Brief Life History of Yellerby
When Yellerby HUGHES was born about 1834, in Georgia, United States, his father, Ezekiel Hughes, was 36 and his mother, Angenia Seaborn, was 30. He lived in Henry, Alabama, United States in 1850.
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Sources (3)
- Yearly B Hughs in household of A L Hughs, "United States Census, 1850"
- Ezekiel Hughes, "Alabama Estate Files, 1830-1976".
- Legacy NFS Source: Yellerby HUGHES -
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World Events (8)
1835 · Treaty of New Echota
A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
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.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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