hughey

THE HUGHEY FAMILY

ARTICLES
JAMES HUGHEY

Dorothy Hughey HUGHEY ANCESTRY

JAMES HUGHEY
Rowan and Buncombe Counties, NC
Carolyn J. (Hughey) Lyda, Box 4, 6255 Dayton Pike, Hixson, TN 37343

James Hughey was born about 1777, probably in Rowan Co, NC. He later moved to Buncombe Co. with his wife Ellen _____? who was also born in 1777.

According to the land settlement charts in the F.A. Sondley book History of Buncombe County, Vol. 2, James and his brother Joseph were large landowners in Asheville. The book also states that James was the second sheriff of Buncombe Co, elected in 1798. James Hughey and a Samuel Hughey are both listed in the 1790 Census (for Buncombe Co.).

The old gravestone in the Hughey Family Cemetery shows that James and Ellen are buried there, the stone being marked only "Hughey." The cemetery is located just off Riceville Road in Asheville.

According to the old Brank Bible, in possession of Frank R. Brank of Weaverville, which confirms the name of James' wife as Ellen but does not give a maiden name, their children were:

1. Samuel

2. Sallie

3. George

4. Annie

5. Julia

6. Joseph

7. Maria

8. Maria (again)

9. James Jr.

Samuel Hughey was born 13 Jan 1802 in Rims (Reems) Creek, Weaverville, Buncombe Co, the son of James and Ellen (_____) Hughey. He was a farmer, blacksmith and shoemaker. Tradition has it that he also raised both sheep and cattle.

Samuel married Margaret Young Brank, daughter of Robert Houston and Elizabeth (Rice) Brank, about 1825. Margaret was born 29 Jul 1807 in Reems Creek, per the old Brank Bible.

According to the Riceville Church Records, Samuel and Margaret were Presbyterians who helped to form the Riceville Church, formerly known as the College Hill Church and School. However, before the building was built, the church services were held in the Samuel Hughey home on Riceville Road.

Samuel died 19 Feb 1886 and Margaret died 20 Nov 1900, and both are buried in the Hughey Family Cemetery.
Their children, according to the church records, family tradition and census records:

1. Newton Hughey

2. Christopher Hughey

3. Julia Ann Hughey

4. Adeline Hughey

5. Clarrissa Ann Hughey

6. Laura Elizabeth Hughey

7. Harriett Rebecca Hughey

8. James Marion Hughey

     James Marion Hughey was born 18 Nov 1847 in Asheville, the son of Samuel and Margaret (Brank) Hughey. He was a farmer, and several Civil War books state that he served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. This is further confirmed by a photograph in an old Asheville newspaper showing the reunion of his cousin, North Carolina Governor Zebulon Baird Vance's "Rough Riders."
     James M. Hughey married Laura Timothy Morgan of Sugarhill, NC, on 7 Sep 1870 according to the Hughey Family Bible.
     James died 28 Feb 1937 according to the death certificate in the Buncombe Co. Courthouse in Asheville, and his wife Laura, died 13 Jul 1927 according to her death certificate. Both are buried in the Hughey Family Cemetery with a marked gravestone.
     According to the recollections of Roy Duncan Hughey, the children of James Marion and Laura (Morgan) Hughey were:

1. Ida Blanche Hughey

2. Margaret Anna Hughey

3. Carrie Ellen Hughey

4. Segernia Gertrude Hughey

5. Arthur Lee Hughey

6. James Ernest Hughey

7. John Morgan Hughey

8. Walter Glen Hughey

9. Ivan Goodrich Hughey

10. William Kenneth Hughey

11. Raymond Hughey

12. Roy Duncan Hughey

Roy Duncan Hughey was born in Asheville 31 Mar 1894 and was the son of James M. and Laura T. Hughey. He told me he was always a farmer, and a textile worker.
Roy married (1) Nellie Gertrude Allison on 8 Mar 1916, Azalea, NC, according to their marriage certificate. They moved to Towanda, Kansas, where they thought the opportunities would be better, but they returned to Asheville after being "wiped out" by the "dust bowl." Roy and Nellie had four children, but were divorced in 1940. Children of Roy Duncan and Nellie G. (Allison) Hughey:

1. James Donald Hughey

2. Hazel Irene Hughey

3. William Joyce Hughey

4. Margie Belle Hughey

He married (2) Cynthia Ophelia Sloan, a widow of Burton Tuchker. They had nochildren.

