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Rt.YNOLDS  HISTORICAL 
GENEALOGY  COLLECTION 


ALLEN  COUNTY  PU  mS'nilMPlH  Jul 


3  1833  01306  1277 


HUGHES  FAMILY 


OF 


KENTUCKY  AND  VIRGINIA 


BY 


LYDIA  ANNIE  HUGHES 

MT.CAKMEL,  ILL. 


AND 

RICHARD  HUGHES  SULLIVAN 

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RESEARCH  AND  AUTHORITY 


Lydia  Annie  Hughes,  H5. 

Martha  Hughes,  H5. 

Fanny  Wormald  Sadler,  H6. 

Mary  Esther  (Hughes)  Sullivan,  H6,  H6(4-3). 

Lucinda  Blackmore  (Sullivan)  Davis,  H7  H7(4-4). 

Richard  Hughes  Sullivan,  H7,  H7(4-4). 

Elizabeth    (Hughes-Elliott-Cunliffe)    Hudson,    H7(4-4),    Cf5    Ibid. 

Meriwether  Genealogical  Tables  and  Family  Record,  1889. 


In  the  1902  edition  of  the  Hughes  Family  of  Kentucky  and  Virginia, 
the  bulk  ot  the  data  was  obtained  from  the  family  records  of  my  mother, 
Mary  Esther  (Hughes)  Sullivan;  my  sister,  Lucinda  Blackmore  (Sulli- 
van) Davis;  my  gi-eat  aunt,  Martha  Hughes,  and  the  family  Bible  of  my 
great  grandmother  ,Esther  (Cox)  Hughes,  H4NNH,  C5H.  All  four  of  tliese 
kinswomen  are  deceased. 

Since  that  time,  however,  and,  in  fact,  within  the  past  few  years, 
new  information  has  been  developed  through  the  indefatigable  efforts 
of  Lydia  Annie  Hughes,  granddaughter  of  Major  John  Hughes,  Jr.,  H3, 
through  his  sixth  son,  James  Neville  Hughes,  in  which  considerable  new 
data  have  appeared  in  connection  with  the  earlier  records  of  the  Cox, 
Crawford,  Tarleton  and  Wood  families.  Furthermore,  were  it  not  for 
her  proverbial  interest  in  the  genealogy  of  the  Hughes  Family  and  many 
of  its  collateral  connections,  the  Aston  Line,  which  hitherto  has  not  been 
recorded  as  antecedent  to  the  Cocke-Cox  Line  as  generally  understood 
by  practically  all  our  relatives,  could  not  have  been  incorporated  in  the 
1920  edition.  Indeed,  her  new  data  have  been  the  real  incentive  toward 
the  issue  of  this  work,  in  which  will  be  found  a  republished  sketch  of 
her  grandfather  and  my  great  great  grandfather. 

Fanny  Wormald  Sadler,  daughter  of  my  grandfather's  sister,  Judith 
Anne  (Hughes)  Sadler,  has  materially  assisted  in  assembling  parts  of 
unknown  records,  and  portions  of  her  letters,  written  from  time  to  time 
during  the  last  15  years,  have  been  used  to  Indicate  connection  with  our 
numerous  relatives  in  Kentucky. 

The  plan  pursued  has  been  to  connect  the  pedigrees  of  eight  fami- 
lies, including  the  Neville  Line,  to  indicate  direct  descent  to  my  children 
and  grandchildren,  and  also  to  have  two  pedigrees  in  two  collateral  lines 
—one,  to  show  direct  descent  in  the  Hughes  Line  through  my  grand- 
mother, Sarah  Jane  (Hughes)  Hughes;  the  other,  the  Cunliffe  Line,  to 
show  the  relationship  of  her  sister,  Eliza  Ann  (Hughes),  whose  husband 
was  William  Cunliffe,  for  the  information  of  the  numerous  descendants 
In  that  line.  The  records  furnished  by  Elizabeth  (Hughes-Elliott-Cun- 
liffe)  Hudson  H7(4-4),  Cf5  Ibid,  and  the  records  of  Martha  Hughes  in 
her  mother's  Bible  have  been  used  in  the  Cunliffe  family  history.  The 
names  of  all  children  of  the  various  lines  in  each  generation  have  been 
included  where  data  were  available,  and  no  relative  having  connection 
with  any  of  the  names  appearing  in  the  eight  families  in  the  large  table 
or  in  the  two  collateral  pedigrees  should  have  trouble  in  ascertaining 
relationship. 

Data  for  the  Meriwether  pedigree  were  taken  from  the  Meriwether 
Genealogy,    1889,    by    George    Wood    Meriwether    and    published    by    his 


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daughter,  Emerine  (Price-Meriwether)  Snead,  M7.  In  cases  of  disagree- 
ment in  data,  as  between  the  Meriwether  record  and  the  record  of 
Martha  Hughes,  the  annotations  of  tlie  latter  were  accepted  for  the 
Hughes  record.  Unfortunately,  it  has  been  found  necessary  to  omit 
much  valuable  data  of  historical  importance  pertaining  to  the  Meri- 
wether collateral  lines. 

The  table  at  the  end  of  this  record  was  constructed  to  show  blood 
relationship  between  nine  families  and  will  bear  close  study. 

Repetitions  have  been  included  wherever  deemed  necessary,  in 
order  that  even  remote  relatives  might  establish  genealogical  connection 
without  burdensome  study. 

Therefore,  for  the  reasons  above  stated,  and  as  a  labor  of  love  as 
a  memorial  to  my  beloved  mother  and  my  cherished  sister,  Luciuda 
Blackmore  (Sullivan)  Davis,  as  well  as  a  mark  of  honor  to  my  most 
worthy  relative  and  co-worker,  it  has  been  decided  to  print  all  avail- 
able necessary  information  for  the  benefit  of  those  coming  after  us. 

RICHARD    HUGHES    SULLIVAN,    H7,    H7(4-4). 


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HUGHES  FAMILY 


OF 


KENTUCKY  AND  VIRGINIA 


BIOGRAPHICAL 


JOHN  HUGHES.  JR. 

John  Hughes,  H3  (Stephen,  HI,  John,  H2),  founder  of  the  Kentucky 
branch  of  the  family,  was  a  man  of  strongly  marked  character,  as  the 
career  I  shall  sketch  clearly  shows. 

It  has  been  too  much  the  habit  of  my  contemporaries,  who  knew  him 
personally,  to  laugh  at  the  eccentricities  into  which  he  was  sometimes 
betrayed  by  the  very  qualities  that  made  him  a  helpful  neighbor,  a  suc- 
cessful planter,  a  good  and  useful  citizen,  a  brave  soldier,  a  beloved 
officer,  a  judicious  master  and  a  loyal  husband  and  father  that  exercised 
firmly,  though  kindly,  his  authority  over  his  household — qualities  that 
entitle  him  to  the  reverential  and  affectionate  regard  of  his  descendants. 

Born  at  the  family  seat  in  Powhatan  County,  Virginia,  about  40  miles 
above  Richmond  on  James  iRiver,  August  11,  1763,  John  Hughes,  H3,  was 
but  13  years  of  age  when  the  Declaration  of  Independence  was  signed 
at  Philadelphia.  During  the  early  years  of  the  Revolutionary  struggle 
he  was  entered  by  his  mother  (then  the  wife  of  Captain  Robert  Mitchell, 
of  Richmond)  as  a  student  in  Washington-Henry  Academy,  in  Hanover 
County.  Here,  in  1779,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  soldier  without  consult- 
ing either  parent  or  guardian  and  served  for  two  years,  as  his  record  in 
the  Pension  Office  declares.  His  company  officers  were  Captains  Bar- 
rett, Littlebury,  Williamson,  Pollock  and  Woodson;  some  of  the  regi- 
mental officers  were  Major  Battle,  Colonels  Dandrl'dge,  Randolph  and 
Skepwith  and  Brigade  Commanders  Scott  and  Lawson.  He  participated 
in  the  engagement  at  Hood's  Old  Fort,  at  Guilford  Court  House,  North 
Carolina,  and  at  the  Siege  of  Yorktown.  He  received  a  slight  wound  at 
Guilford  Court  House,  after  which  battle  the  youth  was  api)ointed  ensign, 
was  promoted  to  a  Lieutenancy  in  1781,  and,  in  the  language  of  the  offi- 
cial record  at  Washington,  "Capt.  Samuel  Woodson  being  sick,  Lieut. 
John  Hughes  commanded  his  company  during  the  Siege  of  Yorktown." 

He  married,  in  1783,  Anne,  daughter  of  Col.  William  Meriwether,  of 
Albemarle  County,  Virginia,  and  resided  for  several  years  on  the  plan- 
tation in  Powhatan  County,  which  he  had  inherited  from  his  father.  Here 
were  born  October  18,  1784,  his  oldest  son,  John,  H4,  and,  on  May  15, 
1786,  Jane,  the  first  daughter,  whose  death  was  recorded  In  the  family 
Bible  in  1800. 

About  the  time  of  the  birth  of  little  Jane,  he  must  have  sold  his  plan- 
tation to  his  step-father,  Robert  Mitchell,  from  whom  it  descended  to  Mr. 
Mitchell's  daughter,  Sally  (who  married  a  son  of  Gen.  William  Scott), 
and  later  to  her  daughter,  Judith  Ann  Scott,  and  was  subsequently  sold 
to  Mr.  William  Carrington. 

The  sale  of  the  James  River  homestead  was  preiparatory  to  his 
removal  to  Kentucky,  and,  I  learn  from  a  letter  preserved  among  the 
papers  of  his  father-in-law,  William  Meriwether,  that  this  emigration  took 


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place  in  1786.  It  would  be  interesting  to  know  the  route  by  which  the 
little  family  traversed  the  wilderness  west  of  the  Appalachians  and  some 
of  the  stirring  incidents  of  their  expdus,  but  neither  traditionary  lore 
nor  documentary  evidence  throws  any  light  upon  this  episode  in  the  life 
of  John  Hughes,  H3. 

Iteaching  the  Falls  of  the  Ohio,  he  purchased  an  estate  known  as 
Spring  Garden,  now  within  the  limits  of  the  city  of  Louisville,  but  he 
afterwards  removed  to  a  property  7  miles  below  the  city  at  the  head  of 
Hughes'  Bar — named  for  him — and  here  he  resided  until  his  death  at  a 
riie  old  age.  I  have  a  copy  of  the  deed  conveying  this  thousand-acre 
tract  of  land  in  West  Jefferson  County  by  Benjamin  Temple  to  John 
Hughes.  I  also  have  a  letter,  regarding  some  military  surveys  in  a  case 
of  disputed  boundtiry  lines,  from  John  Hughes  to  Judge  Benjamin 
Sebastian  dated  August  8,  1801.  I  think  it  was  written  before  my  grand- 
father took  up  his  residence  at  the  river  farm  below  Louisville,  as  I  am 
under  the  impression  that  my  father's  birth,  in  1804,  occurred  at  the 
Spring  Gai-den  home. 

In  the  early  days  of  1874,  I  met  an  old  citizen  of  Louisville  named 
Chambers,  who  told  me  that,  when  Aaron  Burr  was  expected  to  pass 
down  the  Ohio  iRiver  on  his  way  to  New  Orleans,  to  engage  in  the  con- 
spiracy of  which  he  was  suspected,  the  duty  of  arresting  his  'progress  at 
Louisville  was  intrusted  to  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  The  narrator,  a 
mere  child  at  the  date  of  the  occurrence — 1806— --accompanied  his  father 
to  the  scene  of  activity  at  the  river  front  and  distinctly  remembered  the 
incident.  Finding  in  me  a  delighted  auditor,  he  described  with  evident 
enjoyment  the  vigor  and  sprightliness  of  my  grandfather's  movements, 
the  thoroughness  of  his  preparations  and  the  resourcefulness  he  exhibited 
^all  conspiring  to  invest  him,  in  the  eyes  of  a  boy,  with  the  glamour  of 
heroism. 

On  the  breaking  out  of  hostilities  between  the  United  States  and  Great 
Britain  in  1812,  my  grandfather's  must  have  been  among  the  earliest 
enlistments  in  Kentucky,  since  I  have  a  letter  written  by  him  to  my 
Uncle  Jack  on  December  12,  1812,  in  which  he  speaks  of  having  been  in 
the  active  service  for  some  time.  He  mentions  being  "with  the  army  on 
the  march  from  Tippecanoe  to  Fort  Harrison,"  and  the  letter  continues, 
"immediately  on  our  arrival  at  Fort  Harrison,  the  General  directed  me 
to  take  in  charge  the  publick  boats,  and  prepare  for  the  reception  of  the 
sick  men,  baggage,  etc.,  with  as  many  of  those  who  were  well  as  could  be 
conveniently  placed  on  board.  The  next  day  at  10  o'clock,  having  all 
things  ready,  with  500  men  on  board,  I  set  out  for  Fort  Knox,  situate  two 
miles  above  this  place  (Vincennes)  and  140  miles  below  Fort  Harrison, 
ajid  arrived  at  the  same  at  6  o'clock  next  morning."  Then  follows  a 
recital  of  the  care  bestowed  upon  the  sick,  their  removal  to  better  houses 
than  those  previously  occupied,  the  renewal  of  their  beds  and  covering, 
the  "strict  attention  paid  to  cleanliness  in  the  hospitals"  and  the  gratifi- 
cation he  felt  in  reporting  very  happy  results.  I  think  it  must  have  been 
at  this  (place  and  in  this  connection  that  my  grandfather  had  an  alterca- 
tion with  a  quartermaster  who  was  dilatory  about  furnishing .  supplies 
needed  in  camp.  When  the  subordinate  became  insolent  under  Major 
Hughes'  rebuke,  I  remember  hearing  that  my  grandfather  thrust  his 
umbrella  into  the  offendei''s  cheek,  and  having  a  childish  idea  that  sol- 
diers went  about  at  all  times  in  battle  array,  I  wondered,  on  hearing  the 
story,   why  he  did  not  strike  the  man   with   his  sword. 

Another  paragraph  in  the  letter,  from  which  I  have  quoted,  is  as 
follows:  "I  am  informed  by  Jno.  Gatewood  (who  has  been  home  on  fur- 
lough) that  several  letters  have  reached  my  neighborhood,  written  with 
a  view  to  disparage  my  conduct  as  an  officer.  I  know  the  persons  who 
have  written  those  letters.  They  are  too  contemptible  for  me  to  name 
or  take  notice  of.  With  respect  to  my  conduct  as  an  officer,  suffice  it  to 
say  that  no  enterprise  has  been  undertaken  by  the  commander  in  which 


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I  have  not  had  a  distinguished  command  assigned  me.  Nor  have  I  ever 
had  a  command  which  was  not  wholly  composed  of  volunteers  from  the 
Regiment.  In  fact,  wherever  I  go,  the  whole  Regiment  are  ready  to  move 
at  my  heels."  Surely  a  man  may  vindicate  himself  in  such  terms  as 
these  without  incurring  a  charge  of  egotism,  especially  when  the  vindi- 
cation Is  addressed  to  his  own  household.  It  is  very  pleasing  to  note,  in 
that  hB  directs  my  uncle  to  supply  out  of  his  garner  anything  that  the 
family  of  one  of  his  troopers,  named  by  him,  "may  stand  in  need  of." 

Major  Hughes  dispensed  at  his  home  in  Jefferson  County  a  generous 
hospitality.     There  were  always  guests— a  constant  house  party,  in  fact. 

He  was  a  successful  'armer,  giving  personal  supervision  to  the 
progress  and  improvement  of  his  plantation,  although  he  employed  an 
overseer.  I  have  heard  that  his  shipment  of  apples  to  New  Orleans 
amounted,  in  one  season,  sometimes  to  a  thousand  dollars.  He  introduced 
into  Kentucky  a  white-blossom  peach  that  was  famous  in  his  generation 
and  which,  I  think,  bore  his  name.  A  few  years  since,  one  of  his  grand- 
sons, Dr.  A.  H.  Mitchell,  while  purchasing  supplies  for  a  sanitarium  in 
which  he  was  interested,  found  a  certain  crah-apple  cider  in  New  York 
that  headed  the  list  of  its  kind  for  excellence.  Upon  Investigation,  it' 
proved  to  be  an  article  prepared  by  a  formula  that  originated  with  Major 
Hughes.  The  following  incident  throws  a  strong  light  upon  the  character 
of  the  founder  of  the  Kentucky  Hugheses,  in  no  wise  diminishing  his  title 
to  the  veneration  of  his  descendents,  already  in  the  fifth  generation.  As 
wine-drinking  was  universal  in  his  day.  Major  Hughes  not  only  imbibed 
habitually,  but  sometimes  to  excess. 

Riding  home  from  Louisville  one  evening,  after  somewhat  over  in- 
dulgence, he  observed  a  wayfarer  by  the  roadside,  and,  accosting  him, 
insisted  that  the  man  should  take  his  horse  and  ride  on  to  his  (the 
Major's)  house,  giving  him  minute  directions  as  to  the  road  leading 
thereto.  On  reaching  home  an  hour  later,  he  expressed  surprise  at  not 
finding  his  guest  installed  and  his  fine  roadster  in  the  stable.  Then 
followed  an  explanation  to  his  wife,  who,  after  the  mauuer  of  her  sex, 
replied:  "It  served  you  right.  Major  Hughes!  You  ought  to  have  known 
you'd  never  see  that  horse  again!"  This  completely  sobered  him,  and, 
calling  upon  Aunt  Rose,  the  negro  housekeeper,  for  the  Bible,  and,  laying 
his  hand  upon  the  sacred  volume,  he  swore  that  he  would  never  again 
swallow  an  intoxicating  draught.  He  faithfully  kept  his  vow,  effecting  a 
reformation  in  one  act  by  a  supreme  effort  of  his  mind. 

In  Collins'  "History  of  Kentucky,"  Vol.  II,  P.  357,  the  name  of  John 
Hughes  appears  among  members  of  the  Senate  of  that  State,  though  I 
do  not  know  the  exact  date  of  his  service  in  that  body;  but  it  was  prob- 
ably between  1826  and  1831.  It  has  always  been  a  source  of  satisfaction 
to  all  of  his  descendents  that  he  was  elected  without  soliciting  any  man's 
vote.    He  was  an  ardent  follower  of  Thomas  Jefferson  in  politics. 

The  Rev.  B.  H.  McCown,  late  principal  of  Forest  Home  Academy  for 
Boys,  contributed  to  the  Louisville  Courier-Journal  of  July  21,  1876,  the 
following  incident  concerning  the  experiences  of  John  Hughes: 

"In  1829,  while  traveling  the  Jefferson  circuit,  then  containing  twenty- 
eight  ap-pointments  for  the  month,  I  found  a  most  pleasant  home,  monthly, 
with  Major  John  Hughes,  living  on  the  Ohio  River,  about  seven  miles 
below  the  city.  The  Major,  in  the  latter  part  of  his  life,  was  as  eminent 
tor  his  piety  as  he  had  before  been  for  reckless  and  daring  bravery. 

"He  frequently  amused  himself,  and  most  profitably  so  to  his  family 
and  guests,  in  catching  large  quantities  of  fine  fish,  especially  the  white 
perch,  with  long  hand-lines.  As  I  had  been  a  famous  fisherman  on  the 
Beech  Fork,  I  frequently  joined  the  Major  in  the  practice  of  my  old  craft. 
Amid  the  relaxation  of  one  of  these  occasions,  the  Major  told  me  of  an 
adventure   witlr  a  catfish  on   the   falls,   while  gigging   fish   by   torchlight. 


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Fully  versed  in  that  part  of  the  fisherman's  craft,  I  listened  with  intense 
interest  as  he  proceeded  to  tell  me  how  a  huge  catlish  foundered  him  on 
the  falls  and  brought  him  to  grief. 

"He  was  sporting  magnificently  and  victoriously  with  small  fry,  when 
a  huge  belligerent  catfish,  from  the  deep  and  rapid  water,  thrust  himself 
before  his  gig.  The  Major  remarked  that,  being  afraid  of  his  antagonist, 
he  simply  laid  the  gig  on  his  ponderosity  and  gave  him  a  significant  shove. 
He  darted  into  the  deep  water,  but  soon  returned.  The  same  action  with 
like  result  followed.  By  this  time  the  Major's  dander  was  up,  and,  re- 
gardless of  consequences,  he  plunged  his  gig  into  the  monster  as  he 
provokingly  waggled  his  ponderous  body  before  him  as  if  to  challenge 
a  stronger  hint.  The  Major  had  overlooked  one  necessary  precaution: 
To  prevent  losing  his  gig  in  the  swift  water,  he  had  bound  it  to  his  wrist 
by  a  strong  icord.  Forgetting  to  loosen  it  before  striking,  he  was  sud- 
denly tripped  up  by  the  plunge  of  the  wounded  fish  into  the  deep  and 
rapid  water,  and  was  borne  helplessly  along,  and  would  have  been  drag- 
ged, within  a  few  minutes  more,  a  strangled  victim,  to  become  food  for 
his  captor,  but  for  a  projecting  rock  on  which  he  lodged.  With  his  knife 
he  severed  the  cord  and  gave  up  the  gig  as  a  trophy  to  his  wounded 
antagonist,  which  was  entitled  to  the  glory  of  keeping  the  battlefield." 

Is  it  not  fitting  that  a  man  of  so  many  noble  traits  should  sooner  or 
later  yield  his  allegience  to  God,  his  creator  and  preserver,  and  conform 
his  life  to  the  Divine  teachings?  Although  reared  an  Episcopalian  and, 
in  his  youth  a  communicant  in  that  church,  my  grandfather  became  a 
devoted  Methodist  after  his  conversion  and  set  apart  a  portion  of  his 
estate  as  a  Camp  Ground,  where  religious  services  were  held  annually 
for  years. 

By  reference  to  the  genealogy  of  the  family  it  will  be  seen  that  Major 
John  Hughes  was  married  four  times  and  that  he  was  the  father  of  twenty- 
six  children,  all  of  whom  were  the  offspring  of  his  first  wife,  Anne  Meri- 
wether. He  died  December  11,  1842,  of  pneumonia,  and  was  buried  in  the 
family  graveyard  on  his  own  plantation.  He  was  the  largest  slave  owner 
in  Kentucky  at  the  time  of  his  death,  and  I  have  been  informed,  both  by 
members  of  the  family  and  by  persons  who  visited  the  old  plantation, 
that  his  servants  were  kindly  cared  for  and  very  cheerful  and  happy. 

LYDIA  ANNIE  HUGHES,  H5. 

Mt.  Carmel,  111.,  May  1,  1902. 


GENEALOGICAL 


ASTON.  COCKE,  TARLETON.  AND  OTHER  PEDIGREES 

My   Dear  Cousin  Richard: 

Scarcely  two  weelis  ago  I  forwarded  to  a  niece  in  Chicago  a  letter 
of  yours,  which  Fanny  Sadler  had  kindly  inclosed  to  me,  wishing  this 
niece  (Mrs.  Paul  Chipniau)  to  know  and  to  tell  our  other  relatives  in 
that  metropolis  of  their  high-spiriied  and  patriotic  kinsman  in  South 
Carolina.  And  I  took  special  pains  to  write  in  lull  your  middle  name 
that  she  might  understand  how  you  and  she  are  connected. 

