Husband James Hughes 1 2 3 4
Born: 27 Sep 1776 - Ireland 4
Christened:
Died: 26 Mar 1858 - Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 4 5
Buried: - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 6
Father: Ellis Hughes ( - ) 3 5
Mother:
Marriage: 1802 - Butler Co, PA 1 5
Wife Nancy Shorts 4 7
AKA: Jane Shorts 1
Born: 1786 4
Christened:
Died: 18 Dec 1866 5
Buried: - Clintonville, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA
Father: Richard Shorts (Bef 1799- ) 8
Mother: Jane Johnson ( - ) 8
Children
1 M Ellis Hughes 5
Born: 1803
Christened:
Died: Bef 1919 - Kansas
Buried:
Spouse: Urilla Davis (1819-1873) 4 5
2 M James Hughes, Jr. 5 9 10
Born: 29 Mar 1804 - Butler Co, PA 1 5 11
Christened:
Died: 31 Jan 1888 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 5
Buried: 2 Feb 1888 - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA 12
Spouse: Mary Mallory (1805-1862) 4 5 9
Marr: 23 Mar 1824 1 5
Spouse: Mary Hill (1804-1893) 4 13 14 15
Marr: 1862 13
3 M Robert Hughes 4
Born: 1805 4
Christened:
Died: 1841 4
Buried:
4 M William H. Hughes 4 5 16 17 18
Born: 26 Jan 1806 - Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 4
Christened:
Died: 20 Apr 1900 - Mercer Co, PA 4 18
Buried: - Fairview Cemetery, Sandy Lake, Mercer Co, PA
Spouse: Sarah Cousins (1814-1877) 4 5 16 18
Marr: 24 Feb 1831 18 19
5 F Jemina Hughes 4
AKA: Jemima Hughes 20
Born: 3 Apr 1810 5
Christened:
Died: 12 Jun 1878 5
Buried:
Spouse: Jacob Shorts (Abt 1800-1869) 21 22
Marr: 1829 22
6 F Jane Hughes 4 5
Born: 18 May 1812 4 5
Christened:
Died: 19 Sep 1906 4
Buried: - Clintonville U. M. Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 23
Spouse: Robert Porter (cal 1807-1881) 4 5
7 M Roland Hughes 4 24 25
Born: 7 Jun 1814 - Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 5 24
Christened:
Died: 13 Jul 1894 - Cranberry Twp, Venango Co, PA 4
Buried: 15 Jul 1894 - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA 12
Spouse: Susanna Ridgeway (1818-1893) 4 24 25
Marr: 6 Dec 1839 - Sandycreek Twp, Venango Co, PA 25 26
8 F Sarah Hughes 4 5
Born: 15 Jan 1817 4 5
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Rev. Jesse P. Benn (1815-1875) 4 5
9 M Richard Hughes 5 27
Born: 28 Apr 1819 - Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 5 27 28
Christened:
Died: 6 Mar 1902 - Rocky Grove (Franklin), Venango Co, PA 27
Buried: - Lupher Chapel Cemetery, Canal Twp, Venango Co, PA
Spouse: Sarah E. Birtcil (1825-1913) 27
Marr: 12 Jun 1845 - Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 5 27
10 F Nancy Hughes 29
Born: 3 Mar 1826 - Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 30
Christened:
Died: 26 May 1891 30
Buried: - Rockland Cemetery, Rockland Twp, Venango Co, PA 31
Spouse: John David Smith (1820-1891) 29 30
Marr: 24 Mar 1842 29 30 32
11 F [Unk] Hughes
Born: 1825
Christened:
Died: Bet 1830 and 1839
Buried:
Spouse: Did Not Marry
12 M Samuel Hughes 4 5 16
Born: Apr 1830 4
Christened:
Died: 31 Jan 1904 - Cranberry Twp, Venango Co, PA 4
Buried: - Brandon Cemetery, Cranberry, Venango Co, PA 33
Spouse: Ann Eliza Campbell (1832-1908) 4 5 16
Marr: 8 Oct 1851 34
General Notes: Husband - James Hughes
He was one of the earliest settlers in Venango County, Pennsylvania. He was small of stature and of Scotch-Irish parentage. He was bound out to a saddle and harness maker in Baltimore, Maryland, when quite young, his parents having died. After serving his time in that vocation, he hired to learn the milling business. Subsequently, he and his only brother Ellis, came to what was then called the "backwoods," settling in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where he ran what is now known as Negley's mills. Soon after his marriage they moved and settled at the mouth of Big Scrubgrass, and took up a tract of land on Bullion run, where he erected a saw mill in 1806-7. He car-ried on the lumber business extensively, and in 1814 built the first "Grist Mill" in that section of the county. He was a man of unusual energy. Everything around him indicated steady