John Hughes
John Hughes (deceased) was a successful farmer and stock dealer of Ripley Township, a native of Loudoun County, Va. He was a descendant of a prominent Quaker family in Virginia, a son of Hugh and Elizabeth (Polston) Hughes. Of a family of five children, three sons and two daughters, John and Sarah were the only ones that reached mature life. The father, who was a farmer and a miller, died when John was nine years old, and in the same year (1821) the widowed mother with her son moved to Ohio, locating in Ripley Township, Holmes County, and buying 160 acres of land, where he grew to manhood. He remained with his mother on the farm, which he improved, all his life having been spent in farming and dealing in stock, and his industry was rewarded by prosperity, being at time of his death one of the prosperous citizens of the township. He was twice married, his first wife being Elizabeth Huigher, who bore him one child, Amanda, now Mrs. Schaaf. Mr. Hughes' second wife was Lydia, daugher of Thomas and Priscilla (Mendall) Tribbey, former a native of Virgina, latter of Pennsylvania. To this second marriage were born eleven children, five of whom are living: William R., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Sarah, now Mrs. Dowty; Elizabeth, now Mrs. McClure; Mary, now Mrs. Alexander, and John. Mr. Hughes was a member of the Presbyterian Church; in politics a Democrat. He died March 11, 1881, and his widow now lives on the homestead.
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Wayne and Holmes, Ohio, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1889