Thus,  you  see,  one  of  the  Hugheses  has  a  well  developed  and  care- 
fully cherished  tribal  feeling,  though,  as  you  say,  we  are  a  peculiarly 
reserved  family — the  outward  and  visible  mark  of  sensitiveness  that  I 
believe  has  been  a  serious  handicap  to  some  of  us.  Alas,  but  few  of  the 
name  (older  generations)  remain,  Uncle  Henry's  daughter,  Mary,  and  I 
being  the  sole  survivors  of  our  generation.  Fanny  is  one  and  you  are 
two  degrees,  genealogically,  farther  removed  from  Stephen,  tlie  Welsh 
immigrant  to  Virginia. 

Yes,  thank  God,  we  are  all  of  British  stock,  or,  more  accurately,  we 
are  of  all  British  stock,  the  fact  that  the  Cockes  accompanied  the  Con- 
queror (the  name  was  Le  Coque  then),  and  probably  also  the  Nevilles,  not 
counting  after  seven  and  one-half  centuries.  On  my  mother's  side  I  have 
French  ancestors,  who  came  to  live  at  Norwich,  England,  as  late  as  the 
reign  of  Henry  VI;  and  since  the  Marne  and  Verdun,  1  hail  this  descent 
with  peculiar  pride. 

The  Cocke,  Aston  and  Tarleton  pedigrees  I  sent  you  have  been  sub- 
mitted to  more  than  one  professional  genealogist  and  escaped  without 
adverse  criticism,  and  I  liave  reason  to  believe  that  all  the  sixteen  I  have 
prepared   for   my   brotlier's   children   are   accurate. 

Please  to  observe  that  the  son  of  Richard  Cocke,  1,  and  Mary  Aston, 
3,  spvlled  his  name  C-o-x.  Such  eccentricities  were  common  in  liis  day, 
and  his  son,  William,  3,  reverted  to  tlie  original  orthography.  Now  note 
carefully  in  the  Cocke-Cox  line:    John  Cox,  1,  who  married  Mary   Davis, 

was  the  father  of  Henry  Cox,  3,  married   ,  who  was  the  father 

of  Richard  Cox,  4,  who  married  Nancy  (Neville)  Hughes,  who  was  the 
father  of  Esther  €ox,  5,  who  married  John  Hughes,  4,  who  was  the  mother 
of  Richard  Franklin  Hughes,  5,  who  married  Sarah  Jane  Hughes,  5,  who 
was  the  father  of  Mary  Esther  (Hughes)  Sullivan,  6,  who  was  the  honored 
mother  of  Richard  Hughes  Sullivan,  7.  So  you  are  twice  a  Cocke;  i.  e., 
twice  descended  from  Richard  Cocke,  1. 

It  was  a  distinguished  and  very  highly  connected  family;  but,  what 
is  more  interesting  to  us,  the  editor  of  tlie  Virginia  Magazine  of  History 
and  Biography,  one  of  the  hnest  genealogist's  in  America,  says  that  Mary 
Davis,  who  married  John  Cox,  2,  was  doubtless  the  daughter  of  Thomas 
Davis,  a  member  of  the  convention  summoned  in  1619  by  Governor  Yeard- 
ley  to  "take  a  hand  in  the  governing  of  tliemselves,"  the  hrst  representa- 
tivef  assembly  of  the  new  world.  You  should  see  the  hne  scorn  w;th 
which  I  look  down  upon  people  who  boast  of  their  Pilgrim  stock.  Two 
of  my  mother's  ancestors,  besides  this  Thomas  Davis,  were  established 
householders  in  Virginia  before  the  Mayflower  sailed  from  Plymouth 
harbor. 

The  Astons  were  a  fine  old  family  of  Staffordshire.  The  Tarlefons 
likewise,   though   seated   at   Caernavoushire,   Wales    (Ibid.,   whence   came 


10  BIOGRAPHICAL  AND   CiENEALOGIGAL 


Stephen  Hughes,  1,  and  possibly  Nichohis  Meriwether,  1. — R.  H.  S.). 
Some  of  our  kinsmen  of  this  name,  Tarleton,  have  distinguished  them- 
selves in  the  present  war. 

I  have  for  years  intended  to  write  you  concerning  this  double  descent 
from  Richard  Cocke,  1;  but  am  so  overworked,  was  afraid  I'd  die  before 
I  ever  found  time  to  do  so.  (She  was  librarian  at  Mt.  Carmel,  111.,  and 
about  75  years  of  age  when  this  letter  was  written — R.  H.  S.).  You  per- 
ceive the  origin  of  your  baptismal  name.  It  was  handed  down  from  our 
English   forbears. 

My  genealogical  work,  except  some  manuscripts,  is  now  done,  so 
that  you  need  not  type  me  the  copies  of  which  you  speak,  though  I  cer- 
tainly appreciate  your  offer  to  do  so.  There  was  a  time  when  such  help 
would  have  been  invaluable. 

Thanking  you  for  your  letter  and  with  kindest  regards  to  your  wife 
and  my  younger  cousins, 

Affectionately,  your  cousin, 

LYDIA    ANNIE    HUGHES,    H5. 

Mt.   Carmel,   111.,   February   24,   1918. 


FAMILY  HISTORY  AND  SKETCHES. 


The  writer  of  the  preceding  is  a  granddaughter  of  Major  John  Hughes, 
H3  through  his  fourteenth  child,  Dr.  James  Neville  Hughes,  H4,  who 
married  Louisa  Adaline,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  (Storrs)  Russell, 
of  Virginia,  on  March  13,  1823.  She  is  one  of  his  few  surviving  descend- 
ents  now  sufficiently  conversant  with  the  traditionary  and  documentary 
evidence  to  cover  all  the  known  facts,  and  a  woman  of  unusual  mental 
cultivation.  Her  father  was  graduated  from  Transylvania  Medical  Col- 
lege Lexington,  Ky.;  served  as  a  memher  of  the  Kentucky  Senate  in  1842; 
was' resident  physician  of  the  U.  S.  Marine  Hospital,  at  Louisville,  under 
appointments  of  Presidents  Pierce  and  Buchanan,  and  was  surgeon  in 
charge  of  Foard  Hospital  (C.  S.  A.),  Newman,  Georgia,  during  the  War 
Between  the  States.  In  her  introduction  of  "The  Hughes  and  Their  Col- 
laterals," Lydia  Annie  Hughes  states:  "Above  all,  how  often  have  I  re- 
minded myself  that  James  Neville  Hughes  never  cherished  an  unworthy 
thought."  This  statement  was  emphasized  by  Martha  Hughes,  H4,  who 
preserved  the  following  touching  poem  written  by  Dr.  James  Neville 
Hughes  while  watching  by  the  corpse  of  her  little  sister,  Mary  Elizabeth, 
who  died  November  26,  1825,  the  original  cop-y  of  which  is  in  my  posses- 
sion, in  the  family  Bible  of  my  great  grandmother,  Esther  (Cox)  Hughes, 
C5H,   H4NNH: 

"Sweet  child,  thy  suffering  days  have  gone, 
Which,  whilst  on  earth,  thou  did'st  endure; 

Thy   spirit,   by  bright   seraphs  borne. 
Is  robed  in  glorious  bliss  secure. 

"Tho'  doomed  in  life  to  taste  of  grief. 

Thy  infant  days  did  soon  expire; 
And,  far  from  pain  and  woe  beneath, 

Thou  dost  in  realms  of  bliss  aspire. 

"Far  from  corruption  and  decline, 

In  distant   worlds  of  light  on  high, 
Thou  dost,  with  beings,  all  divine. 

Forget  to  weep,  and  mourn,  and  sigh! 

"Thy  body,  tho'  to  dust  returned, 

Shall  yet  to  life  immortal  rise, 
And,  when   tliis   world    in  death   shall   mourn, 

Shall  join  thy  spirit  in  the  skies. 

"Thou  parents!    Cease  to  weep  and  pine. 

Or  to  condole  her  transient  stay! 
And,  in  the  paths  of  grace  divine. 

Let  future  life  ha  passed  away. 

"So,  when  from  earth  ye  shall  remove, 

Eternal  life  ye  shall  receive— 
Shall  see  your  babes  in  Christ  beloved. 

At  rest,  from  all  tlieir  woes  relieved." 

Lydia  Anne  Hughes,  H5,  the  youngest  of  the  seven  daughters  of 
James  Neville  Hughes,  was  born  April  24,  1844,  in  Henry  County,  Ken- 
tucky     She  was  a  student  at  the  Louisville  Female  College,  one  of  the 


FAMILY  HISTORY  AND   SKETCHES 


first  established  in  tlie  United  States,  and  later  was  a  teacher  in  the 
public  schools  of  Louisville,  afterward  becoming  a  member  of  the  faculty 
of  Soule  Female  College,  Murfreesboro,  Tennessee.  Upon  retirement  from 
that  institution  she  established  and  conducted  a  private  school  at'  Mt. 
Carmel,  Illinois,  for  25  years.  In  her  own  language:  "I  can  not  remember 
ever  going  before  a  class  but  once  when  I  did  not  feel  thoroughly  quali- 
fied to  instruct  my  pupils,  (but)  I  am  far  from  satisfied  with  the  results 
of  my  work  in  the  school  room."  'She  is  a  graduate  of  the  Chatauqua 
Literary  and  Scientific  Course,  class  of  1891,  having  two  extra  courses 
in  addition  to  the  required  studies,  and  was  a  charter  member  and  first 
vice  president  of  the  Mt.  Carmel  Scientific  Society,  an  associate  founder 
of  the  Reviewers'  Matinee  and  founder  of  the  Woman's  Club  of  Mt.  Car- 
mel, finally  concluding  her  active  work  as  librarian  of  the  Mt.  Carmel 
Free  Public  Library  from  1910  to  1919.  She  is  now  in  her  77th  year  in 
age,  and  her  remarkable  activity  of  mind  is  still  evident  in  her  letter 
regarding  the  various  pedigrees,  which  is  published  in  another  part  of 
this  record. 


The  records  thus  far  authenticated  indicate  to  the  satisfaction  of 
most  of  our  relatives  that  the  various  families  herein  were  represented 
in  the  political  and  social  affairs  of  the  British  Isles  many  centuries 
before  the  reigns  of  Charles  I  and  II  and  the  oligarchy  of  Oliver  Crom- 
well, whose  general  p-oHcies,  for  numerous  reasons  patent  to  all  men, 
seem  to  have  prompted  widespread  emigration,  especially  to  the  North 
American  colonies.  Thus  we  find  the  Astons,  and  probably  the  Cockes, 
considering  the  question  of  pioneering  in  the  New  World.  The  provincial 
customs  of  those  old  days  were  naturally  imported  as  our  ancestors  made 
their  way  to  the  wilderness  of  Virginia,  and  we  find  this  sturdy  stock 
congregating  along  both  sides  of  tlie  James  River  in  Charles  City,  Isle 
of  Wight,  New  Kent,  Henrico,  Powhatan,  Goochland,  Louisa,  Spotsylvania 
and  Albemarle  Counties. 

Another  branch  of  the  Cockes  came  from  England  in  those  early  days, 
to  settle  in  the  lower  part  of  New  England,  about  Long  Island  Sound, 
and  these  were  very  probably  the  kinsmen  of  the  branch  that  settled  in 
Virginia.  Both  the  northern  and  southern  branches  have  left  their  im- 
print on  the  affairs  of  the  nation,  as  will  be  shown  in  any  standard  work 
on  biography. 

Likewise,  the  Hugheses,  the  Meriwethers,  the  Nevilles,  the  Craw- 
fords,  the  Woods  and  the  Tarletons  have  contributed  materially  toward 
The  establishment  of  the  greatest  repniblic  the  world  has  ever  seen,  and 
their  work  under  the  gravest  dift'iculties  can  be  little  comprehended  at 
this  late  day.  Even  in  my  day  have  I  witnessed  the  transition  of  five 
overgrown  villages  to  great  and  prosperous  cities.  I  recall  when  West- 
port,  now  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  where  I  was  married,  was  the  last  fitting- 
out  point  for  the  Great  American  Desert,  the  Missouri  River  country  and 
the  buffalo  hunting  grounds  and  also  when  the  settlements  in  the  Rocky 
Mountains  were  the  replicas  of  the  present-day  mining  towns  of  Alaska. 
Even  so,  but  little  can  we  comprehend  at  this  day  the  physical  hin- 
drances and  mental  misgivings  of  our  forbears  in  virgin  and  unknown 
lands.  Further,  and  coming  down  to  the  Revolutionary  period,  say  150 
years  later,  we  are  unable  properly  to  asvsociate  our  minds  with  the 
things  then  regarded  as  the  acme  of  comfort  and  respectability,  without 
considering  the  drawbacks  that  still  beset  an  undeveloped  country,  still 
largely   peopled   with   its  savage   denizens. 

Knowing,  then,  as  we  do,  something  of  the  character  and  stamina  of 
the  men  and  women  who  bestowed  upon  us  their  names  and  pride  of 
race,  it  ill  befits  us,  even  in  our  lack  of  comprehension  of  the  conditions 
of  their  day,  not  to  hold  in  reverence  the  memorials  of  those  who  were 
the  origin  of  our  birth. 


FAMILY  HISTORY  AND    SKETCHES  13 


And  this  brings  forth  the  question  of  ancestory. 

Some  of  the  older  civilizations  of  the  East'  are  said  to  worship  their 
ancestors.  In  a  way,  yes;  but  rather  they  recall  with  reverence  the 
philosophy,  the  ethics  and  the  achievements  of  their  fathers,  as  examples. 
And  we,  too,  of  the  later  western  civilization  are  justified  in  a  p-ride  of 
descent  from  fathers  and  mothers  who  made  a  wilderness  blossom  as 
the  rose — a  pride  in  a  knowledge  of  whence  we  came,  and  by  whom,  being 
cognizant  of  the  fact  that  each  descendent  must  survive  or  perish  accord- 
ing to  his  or  her  endeavors  in  life,  whether  in  civil  government,  agricul- 
ture, manufacturing,  finance  or  the  pTofessions.  So  we  can  be  justly 
proud  of  our  forbears  for  their  general  sturdiness  of  character,  their 
constructiveness,  their  sacrifices  and  their  virtues. 

Hon.  George  R.  Gilmer,  M6,  in  his  sketch  of  the  early  Meriwethers, 
has  stated  that  "They  were  too  proud  t'o  be  vain,  looking  to  their  own 
thoughts  and  conduct  rather  to  what  others  might  think  of  them,"  a 
statement  which  might'  well  be  applicable  to  every  family  represented  in 
this  record.  They  were  all  relatively  the  same  people,  from  practically 
the  same  region,  of  the  same  habits  and  train  of  thought;  and  when  the 
migration  to  Kentucky  took  place,  fhey  still  followed  the  same  provin- 
cial spirit  of  grouping  together — and  thence  to  southern  Indiana  and 
elsewhere,  the  same  spirit.  So  that,  scattered  to  the  four  corners  of  tl;e 
earfh  as  they  now  are,  the  same  racial  characteristics  may  be  recognized 
in  all  of  them. 


In  the  genealogical  succession,  it  is  believed  that  no  ofher  relative  to 
my  generation  has  had  such  a  multiplicity  of  direct  antecedents  among 
kindred  as  my  mother.  Lydia  Annie  Hughes'  record  has  established  two 
lines  of  descent  from  William  and  Henry  Cocke-Cox,  A5,  C3,  which  unite 
in  my  grandfather,  Richard  Franklin  Hughes,  H5.  The  Neville  line  shows 
double  descent  to  my  grandfafher,  and  the  Hughes  line  shows  double 
descent  to  my  grandfather.  The  marriage  of  my  grandfather  with  the 
daughter  of  his  father's  brother  set  up  a  new  double  descent  to  my 
mother  and  her  brother  and  sister.  Hence,  if  the  blood  succession  in 
direct  lines  be  carried  out  literally,  my  grandfather  was  twice  a  Hughes, 
twice  a  Neville  and  twice  a  Cocke-Cox,  my  grandmother  was  twice  a 
Cocke-'Cox  and  my  mother  was  twice  a  Hughes  and  twice  a  Cocke-Cox. 
To  state  the  descent  a  little  more  clearly,  the  Aston  and  Cocke-Cox  blood 
merged  with  the  Hughes  blood  through  the  Neville  and  Henry  Cocke-Cox 
lines,  and  the  Aston  and  Cocke-Cox  lines  united  with  the  Hughes  lines 
llirough  the  Meriwether,  Wood  and  William  Cocke-Cox  lines.  Meanwhile, 
the  blood  relationship  of  the  Tarleton-Hughes  and  the  Crawford-Meri- 
wether lines  had  been  consummated.  The  various  connections  having 
been  so  intricate  and  Interminable,  especially  in  the  collateral  lines  sub- 
sequent to  the  third  generation  in  tlie  Hughes  line,  it  seems  all  im- 
portant that  the  whole  matter  be  viewed  and  stated  in  several  ways  so 
that  the  numerous  relatives  of  later  generations  may  have  a  fair  under- 
standing as  to  where  to  find  the  connecting  head;  consequently,  the  sev- 
eral repetitions  in  this  record. 

As  may  be  inferred  from  the  preceding,  the  Intermarriages  of  rela- 
tives were  the  result  of  a  series  of  families  becoming  a  sort  of  exclusive 
or  clannish  community,  with  community  of  interests,  racially,  ethically 
and  economically,  a  condition  difficult  to  understand  in  these  days  of  in- 
tense improvement  and  progress.  As  this  custom  was  more  or  less  in 
vogue  in  other  early  communities,  as  well  as  our  own,  I  was  prompted 
to  construct  the  accompanying  table  to  show,  graphically,  the  numerous 
connections  centering  near  my  grandfather's  generation  and  also  another 
table  at  the  end  of  this  record  to  show  genealogical  succession  and  blood 
relationship  in  eight  pedigrees,  as  well  as  the  infusion  of  new  blood 
strains. 


14 


FAMILY  HISTORY  AND    SKETCHES 


Family  Connections. 


LINES 


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Cocke-Cox,    Henry    

Cocke-Cox,  William  

Crawford    

Hughes   

Nancy   (Neville)    Hughes 

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Nancy  Neville   (Hughes) 

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Wood,  John  and  Mary   (Thomas). 
William   Meriwether  Hughes 


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Cumulative  connections  in  direct  descent  may  be  readily  ascertained 
by  reference  to  the  designating  letters  in  the  preceding  table  and  by  fol- 
lowing the  family  order  arranged  in  the  table  at  the  end  of  this  record. 

While  the  name  of  ray  mother  shows  37  different  direct  blood  strains, 
and  a  number  of  our  relatives  after  the  generation  of  John  Hughes,  Jr., 
H3,  have  nearly  as  many,  it  must  be  borne  in  mind  that  considerable 
numbers  of  foreign  strains  have  been  introduced  from  collateral  lines, 
all  of  which  have  contributed  toward  keeping  the  general  family  blood 
strong,  wholesome  and  good  in  all  respects. 

By  consulting  the  record,  it  will  be  observed  that  large  families  were 
rather  common  in  the  direct  lines,  notably:  Judith  (Neville),  wife  of  John 
Hughes,  H2;  Richard  Cox,  C4H1;  John  Hughes,  Jr.,  H3,  and  his  wife, 
Anne  (Meriwether),  M5,  whose  26  childrens'  names  appear  in  this  record, 
and  George  Wood  Meriwether,  M6,  has  stated  that  "Anne  Meriwether 
was  the  most  prolific  of  all  the  family  connection;"  Dr.  James  Neville 
Hughes,  H4;  my  grandmother's  sister,  Eliza  (Hughes)  Cunliffe,  H5(4-2), 
and  my  mother. 


It  was  the  expressed  wish  of  my  mother  that  some  mention  be  made 
of  Dr.  William  Meriwether  Hughes,  H4(4-l),  her  mother's  father,  by 
whom  a  collateral  line  was  introduced  into  the  original  Hughes  line  in 
the  tables.  Therefore,  I  have  digressed  from  the  general  plan  followed 
in  the  pedigrees,  as  far  as  this  collateral  line  is  concerned,  in  order  that 
my  mother's  immediate  descendents  might  know  something  relative  to  my 
grandmother's  parentage. 

Like  his  brother.  Dr.  James  Neville  Hughes,  H4,  William  Meriwether 
Hughes,  H4(4-l),   was  a  Doctor  of  Medicine,  and,  like  all  his  kinsmen 


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in  their  chosen  fields,  was  a  man  of  great  perspicuity.  He  received  his 
medical  education  in  Philadelphia,  and  was  graduated  from  the  Depart- 
ment' of  Medicine,  Univeisity  of  Pennsylvania,  at  that  place,  in  1811.  The 
subject  of  his  graduation  thesis  was  "Conception."  He  was  also  a  man 
of  sterling  worth  and  achieved  success  in  the  development!  of  a  very 
extensive  practice  in  his  chosen  profession.  Indeed,  it  was  overwork 
in  a  large  area  in  and  around  Louisville  to  which  his  untimely  death 
from  bilious  fever  was  attributed.  His  funeral  was  said  to  have  been 
attended  by  the  largest  concourse  of  people  known  up  to  that  time  in 
Louisville.  It  was  when  he  was  in  attendance  upon  his  mother,  of  whom 
he  was  said  to  have  been  the  favorite  son,  that  he  was  stricken  down. 
He  called  his  elder  brother,  John,  to  his  bedside,  charging  him,  in  dying 
words,  with  the  care  of  his  wife  and  children,  when  his  father  inter- 
rupted and  promised:  "I  will  take  care  of  them,"  leaving  his  family  a 
moderate  competence.  (See  will  of  John  Hughes,  H4,  herein).  He  was 
buried  on  his  father's  plantation,  below  Louisville.  But  little  record  of 
his  wife,  Mary  (Wood),  is  available.  The  date  of  her  birth  is  recorded 
in  the  William  Cunliffe  family  Bible,  but  the  date  of  her  death  is  un- 
known. Her  parents  resided  in  Oldham  County,  Kentucky,  at  the  time 
of  her  marriage.  Their  children  were  all  deceased  with  the  demise  of 
my  great  uncle,  William  Meriwether  Hughes,  in  1885. 

Be  it  now  said  by  me,  the  son  of  Mary  Esther  (Hughes)  Sullivan, 
H6,  H6(4-3),  that  there  Is  not  now  and  never  has  been  any  evidence 
showing  a  more  luminant  character  in  tlie  Hughes  family  for  gentleness, 
grace,  refinement,  intellectual  force  and  executive  power  than  she  who 
gave  me  birth.  Of  her  large  family,  she  brought  six  children  to  maturity, 
and  educated  them,  in  addition  to  having  the  care  of  eleven  children  of 
kindred.  She  was  an  ardent  advocate  of  woman's  rights  from  the  stand- 
point of  common,  ordinary  justice,  the  ballot  being  only  a  means  to  an 
end.  Our  Revolutionary  ancestors  fought  against  taxation  without  rep- 
resentation, and  if  this  record  is  good  for  only  one  thing,  it  proves  that 
strong,  self-reliant  men  and  women  come  only  from  good  stock  and  blood. 
I  have  always  heartily  agreed  with  her  views  for  the  reason  that  her 
boys  had  superior  rights  under  the  constitution  over  her  girls,  whose 
material  privileges  were  inferior  fo  that  of  negro  men  after  the  Eman- 
:^ipation  Act  of  1863.  She  put  into  practical  execution  the  Biblical  in- 
junction to  care  for  the  friendless,  and  her  doors  were  never  closed  to  the 
unfortunate.  We  have  shared  in  her  joys  and  her  sorrows,  and  what- 
ever I  am,  whatever  I  hope  to  be  while  traveling  the  journey,  I  shall  say, 
while  many  members  of  the  Hughes  family  have  attained  prominence 
as  public  citizens,  there  is  one  who  stands  apart  in  my  love  and  filial  de- 
votion— my  mother.  Her  mother,  my  grandmother,  called  "Ma"  affec- 
tionately by  all  my  mother's  children,  I  never  recall  without  thinking 
of  something  holy;  timid  but  brave,  frail  in  physique  but  strong  in  reso- 
lution, I  never  knew  her  to  be  capable  of  an  unworthy  thing;  her  long 
widowhood  served  to  warm  her  heart  toward  the  little  ones  around  our 
hearthstone,  and  that  saintly  woman  is  among  the  angels  where  she 
belongs.     Litera  schpta  vuinet. 

