Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Hughes, Lafayette 1852 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com December 4, 2007, 4:18 am Author: William Henry Perrin (1883) LAFAYETTE HUGHES, lecturer, Palestine, was born September 12, 1852. He is a son of John Hughes, born August 14, 1803, in South Wales. He is a son of John Hughes, Sr.; his occupation was that of a puddler; he was married in the old country to Mary Morris. They, with two of their children, who afterward died in New Jersey, came to Quebec, Canada, in 1832, at the time of the first cholera in this country. They were shipwrecked in their passage across the ocean, while on board the Welsh sailing ship, "King Henry V," but were rescued by Capt. Seward, from Sunderland. Mr. Hughes raised fourteen children after coming to this country, of whom only seven are now living; their names are David, Victoria, Alice, John, Edward, Lafayette and Adaline. Mr. John Hughes is a Free-Will Baptist, and has been identified with the Republican party. Two of his children, Adaline, born April 22, 1854, and Edward, born February 27. 1845, are at home taking care of the old folks. The latter enlisted July 18, 1861, in the Thirty-eighth Illinois Infantry Volunteers, Company D. He was afterward attached to the light artillery, serving till the close of the war. He was at Murfreesboro; in Sherman's campaign; suffered nine months in the Southern prison pens and was discharged October, 1866, in Fort Kearney, Neb. Lafayette Hughes was educated at the U. C. College, in Merom, Ind., was a salesman in early life, but for the last six years he has been a temperance lecturer, laboring in Iowa, Illinois, Canada, Kansas, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. Additional Comments: Extracted From: HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS. EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN. ILLUSTRATED CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS, LAKESIDE BUILDING. 1883. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/crawford/bios/hughes1992nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb