This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hughes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5AB.2ACE/2015.1 Message Board Post: Hello Sarah: I think that Meredith Hughes is one of my relatives. My great grandfather was Meredith Childress Hughes Jr. He was married to Nancy Bowles. They had a son named William. I wonder if this Meredith C. Hughes could be his son? You can reach me at [email protected] if you wish to correspond further.
I have a bit of information about Meridith Hughes that any descendant should know, In 1855 Hughes and a "Zeke"? Pennington surveyed the Ballard Smith 40000 acre tract into sections making two townships. The southern part of Jackson County that is east of the Chat-n-Chew Restaurant below Bond and that part south of Tyner was part of that survey. They were employed by the younger Francis Clark who had bought the 40,000 acres from a Mr. Biddle and A Mr Thompson in Philadelphia for $3500.00 in 1845. The south border with Laurel County was the south cource of that survey. The SE corner was where Burning Springs is today and the NE corner was at the mouth of Buncomb Creek. the NW corner was about Dabolt in Jackson County, The Jackson-Clay county line was one of the section lines and the south boundrey of my farm was another. In 1858 when Jackson County was created Meredith Hughes was employed to survey the boundries with Laurel, Clay, Owsley, Estill , Madison and Rockcastle counties. The late Meridith "Bud" Hughes of McKee had the hatchet that was usedto mark trees in that Jackson County survey. Bud was a son of William "Bill" Hughes that was the post masterof the Green Hall post office. I remember seeing him and I was well acquainted with Bud. I could kick myself that I did not ask him to show me that hatchet and at least take a picture of it. I spent more than 30 years of my life working in Jackson County helping build one of the most successful rural electric cooperative in the whole United States. JESS WILSON ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 5:37 PM Subject: [KYJACKSO] Re: HUGHES > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Hughes > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5AB.2ACE/2015.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Hello Sarah: > > I think that Meredith Hughes is one of my relatives. My great grandfather was Meredith Childress Hughes Jr. He was married to Nancy Bowles. They had a son named William. I wonder if this Meredith C. Hughes could be his son? You can reach me at [email protected] if you wish to correspond further. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237