Bio: John V. Hughes, Caddo , Claiborne & Feliciana  Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker
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John V. Hughes.  In all ages of the world, industry, perseverance and
energy where intelligently applied, have achieved a result which could only
have been gained by having one object in view, and improving every
opportunity to ultimately attain that object.  Mr. Hughes is an example of
what can be accomplished when the spirit of determination is exercised in
connection with the every-day affairs of life, and is now the owner of
1,600 acres of fine river bottom land, of which about 900 acres are cleared
and on which he raised over 600 bales of cotton per year, and sufficient
grain to properly feed his stock.  In connection with his plantation he
also conducts a store which brings him in a fair annual income.  He was
born in Feliciana Parish, La., in 1826, to Samuel and Lucretia (Campbell)
Hughes, natives, respectively, of Kentucky and North Carolina, their
marriage taking place in East Feliciana Parish, but in 1836 removed to
Bowie County, Tex., where the father died prior to the war, his widow dying
during that period, she being a worthy member of the Methodist Church.  The
father was a blacksmith.  The subject of this sketch was the second of six
sons and five daughters, and although he received but little schooling in
his youth, he was naturally intelligent, and at the age of nineteen years
started out in life for himself.  In 1849 he went to Claiborne Parish, La.,
to follow overseeing, and several years prior to the war followed that
occupation in the neighborhood of where he now lives.  Upon the opening of
the Rebellion, being a Southern sympathizer, heart and soul, he joined
Company A, Twenty-fifth Louisiana Infantry, and served in the Army of the
Tennessee, and was in many hard-fought engagements in Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee.  Although he was wounded three times, it was not seriously, and
after the war he returned to Caddo Parish, where he has since devoted his
time and attention to farming.  All his property has been acquired since
the war, and as it is exceptionally fine and valuable, he deserves much
credit for his enterprise and pluck.  He is the only one of the family in
Louisiana, is unmarried, and socially is a member of the A. F. & A. M.