They were married 25 Sep 1769 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
Some of their children were:
1. Archelaus Madison Hughes, b. 1771, Patrick County, VA. and d. ca.1829
2. Sally Hughes
3. John L. Hughes, b. 3 Aug 1776 and d. 26 Dec 1860
4. Jeancy "Jincy" Hughes, b. 1780 and d. 1870
5. William Hughes, b. 13 Jun 1785 and d. 1871
6. Madison Redd Hughes, b. 1787 and d. 1876
7. Nancy Hughes, b. 30 Jun 1773 in Patrick County, VA. and d. 2 Jun 1845 in Patrick County, VA
8. Leander Hughes
9. Reuben Hughes
10. Matilda Hughes
11. Samuel Hughes, b. ? and d. 4 Mar 1850
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Her father, Samuel Dalton, 1699-1802, was a son of William Dalton, the colonist, who came first to Gloucester County, Va.
Samuel was the wealthiest man in all the county and owned much land and many slaves. He and his wife, Ann Dandridge Redd had at least four sons and six daughters.
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PORTRAIT AT CANNON'S AUCTIONS: (Dec. 2013)
Sepia portrait of Lady Dalton Hughes in walnut shadow box frame, titled on the reverse "Lady Dalton Hughes, wife of Colonel Archelaus Hughes. Buried at Hughesville, Patrick County, Va. in the year of 1844"; measuring 12 x 10".
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Hughes Cemetery
All of the surrounding cemeteries listed in Pilson's book mention Hughesville, Va. and a Hughsville house.
Directions to another cemetery say it is located 1/2 mile south of Hughes Cemetery and near the North Carolina Line.
Call Ken Harbour, a retiree, 276-694-7774.
He is a Patrick native and very helpful.
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OBITUARY
Departed this life, on the 30th December 1841, at her residence in Patrick County, of chronic rheumatism, the venerable Mrs. Mary Hughes, a relict of Col. Archelaus Hughes, in the 94th year of her age. Apart frpm the extreme age to which it pleased kind Providence to prolong the kife of Mrs. Hughes, she may truly be said to have possessed very many of the most remarkable and excellent traits of the human character. Her life began before the existance of this Government, and consequently she witnessed in its most destructive ravages the horror of the Revolutionary War, and felt ite affects in her immediate circle. The brave old soldier qith whom she had linked her earthly destiny was absent during that momentous struggle in his country;s service, and while his safety was the dearest object of her solotude, the glory and success of her country's arms were never lost sight of. During the struggle she imbibed a spirit of patriotism, which to the latest day of her existence, like her other faculties of the higher order, was not in the slighest degee diminished, and in her many admirers has been a source of peculier interest. Kind to the human family, with an almost universal benevolence, she administered alms in the true spirit of charity. From her lips no accent of selt-claimed merit was ever heard. To speak of her and to do her justice is the delight of her many relatives and friends, who thronged around her and sweetened the gloom of her declining years; but to portray adequatly the cardinal virtues of her remarkable character is more than, at present, I shall attemp to do. As a mother, we may safely say no woman could excel her. As a mistress, she was humane and kind, devoting to the comforts of her servants every necessary attention. As a friend, the high regard in which ahe was held by her neighbors sufficiently attests the hospitality of her soul. As a woman, she united to the greatest energy of character the most refined and cultivated tenderness of disposition. Ready to forgive the frailties of her sex, she raised for herself an elevated standard of female excellence, up to which she most exactly came, discharging every duty which in her estimation was proper to be practised by the female portion of society. She was sick but a few days, and it seemed that her disease had been arrested, when after retiring, apparently convalescent and in the most cheerful spirite, she was discovered in the morning to have expired. She thus may be said to have retained to the day of her exit from time to eternity that hilarity of feelings with which her long years had been characterized. The number of her descendants is almost three hundred.
