Individual Details

"James F. Hughes of Summerville, went to the Up-country (200 miles north of Charleston) and was employed as a bookkeeper by Mr. James Steveson. During his two years in that part of the state he became intimately acquainted with Mr. Charles Steveson's family (James's brother), who were Methodists. Eventually he decided to cast his lot with the then despised sect, although he had been raised a Congregationalist. Before his return to Summerville he had wooed Martha, daughter of Charles Steveson, who although a plain country girl, had an innate dignity of manner, a pleasant disposition, and above all, was an earnest Christian. In a short time he brought his bride to the home of his father in Summerville where they lived for two years and where his son, C.E. Hughes, was born.
Except for James, all of the Hughes brothers and sisters stayed in South Carolina. In 1822 James went went with wife, baby boy, and father-in-law Charles Steveson to Alabama. They all settled near Marion in Perry County. He witnessed in Perry, Alabama on 27 Aug 1822 the marriage of his sister in law Temperance Stevenson to James Winningham. James taught school in Perry and Marengo Counties for several years. After his father's death he received one thousand dollars from the patrimonial estate, and with part of this sum he bought from the U.S. government 480 acres of land in the vicinity of Daleville, Lauderdale County, Mississippi. Lauderdale County, now one of the richest and most populous counties in the State, had been recently established December 23, 1833. It was located about the middle of the eastern border of Mississippi next to the Alabama line. Daleville is now known as Lizelia, and was about 10 miles northwest of Meridian; it was named by Gen Sam. Dale, who first settled there. Lauderdale County is well watered by numerous small creeks and streams, which are for the most part head waters of the Chickasawhay river, or small branches of the Tombigbee, and it is well timbered with pine, oak, hickory, gum, beech, chestnut, poplar, and sycamore. James removed with his family to this new home in January, 1837, where he resided until his death, February 1, 1853. After coming to this state he had resumed his occupation of teaching which he followed almost continuously until his health failed in the autumn of 1852.
In the winter of 1846-7, Hughes received a letter from his brother, J. Powel, informing him that a trust fund that had descended from their great-grandmother Saltus was to be divided among her heirs. Louisa (Mathews) Hughes's portion was thirty-three hundred and thirty dollars ($3330), which was to be divided among her surviving children and grandchildren, Hughes and his nine children each having a claim of fifty-five dollars and fifty cents ($55.50). He received the money for his share and for the shares of his adult children, and used it as a family fund. Daniel and Jane were still minors when he died, and their shares are still unpaid. - Even at a very low rate of interest, their claims would have quadrupled by this time.
James F. Hughes gave to his son, Charles Edward Hughes, 80 acres of land lying in Section 5, and in 1851 he sold the remainder of his holdings in that section to Elisha Mosley, excepting 24 acres - the part thereof lying on the east side of the Jackson and Livingston road. That part Charles Edward and Pauline Hughes bought from him. In 1853 James' wife, Martha, sold the 240 acres which lay in Section 9 to Solomon Alford Parker. So only 104 acres now owned by Charles Edward Hughes is left of the original purchase of the Hughes family."



Cancelled: N Document Nr. : 37859 Misc. Document Nr. :
Patentee Name: HUGHES, JAMES F
Warrantee Name:
Authority: April 24, 1820: Cash Entry Sale (3 Stat. 566)
Signature Present: Y
Signature Date: 10/01/1859 Metes/Bounds: N
Survey Date: Subsurface Reserved: N
Land Office: COLUMBUS
Comments:
Legal Land Descriptions
Nr. Aliquot Parts Sec/Blk Township Range Fract. Sect. Meridian Acres Counties
1 NWNE 17/ 11-N 14-E N CHOCTAW MERIDIAN 40.76 KEMPER

Birth	1798	Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Baptism	15 May 1799	Independent Congregational Circular Church, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Marriage	Abt 1820	South Carolina, United States - Martha Stevenson
Census (family)	1840	Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States - Martha Stevenson
Property	27 Feb 1841	Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States
Property	10 Sep 1844	Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States
Census (family)	30 Aug 1850	Southern District, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States - Martha Stevenson
Death	1 Feb 1853	Daleville, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States
Burial		Hughes Family Cemetery, Daleville, Lauderdale, Mississippi, United States

Spouse	Martha Stevenson (1799 - 1860)
Child	Charles Edward Hughes (1821 - 1888)
Child	George Mathews Hughes (1823 - 1908)
Child	Josiah Powel Hughes (1824 - )
Child	Louisa Maria Hughes (1828 - 1900)
Child	Sgt Joel Wesley "Jack" Hughes (1830 - 1900)
Child	Martha Lavinia Hughes (1831 - 1899)
Child	Daniel Friday Salley Hughes (1835 - )
Child	John Optimus Hughes (1837 - 1875)
Child	Sarah Jane Hughes (1839 - 1926)

Father	Edward Hughes (1774 - 1835)
Mother	Louisa Mathews (1778 - 1820)
Sibling	Maria Mathews "Mary" Hughes (1799 - )
Sibling	George Mathews Hughes (1800 - )
Sibling	William O. E. Hughes ( - )
Sibling	Josiah Powel Hughes (1807 - 1870)
Sibling	Martha Waring Hughes (1810 - 1856)
Sibling	John R. Hughes (1815 - )
Sibling	Jeremiah Miles "Jerry" Hughes (1817 - 1857)
Sibling	Optimas E. Hughes (1819 - 1883)

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