When William Fitzhugh Hughes was born on 15 February 1883, in Henry, Alabama, United States, his father, William Nathan Hughes, was 30 and his mother, Nancy Ann Melissa Sellers, was 29. He married Leola Mae Outlaw on 22 June 1905, in Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 2 Balkum, Henry, Alabama, United States in 1900 and Election Precinct 6 Cottonwood, Houston, Alabama, United States for about 30 years. He died on 5 August 1948, in Dothan, Houston, Alabama, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Saint Marys Methodist Church Cemetery, Cottonwood, Houston, Alabama, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
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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