Harrison-Jackson-Roane County WV Archives Biographies.....Hughes, Jesse 
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Author: Virgil A. Lewis

Jesse Hughes.—The vicinity of Clarksburgh was long the home of Jesse Hughes, the
distinguished Indian scout and border ranger. He was bred from infancy in the
hotbed of Indian warfare, and came to what is now Harrison county as early as
1770, where for many years he was conspicuous in the Indian wars. Of his
ancestry and early life but little is known, but after the storm of war had
passed away, he lived many years to enjoy that peace and quiet which the valor
and heroism of himself and compatriots had won. He died about the year 1830, at
the residence of his son-in-law, George Hanshaw, at Ravenswood, in Jackson
county, and is buried at that place. His name is commemorated in that of Hughes
river, the principal northern tributary of the Little Kanawha. Early in life he
married Grace Tanner, by whom he had the following issue : Jesse, Jr.; William ;
Rachael, who married William Cottrell ; Martha, who married Jacob Bonnett;
Sudna, who married Elijah Runner; Elizabeth, who married James Stanley ; Massie,
who married Uriah Gandy ; Nancy, who married George Hanshaw ; and Lucinda, who
married Uriah Sayre. Massie was the last surviving member of the family. She
died in Roane county in 1884, aged ninety-eight years; she was the grandmother
of Hon. Frederick Gandy, of that county.

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From Harrison County section of History of West Virginia, 1889.

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