Aaron Hughes

b. 1769 (VA or WV) - d. March 27, 1844 (OH)

Hughes Cemetery (Jackson Twp., Noble Co., OH)

History of Noble County, Ohio, published by L.H. WATKINS & Co., 1887 (page 545).

Aaron HUGHS was probably the first settler of the township (Jackson). He was a native of Hardy County, (W) Virginia and a thorough backwoodsman. He came to Ohio in 1804, and located on Will's Creek in Guernsey County. After making considerable improvement there, he sold out and removed to what is now Center Township, Morgan County. He sold his property on Will's Creek for $500.00, and the money was stolen from him soon after, while he was stopping at a tavern. He lived two years on Olive Green Creek, in Morgan County, then sold out his improvement for $150.00, and with $80.00 of this, made an entry of the land in Jackson Township, on which he lived and died. The year of his settlement in this township was either 1811 or 1812.

He chiefly engaged in hunting and trapping, was expert in the use of the rifle. Equipped with gun and a pocket compass and accompanied by his faithful dog, he was at home anywhere in the forest. He killed deer and sold the venison hams at twenty-five cents each; got $2.00 and upward for scalps of each wolf he killed; and from skin, bounties and meat made more money than any pioneer could who devoted himself soley to farming. Hughs killed four large buck elk after coming to this township, and his son James killed another. These were the elk ever seen in the western part of the county.

Aaron Hughes had a family of seven sons and five daughters. The names of his children were: Phebe, Josie, Polly, Lucy, Rebecca, James, Amos, Gabriel, Aaron, Jonathan, William and John. Of these Gabriel is the only one now living in the county. William, John and Lucy still survive, and are residents of Iowa.

Children:

• Phebe R. (Hughs) Waller or Walker ?
  b.1795 - d.1876
  Hughes Cemetery (Noble Co., OH)
  Married Lewis Waller or Walker (b. 1790 VA - d. 1856 OH) / Children: Lewis (b. 1816), Thomas (b.1817 OH), John (b. 1819 OH), James (b. 1824), Mary (b. 1825), Phoebe (b. 1827), Elza (b. 1828), Caroline (b. 1831), Jane (b. 1833), Gabriel H. (b. 1835), Aaron (b. 1836) / Listed on "MARRIAGE RECORDS, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO (1789-1823)" - 1815 Jan 10---WALKER, Lewis and Phebe HUGHES, by Thomas Seely
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• Jonathan Hughes
  b. 1796 - d.?
  Married ?
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• James Hughes
  b. 1797 (VA) - d.1821 (OH)
  Hughes Cemetery (Noble Co., OH)
  Married Nancy Stevens Hughes-Coffey (b. 1797) in 1819.
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• Druzila "Josie" (Hughes) Keith
  b.1798 (OH) - d.1826 (OH)
  Hughes Cemetery (Noble Co., OH)
  Married Joseph Keith (b. 1793 PA).
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• Gabriel Hughes
  b. 1800 (VA) - d. 1891 (OH)
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• Amos Hughes
  b. 1801 - 1885 (OH)
  Hughes Cemetery (Noble Co., OH)
  Married Caroline Legge (b. 1804 WV - d. 1889 OH) / Children: Amos (b. 1827 OH), George (b. 1831 OH / Married Mary J. Reed), John (b. 1834 OH), Phoebe (b. 1838 OH), Aaron (b. 1839 OH), Lucy (b. 1842 OH), Caroline (b. 1845 OH), Harriet (b. 1851 OH)
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• Mary Polly (Hughes) Tilton
  b. 1806 - d. 1886
  Tiltonville Cemetery (Noble Co., OH)
  Married Davis Tilton (b. 1799 Massachusetts) / Children: Beverica Tilton (b. ?), Benjamin Tilton (b. 1825 OH), Elvin Tilton (b. 1827 OH), Mayhew Tilton (b. 1829 OH), John Tilton (b. 1830 OH), Diadema Tilton (b. 1832), James Tilton (b. 1835 OH), Lucy Tilton (b. 1837 OH), Mary Tilton (b. 1841), Aaron Tilton (b. 1846 OH)
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• William Hughes
  b.1809 (OH) - d.1891 (IA)
  Oakwood Cemetery, Pleasant Hill, IA
  Married Maria Stewart (b. abt 1814 ?) in Morgan County, OH in May 1840/ Children: Matilda Hughes (b. ?), Susan Hughes (b. ?) and Marjory Hughes (b. ?) / 1860 US Census: William and his wife Maria (or Mariah) were living in Des Moines, Iowa with the following children: Matilda, James, Malissa, and John.
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• Lucy (Hughes) Smith
  b.1813 - d.1887
  Married Hiram Smith (b. ?)
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• Rebecca (Hughes) Sprague
  b.1817 - d. ?
  Married Steven Sprague (b. ?)
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• John Hughes
  b. 1818 (OH) - d. 1901 (IA)
  Married Plezza Morris (b. 1826 OH) / Children: Mahalla Hughes (b. 1846), Harriette Hughes (b. 1847 OH), Lucille Hughes (b. 1848 OH), Albert P. Hughes (b. 1855 IA), Eva Hughes (b. 1866 IA).
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• Aaron Hughes
  b. 1821 - d. 1870 (OH)
  Hughes Cemetery (Noble Co., OH)
  Married Phebe Jordan (b. 1827 OH - d. 1904 OH) in 1844 / Children: John Hughes (b. 1844 OH), Mary A. Hughes Bell (b. 1846 OH), James Hughes (b. 1849 OH), Harriet Hughes (b. 1851), Miner Hughes (b. 1857), Elijah Hughes (b. 1859 OH), Nancy E. Hughes (b. 1861 OH) / Aaron was killed by a bull on his farm.
  -----------------Mary A. Hughes Bell b. 1827 - d. ? / Married Angus Bell (b. 1833 OH) in 1867 / History of Noble County, OH 1887, page 553: Angus Bell was born in Olive Township, May 13, 1833. His parents and grandparents were amoung the early settlers of Noble County. His father, born in Fayette County PA., in 1804, married and settled in Noble County in 1825. Angus Bell has followed farming, teaching and the mercantile business. He has followed the latter occupation at Keith's since 1865. in 1867 he married Mary A. Hughes, of Margan County. Children: Ida W. (b. ?), Amon Edward (b.?).