It  is  somewhat  remarkable  tliat  my  mother  is  the  third  successive 
widowhood,  with  young  children  to  protect,  in  this  record,  these  being 
my  great-grandmother,  Mary  (Wood)  Hughes,  H4(4-l),  my  grandmother, 
Sarah  Jane  (Hughes)  Hughes,  H5(4-2),  and  my  mother,  Mary  Esther 
(Hughes)  Sullivan,  H6,  H6(4-3),  the  latter  of  whom  died  at  the  age  of  64 
years,  while  having  the  care  of  the  three  orphaned  children  of  my  de- 
ceased sister,  Lucinda  Blackmore  (Sullivan)  Davis,  H7,  H7(4-4). 

In  order  to  reestablish  the  proofs  before  the  fast  disappearing  genera- 
tions preceding  mine  shall  have  passed  into  the  Unknown,  I  have  felt  it 
my  duty  for  the  sake  of  my  children  and  those  succeeding  me  that  all 
the  foregoing  evidence  should  be  verified  as  far  as  possible.  Consequently, 
I  have  in  my  possession  tlie    family  Bible  that  was  presented  to  my  great- 


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grandmother  by  her  brother,  Tarleton  Cox,  C5H,  on  December  30,  1817, 
and  which  came  to  me  from  Martha  Hughes,  H5,  through  my  mother; 
the  original  letter  from  the  Commissioner  of  Pensions,  Washington, 
D.  C,  stating  in  detail  the  Revolutionary  service  of  my  great-great-grand- 
father. Major  John  Hughes,  H3,  and  other  valuable  data  concerning  the 
various  generations  of  the  Hughes  family,  and  were  it  not  for  the  honored 
cooperation  of  Lydia  Annie  Hughes,  H5,  and  Fanny  Wormald  Sadler,  H6, 
it  would  not  have  been  possible  to  make  the  record  as  complete  as  it  is. 
I  have  also  carefully  written  out',  in  chronological  order,  under  the  per- 
sonal direction  of  my  mother,  three  separate  records  of  the  family  in 
three  Bibles  having  space  especially  provided  for  a  lengthy  record,  and 
presented  by  her  to  the  three  branches  of  her  family  having  issue.  These 
records  are  complete  as  follows: 

Pertaining  to  my  deceased  sister,  Lucinda  Blackmore  (Sullivan) 
Davis,  H7,  H7(4-4),  from  Stephen  Hughes,  HI,  in  direct  line  to  and  in- 
cluding her  youngest  son,  Vincent  Rawlings  Davis,  H8,  (H8(4-5),  and  also 
her  death. 

Pertaining  to  my  elder  brother,  Warwick  Miller  Sullivan,  H7,  H7(4-4), 
from  Stephen  Hughes,  HI,  in  direct  line  to  the  birth  and  deatli  of  his 
youngest  son,  my  namesake,  Richard  Hunter  Sullivan,  H8,  H8(4-5). 

Pertaining  to  myself,  from  Stephen  Hughes,  HI,  in  direct  line  to  my 
daughter's  second  child,  Ralph  Potts,  Jr.,  H9,  H9(4-6). 

The  untimely  death  in  1899  of  my  sister,  Lucinda  Blackmore  (Sul- 
livan) Davis,  who  had  planned  an  extended  history  of  the  family,  fol- 
lowed five  years  later  by  the  death  of  our  beloved  mother,  has  been  an- 
other incentive  in  the  preparation  of  this  family  history,  and  the  work  has 
now  been  completed  as  a  memorial  to  both. 


Waiving  my  opinions  and  judgment  in  favor  of  advice  from  all  con- 
cerned in  the  preparation  of  these  pages,  it  has  been  decided  to  include 
a  statement  regarding  the  younger  of  the  joint  authors  of  this  family 
record. 

I  was  born  nearly  57  years  ago  in  Madison,  Indiana,  in  the  same 
house  where  most  of  my  mother's  children  first  saw  the  light  of  day.  My 
last  photograph  at  the  age  of  50  years  appears  herein.  I  was  educated 
largely  by  my  mother  and  in  the  liigh  school  at'  Madison,  from  which  two 
of  my  'brothers  and  my  two  sisters  were  graduated,  and  later  I  took 
special  courses  under  private  tutors  in  college  science,  Latin,  English  and 
history. 

After  leaving  school,  I  became  connected  with  the  Madison  Courier, 
established  in  1837,  where  I  acquired  a  thorough  knowledge  of  all  kinds 
of  printing  and  printing  machinery,  passing  through  all  the  successive 
stages  from  shoveling  coal  under  a  four-horsepower  boiler  to  foreman. 
I  first  left  home  in  1885  to  become  foreman  and  assistant  editor  of  the 
Vevay  (Ind.)  Reveille.  Returning  home  that  summer  in  bad  health,  I 
suffered  a  very  severe  attack  of  typhoid  fever.  In  January,  1886,  I  went 
to  Louisville  and  became  connected  with  the  Courier-Journal  as  a  com- 
positor with  occasional  side  work  as  reporter.  Like  most  young  men  of 
that  period,  I  had  always  cherished  a  desii-e  to  see  the  country,  and  in  my 
travels  I  performed  similar  service  on  the  New  Orleans  Picayune,  Cin- 
cinnati Times-Star,  Pittsburgh  Post  and  Commercial-Gazette,  Washington 
Republican,  Star  and  Capitol,  Congressional  Record  in  the  Government 
Printing  Office  at  Washington,  New  York  Herald,  Boston  Globe,  Newton 
(Mass.)  Observer,  Waltham  Times,  Richmond  (Va.)  Whig  and  Post- 
Dispatch,  Norfolk  Landmark  and  Jacksonville  (Fla.)  Times-Union.  While 
in  Boston,  Newton  and  Waltham,  I  attended  lectures  in  science,  English 
and  history  under  private  tutors  from  Harvard. 


FAM  I  LY  H  I  k!  T  O  RY  AN  D    SKETCHES  17 


The  free  and  easy  life  of  the  newspaper  fraternity  in  those  days, 
before  the  introduction  of  typesetting  machinery,  palled  on  me  as  wholly 
at  variance  with  my  training  at  home,  and  I  continued  to  prepare  myself 
for  some  more  congenial  life  work.  Returning  to  Louisville,  I  passed 
the  mental  examination  required  for  entry  into  the  Signal  Corps,  U.  S.  A,, 
while  again  working  as  a  compositor  on  the  Courier-Journal;  and, 
after  passing  the  physical  examination  at  the  U.  S.  Arsenal  at  Indian- 
apolis, Indiana,  I  enlisted  for  five  years  as  a  private  soldier,  for  detail  in 
the  meteorological  branch,  on  September  24,  1887,  and  was  assigned  to  duty 
at  that  point.  Two  years  later  I  was  assigned  to  Kansas  City,  Missouri, 
where  1  married  Clara  Alda  Amberg,  of  Indianapolis.  My  young  wife 
accompanied  me  on  my  new  detail  to  Denver,  Colorado,  a  few  days  after 
our  marriage  in  June,  1890.  Meanwhile,  Congress  passed  an  act,  creating 
the  Weather  Bureau  of  the  Department  of  Agriculture  and  transferring 
all  the  meteorological  work  of  the  U.  S.  Signal  Corps  to  that  bureau,  and 
also  provided  for  honorable  discharges  to  all  enlisted  men  of  the  Signal 
Corps  who  elected  to  make  the  transfer.  I  decided  to  change  and  was 
accordingly  discharged  from  the  army  after  military  service  of  tliree 
years  and  eight  months  and  became  an  observer  in  the  Weather  Bureau. 

Our  first  child,  Esther  Louise,  was  born  while  my  wife  was  visiting 
her  mother  in  Indianapolis.  Our  second  child,  Warwick  Amberg,  was 
born  at  our  home  in  Denver. 

On  the  death  of  two  men  in  close  succession,  about  1893,  one  in 
charge  of  the  Denver  station  and  the  other  in  charge  of  the  Colorado 
State  Weather  Service,  the  two  offices  were  combined,  and  I  became  the 
first  assistant  or  chief  clerk.  In  the  spring  of  1896,  I  was  reassigned  to 
Indianapolis  as  first  assistant,  having  charge  of  tlie  general  printing  of  the 
station  publications  and  the  climatological  reports  of  the  State  of  Indiana, 
with  a  short  special  detail  that  summer  to  Nashville,  Tennessee. 

While  in  Indianapolis,  our  younger  son,  Richard  Franklin,  was  born. 

In  the  latter  part  of  1902,  I  was  assigned  to  charge  of  the  station  at 
Grand  Junction,  Colorado,  and  we  made  a  second  pilgrimage  to  that 
State.  It  may  be  said  here  that  this  assignment  offered  my  first  real 
opportunity  for  Independent  action  on  a  general  educational  plane  in  the 
interest  of  the  public.  Frost  fighting  by  smudges  and  oil  heaters  in  the 
orchards  of  the  Grand  Valley,  among  the  largest  and  finest'  in  that  State, 
was  introduced  on  a  large  scale,  and  thi-s  work  later  reached  the  pro- 
portions of  such  activities  in  the  extensive  fruit  districts  of  California. 
We  purchased  a  home  in  Grand  Junction  and  were  prepared  to  make  a 
long  stay  there;  but  in  the  summer  of  1905,  I  was  transferred  to  charge 
of  the  station  at  Wichita,  Kansas,  considered  in  the  service  as  a  much 
more  important  assignment,  with  the  title  of  Local  Forecaster. 
Orchard  heating  operations  and  experiments  were  continued,  with 
enlargement  in  educational  fields.  Our  large  acquaintance  in  Wichita 
after  a  residence  there  of  about  eight  years,  and  the  fact  that  our  two 
older  children  were  educated  in  Fairmount  College  there,  have  made  all 
of  us  look  upon  the  place  as  home,  and  our  hearts  ever  turn  with  fond- 
ness to  the  many  friends  left  behind  when  we  removed  to  this  State  in 
the  spring  of  1913. 

I  was  assigned  to  Columbia,  S.  C,  as  Meteorologist  and  Section  Direc- 
tor in  charge  of  all  tlie  climatological  work  of  the  Weather  Bureau  in 
South  Carolina,  as  well  as  in  charge  of  the  river  and  flood  work  of  the 
Santee  River  District,  comprising  five  flashy  streams,  which  form  the 
principal  river  system  of  the  State.  In  former  times  the  Santee  and  its 
two  immediate  tributaries  were  used  for  steamboat  navigation  from  Cam- 
den and  Columbia  to  Georgetown,  on  the  sea.  In  1914,  my  wife,  my 
younger  son  and  myself  made  a  trip  from  Columbia  to  Georgetown  and 
return  in  a  steamboat  that  was  formerly  in  the  Ohio  River  trade  above 
Cincinnati  and  was  brought  to  Columbia  via  the  Mississippi  River,  tlie 
Gulf  of  Mexico,  and  the   South  Atlantic  Ocean.     This  and  other  profes- 


18  FAMILY  HISTORY  AND   SKETCHES 


sional  trips  over  the  State  have  been  significant  to  me  in  two  ways — 
one  as  an  element  of  pleasure,  and  the  other,  a  general  conception  of  the 
virgin  state  of  the  wilderness  of  the  original  thirteen  colonies  as  late  as 
Revolutionary  times,  for  much  of  the  swamp  regions  of  this  State  is  still 
as  wild  as  in  the  time  when  Jean  Ribaut  and  his  Huguenots  on  Port 
Royal  Island  were  driven  out  or  killed  by  Don  Menendez  de  Aviles,  nearly 
a  century   before  our  ancestors   settled   in   Virginia. 

The  disintegration  of  our  family  circle  began  when  our  older  son 
married  a  South  Carolina  lady  in  the  early  part  of  1915,  followed  that 
summer  by  the  marriage  of  our  daughter  to  a  college  classmate,  a  gen- 
tleman of  fine  family,  formerly  of  Illinois.  Our  youngest  son  is  still  at 
home  here  with  us. 

I  am  or  have  been  connected  with  the  following  bodies,  according 
to  circumstances  of  residence,  etc.: 

Member  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  Pacific  Jurisdiction,  Harmony 
Camp  No.  45,  Denver,  Colorado;  member  of  the  Grand  Junction  Literary 
Society;  member  of  Board  of  Directors  of  Grand  Junction  Chamber  of 
Commerce;  member  of  Wichita  Club  and  Chamber  of  Commerce;  Prompter 
of  the  Sedgwick  County  {Kan.)  Horticultural  Society;  lay  reader  and 
teacher  of  the  Bible  class  in  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church,  Wichita,  for 
three  years;  honorary  member  of  Wichita  Dental  Society;  organizer  and 
first  president  of  the  Kansas  State  Audubon  Society,  which  had  large  in- 
fluence toward  having  the  Legislature  enact  a  law  protecting  about  300 
species  of  useful  non-game  birds  and  regulating  the  bag  of  46  species  of 
game  birds;  one  of  charter  members  and  second  president  of  LeConte 
Scientific  Society  at  University  of  South  Carolina,  Columbia;  vestryman 
of  Church  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  Episcopal,  Columbia;  member  of  Amer- 
ican Meteorological  Society;  member  of  American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science;  member  of  Indiana  Society,  Sons  of  the  Revo- 
lution; Senior  Warden,  Richland  Lodge  No.  39,  F.  and  A.  M.,  the  strongest 
Masonic  lodge  in  South  Carolina. 

The  scope  of  the  work  accomplished  during  the  last  twenty  years, 
both  in  the  public  service  and  outside  tliat  immediate  field,  may  be  indi- 
cated in  the  following  list  of  addresses,  lectures  and  papers: 

Addresses. 

General  Work  of  the  Weather  Bureau,  with  stereopticon  illustrations; 
Court   House,   Grand  Junction,   Colorado,   1904. 

So-called  Change  of  Climate  in  the  Semi-arid  West;  Kansas  State 
Bankers'  Association,  Anthony,  Kansas,  1907,  published  in  whole  by 
Wichita  Eagle  and  Beacon.  This  address,  rearranged  by  request  of  the 
Chief  U.  S.  Weather  Bureau,  was  published  in  the  Year  Book  of  the  De- 
partment of  Agriculture,   1908. 

Relation  of  the  Weather  Bureau  to  the  Agriculturalist;  Farmers' 
Institute,  Hackney,  near  Winfield,  Kansas,  1909,  published  in  Arkansas 
"Valley  Farmer. 

Conservation  of  Moisture  for  the  Proper  Growth  of  Vegetation; 
Sedgwick  County  (Kans.)  Horticultural  Society,  1909,  published  in 
Wichita  Eagle. 

Precipitation,  Forests  and  Stream  Flow;  Library  Club,  Falrmount 
College,  Wichita,  1910. 

Folk  Lore,  in  three  subjects:  Horizon  of  Early  Superstition;  Witch- 
craft and  Kindred  Considerations,  and  Astrology,  Divination  and  Plane- 
taiy  Meteorology;  Sedgwick  County  (Kans.)  Horticultural  Society,  1912; 
Unitarian  Church,  Wichita,  1913;  LeConte  Scientific  Society,  Columbia, 
1915;  Columbia  College  for  Women,  1918,  by  request  of  faculty. 

Origin  of  Things  as  Viewed  by  the  Scientific  Christian;  by  request 
of  Plymouth,  Fellowship  and  United  Brethren  Churches;  Library  Club, 
Fairmount  College;   Colored  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  Wichita,  1908,  1909  and  1910. 


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Religious  and  Sociological,  three  lectures:  Treachery  of  Absalom, 
Woman  in  History,  and  Militant  Church;  All  Saints',  St.  Augustine's  and 
St.   Stephen's   Episcopal   Churches,  Wichita,   1909   and   1910. 

Protection  of  Shade  Trees;   Columbia,  S.  C,  City  Council,  1914. 

Lectures. 

Popular  Meteorology,  three  subject's:  Atmosphere,  Storms  Common 
to  the  United  States,  and  the  Work  of  the  Weather  Bureau,  with  stere- 
opticon  illustrations;  High  School,  Grand  Junction,  Colorado,  1904; 
Friends  University  student  body,  Wichita,  1913;  Columbia  College  for 
Women,  1918,  the  students  being  graded  in  first  two.  Similar  work  has 
been  done  before  the  Columbia  high  and  private  schools,  at  intervals, 
1914  to  1920. 

Annual  lectures  at  University  of  South  Carolina,  second  semester: 
First,  Explanation  of  Methods  in  Weather  Bureau  Office;  second,  techni- 
cal lecture  on  Forecasting  and  on  the  Four  Types  of  Storms  Common  to 
the  United  States,  50  minutes,  in  lecture  room  of  Professor  of  Geology, 
before  Physiography  class. 

War  Preparation:  Twenty-four  set  lectures  of  one  hour  each  to  four 
engineers,  detailed  at  the  Columbia  Weather  Bureau  Office,  from  Camp 
Gordon,  Georgia,  December,  1917,  and  January,  1918.  The  course  covered 
general  and  secondary  atmospheric  circulation  in  connection  with  avia- 
tion and  artillery  practice,  moisture,  cloud  movement,  winds,  technical 
forecasting,  etc.  The  men  were  graduates  of  Bucknell,  Drexell,  Uni- 
versity of  Syracuse  and  University  of  Minnesota  (and  of  Tomsk,  Siberia). 
They  all  went  to  France  with  the  engineers,  and  all  returned  safely. 

Lectures  in  Ornithology,  second  semester,  Fairmount  College,  Wichita, 
Kansas:  Feathered  Kingdom,  1909;  Food  Habits  of  the  Commoner  Birds, 
1910;  Migration  of  Birds,  1911;  Incubation  of  Eggs  and  Thermal  Rela- 
tions Thereto,  Functions  of  Nests,  and  Protective  Coloration  of  Animals, 
1912.     The  students  were  graded  in  this  work. 

Papers. 

History  and  Theories  of  Earthquakes  and  Volcanic  Eruptions,  1901; 
published  in  Indianapolis  Press  and  News  and  widely  copied. 

Smudge  Fires  for  Prevention  of  Frost;  Grand  Junction,  Colorado, 
1904;  Monthly  Weather  Review,  1904,  page  229. 

Notes  on  Mammals  of  Western  Colorado;  issued  in  connection  with 
publication    of    Colorado    College.    Colorado    Springs,    Colorado,    1904. 

The  Weather  Bureau  and   Its  Work;   Wichita    (Kan.)    Eagle,   1905. 

Eclipses  and  Periodic  Return  of  Mars  to  the  Field  for  Good  Observa- 
tion; Wichita   (Kan.)   Beacon,  1905. 

Protecting  Orchards  from  Spring  Frosts;  Sedgwick  County  (Kan.) 
Horticultural  Society.  1908. 

Is  There  Any  Reason  Why  an  Early  Easter  is  Followed  by  an  Early 
Spring  and  a  Late  Easter  by  a  Late  Spring?;  Sedgwick  County  (Kan.) 
Horticultural   Society,   1910. 

Smudge  Pots  for  Prevention  of  Frost,  Wichita,  Kansas;  Monthly 
Weather  Review,  1910,  page  412. 

The  Mole;  Sedgwick  County  (Kan.)  Horticultural  Society,  1910; 
published  in  Wichita  Star  and  Agricultural  Southwest. 

The  Order  Diptera— the  Horse  Fly  and  His  Kin;  Sedgwick  County 
(Kan.)    Horticultural    Society,    1912;    published    in   Wichita    Star. 

Relation  of  the  Weather  Bureau  to  the  Horticulturalist;  Kansas  State 
Horticultural  Society,  Topeka,  Kansas,  1910,  and  published  in  the  proceed- 
ings of  the  Society.  This  paper  deals  with  orchard  heating  and  artificial 
frost  prevention  in  all  its  technical  details,  obtained  from  laborious  tests 
and  experiments. 


20  FAMILY  HISTORY  AND   HKETCHES 


Artificial  Rainmaking;  newspaper  controversy  with  two  so-called  rain- 
makers;  Wichita    (Kan.)    Eagle,  1911. 

Bird  Publications:  Birds  of  Mesa  County,  Colorado,  in  Rockwell  list, 
Condor,  Pasadena,  California,  1908,  93  species;  Economic  Importance  of 
Non-Game  Birds,  Wichita  Star,  1908;  Birds  Our  Benefactors,  Breeders' 
Special,  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  1910;  Economic  Value  of  Bird  Life,  Kan- 
sas State  Agricultural  College,  Manhattan,  1910,  College  Extension  Pam- 
phlet for  Farmers;  Relation  of  Bird  Life  to  the  Horticulturalist',  1910, 
proceedings  of  Kansas  State  Horticultural  Society. 

Climatology  of  Wichita  and  Sedgwick  County,  Kansas,  and  So-called 
Change  of  Climate,  1910;   History  of  Sedgwick  County,  2  volumes. 

Climatology  of  Wichita,  Kansas,  1912;  published  for  office  distribu- 
tion. 

Changes  in  the  Water  Flow  of  Arkansas  River;  Wichita  (Kan.) 
Beacon,  1911. 

Unusual  Hailstorm  (with  tremendous  hailstones)  at  Wichita,  Kan- 
sas, 1912;  Monthly  weather  Review,  page  739,  recopied  in  Quarterly  Jour- 
nal of  Royal  Meteorological  Society,  London,  1912,  page  302. 

Air  Drainage  in  Locust  Hill  Orchards,  Meriwether,  S.  C;  South  Car- 
olina Monthly  Climatological  Report,  March,  1914. 

Desitructive  Hailstorm  in  Northern  South  Carolina;  South  Car- 
olina Monthly  Climatological  Report,  July,  1914. 

The  Great  Floods  in  the  Santee  River  System  in  North  and  South 
Carolina,  with  over  $10,000,000  damage;  South  Carolina  Monthly  Climato- 
logical Report,  July,   1916. 

The  Great  South  Carolina  Meteor;  South  Carolina  Monthly  Climato- 
logical Report,  April,  1918,  and  Monthly  Weather  Review,  page  357. 

To  those  who  will  come  after  us,  it  may  be  observed  from  the  above 
that'  a  Weather  Bureau  official  must  be  versatile  in  order  to  meet  ques- 
tions from  all  angles,  requirements  demanded  of  probably  no  other  at- 
taches of  the  public  service.  In  a  recent  publication  regarding  the  per- 
sonnel of  this  servi  \  it  was  stated  that,  of  all  the  observers  transferred 
from  tlie  Signal  Corps  in  1891,  155  have  withstood  the  hand  of  time,  or 
38  per  cent  of  the  entire  force  with  which  the  Weather  Bureau  began. 

