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Daniel H. Hughes (Union County, Kentucky, attorney and notary public.)

b. 1833-07-17

Union County, Kentucky, attorney and notary public. Washington County, Kentucky native. Son of John Reed Hughes and Martha Nantz Hughes. Married to Wright Parker Hughes in Union County, Kentucky, on December 18, 1855. Father of Bettie Hughes, Mattie Hughes, Henry Hughes, and George P. Hughes. Graduated from Central College at Boyle County, Kentucky, on June 26, 1852. Resident of Washington County in 1850. Household owned nineteen enslaved persons in Washington County in 1850. Attorney Union County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Union County in 1860. Notary public in Union County.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Washington County, p. 230B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kentucky, Washington County.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 528.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 416A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 350B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Union County Marriages, Film 000562202.

Mary Cooley Bassett, Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (Harrisburg, PA: Telegraph Printing Company, 1912), pg. 5.

History of Union County, Kentucky, (Evansville, IND: Courier Co., Printers, Binders and Engravers, 1886), v. 1, pp. 192-193.

KYR-0001-017-0279.

Citation

Hughes, Daniel H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201272 (November 12, 2026).

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