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 954, Woodland Township
N. P. Hughes, farmer, sec. 6; P. O., Summum. The above named
gentleman was born in Holmes Co., O., in Sept., 1837, and is the son of
Taylor Hughes. When the war broke out he enlisted in the 85th Reg.,
Ill. Vol., Co. I, for 3 years’ service; was in 13 battles, and the
principal ones of the Rebellion, as Perryville, Stone River,
Chickamauga, Kenesaw Mountain and others; wounded at Atlanta. In 1855
he was united in marriage to Miss Dicy Prather, by whom he has 10
children: Rose Ann, Rosette, Mary, Leonidas, Lawrence, Viola B., Arpha,
Louisa, Judson and Olive.
