Brief Life History of Emily
When Emily Hughes was born in 1818, in Loudoun, Virginia, United States, her father, Constantine Hughes II, was 36 and her mother, Hannah Gifford, was 31. She married Samuel C Williams on 16 August 1837, in Vermillion, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Highland, Helt Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Highland Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States in 1860. She died in 1879, at the age of 61, and was buried in Hopewell Cemetery, Rileysburg, Highland Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States.
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- Emily Bamford in household of Jefferson Bamford, "United States Census, 1850"
- Emily Hughes, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Emly Bamford, "Find A Grave Index"
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1818
Historical Boundaries: 1818: No county, Indiana 1820: Wabash New Purchase, Indiana 1824: Vermillion County, Indiana
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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