James Hughes, Jr. and Mary Hill

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Husband James Hughes, Jr. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 29 Mar 1804 - Butler Co, PA 2 4 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 31 Jan 1888 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 2
         Buried: 2 Feb 1888 - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA 6

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         Father: James Hughes (1776-1858) 4 7 8 9
         Mother: Nancy Shorts (1786-1866) 9 10

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       Marriage: 1862 11

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   Other Spouse: Mary Mallory (1805-1862) 1 2 9 - 23 Mar 1824 2 4

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Wife Mary Hill ^{9 11 12 13}

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           Born: 1804 9
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Mar 1893 9
         Buried: 12 Mar 1893 - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA 6

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         Father: Moses Hill (      -1821) 12 14
         Mother: Catharine Swaney (      -      ) 14

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   Other Spouse: George Steele (Abt 1820-1856) 12 13

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - James Hughes, Jr.

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Another source gives his date of birth as March 23.

His wife taught school, and it was from her that he received his education. Finally they were married, living one year in Scrubgrass Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, where he also joined the Methodist Episcopal church. In the spring of 1825, they removed to Waterford, Erie County, her former home, remaining one year. In the spring of 1826, he removed to Rockland Township, Venango County, to run a grist mill for his father, and built a saw mill. He was appointed steward and class leader of the Methodist society, and held that relation to the church for seven years. From thence they moved to East Sandy, in Cranberry Township, Venango County, in the spring of 1833, and built a saw mill and grist mill. In the spring of 1837, he moved to a farm for which he had exchanged his mill property. This farm was three and a half miles east of Franklin. He lived at this place until the fall of 1862, when he left the farm and moved to the East side of the Allegheny river, at Franklin, having buried his wife and all his family of fourteen, but two sons and one daughter. There he kept store for three years, and closed out, moving into Franklin, where he resided until his death. [HVC 1879, 486]

He grew up in primitive surroundings, and acquired a sturdy independence of character which won him the unqualified esteem of all who knew him. In the spring of 1826 he re-moved to Waterford, Erie County, Pennsylvania, and after a year there located in Rockland Township, Venango County, where he built a sawmill and gristmill, giving most of his time to operating same. Thence he removed to East Sandy, in Cranberry Township, where he also built mills and carried them on until the spring of 1837, when he exchanged these pro-perties for a farm three and a half miles east of Franklin. He made his home there until 1862, and for the next three years lived on the east side of the Allegheny River at Frank-lin, thereafter living in the town until his death. An honored citizen, and strong in the confidence of his associates, he was elected justice of the peace a number of times, serving twenty-seven years in that office. [HVC 1919, 466]

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 486, 495.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 466.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 811.

4 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 486.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 794.

6 Franklin Cemetery - Record of Interments (Franklin, PA.).

7 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 466, 628, 960.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 635.

9 Alan R. Jones, Threads of Venango (Indiana, PA: A. G. Halldin Publishing Co., 1984), Pg 280.

10 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 466, 960.

11 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 487.

12 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 467.

13 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 910.

14 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Bios 191.