Anna 'Annie' McCanny/McKenna Hughes was born to Mr. & Mrs. Francis (Sarah 'Sally' McGuigan) McCanny/McKenna of Oughterard, Greenan, Omagh, Tyrone, Northern Ireland. She was 1 of 9 children: Margaret (McCanny/McKenna) Donnelly of NYC, USA, Sarah (McCanny/McKenna) Trainor/Traynor of NYC, USA, Francis McCanny/McKenna, Anna 'Annie' (McCanny/McKenna) Hughes of NYC, USA, Michael McCanny/McKenna, Mary McCanny/McKenna, Catherine (McCanny/McKenna) McAleer, Dymphna McCanny/McKenna and Patrick McCanny/McKenna. Her parents and most of her siblings are buried in St. Dymphna's Cemetery in Dromore, Omagh, Tyrone, Northern Ireland [marker erected by her sister, Margaret (McCanny/McKenna) Donnelly]. In Tyrone, they were neighbors of the Owen Hughes' family [her future husband's family] - Annie came to America where she and James Hughes were married in a Roman Catholic Ceremony in 1894 in St. Catherine of Genoa, RCC in New York City. They had 4 children: Margaret Ellen (Hughes, Lawlor) Gilligan, Sarah 'Sadie' Kathleen (Hughes) Lawlor, Annie Hughes(lived about a year) and John P. Hughes (died at nine days old). Annie died when her two eldest were young girls and was buried in a small plot with her son and daughter in Calvary Cemetery. In 1935, after James Hughes made his fortune, he purchased a larger family plot in Calvary Cemetery which could accommodate 45 burials and had Anna/Annie, Annie and John moved. Also buried in the new Hughes Plot are: Anna 'Annie' (McCanny/McKenna - James Hughes' 1st wife), Annie Hughes, James P. Hughes, James Hughes, Bridget (McHale) Hughes [2nd wife who raised Annie's 2 daughters, Margaret & Sadie like her own], Mr. & Mrs. James Joseph Lawlor (Margaret Ellen Hughes, Gilligan), Mr. & Mrs. Richard Francis Lawlor (Sarah 'Sadie' Kathleen Hughes), Margaret McHale Lawlor [daughter of 'Sadie' & Richard Lawlor], Mr. and Mrs. James Patrick (Margaret McHale)Lawlor [Margaret McHale Lawlor was Bridget McHale Hughes' sister and the mother of James & Richard Lawlor, husband's of Margaret & Sadie Hughes).