Carroll-Henry County IN Archives Biographies.....Hughes, William 1790 - 1884
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

WILLIAM HUGHES.

   William Hughes was born in Winchester, Virginia, April 28, 1790, and, with
his father's family, moved to Clark county, Ohio, from there to Kentucky, and
then back to Ohio. He was a soldier of the War of 1812. He moved to Indiana
territory in 1820, to Henry county. He came to Carroll county, Indiana, in
January, 1827. Mr. Hughes was a rugged, athletic man, a noted hunter, without
any education, but possessed of a strong sense of right, a man of large
experience and observation. He died on August 10, 1884, in his ninety-ninth year.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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