When Andrew Franklin Hughes was born on 19 January 1857, in Limestone, Texas, United States, his father, John Jefferson Hughes, was 35 and his mother, Mary Pernecia Samford, was 33. He married Sarah Jane Covington in 1880, in Shelby, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Texas, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 1, Shelby, Texas, United States for about 30 years. He died on 29 July 1917, in Center, Shelby, Texas, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Shelby, Texas, United States.
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On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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