I believe Edward Hughes and Nancy Foster to be from Prince William area. Anyone researching an Edward Hughes or Nancy Foster family??? Amber in Georgia (also looking for Copin/Copen, Guthrie, Lewis, Bolen) Francis Guthrie, (p. 108) fourth child of Dr. Nathan and Mabelle (Patterson) Guthrie, studied medicine and afterwards theology and became a prominent minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Oct. 21, 1821, Elizabeth Hughes, who was born in Kanawha, W. Va. She, a daughter of Rev. Edward and Nancy (Foster) Hughes, was a devout and earnest Christian and an able helpmeet to her husband. They devoted their lives to the ministry of the gospel. He died July 7, 1881, in Gallopolis, Ohio; his wife, in Cheshire, Ohio. They were the parents of thirteen children, the four older of whom were born in West Virginia, the next five in Ohio, the tenth in Mercer County, Pa., the eleventh in Tyler County, W. Va., and the two youngest in Ohio.