National Intelligencer February 5, 1842
Washington
Some of their children were:
1. Archelaus Madison Hughes, b. 1771, Patrick County, VA. and d. ca.1829
2. Sally Hughes
3. John L. Hughes, b. 3 Aug 1776 and d. 26 Dec 1860
4. Jeancy "Jincy" Hughes, b. 1780 and d. 1870
5. William Hughes, b. 13 Jun 1785 and d. 1871
6. Madison Redd Hughes, b. 1787 and d. 1876
7. Nancy Hughes, b. 30 Jun 1773 in Patrick County, VA. and d. 2 Jun 1845 in Patrick County, VA
8. Leander Hughes
9. Reuben Hughes
10. Matilda Hughes
11. Samuel Hughes, b. ? and d. 4 Mar 1850
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Her father, Samuel Dalton, 1699-1802, was a son of William Dalton, the colonist, who came first to Gloucester County, Va.
Samuel was the wealthiest man in all the county and owned much land and many slaves. He and his wife, Ann Dandridge Redd had at least four sons and six daughters.
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PORTRAIT AT CANNON'S AUCTIONS: (Dec. 2013)
Sepia portrait of Lady Dalton Hughes in walnut shadow box frame, titled on the reverse "Lady Dalton Hughes, wife of Colonel Archelaus Hughes. Buried at Hughesville, Patrick County, Va. in the year of 1844"; measuring 12 x 10".
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Hughes Cemetery
All of the surrounding cemeteries listed in Pilson's book mention Hughesville, Va. and a Hughsville house.
Directions to another cemetery say it is located 1/2 mile south of Hughes Cemetery and near the North Carolina Line.
Call Ken Harbour, a retiree, 276-694-7774.
He is a Patrick native and very helpful.
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OBITUARY
Departed this life, on the 30th December 1841, at her residence in Patrick County, of chronic rheumatism, the venerable Mrs. Mary Hughes, a relict of Col. Archelaus Hughes, in the 94th year of her age. Apart frpm the extreme age to which it pleased kind Providence to prolong the kife of Mrs. Hughes, she may truly be said to have possessed very many of the most remarkable and excellent traits of the human character. Her life began before the existance of this Government, and consequently she witnessed in its most destructive ravages the horror of the Revolutionary War, and felt ite affects in her immediate circle. The brave old soldier qith whom she had linked her earthly destiny was absent during that momentous struggle in his country;s service, and while his safety was the dearest object of her solotude, the glory and success of her country's arms were never lost sight of. During the struggle she imbibed a spirit of patriotism, which to the latest day of her existence, like her other faculties of the higher order, was not in the slighest degee diminished, and in her many admirers has been a source of peculier interest. Kind to the human family, with an almost universal benevolence, she administered alms in the true spirit of charity. From her lips no accent of selt-claimed merit was ever heard. To speak of her and to do her justice is the delight of her many relatives and friends, who thronged around her and sweetened the gloom of her declining years; but to portray adequatly the cardinal virtues of her remarkable character is more than, at present, I shall attemp to do. As a mother, we may safely say no woman could excel her. As a mistress, she was humane and kind, devoting to the comforts of her servants every necessary attention. As a friend, the high regard in which ahe was held by her neighbors sufficiently attests the hospitality of her soul. As a woman, she united to the greatest energy of character the most refined and cultivated tenderness of disposition. Ready to forgive the frailties of her sex, she raised for herself an elevated standard of female excellence, up to which she most exactly came, discharging every duty which in her estimation was proper to be practised by the female portion of society. She was sick but a few days, and it seemed that her disease had been arrested, when after retiring, apparently convalescent and in the most cheerful spirite, she was discovered in the morning to have expired. She thus may be said to have retained to the day of her exit from time to eternity that hilarity of feelings with which her long years had been characterized. The number of her descendants is almost three hundred.
