Richard J. Hughey

Birth Date

1817

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bracken County, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth J. Hughey. Father of Emma Hughey, Louisa Hughey Clara Hughey, and Jennie Hughey. Surveyor in Bracken County in 1850. Clerk of the Bracken Circuit Court from 1858 to 1865. Clerk of the Bracken County Court from 1858 to 1865. Owned two enslaved persons in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, p. 472; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Brooksville, p. 130; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Eastern District, p. 5; Thomas S. Page, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1860), p. 290. Grant Green, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861 (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1862), p. 305. William T. Samuels, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, 1866), p. 11.

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