When James R. Hughes was born in January 1846, in Owen Township, Jackson, Indiana, United States, his father, Silas Hughes, was 21 and his mother, Parthenia Weddell, was 22. He married Nancy J. Brown on 15 April 1866, in Brownstown, Brownstown Township, Jackson, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Indiana, United States in 1870. His occupation is listed as farmer in Jackson, Indiana, United States. He died on 13 January 1910, in Brownstown, Brownstown Township, Jackson, Indiana, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Brownstown Township, Jackson, Indiana, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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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