When Ada Anna Hughes was born on 22 February 1872, in Alabama, United States, her father, William Nathan Hughes, was 19 and her mother, Nancy Ann Melissa Sellers, was 18. She married Robert Erasmus Lee Collins on 19 January 1890, in Henry, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Beat 2 Chipola, Henry, Alabama, United States in 1880. She died on 14 February 1909, in Malvern, Geneva, Alabama, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Malvern, Geneva, Alabama, United States.
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English and Welsh: variant of Hugh with genitival or excrescent -s.
Irish and Scottish: adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic surnames based on the personal name Aodh ‘fire’, for example Ó hAodha, Mac Aodha; see McCoy and compare McHugh .
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