So,  now,  after  over  33  years  of  professional  life  myself,  and  after 
over  30  years  of  companionship  in  our  wanderings,  we  have  grown  gray 
in  service,  Alda  and  I.  She  has  entered  info  the  spirit  of  my  whole  life, 
both  as  regards  the  many  griefs  that  befell  my  mother's  family  in  past 
years  and  also  as  regards  the  many  changes  of  residence  and  of  leaving 
friends  to  go  among  strangers  In  strange  lands.  Our  aim  in  life  has 
been  to  fit  the  children  to  make  better  citizens  than  we  have  t>een,  re- 
membering with  commendable  pride,  the  sturdy  stock  from  whence  they 
came.  She,  the  companion  of  the  years  and  tlie  jewel  of  my  heart,  is 
still  by  my  side,  and  is  content.  The  God  of  our  fathers  has  been  good 
to  us.     Laborwm  dulce  lenivien. 

RICHARD  HUGHES  SULLIVAN,  H7,  H7(4-4). 


PEDIGREES 


ASTON  (A) 

WALTER  ASTON. 

Born 

Married, 

Died,   

He  was  of  Langdon,  Staffordshire,  England. 
WALTER  ASTON    (Aston,   ),  2. 

Born,  1607. 

Married — 1 :  Warbrow  or  Norbrow;  2:  Hannah 

Died,  April  6,  1656. 
Emigrated  to  Virginia  about  1628  and  settled  in  Charles  City  County. 
His  tombstone  may  still  be  seen  (1905)  in  old  Westover  Churchyard;  was 
Justice  of  the  Peace  and  Lieutenant  (Colonel  of  the  county;  was  Burgess 
for  Shirley  Hundred  Island,  1629-30;  for  Shirley  Hundred,  the  Farrars  and 
Chaplains,  February,  1631-32;  Shirley  Hundred  and  Cawsey's  Care,  Sep- 
tember, 1632-33,  and  for  Charles  City  County,  1642-43. 

This  service  in  the  Virginia  Assembly  makes  his  female  descendants 
eligible  to  the  Colonial  Dames. 
MARY  ASTON   (Aston,   ;   Aston, ),  3. 

Born 

Married ,  Richard  Cocke,  CI. 

Died, 

JOHN  COCKE  (Aston ;  Aston, ;  Aston,  Cocke),  or  COX, 

as  he  spelled  his  name,  4,  C2. 
Born,  1647. 

Married,    Mary  Davis. 

Died,   

His  will  was  probated  February  1,  1696,  in  Henrico  County,  Virginia. 

WILLIAM    COCKE-COX    (Aston,    ;    Aston ;    Aston, 

Cocke;  Cocke-Cox,  Davis),  5,  C3W. 

Born, 

Married,  1695,  Sarah  Perrin. 
Died,  1711. 
He  returned  to  the  original  orthography,  but  the  new  form,  COX,  is 
used  for  subsequent  lineage  in  both  the  Aston  and  Cocke    (COX)    lines. 
See  Henry  Cocke-Cox,  his  brother,  C3H. 

MARTHA  COX  (Aston, ;  Aston, ;  Aston,  Cocke; 

Cocke,  Davis;  Cox,  Perrin),  6,  C4W. 

Born,  

Married,  October  13,  1723,  Henry  Wood,  W2. 
Died,   

MARTHA  WOOD   (Aston,   ;   Aston ;   Aston,  Cocke; 

Cocke,  Davis;   Cox,  Perrin;  CoX,  Wood),  7,  C5W. 
Born,  1735,  in  Goochland  County,  Virginia. 
Married,  July  17,  1751,  Col.  William  Meriwether,  M4,  son  of  David 

Meriwether  and  Ann  (Holmes),  his  wife. 
Died,  October  17,  1801,  at  the  homestead  of  her  son-in-law.  Major 

John   Hughes,   Jr.,  H3,   in   Jefferson    County,   Kentucky,    and 

was   interred   in  the   old   Hughes   plantation,   7   miles   below 

Louisville. 


22  PEDIGREES 


ANNE   MERIWETHER    (Aston,    ;    Aston ;    Aston, 

Cocke;   Cocke,  Davis;   Cox,  Perrin;   Cox,  Wood;    Wood,  Meri- 
wether), 8,  C6W. 
Born,  October  12,  1767. 

Married,  in  1783,  John  Hughes,  Jr.,  H3,  son  of  John  Hughes,  H2, 
and  Judith    (Neville),  N2,   his   wife.     By   this   marriage,   the 
eight  original  lines  were  united. 
Died,  May  3,  1820. 
For  Anus,  see  Page  15,  Crozier's  General  Armory. 
For  subsequent  lineage,  see  Anne  Meriwether,  M5,  and  John  Hughes, 
Jr.,  H3. 

COCKE  (COX)  (C) 

RICHARD   COCKE. 

Born,  about  1600. 

Married— 1:    ,   ;   2:   Mary  Aston,  A3. 

■  Died,  1665,  at  his  homestead,  Bremo  or  Bremore,  Henrico  County. 
Virginia. 
He  came  from  the  vicinity  of  Malvern  Hills,  England,  and  is  believed 
to  be  nearly  connected  with  the  Cockes,  of  Gloucester,  whose  magnificent 
seat,  Eastnor  Castle,  is  about  midway  between  the  cities  of  Gloucester 
and 'Worcester,  England.  The  date  of  Richard  Cocke's  immigration  to 
Virginia  is  not  exactly  known,  but  he  patented  100  acres  of  land  in  Eliza- 
beth City  in  1628;  3,000  acres  in  Henrico  County  in  1636;  2,000  acres  in 
Henrico  County  in  1639  and  2,842  acres  in  Henrico  County  In  1652;  and, 
together  with  John  Beauchamp,  patented  2,974  acies  in  1664. 

Richard  Cocke  was  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  Henrico  County,  Member 
of  the  House  of  Burgesses  for  Weyanoke  in  1632  and  for  Henrico  County 
In  1644  and  1654;  was  appointed  Sheriff  of  Henrico  County  in  1655,  when 
he  resigned  his  seat  in  the  Assemblv.  His  will,  dated  October  4,  1665,  Is 
on  record  in  the  clerk's  office  of  Henrico  County,  witnessed  by  Henry 
Randolph  and  Henry  Isham.  It  is  sealed  in  wax,  implying  arms. 
His  descendents  are  eligible  to  the  Colonial  Dames. 

JOHN   COCKE    (Aston ;    Aston ;    Cocke-Aston),  or 

COX,  as  he  spelled  his  name,  2,  A4. 
Born,  1647. 

Married Mary  Davis. 

Died 

His  will  was  probated  February  1,  1696,  In  Henrico  County,  Virginia. 

HENRY    COCKE-COX    (Aston ;    Aston ;    Aston, 

Cocke;   Cocke-Cox,  Davis),  3,  ASH. 

Born, 

Married,  

Died, 

His  brother  William,  A5W,  returned  to  the  original  orthography,  but 
the  new  form,  COX,  is  used  for  subsequent  lineage  in  both  the  Cocke 
(Cox)  and  Aston  lines. 

RICHARD  COX   (Aston ;   Aston ;   Aston,  Cocke; 

Cocke-Cox,  Davis ;   Cox ) ,  4,  A6H. 

Born,  November  8,  1761. 

Married ,  Nancy  ^(Nei(Ule)   Hughes,  N3,  daughter  of  John 

Hughes,  H2,  and  Nancy'  (Neville),  N2,  his  wife. 
Died,  January  12,  1830. 
The  children  of  JUchard   Cox  and  Nancy    (Neville-Hughes),  H3,  N3, 
were: 

TARLETON,  5,  born   ;   married  Lucinda  Amos;   died  February  28, 

1862. 


PEDIGREES  23 


RICHARD  HUGHES,   5,  born    ;    married   Martha  Jane  Waide,   his 

cousin;   died,  March  7,  1859,  having  issue. 
ESTHER,  5,  born  October  25,  1787;    married  John  Hughes,  H4,  May  25, 

1809;  d;ed  January  14,  1850,  liaving  issue. 
ELIZABETH,   5,   born    ;    married   Thomas   Prather;    died    

having  issue.     See  M3,  slietch. 

VINCENT,  5,  born   ;   died  unmarried  August  15,  1831. 

ABNER,  5,  born ;  died  unmarried,  August,  1833. 

Richard  Cox,  4,  and  liis  wife  emigrated  to  Jefferson  County,  Kentucky, 
about  1801.  The  Cox  family  Bible,  presented  by  Tarleton,  5,  to  his  sister, 
Esther,  5,  is  in  possession  of  Richard  Hughes  Sullivan,  H7,  117(4-4). 
Fanny  Wormald  Sadler,  116,  has  written  under  date  of  September  28, 
1920:  "Aunt  Elizabeth  Prather,  an  older  sister  (of  Esther  Cox,  5),  was 
Betty  Prather  Robbins'  grandmother.  Betty's  father  was  Thomas,  named 
for  his  father,  who,  with  an  older  brother,  Richard,  settled  in  Hickman 
or  Fulton  County,  where  members  of  the  family  still  live.  Uncle  Richard 
Cox.  5,  my  grandmother  Esther's  brother,  was  Cousia-  Emma's  father  and 
your  Uncle  Charlie's  wife's  father."  I  visited  Betty  (Prather)  in  Louis- 
ville in  1916,  when  she  was  living  on  the  Bardstown  Road.  She  died 
several  years  ago,  and  Mr.  Robbins,  whom  I  knew  well,  died  some  25  or  30 
years  before,  leaving  a  large  family. 

Under  date  of  October  14,  1881,  Martha  Hughes,  H4,  made  the  fol- 
lowing notation  regarding  Richard  C)ox:  "*  *  *  The  writing  inclosed  in 
this  envelope  is  taken  from  the  copy  book  he  used  when  sixteen  years 
of  age  (about  1777).  This  is  the  only  souvenir  I  have  of  him."  The  writ- 
ings, now  in  my  possession,  comprise  problems  in  arithmetic,  together 
with  his  signature. 

ESTHER  COX  (Aston ;  Aston,  ;  Aston,  Cocke; 

Cocke-Cox,  Davis;   Cox,  ;   Cox,  Hughes),  5,  A7H. 

Born,  October  25,  1787. 

Married,  May  25,  1809,  John  Hughes,  H4,  son  of  John  Hughes,  Jr., 
H3,   and   Anne    (Meriwether),   M5,  his   wife;    they   were  first 
cousins. 
Died,  January  14,  1850. 

For  subsequent  lineage,  see  John  Hughes,  H4. 

NEVILLE  (N) 

JAMES   NEVILLE. 

Born,  prior  to  1700,  probably  in  England. 

Married — 1:    ,   ;   2.  Lucy  Thomas 

Died,  1752. 
In  a  letter  from  Lydia  Annie  Hughes,  H5,  of  Mt.  Carmel,  Illinois, 
under  date  of  September  19,  1920,  is  the  following:  "Visited  the  New- 
berry Library  at  Chicago  in  search  of  our  Neville  English  ancestry  last 
November,  *  *  *  and  was  greatly  disappointed  at  finding  no  mention 
of  Capt.  James  Neville,  St.  Anne  Parish,  Albemarle  County,  Virginia, 
born  ante  1760,  with  some  such  entry  as  'immigrated  to  Va.'  This  would 
have  enabled  me  to  trace  that  most  distinguished  line  back  to  its  York- 
shire or  other  English  derivation."  In  another  letter,  under  date  of 
November  7,  1920,  she  writes:  "Capt.  James  Neville,  of  St.  Anne  Parish, 
Albemarle   County,  Virginia,   was   probably   the    son    of  John   Neville,    of 

Isle  of  Wight  County,  Virginia.     *     *     *     He  married—flrst:    

with  issue    of    one    son    and    three    daughters;     second,    Lucy    Thomas, 

,  with  issue  of  one  son  and  five  daughters.     Will  dated  March 

7,  1752,  and  proved  November  9,  1752,  in  which  year  he  died.  Owned  land 
on  the  south  side  of  James  River  in  1724.  Captain  of  Goochland  County, 
1740,  (Goochland  and  Albemarle  Counties  were  at  one  time  united).  Lucy, 
widow   of  James   Neville,   married,   second,    Abraham    Childress.     I  have 


24  PEDIGREES 


known  several  of  the  Virginia  Nevilles,  the  Michaux,  Archers,  etc.  *  *  * 
I  have  never  been  satisfied  that  Admiral  John  Neville  was  of  our  stock. 
None  of  the  Virginia  relatives  claim  him.  I  think  it  very  probable,  how- 
ever, that  he  was  related  to  Capt.  James  Neville."  She  quotes  William 
and  Mary  Quarterly,  Vol.  XIX,  Page  61.  Although  the  connection  has 
never  been  authenticated,  many  of  our  Kentucky  relatives  were  of  the 
opinion  last  stated,  and  therefore,  as  a  matter  of  record,  I  feel  justified 
in  including  in  these  notes  a  short  sketch  obtained  by  Martha  Hughes, 
115,  in  1856,  as  follows:  "Admiral  Neville's  remains  lie  in  a  tomb  of 
black  marble  in  the  old  graveyard  of  St.  John's  Parish,  near  Hampton, 
Elizabeth  County,  Virginia.  Tradition  had  located  an  old  church  in  this 
old  burying  grcmnd,  which  is  on  the  Pembroke  Farm,  now  owned  by  John 
Jones,  Esq.  The  niaible  slab  from  which  the  inscription  was  copied  is 
two  feet  beneath  the  surface  of  the  earth." — Richard  Hughes  Sullivan, 
H7,  H7(4-4). 

(Copy  of  Inscription.) 

M  Here  lyes  the  body   of 

John  NeviU  Esqr.  Vice  Admiral 
of  His  Majestyes  Fleet  and  Commander 
in  chief  of  ye  squadron  cruising 
in  the  West  Indies, 
Who  dyed  on  board   ye  Caimbridge 
*         the  17th  day  of  August,  1697, 
in  ye  ninth  yeare  of  the  reigne  of 
King  William  the  third 
Aged  53  years 

JUDITH    NEVILLE    (Neville,   Thomas),  2. 

Born,  April  3,  1745. 

Married — 1:    ,  John  Hughes,  H2;    2 — :    

iRobert  Mitchell,   of  Ireland. 

Died, 

Some  time  after  the  death  of  John  Hughes,  2,  Judith  (Neville)  mar- 
ried Robert  Mitchell,  of  Ireland.  They  left  two  children,  i.  e.,  William, 
who  nuirried  Ann  Arniistead,  daughter  of  John,  Jr.,  M5,  and  Mary 
(Thomas)  Arniistead,  and  a  daughter,  Sally,  who  married  a  son  of  Gen. 
William  Scott,  of  Virginia.  The  date  of  Judith  (Neville-Hughes) 
Mitchell's  death  is  not  known. — Martha  Hughes,  H5. 

JOHN    HUGHES,  Jr.,   (Neville,  Thomas;    Neville,  Hughes),  3. 
Born,  August  11,  1763. 

Married ,  1783,  Anne  Meriwether,  M5,  A8. 

Died,  December  11,  1842. 

NANCY  NEVILLE  HUGHES  (Neville,  Thomas;  Neville,  Hughes),  3NNH. 
Born,  November  13,  1765. 

Married Richurd  Cox,   C41I,  A6H,  of   Powhatan   County, 

Virginia. 
Died,  January  27,  1843. 
She  was  a  sister  of  the  next  preceding.     For  other  sisters  not  in  this 
roster   and   for   their   connection    with    the   Cunlil'fe    and   other    lines,  see 
John  Hughes,  H2,  and  William  Cunliffe.  Cf2. 

For  subsequent  lineage,  see:  1 — John  Hughes,  Jr.,  H3,  M5.  2  Nancy 
(Neville-Hughes)  Cox,  C4H;   H4  and  H5. 


PEDIGREES  25 


WOOD  (W) 

VALENTINE  WOOD. 

Born,  in  England. 

Murried,  Rachel   

Died,    

HENRY   WOOD    (Wood ),  2. 

Born,  July  8,  1696,  in  London,  England. 

Married,  Marlha  Cocke  (Cox),  A6W,  October  13,  1723,  at  Bremo 

or  Breuiore,  Henrico  County,  Virginia. 
Died,  May  2,  1757. 
His  tomb  is  preserved  at  "Woodville,"  iiis  old  homestead,  about  12 
miles  north  of  Goochland  C.  IL,  Virginia.  For  40  years  he  was  attorney- 
at-law  and  county  clerk  of  Goochland  and  owned  one  of  the  few  libraries 
in  the  colonies  at  this  early  period.  His  son,  Valentine,  succeeded  him 
as  Clerk  of  Goochland  County.  A  statement  of  account  between  him  and 
his  brother-in-law.  Will  Meriwether,  from  1750  to  1771,  is  in  possession 
of  Lydia  Annie  Hughes,  H5.  This  Valentine  Wood,  W3,  A7W,  married  a 
sister  of  Patrick  Henry,  the  great  orator  of  the  Revolution.  Their 
daughter,  Mary  Wood,  was  the  mother  of  Gen.  Joseph  E.  Johnston,  C  S. 
A.  See  reprint  herein  of  letter  of  Patrick  Henry,  copied  from  the  Meri- 
wether Genealogical  Record,  1889,  in  regard  to  this  family. 

MARTHA  WOOD    (Wood,    ;    Cocke-Cox),  3. 

Born,  1735,  in  Goochland  County,  Virginia. 

Married,  July  17,  1751,  Col.  William  Meriwether,  M4,  Cr5,  son  of 

David  Meriwether  and  Ann  (Holmes),  his  wife. 
Died,  O'ctober  17,  18U1,  in  Jefferson  County,  Kentucky. 

ANNE    MERIWETHER    (Wood,    ;    Wood,   Cocke-Cox;    Wood, 

Meriwether),  4,  M5,  H3. 
Born,  October  12,  1767. 

Married,  in  1783,  John  Hughes,  Jr.,  H3,  son  of  John  Hughes,  H2, 
and  Judith    (Neville),   N2,  his   wife.     By   this  marriage,   the 
eight  original  lines  were  united. 
Died,  May  3,  1820. 
For  subsequent  lineage,  see  John  Hughes,  Jr.,  H3. 

TARLETON(T) 

STEPHEN   TARLETON. 

Born ,  in  Wales;   emigrated  to  Virginia  in 

Married 

Died,  

ELIZABETH  TARLETON   (Tarleton ),  2. 

Born,  1691,  in  Wales. 

Married,  Stephen  Hughes,  HI. 

Died,  April  28,  1775,  in,  Richmond,  Virginia,  in  the  84th  year  of 
her  age. 
The  Tarletons  came  from  a  fine  old  family  seat  near  Wrexham,  in 
the  northern  part  of  the  Welsh  principality.  Col.  Banister  Tarleton,  the 
noted  Revolutionary  soldier,  was  a  relative  of  Stephen  Tarleton  and  his 
Virginia  descendents.  In  1914  and  1916,  while  on  professional  business, 
one  of  the  compilers  of  this  general  family  hi.story,  and  a  kinsman  of 
the  8th  and  7th  generations  in  this  and  the  Hughes  Hues  respectively, 
visited  the  old  Francis  Marion  plantation  and  the  region  around  Eutaw 
Springs,  S.  C,  where  the  Battle  of  Eutaw  Springs  was, fought. 
JOHN   HUGHES  (Tarleton,   ;   Tarleton,  Hughes),  3. 

Born,  January  24,  1739. 

Married,    Judith  Neville,  N2,   daughter   of  James  Neville 

and  Lucy  (Thomas),  his  wife. 

Died,  April  19,  1774;  he  was  an  only  son. 
For  subsequent  lineage,  see  John  Hughes,  H2. 


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CRAWFORD  (Cr) 
JOHN  CRAWFORD. 

Born in  Scotland,  anc/  said  to  be  lineally  descended  from 

Sir  Ronald  Crawiord,  the  uncle  and  protector  of  Sir  William 
Wallace. 

Married, 

Died    

He  came  to  Virginia  about  1630,  bringing  with  him  an  only  child, 
David,  2,  and  settled  in  New  I-ient  County.  His  plantation  was  called 
"Assasquin." 

DAVID  CRAWFORD   (Crawford ),  2. 

Born in  Scotland. 

Married, 

Died,  

ELIZABETH  CRAWFORD  (Crawford, ,  Crawford, ),  3. 

Born,  1650,  iu  Virginia. 

Married ,  Nicholas  Meriwether,  M2. 

Died,   

DAVID   MERIWETHER    (Crawford ;    Crawford,    ; 

Crawford,  Meriwether),  4. 

Born 

Married Ann    Holmes,   daughter   of   Ceorge    Holmes,    of 

King  and  Queen   County,  Virginia. 
Died,  December  25,  1741. 
For  Arms,  see  Page  45,  Crozier's  General  Armory. 
For  subsequent  lineage,  see  David  Meriwether,  M3. 

MERIWETHER  (M) 

NICHOLAS   MERIWETHER. 

Born,   ,  in  Wales. 

Married Anne  Elizabeth  Price. 

Died,  December  19,  1678. 
The  emigration  of  Nicholas,  Ml,  to  Virginia,  has  never  been  authen- 
ticated. However,  his  three  sons,  Nicholas,  William  and  David,  came 
from  Wales  and  settled  in  the  Old  Dominion.  Hon.  George  R.  Gilmer, 
late  Governor  of  Georgia,  sixth  in  this  line  through  Mildred  (Meriwether) 
Gilmer,  M5,  grandxlaughler  of  David  Meriwether,  MS,  and  Ann  (Holmes), 
his  wife,  in  a  sketch  of  this  f;uinly,  remarks: 

"The  family  brought  more  wealth  to  Virginia  than  was  usual  for 
emigrants  in  the  17th  century.  The  first  Meriwethers  were  peculiar  In 
person,  manners  and  habits.  They  were  rather  low  in  stature,  their 
heads  were  very  round,  their  complexions  dark  and  their  eyes  bright 
hazel.  They  were  industrious  and  exceedingly  economical,  yet  ever  ready 
to  serve  the  sick  and  those  who  needed  their  assistance;  they  were  sim- 
ple in  their  dress  and  manner,  frank  in  temper  and  social  in  their  inter- 
course; they  were  too  proud  to  be  vain,  looking  to  their  own  thoughts 
and  conduct  rather  than  to  what  others  might  think  of  them  ♦  *  * 
They  were  slow  in  forming  opinions  and  obstinate  in  adhering  to  them; 
they  were  inquisitive  and  knowing,  but  their  investigations  were  minute 
and  accurate,  rather  than  speculative  and  profound.  Mr.  Jefferson,  late 
President  of  the  United  States,  said  of  Col.  Nicholas  Meriwether,  (M4, 
son  of  Thomas,  MS,  and  grandson  of  Nicholas,  M2),  that  he  was  the  most 
sensible  man  he  ever  knew.  Hon.  William  H.  Crawford,  of  the  State  of 
Georgia,  made  the  same  remark  of  this  brother,  Frank  Meriwether,  M4." 

Nicholas  Meriwether  died  at  an  advanced  age. 
NICHOLAS   MERIWETHER   (Meriwether.  Price),  2. 

Born,  October  26,  1647. 
"       Married,  Elizabeth  Crawford,  CrS,  daughter  of  David  Crawford, 
gentleman,  of  Assasquin,  New  Kent  County,  Virginia. 

