The Hughes Family
by Kenneth Sims
Preface
In 1850 Mrs. Rody Hughes, age 84,who gave her residence as Blount County, Alabama appeared in court in Blount County with her son William age 61. She testified that she was present at the marriage of her sister Dorcas to Stephen Mullins in early April, 1792 in Laurence (sic) County, S.C. She testified that the marriage was a short time before the birth of her (Rody's) third child.
1830 Census Jefferson County, Alabama.
Aaron Hughes 1m 30-40, 1f -5, 1f 5-10, 1f 30-40
Rhoda Hughes 2m 15-20, 1f 50-60
Micajah Hughes 1m 50-60, 1m 10-15, 1f 30-40
Moses Hughes 1m-5, 1m 20-30, 1f -5, 1f 30-40
Jesse Hughes was born 1811-1812. He married Mary Alice Powell (Owens, Dictionary of Alabama Biography ). Jesse Hughes named a daughter Rhoda Jane Hughes.
| Mary (Powell) Hughes born in Pendleton County, S.C. February 14, 1818; moved as a child with family to Blount County, AL; married Jesse Hughes; buried at Bethel Cemetery, north Jefferson County, AL. |
George Hughes (ca 1815) was evidently a brother of Jesse Hughes. George Hughes named a daughter Rhoda Elizabeth Hughes. The name George Washington Hughes appears in both of these Hughes families in Jefferson County, Alabama and also in the Laurens County, S.C. Hughes families.
The only males aged 15-20 in 1830 census of Jefferson County are with Rhoda.
It can be assumed that Jesse and George were are close relatives of Rhoda.
Micajah Hughes listed above in the 1830 Jefferson County Census must be a cousin or brother of George Hughes husband of Rhoda (Garrett) Hughes.
The following notes were obtained in Spartanburg, S.C. from the following publication:
GARRETT: 1000 YEARS FROM NORMANDY
by Edward R. Garrett of Houston, Texas;
Published by D Armstrong, Inc, Houston Texas.
The seventh child of Edward Garrett (1733-1794) and Ann West Ousley (1744-1823).
7-0 RHODA GARRETT b. 24 November 1769 married GEORGE HUGHES.
Rhoda was a widow in 1823 in her mother's estate, (Box 31, pkg. 10, Laurens County, South Carolina).
The children were born in Texas.
7-1 JOHN HUGHES b. 6 February 1791.
7-2 WILLIAM HUGHES b. 20 June 1792.
7-3 THOMAS HUGHES b. 8 August 1793.
7-4 EDWARD HUGHES b. 7 January 1795.
7-5 ANNA HUGHES b. 1 January 1797.
7-6 AARON HUGHES b. 4 February 1799.
7-7 MOSES HUGHES b. 6 February 1801.
(Note: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Microfiche - Hughes - South Carolina has John, William, Edward, Aaron, and Moses HUGHES as being born in Laurns Co., SC --- not born in Texas)
The HUGHES line is not continued in the book beyond the following :
The HUGHES family who married into the Garrett family were of New Kent County, Virginia. (Virkus, Volume 7, page 529). William Hughes from Gravesend, England b.1615 settled in New Kent County, Virginia in 1635 at age 20.
Son, William Hughes b. 1650 designed and built St. Peter's Church for 25,000 pounds of tobacco (Hanover Co.).
A deed of GEORGE HUGHES and RHODA HUGHES to WM. PUTMAN - filed in Book H, Page 220, date August 24, 1805, Laurens County, South Carolina, was witnessed by:
HOSEA GARRETT - Rhoda's brother
WM. PUTMAN
STEPHEN GARRETT - Rhoda's brother
EDWARD GARRETT b. 31 August 1733 Fairfax County, Virginia
d. 24 August 1794 Laurens County, South Carolina
m. 2 June 1759 New Kent County, Virginia, to ANN WEST OUSLEY b. 1 April 1744 Virginia,
d. 5 February 1823 Laurens County, South Carolina.
Edward Garrett (1733-1794) and Ann West Ousley had 16 children. (Fifteen children if Martha Garrett,
no descendants, is an erroneous Bible entry.)
ELIZABETH GARRETT b. 20 October 1760 m. JOHN ASHLEY
WILLIAM GARRETT b. 9 September 1763 m. NANCY ..........
NICHOLAS GARRETT b. 11 March 1765 m. SARA BRAMLETT
JESSE GARRETT b. 9 September 1766 m. ELIZABETH HENDERSON
FRANCES GARRETT b. 11 May 1768 m. PLEASANT SULLIVAN
RHODA GARRETT b. 24 November 1769 m. GEORGE HUGHES
JAMES GARRETT b. 23 August 1771 m. NANCY WRIGHT
DORCAS GARRETT b. 12 April 1773 m. STEPHEN MULLINS
STEPHEN GARRETT b. 16 April 1775 m. (1) SARA MOORE
m. (2) ELIZABETH PUTNAM
MARY GARRETT b. 12 April 1777 m. (1) AUSTIN MOORE
m. (2) LODOWICK DOOLIN
MARTHA GARRETT b. 28 November 1778 m. WILLIAM NELSON KELLY
ANNA GARRETT b. 23 August 1780 m. JOHNSON HARRIS
HOSEA GARRETT b. 18 October 1782 m. (1) SALLIE HARRIS
m. (2) FRANCES HARRIS
IRENE KEZIAH GARRETT b. 8 March 1785 m. ROBERTSON MOORE
EDWARD GARRETT b. 13 September 1787 m. ELEANOR HIGGINS
Hereditary Societies - Edward Garrett line
Dames of the Magna Charta. Ousley-Poyntz line in use.
This line included in this record.
Colonial Dames of the 17th Century. On Thomas Ousley I.
See Corine Putnam Mehringer #2993.
Society of Colonial Wars. Thomas Ousley I in military
service in Virginia before 1700.
Daughters of the American Colonists. Line
established by Emma Garrett Morris.
See Volume II of D. A. C.
Daughters of the American Revolution. From
Edward Garrett II.
In use by many Garrett descendants.
