CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Hughes
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Hughes

  Benjamin Hughes, born 1763 in Hanover county, was a son of Henry and Margaret
Hughes. At the age of sixteen he enlisted as a private in the Virginia troops
under Captains Elisha White, Samuel White, Samuel Hubbard, Wm. Tinsley, Thomas
Richardson, and Wm. Anderson,-Cols. James Monroe, Mercer, Seawell and Winston.
He was in the battles of Brandywine, Malvern Hill, Charles City Court House, and
seige of Yorktown; and served altogether about three years. His father's home
was burned, but the family records were recorded in the parish register of the
Rev. Patrick Henry, who was a neighbor and friend of the family. After the
Revolution, Hughes moved to Bedford but in 1805 settled in Campbell. He married
a daughter of Littleberry Tucker, of Hanover and was joined in Campbell by his
wife's brother, Thomas Tucker. The name Littleberry is preserved in the Hughes
family. Children of Benjamin Hughes:

—Littleberry m., 1st, Winifred, daughter of Clement Jordan, who lived at Far
Vie-vu, near Gladys. Children,— [1]Emory, enlisted   in   Confederate   army,  
killed   at   Gettysburg;-[2]Benjamin, died upon return from the war;—[3]Clement
served in the war, moved afterwards to Tennessee;—[4]Patrick;— [5]Susan;
—[6]Nancy;—[7]Julia Anne and —[8]Parthenia, m. Jabez Snow. Littleberry m., 2nd,
Mrs. Tucker, nee Plunkett, widow of Charles Tucker; children, [9]Thomas;
—[10]Sarah Alice;—[11]Margaret;-[12]Charles;-[13]Frank;-[14]Bowling. Mrs. Tucker
had five children of her first marriage. Littleberry Hughes m., 3rd, Dionysia
Oakes. Children:-[20]Mary;-[21] Virginia;-[22]Tabitha;—[23]Robert, making a
household of 23 children.

  Daughters of Benjamin Hughes were:—Margaret, m. _____ Strong;-Alice, m. _____
Roberts;—Katherine, m. _____ Roberts ;—Tabitha, unmarried.

  Benjamin Hughes, while resident in Campbell, made application in 1833 for a
pension for his Revolutionary War service, which then was allowed him. He moved
to Tennessee, and in 1835 was living in Smith county, sixty miles from
Nashville; died 1838, leaving a widow. Littleberry Hughes died 189O, aged 94
years. Patrick, (son of Littleberry), who died young was lively and mischievous.
It was the custom of one of the neighborhood preachers, whom Patrick disliked,
to spend week-ends at his home. On one occasion, he turned his horse over to
young Patrick with the caution, "Feed him high, Patrick, feed him high." The boy
disappeared for the day and after dinner, to the chagrin of the preacher, the
horse was discovered standing on his hind legs, endeavoring to reach the bundle
of oats which was tied to the rafters of the stable. Patrick could not resist
the opportunity for his joke, even at expense of the horse. Robert Hughes,
youngest son of Littleberry, lives at the old home, Far View, two miles west of
Gladys. Charles H. Hughes resides at Gladys.

  Emory Hughes (killed in battle), had married a sister of James Hughes of a
different Campbell family, yet bearing the same name. James Hughes owned
property on Ward's Road in the Yellow Branch section, and was the father of
Emory and B. E. Hughes of Lynchburg.


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