James Donald Hughey was born 28 Nov 1918, Towanda, Kansas. He served in the second World War during the 1940's in the U.S. Army, receiving his honorable discharge in 1945. His employment during his life, included working at the Biltmore Dairies, and Sear, Roebuck and Company, living first in Marion, NC, and then in Hickory from 1950 on.
In 1947 he married Iris Virginia Ray in Weaverville, NC, on June 28. Their only child was Caroline Jeannette Hughey.

Carolyn Jeannette Hughey Lyda was born 27 Oct 1948 in Marion, but was raised in Hickory. On 25 May 1968 she married Robert Ashley Lyda in Weaverville.
They resided in Conover from 1968 to 1970. In 1970 they moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee where their seven children were born:

1. Robert Alan Lyda

2. James Ernest Lyda

3. William Mark Lyda

4. Charles Ashely Lyda

5. Jeremy Paul Lyda

6. Susan Carol Lyda

7. Benjamin Thomas Lyda

--ALOB, Sept. 1985, Vol. VI, #8, p. 85-77

Dorothy Hughey HUGHEY ANCESTRY

I. James Hughey (b. ca 1777; d. 1853) married Ellen (_____) (b. 1777)
Became Sheriff of Buncombe County, N.C. in 1795. On 1800 census of
Buncombe County, NC

II. Samuel Hughey (b. 1802; D. 1886) married Margaret Young Brank (b.
1807; d.. 1900). Lived, Buncombe Co., NC

III. James Marion Hughey (b. 1847; d. 1937) married Laura T. Morgan
(b.1754; d. 1927) Lived: Buncombe Co., NC

III. Arthur L. Hughey (b. 1877; d. 1923) married Rosa L. Self (b. 1886;
d. 1971) Lived: Buncombe Co., NC

IV. Dorothy Hughey (b. 1917) married (1) Douglas Allison (2) Robert
Baughman. Resides: Black Mountain, Buncombe Co., NC

AHNENTAFEL

Michael Weaver Hughey
Sherrill Hughey, 303 Cumberland Ave., Asheville NC 28801

Surnames contained in this listing: Beekman, Brank, Brittain, Burton, Buytenhusan, Cartwright, Cocke, Davis, deBaune, Demarest, Erwin, Farley, Fontain/Fontaine, Hackley, Hallum, Hughey, Koning, Lucas, McCain, McKean/McKeen, Meet, Miller, Phillips, Pickens, Ramsey, Reynerse, Rice, Roberts, Roper, Runion/Runnion/Runyon, Rychen/Rycken, Ryker, Smock, Stanton, Warren, Wiltsee, Witty, Yates

