hughes reportedly moved to Texas and lost touch with the family.

4. William O. Hughes (b-1830) married Mary from Indiana and moved to Cooke County, Texas.

Generation #3:

Elias Hughes, who was born about 1805 in Kentucky, arrived in Benton County, Missouri with his family in about 1833 settling on Little Tebo Creek. He married Susannah Horner (b-10/22/1807) on December 28, 1841. She had moved to Benton County, Missouri with her sister’s family (Mrs. John B. Clark) from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Elias died in Benton County on July 14, 1844 after only 3 years of marriage and when his second son was only a month old. Susannah and her two sons, along with the John B. Clark family moved to near Dadeville, in Dade County, Missouri around 1852. By the 1860 census, Susannah’s niece’s family (Mrs.Theodore Switzelar) were also living in Dade County. Susannah (Horner) Hughes died January 28, 1892 in Springfield, Missouri at the home of her sister (as reported by the Greenfield Vedette).

Elias and Susannah Hughes’ 2 children were born in Benton County, Missouri.

1. Robert Melton Hughes (b-1/26/1842) married Amanda Finley (b-1847, in

Kentucky), served in the Civil War, died March 8, 1880.

2. Elias Ruffin Hughes (b-6/7/1844) is the fourth generation.

Generation # 4:

3. Elias Ruffin Hughes, who was born June 7, 1844 in Benton County, Missouri, came to Dade County around 1852 with his mother, brother, and aunt’s family. He served as a Private and Artificer (perhaps blacksmith) in Captain William A Kirby’s Company A, 6^th Missouri Cavalry, Union Army during the Civil War. He married Eliza Caroline Pemberton (b-3/3/1849 in Dade County) on April 15, 1869. She was the daughter of Henry Harrison and Eliza Jane (Campbell) Pemberton. Her father, Henry, and his two brothers, John Sharp and Elkanah Pemberton had come to Dade County in the 1830s from Tennessee. Her father built and operated a mill on the Sac River-first known as the Pemberton Mill and later known as the Hulston Mill. Eliza Caroline’s mother’s family, the Campbells, were early settlers in Polk and Greene Counties. Elias Ruffin Hughes was a township revenue collector for Dade County for the years 1880-1886. He and his uncle, John Clark, partly owned a general store in Dadeville. “Morris, Clark, and Hughes.” Morris withdrew and Clark and Hughes moved the store to Everton. Eliza Carolina Pemberton, his wife, owned land around the Hulston Mill including lead and zinc mines. Elias R. Hughes died December 4, 1893 leaving Eliza Caroline to live 26 more years before she died on February 25, 1920.

Their 4 children were all born in Dade County, Missouri.

1. Fanny Love Hughes (b-5/27/1872) became a 2^nd grade teacher in Dade County but died at the age of 21 on November 27, 1893.

2. R. Campbell Hughes (b-4/9/1874) died at the age of 36 on April 21, 1910.

3. Henry Pemberton Hughes (b-9/5/1877) the fifth generation.

4. Ralph J. Hughes (b-7/10/1885) moved to California, married Ruby, had no living children, and died in January 1962 in San Diego.

Generation #5:

5. Henry Pemberton Hughes was born September 5, 1877 in Dade County living there most of his life. However, he did meet his wife, Elizabeth Webb, in New York City and married her there on June 23, 1906. Elizabeth Webb was born on September 6, 1885 in Liverpool, England and immigrated to New York about 1892 when she was 7 years old. After their marriage, they lived in St. Louis about a year where Henry was a street car conductor and their first child was born. They then lived in San Francisco (where Elizabeth’s brother lived) for about 4 years. While living there, Henry worked as a salesman and their next 2 children were born. The family returned to Dade County around 1912 living on Henry’s mother’s property near Hulston Mill. There Henry was in the grocery business until about 1926. The rest of their children were born here. Henry then served as Everton Postmaster from 1928-1932 moving his family to Everton. He served as Dade County Circuit Clerk and Recorder to Deeds from 1939-1947 moving his family to Greenfield. He died August 11, 1951 of a stroke. Elizabeth lived with her daughter, Carolyn, about 15 more years, dying in Springfield, Missouri on March 5, 1966. They are buried in the Greenfield Cemetery.

Generation # 6, 7: Their 10 children and 15 grandchildren are:

1. Fanny Love Hughes (b-4/17/1907) married Lee A. Kirby (b-6/15/1899) from Dadeville on May 10, 1925. The moved to Visalia, California in about 1942. Lee died 3/2/1973 and Fanny 2/18/1996.Their children are:

1. Leland Noel Kirby

2. Etta Elizabeth Kirby

3. Dixie June Kirby

2. Elias Ralph Hughes (b-1/1/1908 in San Francisco, died-7/8/1909).

3. Henry Campbell (Cam) Hughes (b-3/21//1910 in San Francisco), moved to Skidmore, Missouri, married Nellie Cagle and Ruth Kempf, no children.

4. Virginia (Gin) Lucille Hughes (b-2/5/1912), married Samuel W. Burton from Everton on December 25, 1931. They lived in various places in Missouri as well as Parsons, Kansas; Dallas and Jasper, Texas. Sam died 7/25/87 and soon after Gin moved back to Greenfield dying 2/8/2005. Their living child is:

4. Robert William Burton

5. Susan Horner Hughes (b-10/18/1914) was am elementary teacher at

Everton at the time of her death at the age of 20 on June 5, 1935.

6. Robert Webb Hughes (b-11/14/1916) married Mildred Yoder

6/20/1948, served as Dade County Circuit Clerk and Recorder of

Deeds from 1951-1987 as well as farming at Hulston and South

Greenfield. Their children are:

5. Nancy Lou Hughes

6. John Robert Hughes

7. Stephen Kent Hughes

8. Brenda Kay Hughes

9. David Lynn Hughes

7. John Pershing Hughes (b-8/26/1918) served in WWII, died 3/1/1949

8. Eliza Caroline (Carolyn) Hughes married Neil /Taylor 5/19/1967, beloved aunt, living in Springfield, Missouri.

9. Blanch Jewell (Judy) Hughes (b-3/31/1923) married Walter O. Lutz 11/28/1942, died in Springfield on 4/20/98.

10. John Michael Lutz .

11. Susan Carol Lutz

12. Jane Anne Lutz

10. Ruffin Clark Hughes (b-9/27/1925), married Wilma McElroy on

5/3/1947, ran a filing station in Lockwood, died in Springfield,

Missouri on 7/8/2001/

13. Connie Lynn Hughes

14. Ronnie Clark Hughes

15. Mary Elizabeth (Beth) Hughes

Submitted by: Nancy (Hughes) Wujcik, a great, great, granddaughter ([email protected])

1/15/2007