Died,  Autumn  of  1744. 


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He  was  interred  on  the  east  bank  of  Rivanna*  River,  in  the  vicinity 
of  Charlottesville  (Jefferson's  Notes  on  Virginia,  1787).  He  acquired 
great  wealth  in  land  and  negroes,  including  a  17,952-acre  grant  by  George 
n  of  England  in  1730. 

Jane,  his  eldest  daughter,  married  Robert  Lewis,  of  "Belvoir/'  in 
Albenuu'le  County,  Virginia.  A  son  of  this  marriage.  Fielding  Lewis, 
married  Betty  Washington,  only  sister  of  our  tirst  President.  Their  home 
is  still  standing  in  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  and  here  Mary  Washington, 
mother  of  the  President,  died.  (Century  Magazine,  Vol.  43,  Page  834). — 
Lydia  Annie  Hughes,  H5. 

"The  Lewis  family,  of  eastern  Virginia,  is  of  Welsh  origin.  Their 
ancestor.  Gen.  Robert  Lewis,  whose  name  is  favorably  mentioned  in  Eng- 
lish history,  came  from  Wales  to  Gloucester  County,  Virginia,  in  the  lat- 
ter i>art  of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  there  lived  and  died.  His  son, 
Robert,  who  also  lived  and  died  in  Ciloucester,  had  three  sons — Fielding, 
John  and  Charles.  (Of  the  two  last,  I  have  received  no  account.  Mr. 
Fielding  Lewis,  of  Weyanoke,  Charles  City  County,  was  doubtless  a 
descendant  of  one  of  them).  Col.  Fielding  Lewis,  sou  of  the  second 
Robert,  removed  to  Fredericksburg  early  in  life;  was  a  merchant  of  high 
standing  and  wealth,  a  vestryman,  magistrate  and  burgess  and,  during  the 
Revolution,  being  a  genuine  patriot,  sui>eriutended  the  manufacture  of 
arms  in  the  neighborhood.  He  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was 
-  the  cousin  and  his  second  wife  the  sister  of  General  Washington.  The 
children  of  his  second  marriage  were  six"  tl-Melding,  George,  Elizabeth, 
Lawrence,  Robert  and  Howell."— Meade's  Old  Churches,  Mini.sters  and 
Families  of  Virginia,  Page  232,  copied  by  Lydia  Annie  Hughes,  115. 

DAVID  MERIWETHER   (Meriwether,  Price;   Meriwether,  Crawford),  3. 

Born, 

Married,    ,   Ann    Holmes,    daughter    of   George   Holmes,    of 

King  and  Queen  County,  Virginia. 
Died,  December  25,  1744.     Ann  (Holmes)  died  March  11,  1735. 

The  interment  of  David  Meriwether  was  near  his  father,  on  the 
Rivanna  River,  near  Chailottesville,  Virginia.  His  will  was  recorded 
January  22,  1745,  in  Louisa  County,  Virginia.  The  eldest  son,  Thomas, 
M4,  born  about  1714  or  1715  -died  about  1756  or  1757,  married  Elizabeth 
Thornton,  of  Frederick.sburg,  Virginia,  Lo  whom  were  born  three  sons 
and  eight  daughters.  The  eighth  child,  Lucy,  M5,  married  Col.  William 
Lewis,  son  of  elder  Robert  Lewis,  who  was  executor  and  son-in-law  of 
Nicholas  Meriwether,  M2;  she  was  married  twice;  of  the  first  union  were 
born  Meriwether  Lewis;  Reuben  Lewis,  who  married  Mildred  Dabney, 
and  Jane  Lewis,  who  married  Edmond  Anderson;  of  the  second  union, 
with  John  Marks,  were  born  John  Marks,  M.  D.,  and  Mary  Marks,  who 
married  William  Moore,  adoi-ted  son  of  his  aunt,  Mrs.  Davenport,  and 
removed  to  Alabama.  Col.  William  Lewis  and  Capt.  John  Marks  were 
both  officers  in  the  Revolutionary  Army.  Lucy  (Meriwether-Lewis) 
Marks  was  born  February  4,  1752,  and  died  September  8,  1837. 

Three  grandsons  of  David  Meriwether,  M3,  i.  e.,  David,  James  and 
William,  sons  of  James  Mei-iwether,  M4,  and  Judith  H;a-denia  (Burnley), 
his  wife,  were  officers  in  the  Revolutionary  Army.  David  and  James 
finally  became  generals.  James  and  William  were  attached  to  the 
Illinois  Regiment  under  Col.  George  Rogers  Chuk  iis  lieutenant  and 
ensign,  respectively,  in  1778.  The  detachment,  con.sisting  of  less  than 
2UU  men,  captured  Kaskasia  July  4  ami  Cahokia  July  G,  in  that  year,  and 
on  February  24,  1779,  Col.  Hamilton  surrendered  VIncennes,  or  O  Post, 
as  it  was  then  called,  "thus  adding  three  entire  states  and  part  of  a 
fourth,  to  the  old  (Commonwealth  of  Virginia"  (Lydia  Annie  Hughes). 

Meriwether  Lewis,  MG,  rose  from  a  volunteer  in  the  trocjps  called  out 
to  quell  the  whiskey  rebellion  in  western  Pennsylvania  in  1794  to  a  cap- 
taincy in  the  regular  service  between  1795  and  18(J0,  and  was  private 
secretary  to  President  Jefferson  between  1801  and  1803.    He  was  recom- 


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mended  by  the  President  to  Congress  as  commander  of  an  expedition 
across  tlie  continent  to  the  Pacific  Ocean,  including  the  upper  portion 
of  the  Territory  of  Louisiana,  acquired  from  France,  in  18t04.  His  lieu- 
tenant was  Capt.  William  Clark,  of  St.  Louis,  and  the  personnel  was  30 
men.  The  enterprise  is  now  known  as  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Expedition; 
he  was  afterward  Governor  of  Missouri  Territory.  George  Wood  Men- 
wether,  M6,  states  that  he  was  assassinated  by  a  French  servant  in  the 
Chickasaw  Nation  while  en  route  from  St.  Louis  to  Washington,  Octuber 
17,  1809,  but  American  Cyclopedia,  Vol.  X,  P.  386,  states  that  he  died 
October  11,  1809,  near  Nashville,  Tennessee;  he  was  born  August  18, 
1774.  Francis  Meriwether,  M4,  second  son  of  David,  M3,  and  brother  of 
Thomas,  M4,  was  born  about  1717  and  married  a  sister  of  John  Lewis, 
Esq.,  an  eminent  lawyer  of  Virginia;  he  lived  in  S,P'Otsylvania  County, 
Virginia,  and  afterward  removed  to  South  Carolina,  where  he  died,  leav- 
ing a  large  family;  among  his  children  were  Zachery,  Nicholas  and  Mary, 
and  it  is  more  than  probable  that  it  was  from  this  branch  of  the  family 
the  town  of  Meriwether,  McCormick  County  (old  Edgefield  County), 
derived  its  name;  some  of  his  descendents  are  still  living  in  that  vicinity 
(1920). 

George  Meriwether,  M5,  son  of  Nicholas,  M4,  son  of  David,  MS,  married 
Mary  Pryor;  their  daughter  Frances,  M6,  married  Capt.  Basil  Prather; 
the  youngest  daughter,  Martha,  M7,  married  Dr.  Warwick  Miller,  of  Jef- 
ferson County,  Kentucky,  after  whom  my  eldest  brother,  Warwick 
Miller  Sullivan,  was  named.  I  recall  one  or  two  of  the  Miller  children  as 
living  on  or  near  the  old  Cane  Run  Road.  As  a  matter  of  common  inter- 
est in  this  connection,  I  have  extracted  the  following  from  a  letter  writ- 
ten in  Louisville  by  Fanny  Wormald  Sadler,  H6,  under  date  of  September 
30,  1920: 

"Aunt  Betsy  Prather's  husband,  Thomas,  was  only  brother  of 
Mrs.  Martha  (Patsy)  Prather  Miller,  the  mother  of  Dr.  John  and  his 
twin  sister,  Annie,  my  neighbors  in  the  country  (on  the  Cane  Run 
Road).  Aunt  Betsy's  children  included  Cousins  George,  Lindsay, 
Nannie  and  Betty.  Their  homestead  was  out  on  the  Newberry  Road, 
not  far  from  Prescott  Road,  and  very  near  Camp  Zachery  Taylor. 
You  must  have  heard  your  mother  speak  of  Uncle  Tarleton's  family, 
Cousins  Virginia,  Richard,  Vincent,  Laura  and  Ellen,  and  Willie,  who 
died  more  than  two  years  ago.  We,  Bettie  (Prather)  Robbins  and  I, 
were  near  the  same  age,  children  together. 

"Uncle  Prather's  mother  was  Frances  Meriwether,  a  niece  of  my 
great  grandmother,  Anne  Meriwether,  Mrs.  Warwick  Miller  thus 
being  my  mother's  second  cousin.  My  neighbors  considered  me  their 
kinswoman  and  ever  showed  an  affectionate  interest  in  me. 

"Cousin  Annie's  children  are  all  dead,  except  Grace,  who  lives 
in  Portland,  Oregon,  having  married  a  second  time,  and  has  children 
grown.  Dr.  Miller's  two  sons  live  here  in  Louisville.  Francis  is 
Vice  President  of  the  Louisville  Railway  Company.  Robert,  the 
younger,  a  lawyer,  served  in  the  revenue  department,  Washington, 
D.  C,  during  the  war." 

WILLIAiM    MERIWETHER    (Meriwether,   Price;    Meriwether,   Crawford; 
Meriwether,  Holmes),  4. 
Born,  December  25,  1730. 
Married,  July  17,  1751,  Martha  Wood,  W3,  C5W,  A7W,  daughter 

of  Henry  and  Martha  (Cocke-Cox)  Wood. 
Died,  December  24,  1790. 
He  apparently  lived  the  quiet  life  of  a  country  gentleman  of  wealth, 
having  a  family  of  three  sons  and  five  daughters.  All  the  kindred  who 
died  during  the  first  30  years  after  emigration  to  Kentucky  were  interred 
in  his  plantation.  When  the  Meriwether  subdivision  of  the  City  of 
Louisville  was  originated,  a  street  was  cut  through  this  cemetery,  and 
on  April  8,  1889,  all  the  bodies  were  reinterred  in  Cave  Hill  Cemetery. 


PEDIGREES  29 


While  William  Meriwether  left  numerous  descendents,  this  pedigree  will 
end  with  Anne  Meriwether,  M5,  the  youngest  child,  who  married  Major 
John  Hughes,  Jr.,  113. 

George  Wood  Meriwether,  M6,  who  prepared  the  data  for  the  Meri- 
wether Genealogical  Tables,  was  descended  from  William  Meriwether, 
M4,  and  Martha  (Wood),  his  wife,  as  follows:  William  Meriwether,  M5, 
who  married  Sarah  Oldham;  this  William,  M5,  was  a  brother  of  Anne 
Meriwether,  M5,  who  married  John  Hughes,  Jr.,  H3.  On  July  1,  1845, 
George  Wood  Meriwether  married  Anne  Elizabeth  (Price)  Weir,  whose 
first  husband  was  George  Weir,  of  Woodford  County,  Kentucky,  born  in 
Ireland;  of  this  union,  Emerine  (Price)  Meriwether,  M7,  third  child,  was 
born.  Emerine  (Price)  Meriwether  married,  Eebiuary  9,  1876,  Udolpho 
Snead,  son  of  Charles  Scott  and  Martha  Raphael  Snead,  great  great 
grandson  of  Gen.  Charles  Scott,  one  of  General  Washington's  staff  officers, 
and  the  fifth  Governor  of  Kentucky.  These  are  the  authorities  of  the 
Meriwether  records,  lS8i). 

ANNE  MERIWETHER   (Meriwether,  Price;   Meriwether,  Crawford;    Mer- 
iwether, Holmes;   Meriwether,  Wood),  5. 
Born,  October  12,  1767. 

Married,   John    Hughes,    Jr.     (later   Major),    H3,   in    the    original 
Hughes   line,   in   Louisa  County,    Virginia,   in   1783.     By   this 
marriage,  the  eight  original  lines  were  united. 
Died,  May  3,  1820. 
She   was  the   mothci-  of   26   children,   and   her  descendents   are  scat- 
tered throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land.     Her  remains  were 
interred  in  the  old  Hughes  plantation,  seven  miles  below  Louisville,  on 
the  Ohio  River. 

For  subsequent  lineage,  see  John  Hughes,  Jr.,  H3, 

HUGHES  (H) 

STEPHEN   HUGHES. 

Born  February  12,  1687,  in  Caernavonshire,  Wales. 

Married Elizabeth  Tarleton. 

Died 

Many  handsome  monuments,  erected  to  the  different  members  of  the 
Hughes  family,  are  in  the  cemetery  at  Wrexham,  Wales,  not  far  distant 
from  Caernavonshire.  Of  Stephen's  arrival  in  America,  or  of  his  death, 
little  is  known.  His  wile,  Eliz;;beth,  also  of  Wales,  was  a  relative  of  the 
British  military  officer  of  her  name,  who  was  a  very  prominent  antag- 
onist In  the  American  Revolution. 
JOHN  HUGHES  (Hughes,  Tarleton),  2. 
Born,  January  24,  1739. 

Married ,  Judith   Neville,   N2,   daughter  of   James  Neville 

and  IjUCy  (Thomas),  his  wife. 
Died,  April  19,  1774;  he  was  an  only  son. 
He  died  at  his  plantaticm  on  the  James  River,  Powhatan  County,  about 
40  miles  above  Richmond,  Virginia,  and  his  burial  was  probably  near  the 
family  seat.     See  sketch. 

Following  are  the  names  of  the  children  of  John  Hughes  and  Judith 
(Neville),  his  wife: 
ELIZABETH,  born  September  25,  1759;   married  John  Prior,  of  Virginia; 

died 

SALLY,   born   May   24,    1761;    married    Joseph    Woodson,    of    Goochland 

County,  Virginia;   died Her  daughter  married  a  Mr.  Outlaw 

and  removed  to  Tennessee.    None  of  her  other  children  left  any  heirs. 

JOHN,  Jr.,  born   August  11,  1763;    married  Anne   Meriwether,  M5,  A8W, 

Cr6,  C6W,  W4,  in  1783;    died  December  11,  1842.     See  sketches  and 

tables.  Ho. 

NANCY    NEVILLE,    born     November    13,     1765;     married    Richard    Cox, 

.    ,,     C4H,  A6H,  of  Powhatan  County,  Virginia;   died  January  27,  1843. 


•A  •:  .) 


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JUDITH,  1,  born  February  15,  1768;  married  Cornelius  Buck,  of  England. 
Martha  Hughes,  H5,  has  recorded  that  "her  descendents  are  the 
descendents  of  her  two  daughters,  Mrs.  Murchie  and  Mrs.  Cunliffe." 
I  visited  Mrs.  Murchie,  then  quite  feeble  with  age,  in  1886,  and  later 
had  some  corresjtondence  with  her  daugnter.  Cousin  Minnie.  The 
other  daughter,  Mrs.  Cunliffe,  was  the  first  wife  of  William  Cunliffe, 
whose  second  wife  was  Eliza  Ann  (Hughes),  my  grandmother's  sister. 
See  H5(4-2)    Ibid,  and  Cf2  Ibid,  for  a  history  of  the  family. 

MARY,  born  July  16,  1770;  died  January  12,  1773. 

ESTHER,  born  November  10,  1772;  married  John  Cunliffe,  of  England; 
died,  about  1819,  leaving  numerous  descendents.  These  were  the 
parents  of  William  Cunliffe,  whose  first  wife  was  Sarah  (Neville- 
Hughes)  Buck,  daughter  of  Cornelius  Buck  and  Judith,  sister  of 
Esther.  On  the  death  of  his  wife,  who  was  his  first  cousin,  William 
Cunliffe  married  Eliza  Ann  (Hughes),  his  mother's  great  niece  and 
his  own  second  cousin.     See  Eliza  Ann  (Hughes),  H5(H4-2)  Ibid. 

JOHN  HUGHES,  Jr.  (Hughes,  Tarleton;   Hughes,  Neville),  3. 
Born,  August  11,  1763. 

Married 1783,    Anne    Meriwether,    M5,   A8W,    Cr6,    C6W, 

daughter  of  William   Meriwether,   M4,   and    Martha   (Wood), 
W3,  A7W,  his  wife.     He  emigrated  with  his  family  to  Ken- 
tucky in  1786.     By  this  marriage  the  eight  original  lines  were 
united. 
Died,  December  11,  1842. 
See  sketches  and  tables  for  all  preceding  family  connections. 
When   a  student  in   Washington-Henry   Academy,   John   Hughes,  H3, 
enlisted  in  the  Continental  Army  at  the  age  of  15  years;    served  under 
Gen.   Nathaniel   Creene;    was   wounded    at   the   Battle    of   Guilford   Court 
House,  N.  C,  and  was  present  as  a  Lieutenant,  commanding  a  company, 
at  the  surrender  of  Lord  Cornwallis  at  Yorktown.     A  few  years  after  his 
marriage   with   Anne    Meriwether,    M5,   he    emigrated    to   Kentucky   and 
settled  near  Louisville  (on  the  Ohio  River  below).     In  the  War  of  1812, 
and  in  the  Indian  wars  preceding  it,  he  served   under  General   Hopkins 
with  the  rank  of  Major.     He  had  many  friends,  was  given  to  hospitality 
and  7/as  noted  for  his   many  eccentricities,  but  more  especially  for  his 
great  energy   and  indomitable   courage.     His  complexion   Avas   dark,   and 
his  fine  hazel  eyes  fairly  blazed  when  he  was  aroused  to  anger.     He  was 
married  four  times,  but  his  first  wife,  Anne   (Meriwether),  M5,  was  the 
mother  of  all  his  children   (mentioned  in  list),  eleven  of  whom  reached 
maturity  and  five  of  whom  survived  him.     His  other  wives  in  succession 
were  Miss  Russell,  Miss  McGee  and  Miss  Neal,  the  latter  surviving  him  a 
few  months.     His  remains  lie  in  the  burial  plot  on  bis  own  plantation  on 
the  Ohio  River,  7  miles  below  Louisville,  Jefferson  County,  Kentucky. — 
Notes  of  Martha  Hughes,  H5,  and  Mary  Esther   (Hughes)    Sullivan,  H6, 
H6(4-3). 

All  his  descendents  are  eligible  to  membership  in  the  societies.  Sons 
of  the  Revolution  and  Daughters  of  the  Revolution. 

Following  are  the  names  of  the  children  of  John  Hughes,  Jr.,  (after 
ward  Major)   and  Anne   (Meriwether),  taken  from  the  record  of  Martha 
Hughes,  H5,  in  her  mother's  Bible  and  also  from  the  Meriwether  Genealog- 
ical Tables,-1889,  of  George  Wood  Meriwether,  M6: 
JOHN,  born  October  18.  1784;   married  Esther  (Cox),  C5H,  May  25,  1809; 

died,  November  4,  1847.     See  sketch  and  will. 
JANE,  born  May  15,  1786;    died  September  17,  1800. 
MARTHA,  born  February  16,  1788;    died  September  30,  1797. 
WILLIAM  MERIWETHER,  M.  D.,  born  October  15.  1789;    married  Mary 

(Wood)   in  1809;   died  September  1,  1819.     See  sketch. 
JUDITH,  born  December  23,  1790;  died  November  6,  1806. 
TARLETON,  born  September  27,  1792;   died  October  19,  1794. 


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PEDIGREES  31 


SALLY,  born  November  26,  1793;  died  April  22,  1817. 

LUCY,  born  August  22,  1796;    married  William  D.  Mitchell,  of  Virginia; 

died  in  1842. 
NANCY  NEVILLE,  as  recorded  in  Meriwether  Genealogy,  but  Anne,  as 
recorded  by  Martha  Hughes,   H5,   in  her  mother's  Bible,  born  April 
22,  1795;   married  Duvid  Wuide,  of  Virginia;   died  March  6,  1835. 
STEPHEN  TARLETON,  born  February  11,  1798;  married  Abigail  (Stokes) 
Cooper,    of   Philadelphia;    died   June   10,   1852.      Their   son,    Benjamin 
Franklin,    born    September    8,    1822- died     January    19,     1892.    had    a 
remarkable  career.     Lyilia   Annie   Hughes,  writes   the  following:      "I 
do  not  know  the  exact  place  of  his  birth,  but,  when  a  mere  lad  living 
with   his    parents   at   Hickman,   Kentucky,   feeling  that   some   punish- 
ment  inflicted   upon   him   was  unjust,   he  left   the    parental  roof   and 
made  his  way  alone  to  I'hiladeli)hia,  and  embarked  in  a  menial  capac- 
ity on  an  English   merchantman;    was  transferred  to  the   U.   S.  mer- 
chant marine  after  one  cruise  and  ultimately  entered  the  U.  S.  Navy, 
meanwhile  having  participated  in  tlie  War  for  Texas  Independence. 
That  his  seamanship    was    of    a    high    order    is    shown  by  the  fact 
that  he  was  placed  in  command  of  or  made   instructor  on  a  school 
ship,   where   he   was   training  Annapolis   students    for   naval    service, 
and,  I  believe,  had  just  returned  from  a  Mediterranean  cruise  when 
the  War  Between  the  States  came  on.     Promi)tly  offering  his  services 
to  the  Confederacy,  he  was''  assigneil  to  duty  as  second  in  command 
of  the  ram,  Manassas,  and    was   taken   prisoner  when  the   ram  came 
to  grief  at  New  Orleans.    He  was  then  paroled  and,  until  his  exchange, 
was  for  several  months  a  guest  of  his  cousin,  John  Woodson  Hughes, 
your  grandfather's  brother.     I  knew  liim  intimately.     I  recall  his  tell 
ing  me  that  he  had  declined  a  commission  in  the  U.  S.  Navy  because 
he  felt  that  a  lack  of  education  would  be  embarrassing  to  him  in  the 
society   of   his   brother   officers   who   had   enjoyed   Annapolis   opportu- 
nities."   According  to  an  account  in  the  Dallas,  Texas,  News,  announc- 
ing his  death,  he  was  taken  prisoner  with  Fannin  at  Goliad  on  March 
20,  1836,  and  was  condemned  to  be  shot  with  about  400  others,  Geor- 
gians,  Kentuckians,   Tennesseeans   and   men    from   other   States,   but 
the  lad  was  saved  by  the  interposition  of  Madame  Alvarez  with  the 
commander  of  the  Mexican   forces  and  was  then  marched  off,  bare- 
footed   and    starving,    a    prisoner'  to    Matamoras.      After    release    he 
enlisted  in  a  Texas  war  vessel  and   served  until  the  naval  fight  off 
Galveston.      Leaving   the   service,    he    then    visited    all    the    princiital 
ports   of  the  world,  afterwards   engaging  in  active  naval  service   as 
noted  above.     He  married  a  IMiiladelphia  lady  and  died  at  the  home 
of  his  only  child,  Mrs.  C.  M.  M.  Ferry,  of  Dallas,  Texas. 
ELIZABETH,  born  November  13,  1799;  married  John  Davies,  of  Virginia; 

died 

MARTHA  JANE,  born  March  25,  1801;    died  September  17,  1810. 
BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN,  born  January  27,  1803;   died  O'ctober  10.  1815. 
JAMES  NEVir.LE,  M.  D,  born  December  20,  1804;  married— 1:  March  13, 

1823.  Louisa  Adaline   (Russell);    2:   Mrs.  Isabella  Turner,    

1860;  died  May  8,  1874. 