National Intelligencer February 5, 1842
Washington
They were married 25 Sep 1769 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
Some of their children were:
1. Archelaus Madison Hughes, b. 1771, Patrick County, VA. and d. ca.1829
2. Sally Hughes
3. John L. Hughes, b. 3 Aug 1776 and d. 26 Dec 1860
4. Jeancy "Jincy" Hughes, b. 1780 and d. 1870
5. William Hughes, b. 13 Jun 1785 and d. 1871
6. Madison Redd Hughes, b. 1787 and d. 1876
7. Nancy Hughes, b. 30 Jun 1773 in Patrick County, VA. and d. 2 Jun 1845 in Patrick County, VA
8. Leander Hughes
9. Reuben Hughes
10. Matilda Hughes
11. Samuel Hughes, b. ? and d. 4 Mar 1850
===
Her father, Samuel Dalton, 1699-1802, was a son of William Dalton, the colonist, who came first to Gloucester County, Va.
Samuel was the wealthiest man in all the county and owned much land and many slaves. He and his wife, Ann Dandridge Redd had at least four sons and six daughters.
===
PORTRAIT AT CANNON'S AUCTIONS: (Dec. 2013)
Sepia portrait of Lady Dalton Hughes in walnut shadow box frame, titled on the reverse "Lady Dalton Hughes, wife of Colonel Archelaus Hughes. Buried at Hughesville, Patrick County, Va. in the year of 1844"; measuring 12 x 10".
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Hughes Cemetery
All of the surrounding cemeteries listed in Pilson's book mention Hughesville, Va. and a Hughsville house.
Directions to another cemetery say it is located 1/2 mile south of Hughes Cemetery and near the North Carolina Line.
Call Ken Harbour, a retiree, 276-694-7774.
He is a Patrick native and very helpful.
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OBITUARY
Departed this life, on the 30th December 1841, at her residence in Patrick County, of chronic rheumatism, the venerable Mrs. Mary Hughes, a relict of Col. Archelaus Hughes, in the 94th year of her age. Apart frpm the extreme age to which it pleased kind Providence to prolong the kife of Mrs. Hughes, she may truly be said to have possessed very many of the most remarkable and excellent traits of the human character. Her life began before the existance of this Government, and consequently she witnessed in its most destructive ravages the horror of the Revolutionary War, and felt ite affects in her immediate circle. The brave old soldier qith whom she had linked her earthly destiny was absent during that momentous struggle in his country;s service, and while his safety was the dearest object of her solotude, the glory and success of her country's arms were never lost sight of. During the struggle she imbibed a spirit of patriotism, which to the latest day of her existence, like her other faculties of the higher order, was not in the slighest degee diminished, and in her many admirers has been a source of peculier interest. Kind to the human family, with an almost universal benevolence, she administered alms in the true spirit of charity. From her lips no accent of selt-claimed merit was ever heard. To speak of her and to do her justice is the delight of her many relatives and friends, who thronged around her and sweetened the gloom of her declining years; but to portray adequatly the cardinal virtues of her remarkable character is more than, at present, I shall attemp to do. As a mother, we may safely say no woman could excel her. As a mistress, she was humane and kind, devoting to the comforts of her servants every necessary attention. As a friend, the high regard in which ahe was held by her neighbors sufficiently attests the hospitality of her soul. As a woman, she united to the greatest energy of character the most refined and cultivated tenderness of disposition. Ready to forgive the frailties of her sex, she raised for herself an elevated standard of female excellence, up to which she most exactly came, discharging every duty which in her estimation was proper to be practised by the female portion of society. She was sick but a few days, and it seemed that her disease had been arrested, when after retiring, apparently convalescent and in the most cheerful spirite, she was discovered in the morning to have expired. She thus may be said to have retained to the day of her exit from time to eternity that hilarity of feelings with which her long years had been characterized. The number of her descendants is almost three hundred.
