Biography of Ivy S. Hughs - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 337

Ivy S. Hughs, proprietor of the Hughs House of Jonesboro, Ark.,
was born in the Pickens District, S. C., March 5, 1829, and is the son of
George and Margaret (Tannery) Hughs, both natives of the same State. His
father was a farmer and brick mason by occupation, and died about 1847,
aged fifty-five years. His mother's parents were Zopher and Mary
(Minturn) Tannery. Of the thirteen children born to this union, only
eight are now living–Ivy S. being the only one in Arkansas. In October.
1887, Mrs. Hughs came on a visit to her son and died in the Hughs House,
March 25, 1888, aged ninety-one years. I. S. Hughs left South Carolina
with his father's family, when fifteen years of age, and located in
Cherokee County, Ga., where he resided until after he was of age. In 1856
he came to Arkansas, selecting a site within a mile of what is now
Jonesboro, but then a wild timbered country. Mr. Hughs [p.337] entered
eighty acres of land, remained on it but a short time, and then engaged
in merchandising for two years. Then he returned to the farm and was at
the same time proprietor of a grocery store, where he remained until the
beginning of the late war. He enlisted in the Confederate service,
Company I, Thirteenth Arkansas Infantry, commanded by Col. Tappan. He
served until the surrender, was promoted from private to captain, and was
mustered out as the latter. He returned to Jonesboro, and after clerking
for two years in the dry goods store of Burk & Chisenhall, went into
business for himself, but was burned out. There being no hotel here for
the accommodation of the public, he began keeping boarders, and as
business increased, he erected the old part of the present Hughs House in
1881. Additions have been made until now it has thirty-three sleeping
apartments, and is one of the largest hotels in this part of the State,
and is located on two acres of hotel property. Mr. Hughs has also several
farms scattered over the county, amounting in all to about 648 acres.
October 28, 1858, he married Martha I. Kellar, a daughter of Uriah and
Julia Kellar, residents of this county. To this union were born five
children, only three of whom are now living: W. J., a merchant of St.
Louis, married Belle Hughes; Ben. and I. O. Hughs. Mr. and Mrs. Hughs
spare no pains in their efforts to make their guests as comfortable as
possible. Mr. Hughs was appointed deputy under Sheriff Thorn, and served
four years in that capacity, also holding the same position under Sheriff
Lane for one term. He is a Democrat in politics, and a charter member of
the Masonic order.