Issue  of  first  marriage  with  Louisa  Adaline  (Russell) : 
John  Wesley  Hughes,  born  July  2,  1824;  married— 1 :  May  8, 
1855,  Cornelia  Lewis;  2:  about  1874,  Claudia  Carvill;  died  March  1, 
1881.  Issue  of  fir^st  marriage  with  Cornelia  Lewis,  four  children,  of 
whom  three  died  in  infancy.  His  son,  James  Neville,  H6,  survived 
him  11  years;  practiced  law  at  Denver,  Colorado,  for  many  years,  was 
considered  the  ablest  mining  attorney  of  his  day  in  Colorado  and  was 
generally  recognized  as  a  most  accominlished  man.  I  knew  him  well 
when  I  resided  in  Denver. 

James    Bourbon    Hughes,    born    July    29,    1826;    died,    unmarried, 
December  20,  1846. 


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Nancy  Meriwether  Hughes,  born  July  11,  1828;    died  September 

16,  1829. 

Lucy  Honora  Hug-hes,  born  August  12,  1830;  married  September 
20,  1819,  John  Woodson  Hughes,  her  cousin,  brother  of  my  grand- 
father, Richard  Franklin  Hughes,  and  of  Martha  Hughes,  H5,  one  of 
the  registrars  of  these  records;  died  December  29,  1910;  one  son  only 
survives.     (See  John  Woodson  Hughes,  H5). 

Mary  Barbour  Hughes,  born  September  4,  1833;  married,  June  2, 
1857,  Thomas  Jenkins  Shannon,  of  Mt.  Carmel,  Illinois;  died  May  12, 
1869.  Issue,  son  and  daughter;  the  daughter,  Mrs.  C.  S.  Biddie, 
resides  in  Chicago,  and  her  son  is  Robert-  S.  Biddie. 

Louisa  Malvina  Hughes,  born  September  29,  1837;  died  August 
9,  1852. 

Susan  Elizabeth  Hughes,  born  December  23,  1839;  died  May  14, 
1844. 

Sarah  Esther  Hughes,  born  February  20,  1842;  died,  unmarried, 
November  9,  1905. 

Lydia  Annie  Hughes,  born  April  24,  1844,  at  Pendleton  Station, 
Kentucky;  now  lives  at  Mt.  Carmel,  Illinois;  she  is  one  of  the  joint 
authors  and  one  of  the  principal  authorities  of  this  record. 

William  Henry  Hughes,  born  February  8,  1846;  married— 1: 
December  29,  1870,  Mary  F.  Shannon;  2:  September  ..,  1908,  Mar- 
garet (Parkinson)  Malion.  Issue  of  first  marriage  with  Mary  F. 
Shannon:   a— Annie  Hughes,  born,  November  2,  1871;    married,  June 

17,  1900,  Dr.  Daniel  Rector  Smith,  in  London,  England;  died  March 
24,  1906;  issue,  one  son,  John  Hughes  Smith,  now  a  student  at 
Indiana  University,  b— Eleanor  Hughes,  born,  March  9,  1874;  mar- 
ried, January  17,  1900,  Othello  Linwood  Wilcox;  now  living  at  Mt. 
Carmel,  Illinois;  issue,  three  daughters  and  one  son.  c— Laura  Beall 
Hughes,  born  December  6,  1876;  married,  December  27,  1905,  Paul 
Chipman;  now  resides  in  Detroit,  Michigan;  issue,  two  daughters, 
one  deceased,  and  one,  Laura  Beall  Chii)man,  living  at  home,  d  and 
e_Y/illiam  Shannon  Meriwether  Hughes  and  Alice  Hughes,  twins, 
born  July  9,  1879;  William  S.  M.  Hughes,  married,  June  1,  1907,  Bes- 
sie Erwm,  having  issue  of  two  sons,  one  living;  Alice  Hughes  married, 
December  27,  1905,  Dr.  Richard  S.  Manley,  and  now  lives  at  Epes, 
Ahibama,  having  issue  of  four  children,  one,  Pauline  Frances  Manley, 
surviving,  f  and  g— James  Neville  Hughes  and  Esther  Louise  Hughes, 
twins,  born  October  9,  1883;  Esther  Louise  died  in  infancy;  James 
Neville  Hughes  married,  November  14,  1906,  Alice  Darling,  and  now 
lives  at  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  having  issue  of  one  daughter,  Jose- 
phine Darling  Hughes.  h-Mary  Wilson  Hughes,  born  April  5,  1887; 
married.  October  8,  1908,  Paul  Sears  Manley,  brother  of  Dr.  Richard 
S  Manley,  above,  and  now  lives  at  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  having 
issue  of  one  daughter  who  died  at  birth.  Issue  of  William  Henry 
Hughes  in  his  marriage  with  Margaret  (Parkinson)  Mahon,  his 
second  wife,  one  daughter,  Eleanor,  born  September  ...  1910.  (  See 
sketch  of  Dr.  James  Neville  Hughes,  H4). 

HENRY  WOOD,  born  December  19,  1805;   married  Eliza  W.  Dabney,  of 

Middletown,  Kentucky;   died  September  11,  1858. 
Triplets— WASHINGTON ; 
JEFFERSON; 

MADISON,  born.  January  19,  1807;   died  when  three  weeks  old. 
ESTHER,  born   March  6,  I81O8;    married  Leonard  George,   of  Louisville; 

died  in  1837.  leaving  one  son,  James  C.  George. 
Twins— EDWARD,  born  May  30,  1810;   died  September  3,  1810. 

UNNAMED,  born  and  died  May  30,  1910. 
Twins — INFANTS,  unnamed. 
Twins— INFANTS,  unnamed. 


PEDIGREES  33 


BABE,  unnamed. 

JOHN    HUGHES    (Hughes,    Tarleton;    Hughes,    Neville;    Hughes,    Meri- 
wether), 4. 
Born,  Octoher  18,  1784,  in  Powhatan  County,  Virginia. 
Married,   May   25,    1809,    Esther,    C'5H,   H4,   N4NNH,   daughter    of 
Richard    Cox,   C4H,   A6H,   and    Nancy    (Neville-Hughes),    H3, 
N3NNH,  his  wife. 
Died,  November  4,  1847. 
See  sketch  and  will,  herein. 

For  all  preceding  family  connections,  see  sketch  and  tables. 
John  Hughes  was  a  man  of  sterling  integrity  and  a  good  husband, 
father  and  friend.  He  had  blue  eyes  and  dark  brown  hair  and  was  of 
medium  height.  His  remains  were  buried  in  his  father's  plantation  near 
his  home  on  the  Ohio  Kiver,  below  Louisville,  in  Jefferson  County,  Ken- 
tucky. 

The  children  of  John  Hughes  and  Esther  (Cox),  his  wife,  were: 
JUDITH  ANNE,  5,  born  May  1,  1810;  married  Robert  Sadler,  of  London, 
England,  October  18,  1842;  died  September  16,  1885.  Three  children 
were  born  of  this  union,  of  whom  but  one,  Fanny  Wormald  Sadler,  6, 
survives.  Mr.  Sadler  died  some  20  years  ago  and  lies  buried  with  his 
wife  in  Cave  Hill  Cemetery,  Louisville.  It  was  a  well  recognized  fact 
among  all  the  relatives  that  Robeil  Sadler  was  from  fine  old  English 
stock  and  that  he  was  a  man  of  unusual  attainments.  By  reference 
to  the  Hughes  lineage,  it  will  be  observed  that  one  of  my  younger 
brothers  was  named  for  him.  In  a  letter  under  date  of  September  28, 
1920,  Fanny  Wormald  Sadler,  6,  has  written :  "I  was  named  for  my 
father's  aunt,  Mrs.  Wormald,  of  England,  a  sister  of  my  grandfather 
Sadler.  If  you  will  read  English  history  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Eliza- 
beth, you  will  find  Sir  Ralph  Sadler  to  have  been  an  historian  and 
statesman;  also  the  trusted  guardian  of  the  unfortunate  Mary,  Queen 
of  Scots.  Having  family  arms  of  my  father's  people  justifies  the 
belief  that  we  are  the  descendents  in  some  way  of  the  same  family. 
The  Sadlers  in  England  ♦  *  have  been  appointees  as  governors, 
consuls,  churchmen,  etc.,  there." 
RICHARD  FRANKLIN,  5,  born  December  8,  1815;  married.  December  24, 
1835,  Sarah  Jane,  H5(4-2),  daughter  of  Dr.  William  Meriwether 
Hughes,  his  father's  brother,  and  Mary  (Thomas)  Wood,  his  wife; 
died  July  3,  1842.. 

Issue  of  Richard  Franklin  Hughes  and  Sarah  Jane  (Hughes),  his 
wife: 

Charles  Sidney  Hughes,  6,  H6(4-3),  born  January  14,  1837;  mar- 
ried Esther,  daughter  of  Richard  Hughes  Cox  and  Martha  Jane 
(Waide),  his  wife,  June  5,  1866,  some  time  after  his  return  from 
military  service  of  the  C.  S.  A.  in  Virginia;  died  at  Sherman,  Texas, 
about  30  years  ago,  leaving  a  widow  and  adopted  daughter.  It  was 
this  Aunt  Esther  who  surreptitiously  had  a  daguerreotype  made  of  me 
when  a  child  about  three  years  old,  together  with  a  little  pup  I  was 
wont  to  lug  around,  now  some  54  years  ago,  and  the  old  picture  main- 
tains its  full  lustre  to  this  day.  Aunt  Esther's  father  was  the  son  of 
Richard  Cox  and  Nancy  (Neville-Hughes),  his  wife. 

Mary  Esther  Hughes,  6,  H6(4-3),  who  married  William  Black- 
more  Sullivan.  These  were  my  parents.  (See  sketch  and  6th  in  the 
Hughes  Line). 

Sarah  Jane  Franklin  (Goody)  Hughes,  6,  H6(4-3),  born  February  5, 
1842;  married  John  Callibun  Davidson,  of  Jefferson  County,  Indiana, 
October  18,  1859,  in  a  double  wedding  with  my  mother  and  father; 
she  died  September  26,  1870,  and  her  remains,  together  with  those  of 
an  infant  daughter,  Sarah,  who  died  September  13,  1863,  when  five 
months  old,  lie  buried  in  Lot  87,  west  of  the  Sullivan  burial  plot, 
Fairmont  Cemetery,  near  Madison,  Indiana.     Their  only  son,  Urban 


34  PEDIGREES 


Parker,  was  last  heard  from  in  Maine  about  40  years  ago.    Mr.  David- 
son  removed   to   Williamsport,    Pennsylvania,   about   1878,   where   he 
contracted  a  second  marriage;   he  died  there  many  years  ago.     (See 
Ibid.,    William    Meriwether    Hughes,    H(4-l),    Sarah    Jane    (Hughes), 
H5(4-2),  and  sketch). 
MARTHA  HUGHES,  5,  born  February  9,  1818;   died  unmarried  in  Febru- 
ary, 1905.     The  last  time  I  saw  her  was  in  February,  1904,  after  the 
burial  of  my  mother,  Mary  E.sther  (Hughes)   Sullivan,  in  Fairmount, 
near  Madison,  Indiana,  who  died  at  my  home  while  I  was  living  in 
Grand   Junction,    Colorado.     Her  brother,   John   Woodson,    was   then 
in  his  la.st  illness  in  the  same  house,  where  I  last  saw  Russell  Meri- 
wether Hughes,  his  son,  then  at  the  bedside  of  his  father,  and  since 
deceased.     Martha  Hughes  was  a  woman  of  remarkable  intelligence 
and  better  known  perhaps  than  any  other  representative  of  the  fam- 
ily.    It  was  she,  on  account  of  whose  proverbial  knowledge  of  things 
historical    and    genealogical,    who   very     materially     aided    the    Meri- 
wether family  in  adjusting  the  genealogical  evidence  as  collected  by 
George  W.  Meriwether,  M6,  and  published   later  by  Emerine    (Price- 
Meriwether)   Snead,  M7.     Most  unfortunately,  she  was  stricken  with 
paralysis  in  1889,  her  whole  right  side,  as  well  as  her  Sipeech,  being 
so   affected    that,   at   the   advanced  age   of   practically   72   years,   her 
remarkable  will  and   perseverence  assisted  her  in  learning  to  write 
with  her  left  hand,  in  order  that  her  wants  might  be  made  known 
and  that  she  might  maintain  communication  with  the   many  friends 
of  happier  days.     This  woman  possessed  that  peculiar  trait  and  dis- 
position which  naturally  drew  children  to  her,  and  her  home  was  a 
"Paradise  on  Earth"  to  the  numerous  nei)hews,  nieces,  cousins  and 
other  kindred  of  my  own  generation  and   that  next  preceding.     Her 
tenderness  of  heart  won  to  her  the  love  and  admiration  of  the  slaves 
of  the  Hughes  household,  and  she  was  never  unmindful   of  faithful 
service   rendered   by  the   servants   of  the   family.     When   the    aged 
negro  ex-slave,  Patrick  Meriwether,  died  on  February   28,   1882,   she 
recorded  in  her  mother's  Bible  the  following  tribute  to  his  memory: 
"His  family   had   served   ours   for   more   than   a   century  before   the 
Emancipation  Act  of  1863.    He  was  faithful  in  all  things.     'Well  done, 
good  and  faithful  servant.'"     I  have  many  evidences  of  her  love  for 
my  mother  and  her  family  and  for  other  kindred,  as  well  as  valuable 
data  concerning  the  Hughes  and  Meriwether  families,  among  which 
is  her  mother's  family  Bible,  which  came  to  me  from  her  through  my 
mother.     A   touching   poem,   written   by   Dr.    James    Neville   Hughes, 
H4,   her  uncle,  and  father   of  Lydia   Annie  Hughes,  H5,   one  of  the 
authors  of  the  accompanying  records,  while  watching  by  the  corjise 
of  her  little  sister,  Mary  Elizabeth,  H5,  on  November  26,  1825,  which 
she  pasted  in  this  Bible  and  which  appeared  in  the  1902  edition,  will 
be  found  in  another  sketch.    Practically  all  the  records  in  the  Hughes 
table,  and  a  considerable  portion  of  the  later  Cox  data,  are  from  the 
hand  of  this  remarkable  woman.     She  died   after  a  long  and  useful 
life   and  lies  buried   in   the   plot  of  her  brother,   John   Woodson,   in 
Eastern  Cemetery,  adjoining  Cave  Hill,  Louisville. 
MARY  ELIZABETH,  5,  born  April  2,  1820;   died,  November  26,  1825. 
JOHN  WOODSON,  5,  born  June  23,  1822;  married  Lucy  Honora  (Hughes), 
5,  his  cousin,  daughter  of  James  Neville  Huphoa,  4.  and  Louisa  Ada- 
line    (Russell),  his  wife,  September    ,  1849;    died   February    ..... 

1904.  He  lies  buried  in  the  family  plot  in  Eastern  Cemetery,  adjom- 
ing  Cave  Hill,  Louisville.  »His  wife,  Lucy  Honora  (Hughes),  died 
December  29,  1910,  and  lies  buried  in  Cave  Hill  Cemetery,  Louisville, 
Kentucky.  Their  children  were:  Walter,  6,  who  married  Maud  Cyr, 
and  had  issue;  Esther  Louisa,  6,  who  died  September  14,  1877;  Rus- 
sell Meriwether,  6,  (deceased),  who  married  Lillian  Allan  and  had 
issue;  Harry,  who  died  unmarried  30  or  35  years  ago. 


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EMILY  NEVILLE,  5,  born  December  13,  1824;  married  John  Russell 
Smith,  a  nephew  of  Adaline  (Russell),  wife  of  James  Neville  Hughes, 
4,  September  1,  1847;  died  Si'ptember  4,  1872.  Her  husband  died  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1862.  Their  burial  .ilace  is  unknown,  but  probably  in  the 
Hughes  plantation.  Tlieir  children  were:  Robert  Lawrence,  6,  who 
married  Nannie  Crabtree,  in  Arkansas,  January  27,  1886,  his  wife 
dying  September  12,  1887;  Thomas,  who  died  unmarried  in  Louisville 
about  25  years  ago;  John  Russell,  who  married  Carrie  Feilbach  in 
Alton,  111.,  September  1,  1884,  and  died  December  21,  1886,  having 
issue. 


IBIDEM 


S01356S 


WILLIAM       MERIWETHER      HUGHES      (Hughes,     Tarleton;      Hughes, 
Neville;    Hughes,   Meriwether),   11(4-1). 
Born,  October  15,  178y.  . 

Married 1809,  Mary,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Thomas) 

Wood. 
Died,  September  1,  1819. 
See  sketch  and  tables  for  all  preceding  family  connections. 
He   was   the   second   son    of   John    Hughes,   Jr.,    3,   and   Anne    (Meri- 
wether), M5,  his  wife.     His  wife,  Mary  (Wood),  was  borm  June  30,  1787, 
but  the  date  of  her  death  is  unknown;   her  parents  were  John  and  Eliza- 
beth Wood,  of  Oldham  County,  Kentucky.     (See  sketch). 

ELIZA    ANN    HUGHES    (Hughes,    Tarleton;    Hughes,    Neville;    Hughes, 
Meriwether;    Hughes,  Wood),  5(4-2). 
Born,  March  3,  1810. 

Married,    about    1833,    William    Cunliffe,    of   Chesterfield    County, 
Virginia,  son  of  John  Cunliffe,  of  Lancashire,  England,   and 
Esther  (Neville-Hughes),  N3,  H3,  his  wife. 
Died,  July  24,  1882. 
See  sketches,  tables  and  Cunliffe  (Ibid.)   pedigree  for  preceding  fam- 
ily connections  and  the  Cunliffe   (Ibid.)   pedigree  for  children  of  the  fam- 
ily. 

In  order  that  the  blood  relationship  may  be  easily  established,  the 
following  will  show  direct  descent  of  Aunt  Eliza  Ann  (Hughes)  and  her 
husband,  William  (Hughes)  Cunliffe,  Cf2,  in  both  the  Neville  and  Hughes 
lines: 

Neville  Line. — 1.  Eliza  Ann  Neville  (Hughes)  was  in  direct  line  from 
James  Neville  through  Judith,  N2,  John  Hughes,  Jr.,  N3,  H3,  and  William 
Meriwether  Hughes,  N4  H4(4-l),  to  her.self,  N5.  2:  William  Neville 
(('unliffe)  was  in  direct  line  from  James  Neville  through  Judith,  N2,  and 
Esther  (Neville-Hughes)  Cunliffe,  N3,  H3,  to  himself,  N4. 

Hughes  Line. — 1:  Eliza  Ann  Hughes  was  in  direct  line  from  Stephen 
Hughes  through  John,  112,  John,  Jr.,  H3,  and  William  Meriwether  Hughes, 
H4(4-l),  to  herself,  H5(4-2).  2:  William  (Hughes)  Cunliffe  was  in  direct 
Hue  from  Stephen  Hughes  through  John,  H2,  and  Esther  (Hughes)  Cun- 
liffe, H3,  Cfl,  to  himself,  H4. 

Quadruple  descent  in  the  tAvo  above  lines  was  united  in  this  marriage. 

SARAH   JANE   HUGHES   (Hughes,  Tarleton;    Hughes,   Neville;    Hughes, 

Meriwether;    Hughes,  Wood),  5(4-2). 
Born,  November  6,  1815. 
Married,   December  24,   1835,   Richard    Franklin    Hughes,    son    of 

John   Hughes,  4,  and   Esther    (Neville-Hughes-Cox),   H3,   N3. 

his  wife. 


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Died,  February  28,  1882. 
See  sketch  and  tables  for  all  .preceding  family  connections. 
By  her  marriage  with  her  cou.sin,  two  lines  of  Hugheses  were  united. 
She  lies  buried   in   Fairniount   Cemetery,   near   Madison,   Indiana,   in   the 
Sullivan  plot,  north  avenue,  near  the  center.     (See  sketch.) 
WILLIAM    MERIWETHER    HUCillES,   Jr.,    (Hughes,    Tarleton;    Hughes, 
Neville;    Hughes,  Meriwether;    Hughes,  Wood),  5(4-2). 
Born,  September  1,  1819. 
Died,  unmarried,  November  27,  1885. 
See  sketch  and  tables  for  all  preceding  family  connections. 
He    lies    buried    by    the    side    of   his     sister,    Sarah    Jane     (Hughes) 
Hughes,  in  Fairmount  Cemetery,  near  Madison,  Indiana,  in  the  Sullivan 
plot,  north  avenue,  near  the  center. 


RICHARD    FRANKLIN    HUGHES    (Hughes,   Tarleton;    Hughes,   Neville; 
Hughes,  Meriwether;  Hughes,  Cocke-Cox),  5. 
Born,  December  8,  1815. 
Married,  Sarah  Jane,  daughter  of  William  Meriwether  Hughes,  4, 

and  Mary  (Thomas)  Wood,  his  wife,  December  24,  1835. 
Died,  July  3,  1842. 
See  sketch  and  tables  for  all  preceding  family  connections. 
By  this  marriage  with  his  first  cousin,  the  Hughes  line  was  in  double 
descent  through  their  children.     WilliamMeriwether  Hughes,  4,  and  John 
Hughes,  4,  were  sons  of  Major  John  Hughes,  3,  but  the  blood  relationship 
in   the  children   was   materially   altered   through   Mary    (Thomas)    Wood, 
mother  of  Sarah  Jane  (Hughes)  Hughes,  5.     See  lines  preceding  and  also 
sketch. 

MARY  ESTHER  HUGHES  (Hughes,  Tarleton;  Hughes,  Neville;  Hughes, 
Meriwether;    Hughes,   Cocke-Cox;    Hughes,    Wood;    Hughes, 
Hughes),  6. 
Born,  January  5,  1840. 