National Intelligencer February 5, 1842
Washington
Some of their children were:
1. Archelaus Madison Hughes, b. 1771, Patrick County, VA. and d. ca.1829
2. Sally Hughes
3. John L. Hughes, b. 3 Aug 1776 and d. 26 Dec 1860
4. Jeancy "Jincy" Hughes, b. 1780 and d. 1870
5. William Hughes, b. 13 Jun 1785 and d. 1871
6. Madison Redd Hughes, b. 1787 and d. 1876
7. Nancy Hughes, b. 30 Jun 1773 in Patrick County, VA. and d. 2 Jun 1845 in Patrick County, VA
8. Leander Hughes
9. Reuben Hughes
10. Matilda Hughes
11. Samuel Hughes, b. ? and d. 4 Mar 1850
===
Her father, Samuel Dalton, 1699-1802, was a son of William Dalton, the colonist, who came first to Gloucester County, Va.
Samuel was the wealthiest man in all the county and owned much land and many slaves. He and his wife, Ann Dandridge Redd had at least four sons and six daughters.
===
PORTRAIT AT CANNON'S AUCTIONS: (Dec. 2013)
Sepia portrait of Lady Dalton Hughes in walnut shadow box frame, titled on the reverse "Lady Dalton Hughes, wife of Colonel Archelaus Hughes. Buried at Hughesville, Patrick County, Va. in the year of 1844"; measuring 12 x 10".
===
Hughes Cemetery
All of the surrounding cemeteries listed in Pilson's book mention Hughesville, Va. and a Hughsville house.
Directions to another cemetery say it is located 1/2 mile south of Hughes Cemetery and near the North Carolina Line.
Call Ken Harbour, a retiree, 276-694-7774.
He is a Patrick native and very helpful.
------------
OBITUARY
Departed this life, on the 30th December 1841, at her residence in Patrick County, of chronic rheumatism, the venerable Mrs. Mary Hughes, a relict of Col. Archelaus Hughes, in the 94th year of her age. Apart frpm the extreme age to which it pleased kind Providence to prolong the kife of Mrs. Hughes, she may truly be said to have possessed very many of the most remarkable and excellent traits of the human character. Her life began before the existance of this Government, and consequently she witnessed in its most destructive ravages the horror of the Revolutionary War, and felt ite affects in her immediate circle. The brave old soldier qith whom she had linked her earthly destiny was absent during that momentous struggle in his country;s service, and while his safety was the dearest object of her solotude, the glory and success of her country's arms were never lost sight of. During the struggle she imbibed a spirit of patriotism, which to the latest day of her existence, like her other faculties of the higher order, was not in the slighest degee diminished, and in her many admirers has been a source of peculier interest. Kind to the human family, with an almost universal benevolence, she administered alms in the true spirit of charity. From her lips no accent of selt-claimed merit was ever heard. To speak of her and to do her justice is the delight of her many relatives and friends, who thronged around her and sweetened the gloom of her declining years; but to portray adequatly the cardinal virtues of her remarkable character is more than, at present, I shall attemp to do. As a mother, we may safely say no woman could excel her. As a mistress, she was humane and kind, devoting to the comforts of her servants every necessary attention. As a friend, the high regard in which ahe was held by her neighbors sufficiently attests the hospitality of her soul. As a woman, she united to the greatest energy of character the most refined and cultivated tenderness of disposition. Ready to forgive the frailties of her sex, she raised for herself an elevated standard of female excellence, up to which she most exactly came, discharging every duty which in her estimation was proper to be practised by the female portion of society. She was sick but a few days, and it seemed that her disease had been arrested, when after retiring, apparently convalescent and in the most cheerful spirite, she was discovered in the morning to have expired. She thus may be said to have retained to the day of her exit from time to eternity that hilarity of feelings with which her long years had been characterized. The number of her descendants is almost three hundred.
National Intelligencer February 5, 1842
Washington
Inscription
Tombstone inscription: "Sacred to the memory of Mary Hughes the widow of Col. Archelaus Hughes Born in the year of our Lord 1754 Died the 28th day of December 1841 In her we saw the varied virtues blend of Daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend"
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