thrift. He joined the first Methodistic society formed in Clintonville, then Irwin township, and was appointed the first class leader of the society, remaining in that relation to the church until he purchased and moved to "Slab Furnace," in Cranberry Township, in 1839, and from that date continued in the iron business with success, until he purchased Union furnace, near Cooperstown, for $10,000. This was a financial failure from which he could not recover. However, he struggled on until the panic of 1853, when all his accumulations, during a steady gain of half a cen-tury, were swept from him in a single day, under the Sheriff's hammer. His wife was a good companion and mother. They had twelve children, seven sons and five daughters, all living in 1879 except three. The ten children grew up a robust family. All married, their posterity, dead and alive, numbered one hundred and four in 1879. After his failure, he resided with the eldest daughter, in Clinton township, until February, 1857, when strick-en with palsy, he fell dead while in the act of dismounting from his horse. He was much respected as a father, citizen, and a Christian. As he sank down to rest, he expressed great hopes of a coming glory. [HVC 1879, 486]
He bought the Union Furnace, near Cooperstown, at a later date, paying for it $10,000, a large sum at that period. This venture, though not due to any fault on his part, was unsatisfactory from the start, but he struggled on with a stout heart until 1853, when the panic of that year swept away everything he had, all in a single day. His energies sapped by age and reverses, led him to make his home with his daughter in Clinton Township, where he died. He was a man of unusual energy and thrift, and of unspotted name and character. [HVC 1890, 794]
He was young when his parents died, and some years of his early life were spent at Baltimore, Maryland, where he served an apprenticeship to the saddler's and harnessmaker's trade. Work in that line did not play much part in his independent business career, however, for he learned milling, and he and his brother Ellis settled in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where they operated the Negley mills. James Hughes married before his removal to Venango County, where he was a pioneer settler, and his intelligence and force of character soon brought him into prominence in the new country, where men of his calibre were needed to set the wheels of advancement in motion. He took up a tract of land lying along Bullion run, and settled at the mouth of Big Scrubgrass creek, in 1806 erecting a sawmill there which was one of the most important industrial ventures in the county. All the lumber for new buildings going up in that region was cut at his mill, which did a large business for the day. Several years later, in 1814, he made a much needed addition to his establishment, building a gristmill, the first in the region and for many years the only one for miles around. After a long and prosperous experience at his first location he removed to Cranberry Township, Venango County, where he purchased and operated Slab Furnace, meeting with equal success in the iron business. Some time later he bought Union Furnace near Cooperstown, investing ten thousand dollars in that plant, a large sum in his day. Here, in his later years, he had the misfortune to meet with reverses through no fault of his own, and his difficulties culminated with the panic of 1853, when he lost everything. He was beyond the age when he could undertake to retrieve his losses, and he lived thereafter with his daughter, Mrs. Jacob (Jemima) Shorts, in Clinton Township. In religion he was a Methodist, and he became a member of the first church formed at Clintonville, and its first class leader. His honorable nature fitted him well for the place he filled, finding expression in all his dealings with his fellow men. [CAB, 466]
His death occurred in Cranberry township in February, 1857. [HVC 1890, 794]
A native of Maryland. [HVC 1890, 1143]