Married,  October  18,  1859,  William  Blackmore  Sullivan,  son  of 
Aaron  Sullivan  and  Lucinda  (Blackmore),  his  wife,  of  Madi- 
son, Indiana. 
Died,  February  4,  1904. 
See  sketch  and  tables  for  all  preceding  family  connections. 
My  father  died  at  Madison,  Indiana,  on  October  2,  1881,  and  lies 
buried  in  our  family  plot  in  Fairmount  Cemetery,  near  Madison,  Indiana, 
north  avenue,  near  center.  He  was  born  at  Madison,  Indiana,  on 
October  6,  1826.  Little  is  known  of  the  antecec^nts  of  my  paternal 
grandfather,  except  that  they  came  from  the  north  of  Ireland  about  five 
generations  before  and  came  into  the  Ohio  Valley  by  way  of  Maryland.  I 
have  a  letter  written  to  my  father  by  my  grandfather  during  the  War 
Between  the  States,  breathing  staunch  Union  principles.  After  the  death 
of  my  grandmother  Blackmore,  my  grandfather  removed  to  Missouri 
and  contracted  a  second  marriage,  dying  at  the  home  of  my  father's 
half  brother,  Arthur  Sullivan,  at  Jefferson  City,  Missouri,  some  time  after 
the  war;  another  half  brother  was  named  Clarence;  a  half  sister  mar- 
ried a  Mr.  Dolbear  and  resided  at  Keokuk,  Iowa,  for  many  years.  My 
father  had  a  full  brother,  Alfred,  who  died  when  a  lad  about  12  years 
of  age.  My  grandmother  Blackmore's  remains  He  buried  in  the  old  Madi- 
son Cemetery,  on  Third  Street;  the  location  of  her  grave  was  lost  many 
years  ago,  about  the  time  the  remains  of  many  of  the  old  families  of 
Madison  were  removed  to  P'airmount.  My  father  was  reared  by  ray 
uncle,  Dawson  Blackmore,  who  treated  him  as  a  son  after  his  sister, 
Lucinda's,  death,  which  occurred  while  my  father  was  very  young.  Daw- 
son Blackmore,  his  wife,  Ellen,  and  his  son,  Charles,  lie  buried  In  Fair- 
mount  in  their  family  plot,  near  ours;  I  knew  him  well.  I  visited  him 
during  his  last  illness  and  attended  his  funeral  in  Indianapolis  where  he 


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died  in  1889.  The  Blackmore  family  came  originally  from  England  and 
reached  southern  Indiana  by  way  of  Maryland.  My  father  engaged  for 
many  years  in  general  steamboating  on  the  Ohio  and  Mississippi  Rivers 
when  that  commercial  line  was  in  the  heydey  of  success,  but  his  fortunes 
declined  with  the  decline  of  river  traffic  during  the  decade,  1870  to  188U, 
incident  to  railway  competition,  and  his  last  venture  was  the  Steamer 
Eureka,  which  ran  between  the  Kentucky  River  points  and  Louisville, 
in  which  William  Howard  and  Captain  Robert  King  were  associates. 

Mary  Esther  (Hughes)  Sullivan,  my  mother,  while  caring  for  the 
three  young  children  of  my  deceased  sister,  Lucinda  Blackmore  (Sul- 
livan) Davis,  in  Jeffersonville,  Indiana,  suffered  an  attack,  in  August, 
1903,  which  resulted  in  her  death  at  our  home  in  Grand  Junction,  Colorado. 
I  have  recorded  in  the  family  Bible  which  she  presented  to  me  and  my 
wife,  Alda,  the  following: 

"Mary  Esther  (Hughes)  Sullivan,  relict  of  William  Blackmore 
Sullivan,  and  daughter  of  Richard  Franklin  Hughes  and  Sarah  Jane 
(Hughes),  his  wife,  died  in  Grand  Junction,  Colorado,  at  the  home  of 
her  son,  Richard  Hughes  Sullivan,  Thursday  afternoon,  February  4, 
1904,  at  2  o'clock,  aged  64  years  and  30  days.  Her  remains  were  taken 
to  Madison,  Indiana,  and  interred  in  Fairmount  Cemetery,  on  the 
hill  north  of  that  city,  at  1  p,  m.,  Wednesday,  February  10,  1904.  Her 
two  surviving  children,  Richard  Hughes  and  Warwick  Millgr  Sulli- 
van, witnessed  this  laying  away  of  her  beloved  remains  in  their 
last  resting  place  in  the  city  of  her  departed.  On  the  family  monu- 
ment, underneath  her  name,  are  inscribed  the  following  words,  which 
emphasize  the  Christian's  reward  for  unswerving  devotion  to  God 
and  His  children  and  also  the  heritage  of  comfort  to  her  two  boys 
and  her  loving  grandchildren: 

"There   sweeps  no  desolating  wind 

"Across  that  calm,   serene  abode — 
"A  land  upon  whose  blissful  shore 

"There  rests  no  shadow,  falls  no  stain; 
"There  those  who  meet  shall  part  no  more, 

"And  those  long  parted  meet  again." 

(Gurdon  Robins.) 

She  gave  the  best  she  had  to  God,  Christ's  church  and  the  world — 
no  woman  could  tender  more.    Amen." 

The  children  of  William  Blackmore  Sullivan  and  Mary  Esther 
(Hughes),  his  wife,  were: 

LUCINDA  BLACKMORE,  born  August  20,  1860;  married,  August  20, 
1889,  Albert  Melville  Davis,  of  Jefferson  County,  Indiana;  died  De- 
cember 9,  1899.  Their  children  were:  Charles  Albert,  Dawson  Wil- 
liam, Sullivan  Hughes  and  Vincent  Rawlings,  and  their  names  are 
recorded  in  the  Davis  family  Bible,  presented  by  my  mother.  Her 
second  son,  Dawson  William,  died  March  3,  1899,  and  was  buried  in 
our  family  plot  in  Fairmount  Cemetery,  near  Madison,  and  her  re- 
mains were  placed  by  the  side  of  her  son  in  the  same  burial  plot.  She 
was  a  woman  of  unusual  intellectual  attainments,  and  her  untimely 
death  in  the  prime  of  life  was  more  than  a  misfortune  to  my  mother, 
her  remaining  sister  and  brothers  and  particularly  her  children.  Her 
husband  contracted  a  second  marriage  some  years  after  her  death 
and  lives  in  Howard  Park,  near  Jeffersonville,  Indiana. 

WARWKTK  MILLER,  born  May  8,  1862;  married,  November  4,  1886, 
Charlotte  Davis,  sister  of  Albert  Melville  Davis,  husband  of  ray  sister, 
liUcinda,  and  now  resides  in  Louisville.  Their  children,  as  recorded 
in  his  family  Bible,  presented  by  my  mother,  are:  Charlotte  Black- 
more,  now  married;  Warwick  Howard;  Irene,  now  married;  Theo- 
dore;  Evelyn,  now  married;    a  daughter,  Olive,  and  a  son,  Richard 


38  PEDIGREES 


Hunter,  my  namesake,  died  in  infancy.     Some  of  the  older  children 
were  born  In  Jeffersonville,  Indiana,   where  my  brother   resided   for 
many  years.     Some  15  years  ago,  he  met  with  a  very  serious  acci- 
dent while   practicing  his  profession  of  mechanical  engineer,   losing 
his  right  arm.     Of  our  once  large  family,  he  and  myself  are  the  only 
members  now  living. 
RICHARD  HUGHES,  born  December  11,1863;  married  Clara  Alda  Amberg, 
June  10,  1890.     See  following  record  as  to  ourselves  and  our  children. 
WILLIAM  DAWSON,  born  August  6,  1865;  died,  unmarried,  February  28, 
1892,  and  lies  buried  in  our  family  plot  at  Fairmount,  near  Madison, 
Indiana.     He  had  probably  the  keenest  intellect  of  all  the  children, 
but  his  frame  was  too  frail  to  .preclude  an  untimely  death. 
ALFRED  LYON,  born  December  22,  1866;  died  April  26,  1867.    Asleep  in 

Fairmount. 
SARAH  THOMAS,  born  March  16,  1868;  died,  unmarried,  April  29,  1899. 
Sally  was  the  tomboy  of  the  family.  She  taught  in  the  public  schools 
of  Madison,  Indiana,  for  many  years  and  was  a  close  companion  and 
friend  of  my  mother  as  the  children  fell  away  in  death.  Her  remains 
lie  with  the  rest  of  her  kindred  in  Fairmount. 
CHARLES    SIDNEY,    born    February    11,    1870;     died    October   27,    1870. 

Asleep  in  Fairmount. 
JOHN  STEPHEN,  born  April  3,  1871;  died  April  30,  1871.     Asleep  in  Fair- 
mount. 
THEODORE  AARON,  born  April  6,  1873;  died  May  19,  1893.     "Dodo,"  as 
he  was  called  by  members  of  the  family,  was  probably  the  best  bal- 
anced of  the  children.     He  graduated  with  honors  from  the  Madison 
High  School  and   took  up  journalism,   making  unusual   headway   for 
one  so  young.    The  editor  of  the  Daily  Herald  wept  over  his  untimely 
death  as  a  i)ersonal  loss.     His  remains  lie  buried  among  his  own  in 
Fairmount. 
ROBERT   SADLER,  born  February   10,   1875;    died   September   22,   1875. 

Asleep  in  Fairmount. 
GUY,  born  March  7,  1877;  died  July  5,  1877.    Asleep  in  Fairmount. 

AH   the   above   children    were    born   at   Madison,    Indiana   except    my 
elder  brother,  now  living  in  Louisville,  who  was  born  on  the  old  Hughes 
plantation,  below  that  city,  and  my  younger  brothers,  John  Stephen  and 
Theodore  Aaron,  who  were  born  on  our  farm,  on  the  Papermill  Pike,  about 
5  miles  north  of  Madison.     In  addition  to  the  members  of  my  mother's 
immediate  family,  including  my  sister,  Lucinda,  and  her  son,  Dawson  Wil- 
liam   the  Sullivan  family  plot  at  Fairmount,  near  Madison,  contains  the 
remains  of  my  grandmother,  Sarah  Jane  (Hughes)   Hughes,  H5(4-2),  aJid 
her  brother,  my  grand  uncle,  William  Meriwether  Hughes,  H5(4-2). 
RICHARD    HUGHES    SULLIVAN    (Hughes,    Tarleton;    Hughes,    Neville; 
Hughes,    Meriwether;    Hughes,   Cocke-Cox;    Hughes,   Wood; 
Hughes,  Hughes;    Hughes,  Sullivan),  7. 
Born,  December  11,  1863. 

Married,  June  10,  1890,  Clara  Alda,  daughter  of  Charles  Frederick 
Amberg  and   Susan     (Hummer),   his    wife,   of    Indianapolis, 
'  Indiana,  at  Kansas  City,  Missouri. 

See  sketch  and  tables  for  all  preceding  family  connectlonB. 
Alda's  paternal  grandfather  was  a  native  of  north  Germany.  His 
name  was  von  Omburgh,  but  his  sons  Americanized  it  to  Amberg,  and  as 
such  it  was  transmitted  to  succeeding  generations.  But  little  is  known 
of  her  maternal  antecedents,  except  that  they  came  originally  from  Hol- 
land and  settled  in  the  vicinity  of  Wilkesbarre,  Pennsylvania,  where  her 
mother  was  born  April  13,  1837.  Her  ,parents  finally  settled  In  Indianap- 
olis Indiana,  where  she  was  born,  May  11,  1867.  Her  father  died  in  1898, 
at  Indianapolis.    Her  mother  died  December  11,  1919,  in  Canton,  Ohio,  at 


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the  home  of  a  sister,  Susie  Louise  (Amberg),  wife  of  Edward  P.  Smith, 
and  lies  buried  iu  the  Smith  family  plot  there.  This  remarlvable  woman 
came  of  a  large  family,  each  of  which  lived  to  a  great  age;  her  womanli- 
ness and  generosity  of  soul  were  as  wide  as  the  long  and  useful  life  she 
lived  as  the  last  of  her  family,  and  the  succeeding  generations  suffered 
material  loss  with  the  passing  of  such  a  character.  Alda's  twin  brother, 
Charles  Albert  Amberg,  now  resides  in  Trescott,  Arizona,  and  has  two 
sons  and  a  daughter,  and  her  sister  in  Canton  has  three  grown  sons. 
See  sketch  as  regards  myself. 

Our  children,  whose  names  are  all  recorded  in  the  family  Bible,  pre- 
sented by  my  mother,  are: 

ESTHER  LOUISE,  born  April  10,  1891,  at  the  home  of  her  grandmother, 
Susan  (Hummer)  Amberg,  Indianapolis,  Indiana;  married,  June  3, 
1915,  Ralph  Brown  Potts,  son  of  William  Holloway  Potts,  and  Sarah 
Sheridan  (Brown),  his  wife,  at  Wichita,  Kansas,  Rev.  Percy  T.  Fenn, 
D.  D.,  officiating.  Her  husband  and  herself  are  graduates  of  Fair- 
mount  College,  Wichita,  Kansas,  Class  of  1915,  and  they  were  mar- 
ried the  next  day  after  their  diplomas  were  received.  Her  husband 
was  born  February  16,  1892,  at  Lexington,  McClain  County,  Illinois. 
Their  children,  whose  names  are  recorded  in  our  family  Bible,  iire- 
sented  by  my  mother,  are: 

Louise  Sullivan,  born  October  14,  1916,  at  Dallas,  Texas. 
Riilph  Brown,  Jr.,  born  January  23,  1920,  at  Wichita,  Kansas. 
WARWICK   AMBERG,    born    September    28,    1892,   at    Denver,    Colorado; 
married,   Januai'y   27,   1915,   Ethel    Lillian,   daughter   of  John   Curtiss 
Weir  and   Laura  Henrietta    (Castles),   his  wife,   at  Columbia,   South 
Carolina,  Rev.  Charles  E.  Burts,  D.  D.,  officiating.     He  was  educated 
in    Fairmount    Academy    and    College,    Wichita,    Kansas,    coming    to 
Columbia,  S.  C,  when  my  work  called  me  to  this  point.     On  account 
of  poor  health,  he  relinquished  a  position  as  Assistant  Cashier  of  the 
Southern  Railroad  here  in  1919  and  now  resides  in  Arizona. 
RICHARD   FRANKLIN,   born   August   8,    1901,  at   Indianapolis,    Indiana, 
when  my  family  resided  there.     He  was  educated  in  the  schools  of 
Wichita,  Kansas,  the  high  school  at  Columbia,  S.   C,  and   at  Porter 
Military  Academy,  Charleston,  S.  C.     He  is  now  a  clerk  in  the  South- 
ern Railway  freight  office  and  resides  at  home. 


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(Ibidem) 

CUNLIFFE(Cf.) 

GEORGE  CUNLIFFE. 

Born,    

Married,  Ann  Singleton. 

Died 

He  resided  at  the  Vicarage  in  a  small  village  called  Wlially,  in  the 
County  of  Lancashire,  England. 

JOHN  CUNLIFFE  (Cunliffe,  Singleton),  2. 
Born,  March,  1758. 

Married,    Esther  Hughes,  daughter  of  John  Hughes,  H2, 

and  Judith  (Neville),  N2,  his  wife. 

Died 

The  original  of  the  Cunliffe  family  in  America  was  born  at  the  Vicar- 
age, Whally,  County  of  Lancashire,  England,  and  emigrated  to  Virginia 
in  1784,  leaving  Liverpool  in  the  ship  Thompson.  At  that  time  he  was  in 
the  employ  of  Alexander  Parry  &  Company,  of  that  city,  and  was  sent 
by  them  as  factor  or  confidential  agent  to  dispose  of  dry  goods  in  the  new 
republic  and  to  buy  tobacco.  "I  have  now  his  letter  of  instructions,  exce,pt 
a  small  piece,  which  was  torn  off  and  lost,  copied  from  a  letter  from  Sister 
Ellen  Pleasants." — Ella  Thomas  (Hughes-Cunliffe)  Baker,  Cf4,  H6(4-3). 
He  was  buried  probably  near  the  family  seat  in  Chesterfield  County,  Vir- 
ginia. Bettie  (Hughes-Cunliffe-Elliott)  Hudson,  Cf5,  H7(4-4),  has  writ- 
ten under  date  of  October  10,  1920: 

"We  have  understood  that  the  Cunliffe  Mills,  Manchester,  England, 
were  owned  by  kinsmen  of  ours;  and,  during  the  war,  in  the  Daily  Mail, 
I  saw  that  the  British  war  claims  were  prepared  by  a  committee  under 
Kobert  Hughes,  the  Australian  premier,  and  Baron  Cunliffe,  former  Gov- 
ernor of  the  Bank  of  England.  We  are  also  related  in  some  way  through 
grandpa  to  the  Lewises,  one  of  whom  was  chief  of  the  famous  Lewis  and 
Clark  Expedition  to  the  Northwest."  (Note, — The  only  connection  with 
Meriwether  Lewis  in  the  accompanying  records  is  through  Lucy  Meri- 
wether, M5,  daughter  of  Thoma.s,  M4,  who  was  the  brother  of  William 
Meriwether^  M4,  father  of  Anne,  M5,  who  married  John  Hughes,  H3, 
brother  of  William  Cunliffe's  mother,  Esther  (Hughes),  H3,  and  also  of 
Judith  (Hughes),  113,  his  mother's  sister,  which  latter  (Judith)  was  the 
mother  of  William  Cunliffe's  first  wife). 

WILLIAM  CUNLIFFE  (Cunliffe,  Singleton;  Cunliffe,  (Neville)-Hughes),  3. 
Born,  April  18,  1801. 

Married-1:  Sarah  (Neville-Hughes)  Buck,  daughter  of  Cornelius 
Buck,  of  England,  and  Judith  (Neville-Hughes),  his  wife,  who 
was  a  sister  of  Esther,  his  mother;   2:     Eliza  Ann  (Hughes), 
daughter  of  William  Meriwether  Hughes,  114(4-1),  and  Mary 
(Wood),  his  wife,  October  2,  1833. 
Died,  February  3,  1871. 
He  was  born  in  Chesterfield  County,  Virginia,  and  lies  buried  with  his 
second  wife,  Eliza  Ann  (Hughes),  in  Wirt  Cemetery,  about  7  miles  north 
of  Madison,  Jefferson  County,  Indiana. 

William  Cunliffe's  first  wife  was  his  mother's  niece  and  his  first 
cousin,  and  was  also  second  cousin  to  his  second  wife,  who  was  a  second 
cousin'  of  her  husband,  thus  selling  up  a  most  complicated  relationship 
in  descent. 

Five  children  were  born  of  the  first  union,  of  whom  but  two  reached 
maturity,  namely: 
ELIZA  ANN,  who  married  Orelius  Wood;    they  had  four  children,   Otis, 

Sarah,  Murchie  and  Minnie,  all  of  whom  had  issue. 
SARAH  ELLEN,  who  married  Thomas  Pleasants,  son  of  Governor  James 
Pleasants,    of   Virginia,    about    1869;    issue,    four    children,    one    son 


PEDIGREES  41 


reaching  manhood.  "I  knew  Cousin  Ellen  (Cunliffe)  Pleasants  inti- 
mately and  loved  her  tenderly.  My  mother  being  of  Pleasants  deriva- 
tion (French  orthography,  Plaisannce),  I  am  very  familiar  with  their 
history  authentically  from  1579;  if  early  wills  had  been  more  carefully 
written,  Mr.  J.  H.  Pleasants,  who  studied  the  record  in  England,  thinks 
the  family  might  trace  back  to  the  William  Plaisance,  mentioned  in 
Rye's  Calendar  of  Freemen  of  Norwich  33  (year  of)  Henry  VI,  A.  D. 
1454." — Lydia  Annie  Hughes,  H5.  I  knew  Cousin  Ellen  well,  when 
Bettie  (Cunliffe)  Hudson  and  her  brother  John,  as  children,  were 
under  the  care  of  this  aunt,  and  I  have  ever  heard  our  relatives  speak 
of  her  with  affection  and  esteem.  She  was  one  of  God's  noble  women, 
put  here  on  earth  to  beautify  it  and  make  it  better. 
The  children  of  the  second  marriage,  with  Eliza  Ann  (Hughes),  were: 
WILLIAM,  born  August  18,  1834;  died  September  12,  1835,  in  Manchester, 
Virginia. 

JOHN  HUGHES,  born  August  28,  1836,  in  Jefferson  County,  Indiana;  mar- 
ried Kate  Green,  of  the  same  county;  died  August  18,  1872,  leaving  a 
large  family  of  girls.  Among  the  daughters,  Eliza  married  Eden 
Sandford  and  removed  to  Indianapolis;  Kittie  married  Edward  Hall, 
brother  of  her  Uncle  Charles'  second  wife,  and  lives  at  Clearwater, 
Kansas;  Alice  married  Cooper  Baker,  brother  of  her  Aunt  Ella's 
husband;  Agnes  was  married  and  living  at  Lancaster,  Indiana,  in 
1905.  My  father,  William  Blackmore  Sullivan,  once  said  that  John 
Hughes  Cunliffe  was  one  of  the  most  level  headed  men  he  had  ever 
known.  The  remaining  daughters  were  Fannie,  Jessie  and  Annie.  I 
went  to  school  with  nearly  all  these  girls,  the  first  school  I  ever 
attended,  at  Pleasant  Point,  Indiana,  about  3  miles  north  of  North 
Madison,  on  the  old  Papermill  Pike.  Ella  Thomas  (Cunliffe)  Baker, 
Cf4,  H6(4-3),  writer  under  date  of  November  8,  1920,  from  Stroud, 
Oklahoma:  (To  Bettie  (Cunliffe)  Hudson)  "Your  Aunt  Kate  (Green) 
Cunliffe  died  two  months  ago;  she  was  81  years  old." 

MARY  HOLDEN,  bora  February  1,  1838;  married  Orgillas  Doan  Thomp- 
son in  1867;  died  January  31,  1875,  leaving  two  girls  and  a  boy.  The 
elder  daughter,  Annie,  married  a  son  o!  Governor  Pleasants  and 
brother  of  her  half  aunt,  Sarah  Ellen,  and  was  left  a  widow  in  Rich- 
mond, Virginia,  many  years  ago,  having  a  large  family  of  children. 
The  two  younger  children  were  taken  in  charge  by  her  sister,  Esther. 
See  Esther,  hereunder. 

ROBERT  DONALD  MURCHIE,  born  March  11,  1840;  died  August  8,  1841. 

WILLIAM  (II),  born  December  18,  1841;  married  Minerva  Cox,  of  Jen- 
nings County,  Indiana,  probably  of  the  northern  Cox  branch;  died. 
May  2,  1902. 

RICHARD  MAXWELL,  born  January  7,  1844;  died  unmarried  June  9, 
1909,  and  lies  buried  at  Scottsville,  Virginia. 

CHARLES,  born  January  28,  1846;  married— 1:  Jennie  Elliott,  of  Jeffer- 
son County,  Indiana,  September  2,  1869,  who  died  February  6,  1875, 
leaving  two  children,  i.  e.,  John,  who  married  Alice  Norton,  at 
Tamaroa,  Illinois,  and  has  two  children,  now  living  at  Wichita,  Kan- 
sas, and  Elizabeth  (Bettie),  who  married  (~!harles  Hudson  at  Gaines- 
ville, Texas,  June  6,  1888,  and  now  resides  In  Ottawa,  Kansas;  2: 
Etta  Hall,  of  Jefferson  County,  Indiana,  by  whom  he  had  five  chil- 
dren, namely,  Lillie  Anne,  Esther  Ryker,  Charles  Edson,  Henry  Hall 
and  Gertrude.  He  was  killed  in  a  boiler  explosion  at  Wichita,  Kan- 
sas, December  10,  1894,  and  lies  buried  there.  His  second  wife  con- 
tracted a  second  marriage  with  a  Mr.  French  and  resided  in  Denver, 
Colorado,  until  her  death  on  February  22,  1919.  She  lies  buried  in 
Wichita,  Kansas.  Bettie,  one  of  the  authorities  of  this  record,  and 
Charles  Hudson,  her  husband,  were  the  parents  of  one  son  and  two 


42  PEDIGREES 


daughters;  the  boy  died  when  grown  while  the  family  was  living  in 
California;  the  two  girls  have  graduated  from  Ottawa  University  and 
are  now  (1920)  teaching  school  in  Kansas.  I  have  known  Bettie  many 
years,  both  in  Indiana  and  in  Kansas,  and  it  is  a  well  established 
fact  that  her  doors  are  never  closed  to  any  one;  she  is  an  honor  to 
the  blood  whence  she  came.  Her  mother  was  a  sister  of  Alexander 
V.  Elliott,  husband  of  her  Aunt  Esther. 

