When Elizabeth Hughes was born on 4 January 1837, in Clay, Missouri, United States, her father, Daniel G. Hughes, was 37 and her mother, Elizabeth Woods, was 29. She married Alexander Steele Davidson on 11 September 1856. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Liberty, Clay, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Liberty Township, Clay, Missouri, United States in 1860. She died on 24 September 1862, in Clay, Missouri, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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