When Ephraim Hugh Hughes was born on 30 June 1859, in Jersey, Illinois, United States, his father, Ephraim Hughes, was 42 and his mother, Lucinda Hungerford, was 39. He married Fannie Cordelia Allen on 20 May 1883, in Jerseyville, Jersey, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 15 June 1937, in Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States.
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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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