Brief Life History of Thomas Carlyle
When Thomas Carlyle Hughes was born in 1812, in Indiana, United States, his father, John Hughes, was 27 and his mother, Ruhamah Fullen, was 20. He married Harriet A Knight on 13 November 1845, in Delphi, Deer Creek Township, Carroll, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1870 and Shawnee, Johnson, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died on 30 August 1891, at the age of 79.
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- Thomas C Hughes, "United States Census, 1870"
- Thos C Hughes, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953"
- Thomas Hughes in entry for Leone Toliver, "Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952"
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World Events (8)
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1827
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Jackson, Missouri, United States
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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