History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 953-954, Woodland Township
John D. Hughes, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 12; P. O., Summum;
is a native of Harford Co., Md., born in 1819. His father, Taylor
Hughes, was also a native of Md., who moved to Ohio, where he followed
the occupation of cabinet-maker and builder; in 1817 he was married to
Mary Demass, and they had 11 children. In 1840 he emigrated to this
tp., where in Feb., 1877, he died. Mrs. H. still survives. In 1838 John
married Elizabeth Cooper, by whom he had 4 children, none of whom are
living. Mrs. H. died in 1847, and in 1848 Mr. H. married Mrs. Minerva
Meek, widow of Richard Meek; they have 6 children.