ESTHER,  born  July  4,  1848;  married  Alexfinder  V.  Elliott,  of  Jefferson 
County,  Indiana,  brother-in-law  of  her  brother,  Charles;  died  Septem- 
ber 14,  1887,  within  a  short  time  of  her  husband.  They  left  four 
children,  i.  e.,  William,  now  living  in  Norwalk,  Iowa;  Nellie,  who  mar- 
ried Robert  Moffett,  of  Madison,  Indiana,  and  resides  there;  James 
Robert,  now  living  in  Michigan,  and  John  Prole,  now  living  in  Iowa. 
Cousins  Esther  and  Alex  lost  a  son,  Anthony,  while  the  family  was 
living  in  Florida  many  years  ago.  I  visited  them  just  before  they 
died,  at  Monroe,  JefL^erson  County,  Indiana,  while  my  mother  was  at 
their  bedside.  They  had  the  care  of  two  children  of  their  sister,  Mol- 
lie  Holden  (Cunliffe)  Thompson;  one  of  these,  Mary  Elizabeth,  was 
reared  and  educated  by  my  mother,  and  the  other,  William  Thomp- 
son, was  cared  for  by  his  uncle,  Richard  Maxwell  Cunliffe,  until  the 
youth  was  killed  by  lightning  in  Arkansas  years  ago.  Cousin  Alex, 
as  we  always  called  him,  had  a  brother,  David,  who  died  June  15, 
1919,  whom  I  always  regarded  as  one  of  the  finest  men  in  all  respects 
that  I  have  ever  known  a  man  who  never,  for  an  instant,  lost  sight 
of  the  interests  of  his  kindred,  no  matter  what  their  condition  in  life 
may  have  been.  Crippled  to  j)ractical  deformity  from  infancy,  his 
large  perspective  and  his  wondrous  heart  overcame  his  physical  dif- 
ficulties and  drew  all  men,  of  all  walks  in  life,  to  him.  For  a  genera- 
tion he  was  connected  with  the  Indianaipolis  postoffice,  and  for  years 
he  was  the  memory  of  many  Hoosiers  of  note,  being  proverbially  rec- 
ognized as  one  of  the  best  informed  men  in  that  State.  The  world 
lost  a  real  man  when  David  Elliott  went  to  his  reward.  He  lies 
buried  in  Crown  Hill  Cemetery,  Indianapolis. 

ELLA  THOMAS,  the  youngest  child,  was  born  September  15,  1850,  and  is 
now  the  only  survivor  of  her  immediate  generation.  She  married 
George  Wesley  Baker,  one  of  our  neighbors  in  Jefferson  County, 
Indiana,  and  a  recognized  authority  on  and  a  breeder  of  blooded  cat- 
tle, November  2,  1870.  The  issue  of  this  marriage  was:  Fred,  born 
August  19,  1871;  now  living  with  his  wife  and  two  children  at  Free- 
water,  Oregon.  A  son,  Donnavon,  was  in  the  United  States  Army  dur- 
ing the  World  War.  Bessie,  born  October  6,  1879.  Ruth,  born  Febru- 
ary 18,  1888.  DeWitt,  born  August  31,  1891,  and  married.  On  Novem- 
ber 2,  1920,  Cousin  Ella  and  Mr.  Baker  celebrated  their  golden  wed- 
ding. 
All  the  above  children  of  William  Cunliffe  and  Ann  Eliza  (Hughes), 

his  wife,  are  Cf4  in  the  above  line. 


EXPLANATORY  NOTES 


(In  connection  witli  the  large  table,  the  small  table  in  the  text  and  the 
pedigrees.) 

Figures  indicate  blood  relationship  in  direct  descent  through  the  sev- 
eral groups.  Letters  have  been  substituted  lor  figures  to  indicate  connec- 
tion in  double  lines  of  direct  descent. 

Explanation  of  Letters:  a. — Astun  and  Cocke-Cox  lines,  from  William 
Cocke-€ox,  .brother  of  Henry,  b. — Aston  and  Cocke-Cox  lines,  from  Henry 
Cocke-Cox,  brother  of  William.  c. — Neville  line,  from  Nancy  Neville 
(Hughes),  d. — Neville  line,  from  John  Neville  (Hughes,  Jr.) .  e. — Hughes 
line,  from  Nancy  (Neville)  Hughes,  f.  —Hughes  line,  from  John  (Neville) 
Hughes,  Jr.  g. — William  Meriwether  Hughes  line,  H4(41)  Ibid.,  brother 
of  John  Hughes,  H4.  h. — Sarah  Jane  (Hughes)  Hughes  and  Eliza  Ann 
(Hughes;  Cunliffe  descent  in  the  H4(4-l)   Ibid.  line. 

1. — Double  descent,  a  and  b. — William  Cocke-Cox,  A5W,  C3W,  and 
Henry  Cocke-Cox,  C3H,  A5H,  ibrotliers,  sons  of  John  Cocke,  A4,  C2,  to 
Include  Richard  Franklin  Hughes,  H5,  his  sisters  and  his  brother. 

2. — Quadruple  descent,  c,  d,  e  and  f. — John  Hughes,  Jr.,  N3,  H3  and 
Nancy  (Neville)  Hughes,  N3NNH,  H3NNH,  brother  and  sister,  from  their 
parents,  John  Hughes,  H2,  and  Judith  (Neville),  N2,  his  wife,  through 
both  the  Neville  and  Hughes  lines,  to  include  Richard  Franklin  Hughes, 
H5,  N5,  H5NNH,  N5NNH,  his  sisters  and  his  brother. 

3. — Double  descent,  f  and  g-h.  From  John  Hughes,  H4,  and  William 
Meriwether  Hughes,  H4(4-l)  Ibid.,  brothers,  through  Richard  Franklin 
Hughes,  H5,  and  Sarah  Jane  (Hughes),  115(4-2  Ibid.,  liis  wife.  t(;  include 
Mary  Esther  (Hughes)  Sullivan,  HG,  H6(4-3)   Ibid. 

ibid. 

4. — Quadruple  descent  in  the  Neville,  Hughes  and  Cunliffe  (Ibid.) 
lines.  See  Eliza  Ann  Hughes,  115(4-2),  for  lines  of  direct  descent,  to 
include  all  the  children  of  herself  and  William  Cunliffe. 


The  data  appearing  in  this  genealogy  have  been  assembled  and 
revised  by  the  joint  authors,  and  the  printing  has  been  done  under  my 
personal  supervision.     'I'he  1920  edition  is  limited  to  lUO  copies. 


H7,  H7(4  4). 


WILLS  AND  LETTERS 


WILLS 


Copy  or  intent  of  last  will  and  testament  of  William  Meriwether 
(spelled  Merriwether  at  that  time),  M4. 

In  the  name  of  God.     Amen. 

I,  William  Meriwether,  Senior,  of  the  County  of  Jefferson,  being  of 
sound  mind  and  memory,  do  make  and  appoint  this  my  last  will  (and) 
testament  and  do  dispose  of  my  estate  in  the  following  manner,  to-wit: 

Imprimis.  I  lend  unto  my  wife,  Patty  Meriwether,  during  her  natural 
life,  the  plantation,  houses  and  land  whereon  I  now  live,  supposed  to  be 
about  two  hundred  and  eighty  acres,  part  of  the  land'  I  purchased  of 
A.  S.  Dandridge,  and  after  her  decease  to  give  and  bequeath  the  said  land 
and  plantation  to  my  son,  William  Meriwether,  to  him  and  his  heirs  for- 
ever. 

Item.  I  give  and  devise  to  my  son,  Valentine  Meriwether,  two  hun- 
dred and  three  acres  of  land,  the  balance  of  the  tract  of  land  whereon  I 
now  live  and  adjoining  the  above  described  land,  and  bounded  by  the 
(lines)  Yancy  made  for  him,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 

Item.  I  give  and  devise  to  James  Meriwether,  my  son-in-law,  one 
hundred  acres  of  land,  to  include  the  plantation  where  he  now  lives,  being 
part  of  a  tract  of  land  I  purchased  of  Nicholas  Meriwether,  on  the  south 
fork  of  Bear  Grass  Creek,  and  agreeable  to  the  lines  that  are  established 
between  him,  the  said  James  Meriwether,  my  son-in-law,  and  my  son,  Wil- 
liam Meriwether,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 

Item.  I  give  and  devise  to  my  son,  William  Meriwether,  the  balance 
of  the  last  mentioned  tract  of  land,  of  which  James  Meriwether  hath  one 
hundred  acres  bequeathed,  every  part  or  parcel  thereof,  to  him,  the  said 
William  Meriwether,  my  son,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 

Item.  It  is  my  will  and  desire  that  my  executors  do  sell  so  much  of 
my  other  lands  not  contained  in  the  before  mentioned  clauses  as  will  set- 
tle my  just  debts;  and  after  the  said  debts  are  paid,  I  give  and  devise  the 
balance  of  my  land  unto  my  three  sons,  David  Wood  Meriwether,  William 
Meriwether  and  Valentine  Meriwether,  to  be  among  them  equally  and 
impartially  divided,  to  them  and  their  heirs  forever. 

Item.  I  give  and  devise  to  James  Meriwether,  my  son-in-law,  a  negro 
boy,  called  Simon,  son  of  Agnes,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 

Item.  I  give  and  devise  unto  John  Hughes,  my  son-in-law,  a  negro 
girl,  called  Rachel  (a  child  of  Aggeys),  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever. 

Item.  I  lend  unto  my  wife,  Patty  Meriwether,  during  her  natural 
life,  all  the  rest  of  my  negroes,  stock,  furniture  and  property  of  every  kind, 
except  debts  due  me,  by  her,  disposed  of  at  her  death  or  at  any  time 
before,  as  she  may  choose,  among  my  children  or  grandchildren,  which 
gift  shall  be  as  good  and  valid  as  tho'  I  had  made  it  myself. 

I  do  constitute  and  appoint  D.  W.  Meriwether,  William  Meriwether, 
Valentine  Meriwether,  John  Hughes  and  James  Meriwether  executors  of 
my  last  will  and  testament.  In  witness,  1  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and 
seal  26th  day  of  October,  1790. 

WILLIAM  MERIWETHER  (Seal). 

Signed,  sealed  and  acknowledged  in  the  presence: 

John   Clark, 
G.  R.  Clark, 
A.   Churchill, 
Henry    Churchill. 


WILLS  AND  LETTERS  45 


At  a  Court  held  for  Jefferson  County  (Kentucky)  the  first  of  Febru- 
ary, 1791,  this  last  will  and  testament  of  William  Meriwether,  deceased, 
was  produced  in  Court,  and,  being  proved  by  Jno.  Clark,  George  R.  Clark 
and  Henry  Churchill,  witnesses  thereto  (it  was)   ordered  to  be  recorded. 

(Copy)    (Attest):  Will  Johnston,  C.  J.  C. 

Geo.  H.  Webb,  Clerk. 

By  Chas.  D.  Greppen,  D.  C. 


Copy  or  intent  of  last  will  and  testament  of  John  Hughes,  H4: 

In  the  name  of  God.    Amen. 

I,  John  Hughes,  of  Jefferson  County  and  State  of  Kentucky,  being  of 
sound  mind  and  disposing  memory,  do  make  this  my  last  will  and  testa- 
ment in  the  words  following  (viz.): 

I  bequeath  to  my  eldest  daughter,  Judith  Ann  Hughes  (now  the  wife 
of  Robert  Sadler)  one  tract  of  land  whereon  she  now  resides,  containing 
eighty-five  acres,  as  per  deeds  from  A.  M.  Reder  and  Wm.  Wade;  also 
twenty-five  acres  adjoining  the  same,  on  tlie  lower  line  out  of  the  land 
deeded  to  me  by  E.  F.  Wade;  the  above  lands  can  easily  be  recognized  by 
referring  to  the  (surveys?)  of  my  lands  and  a  red  line  being  drawn  round 
same;  also,  five  negroes  (viz.):  Sharpen;  his  wife,  Melisa,  and  two  chil- 
dren, Lucy  and  Burton;  and  a  negro  man  (Martin);  those  negroes  and  the 
first-named  tract  (were)  advanced  to  her  on  the  10th  of  March,  1843,  to 
her  and  the  heirs  of  her  body  forever. 

I  bequeath  to  Charles  S.  Hughes,  Mary  E.  Hughes  and  Sarah  F. 
Hughes,  children  of  Richard  F.  Hughes,  deceased,  when  they  become  of 
age  or  marry,  one  tract  of  land  beginning  at  a  stone  in  my  lower  line  in 
a  road  leading  to  Louisville,  near  an  old  school  house,  running  up  said 
road  to  a  stone  (in)  my  upper  corner,  then  with  my  upper  and  lower  lines 
back  109J  poles,  making  110  acres,  more  or  less. 

I  also  bequeath  to  Charles  S.  Hughes,  when  of  age,  one  negro  boy 
between  15  and  20  years  old;  also  to  Mary  E.  Hughes  and  Sarah  F. 
Hughes,  (each)  when  of  age,  a  negro  girl  12  or  15  years  old.  This  prop- 
erty, in  the  event  of  the  death  of  any  one  or  more  of  said  children,  the 
survivors  to  inherit. 

It  is  my  will  that  those  children  be  kept  in  my  family  and  supported 
and  educated  without  charge,  unless  their  mother  should  determine  other- 
wise; in  that  case,  my  estate  is  not  to  be  chargeable  with  their  support, 
etc.  Sarah  J.  Hughes,  widow  of  Richard  F.  Hughes,  deceased,  if  agree- 
able to  her,  will  make  my  house  her  home  and  to  be  furnished  with  all 
necessary  clothing,  etc.,  whilst  there  during  her  widowhood,  without 
charge. 

I  bequeath  to  my  second  daughter,  Martha  Hughes,  two  lots  in  Louis- 
ville, bounded  by  Main,  Clay  and  Washington  streets,  as  per  deeds,  (with 
the  exception  of  8  inches  on  the  one  on  Main  street,  that  much  being  sold 
to  John  A.  Weyinan) ;  likewise,  a  negro  boy,  woman  and  girl  to  be  worth 
one  thousand  two  hundred  dollars  valuation,  to  correspond  with  the  price 
of  this  kind  of  property  in  1843;  also,  one-half  of  the  land  deeded  to  me  by 
James  M.  Maury,  to  her  and  the  heirs  of  her  body  forever. 

I  bequeath  to  my  third  daughter,  Emily  N.  Hughes,  now  the  wife  of 
John  R.  Smith,  110  acres  of  land,  more  or  le.'^s,  lying  back  of  the  land  set 
apart  for  Richard  F.  Hughes'  children,  together  with  the  half  of  the  land 
bought  of  J.  M.  Maury;  also,  four  negroes,  Maria  and  her  two  children, 
Harriet  and  Peter,  and  a  negro  boy,  Jacob,  to  her  and  the  heirs  of  her 
body  forever. 

I  bequeath  to  my  son  John  W.  Hughes,  at  the  death  of  my  wife,  the 
tract  of  land  whereon  I  now  reside,  extending  from  the  Ohio  River  back 
to  the  lot  set  apart  for  my  three  grandchildren,  containing  200  acres,  more 


46  WILLS  AND  LETTERS 


or  less,  together  with  a  negro  boy,  woman  and  two  girls  of  the  value  of 
the  preceding  negroes.  Should  the  death  of  my  wife  occur  before  my 
grandchildren  become  of  age,  my  son,  John  W.  Hughes,  is  to  support  and 
educate  them  without  charges. 

It  is  my  will  and  desire  that  my  beloved  wife,  Esther  Hughes,  take 
charge  of  my  estate,  and,  with  the  assistance  of  my  son,  John  W.  Hughes, 
carry  into  effect  this  will  without  giving  any  security  whatsoever;  and,  in 
finally  settling  up  the  business  of  the  estate,  each  heir  must  be  account- 
able for  all  personal  property  advanced  to  them,  and  whic'h  has  not  been 
mentioned  heretofore,  so  that  each  one  must  equally  participate,  an 
account  of  which  will  be  found  with  this  will;  should  there  be  any  prop- 
erty remaining  after  settling  these  accounts,  etc.,  the  same  to  be  equally 
divided  among  my  children  after  my  debts  are  paid. 

JOHN  HU&HES, 
Sept.  5th,  1847. 

Acknowledged  to  be  the  last  will  and  testament  of  John  Hughes  in 
our  presence,  the  29th  October,  1847. 

Wm.   D.    Mitchell. 
Wm.  M.  Hughes. 

State  of  Kentucky. 

lAt  a  County  Court,  held  for  Jefferson  County,  at  the  Court  House  in 
the  City  of  Louisville  on  the  sixth  day  of  December,  1847.  the  foregoing 
instrument  of  writing,  purporting  to  be  the  last  will  and  te.stament  of 
John  Hughes,  deceased,  late  of  this  county,  was  produced  in  Court  and 
proved  by  the  oaths  of  Wm.  D.  Mitchell  and  Wm.  M.  Hughes,  the  sub- 
scribing witnesses  thereto;  whereupon  the  same  was  established  by  the 
Court  to  be  the  last  will  and  testament  of  John  Hughes,  deceased,  and 
ordered  to  be  recorded,  and  is  recorded  in  my  office  as  clerk  of  said  Court. 
Copy  by  (Attest):   Curran  Pope. 

Curran  Pope. 


LETTERS 

Reprint  of  letter  written  by  Patrick  Henry   to  Capt.  William   Meri- 
wether, M4,  from  Page  62,  Meriwether  Genealogical  Record,  1889. 

July  2d,  1781. 
To  Capt.  Wm.  Meriwether,  family,  Mrs.  Wood,  Louisa: 

Dear  Sir— As  the  Lrs.  in  Col.  Wood's  will  are  not  likely  to  act,  &  as 
there  is  a  necessity  for  my  sister  to  administer  upon  the  estate,  she  will 
want  security.  As  her  friends  &  relations  generally  live  at  a  distance 
from  her,  &  as  I  can't  be  present  in  court,  I  take  the  liberty  in  her  behalf 
to  request  the  favor  of  you  to  contrive  to  get  some  of  the  neighbors,  or, 
by  yourself,  as  you  think  best,  to  enter  as  her  security  for  her  adminis- 
tration, and  I  do  hereby  oblige  myself,  my  heirs,  &c.,  to  save  you  harm- 
less upon  that  account  from  all  damage  whatsoever^  I  am  the  more 
anxious  to  have  it  done,  as  there  is  really  a  necessity  for  sHime  person  to 
provide  for  the  family.  The  enemy  has  robbed  ^  l^'"!^^'^'^;'^,^  ';""'^.^? 
done  much  mischief,  &  the  estate  is  too  much  exposed,  and  »"« I  suffer 
unless  somebody  is  empowered  to  act  as  administrator^  ^^'IIIIII-Jmv 
must  want  neces.saries  if  not  looked  after  in  time.  For  niany  weighty 
reasons,  therefore,  I  have  advised  my  sister  to  adminis  er.  She,  as  well 
as  myself,  will  be  greatly  obliged  by  your  friendly  assistance. 
D'r  sir,  y'r  ob't  servant, 

P.  HENRY 
(Printed  reproduction  of  autograph.) 


WILLS  AND  LETTERS  47 


Capt.  Wm.  Meriwether. 

P.  S.     I  will  execute  a  bond  to  have  you  harmless  at  any  time. 

NOTE.-  Valentine  Wood,  brother  of  Martha  Wood,  who  married  Wm. 
Meriwether  (4),  married  a  sister  of  Patrick  Henry.  Their  daughter,  Mary 
Wood,  was  the  mother  of  General  Joseph  E.  Johnston,  C.  S.  A.  This  let- 
ter to  William  Meriwether  is  in  reference  to  this  family.) 


At  Home  (Jefferson  County,  Kentucky), 
Feby.  22d,  1843. 
D.  Sir: 

By  your  request,  I  must  now  say  something  in  answer  letters 
received  during  the  time  Jno.  was  here,  and  until  last  night  we  were 
looking  and  waiting  for  Henry.  Now  he  is  here,  and  the  business  of  my 
father's  estate,  I  think,  is  as  unsettled  as  before.  Jno.  doubtless  has 
informed  you  of  the  nature  of  the  will  that  was  admitted  to  record.  To 
prevent  the  sacrifice  of  tlie  land  (which  certainly  would  be  the  case,  was 
that  will  carried  into  effect),  James  has  thought  proper  to  contest  it. 
Wm.  Mitchell  administered  on  the  estate  on  the  first  Monday  in  Jany., 
and  left  here  a  few  days  after,  and  has  not  been  down  since.  Therefore, 
I  can  not  say  anything  respecting  the  business  of  Wm.  Hughes'  estate. 
Should  the  will  be  set  aside,  it  is  very  likely  there  will  be  a  new  adminis- 
trator. Who  he  will  be,  or  when  this  business  will  be  got  through  with, 
I  can  not  tell. 

If  John  is  not  engaged,  he  had  better  come  down,  fully  authorized  to 
act  for  Wm.  and  Eliza,  as  I  suppose  they  will  be  summoned  here  at  the 
next  Court  (March). 

The  health  of  my  family  and  connexions  is  much  the  same  as  when 
Jno.  left  us.    Esther  desires  to  the  remembered  to  you  all.     I  also. 

Your  Friend  and  Relative, 

JNO.  HUGHES. 

(The  above  letter  was  addressed  to  William  Cunliffe,  Madison,  In- 
diana, husband  of  Eliza  Ann  (Hughes)  Cunliffe,  H4(4-2),  both  of  whom 
appear  in  this  record.  The  William  and  Eliza  referred  to  were  Aunt 
Eliza  and  Uncle  William  Meriwether  Hughes,  sister  and  brother  of  my 
grandmother,  whose  affairs  were  being  supervised  by  the  above  John 
Hughes,  H4,  as  may  be  observed  in  h^i  will  herein. 

The  John  and  Henry  referred  to  were 
(not  known). 


Oldham  County,  Kentucky, 
June  29,  1848. 


Dear  Martha: 


Thinking  you  would  be  anxious  to  hear  from  home,  I  have  concluded 
to  write.  We  are  all  well,  and  I  hear  of  no  case  of  sickness  In  the  neigh- 
borhood. Charles  and  Stei)hen  got  home  Sunday  evening  in  very  good 
time,  and  I  was  glad  to  hear  you  got  up  so  well.  I  was  afraid,  when  you 
left,  little  Sarah  might  be  sick;  she  seemed  to  be  so  puny  in  the  morn- 
ing. 

I  am  sorry  to  hear  of  Emily's  weak  state  of  health,  and  I  am  afraid 
she  gives  up  too  much  to  her  feelings.  Tell  her  she  must  be  cheerful,  use 
moderate  exercise  and  trust  in  the  Lord,  and  I  hope  all  will  be  well  after 
a  while. 


48  WILLS  AND   LETTERS 


I  have  heard  of  nothing  worth  relating  since  you  left.  Give  my  love 
to  Sally  and  the  children,  John  and  Emily,  and  accept  the  same  from 

Your  Affectionate  Mother, 

ESTHER  HUGHES. 

(The  above  letter  was  written  by  Esther  (Cox)  Hughes,  C5H,  my 
great  grandmother,  widow  of  John  Hughes,  H4,  while  living  in  Oldham 
County,  Kentucky,  and  was  addressed  to  her  daughter,  Martha  Hughes, 
H5,  while  at  LaOrange,  Kentucky).