This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dtheatreprof Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.castle/1020.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My father was Stanley hughes whose father was Henry Grady Hughes. My father always told me that his grandmother Mattie Shinn Hughes was married to Samuel Castle Hughes in Georgia. He left her supposedly and went to Texas and then Oklahoma. She then married E.B. Cannon. That was the story my father knew. Unfortunately there is no 1890 census. On the 1900 census it shows that she married E.B. Cannon in 1894 and Grady Hughes was born in 1894. Technically his name was cannon, but he was living with his grandmother Shinn in 1913 when both his mother (mattie) and his stepfather? died suddenly. The other four children in the family were turned over in guardianship to some people named Higgins. I don't know what happened. When Grady turned up in Tallapoosa Georgia in 1914 and married my greatgrandmother his name was no longer Cannon, but Hughes. He was married or had an affair with Mattie it had to be between 1890 and 1894. Could I see his picture? I would be happy to send you pictures of Henry Grady (also his mother was Ann Penelope Green and she died sometime before 1900. He had a brother named Henry Grady Hughes in the 1880 census who was 1 at the time. but was never listed with the family again.) Maybe with each others help we might be able to solve the mystery of the Hughes'. Thanks for answering my letter. Florence Hughes Dyer Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.