Brief Life History of Charles Spurgeon
When Charles Spurgeon Hughes was born on 4 November 1871, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, his father, Joseph Hughes, was 31 and his mother, Nancy Elizabeth Ann Bryant, was 33. He married Lillian Genevia Mitchell on 13 June 1897, in Caldwell, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Election Precinct 9 Hughes, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States in 1880 and Justice Precinct 1, Caldwell, Texas, United States in 1910. He died on 12 February 1962, in Kerrville, Kerr, Texas, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Kerrville State Hospital Cemetery, Kerrville, Kerr, Texas, United States.
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- Charles S Hughes, "United States Census, 1910"
- C S Hughes, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Charles Hughes, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1872 · The First National Park
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1876 · Segregation Laws Are Passed
A new state constitution was passed in 1876, announcing the segregation of schools.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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