Paternal line of Michael Weaver Hughey

1. Michael Weaver Hughey
2. Horace Phillips Hughey Jr. b. June 9, 1921. Married Marguerite Weaver.
4. Horace Phillips Hughey Sr. b. Sept. 7, 1879 Buncombe Co., NC; d. April 24, 1964,
    Asheville, NC.
5. Velva Maude McCain, b. Oct 24, 1891 Madison Co., NC; d. May 17, 1964
    Asheville, NC.
8. Robert Williamson Calvin Hughey, b. July 14, 1840, Buncombe Co., NC; d. April 10,
    1921 Flat Creek, NC.
9. Marinda Dulcema Phillips, b. Oct. 27, 1848, Madison co., NC; d. Jan. 27, 1931.
10. Henry David McCain, b. Jul 7, 1845 Caswell Co., NC; d. Jul 3, 1924 Asheville NC.
11. Theresa Jane Ramsey, b. April 18, 1857 Madison Co., NC; d. May 25, 1917.
16. Peter Hughey b. 1798 Buncombe Co., NC; died 1865 Buncombe Co., NC.
17. Rachel Ryker, b. Dec. 12, 1802 Shelby Co., KY; d. 1884 Eureka Springs KS
18. Reuben Phyllips b. Oct. 23, 1814; d. 1890 Jonesboro, TN
19. Lavinia Runion, b. 1815 Madison Co., NC; d. 1905 TN.
20. Tillotson McCain, b. sept. 21, 1798 Caswell Co., NC; d. after 1845
21. Martha Roper b. c1815 Caswell Co., NC;
22. Andrew Jackson Ramsey, b. Dec. 25, 1824; d. Dec. 27, 1858 Madison Co., NC.
23. Margaret Jane Pickens, b. July 21, 1824 Buncombe Co., NC; d. July 7, 1906,
      Asheville, Buncombe Co., NC.
32. Joseph Hughey, b. 1768 rowan Co., NC; d. 185? Jefferson Co., IN.
33. Mary Miller, b. c1770; d. pre-1820.
34. Gerardus Ryker Jr., b. Nov. 4, 1767 closter, NJ; d. Jan. 7, 1839 IN.
35. Leah Smock, b. bapt. April 9, 1779 PA; d. Oct. 4, 1858 IN
38. Thomas ? Runnion b. c1784; d. pre 1820
39. Catherine ?
40. John McCain, b. 1771 d. March 1853 Caswell Co., NC
41. Elizabeth Warren, b. 1772; d. 1837.
42. Henry Roper, b. c1784; d. will probated July 1845.
43. Rachel Farley, b. c1790;
44. William Ramsey, b. 1794; d. 1821 Madison Co., NC.
45. Sallie Rice, b. c1790.
46. William Pickens, b. 1803 Buncombe Co., NC.
47. Elizabeth Brittain, b. 1795;
64. Samuel Hughey, b. Nov. 20, 1740 Lancaster Co., PA; d. July 1874 Burke Co., NC.
65. Elizabeth Erwin ? b. c1740 Pa; d. aft 1794
68 Gerardus Ryker Sr., b. Nov. 16, 1740 Closter, NJ; d. Sept. 15, 1781 Shelbyville, KY
69. Rachel Demarest, b. Nov. 19, 1743; d. 1781 Shelbyville, KY
70. Jacob Smock, bpt. May 20, 1744, Raritan, NJ; d. betw.1807 and May, 1811, KY
71. Catherine Demarest, b. May 6, 1748 NY; d. bef.1807.
76. John Runyon, b. 1752; d. aft. 1820.
77. Susannah Stanton, b. c1752; d. aft. 1829, Haywood Co., NC.
80. Hugh McCain, b. 1734, PA; d. 1781 Caswell Co., NC.
81. Agnes Cartwright, b. c1768 MD; d. aft. 1784 Caswell Co., Nc.
82. John Warren, b. c1740; d. 1813 Person Co., NC
83. Elizabeth Roberts, b. June 16, Orange Co., NC.; d. TN
84. William Roper, b. c1760 Orange Co. NC; d. TN
85. Keziah Yates, b. 1767;
86. Hezekiah Farley; b. c1765; d. will 1808
87. Martha Burton, b. c1765; d. bef.1820 Caswell Co., NC
90. William Rice, b. c1755; d. June 1835 Yancey Co., NC.
93. Margaret Pickens, b. Aug. 4, 1778; d. never married
94. William Brittain, b. Feb. 7, 1762 Orange Co., NC; d. March 12, 1846.
95. Rachel Brank, b. 1763; d. Feb. 26, 1848.
128. Joseph Hughey, b. 1705; d. 1773
128. Jane Erwin, b. c1717.
130. William Erwin?
136 John Rycken, b. 1690 NY; d. 1783
137. Griete Wiltsee, bpt. April 25, 1698 Newtown, NY; d. 1781 NJ.
138. see 142
139. see 143.
140. Jan Smock, b. c1703; d. March/April 1760
141. Leah Fontaine, b. c1710 somerset Co., NJ.; d. aft 1760
142. Samuel Demarest, b. Feb. 1, 1707; d. aft. 1780
143. Lea Demarest, bpt. Aug. 30, 1713; d. aft. 1780.
160. Alexander McKeen, b. c1690 Northern Ireland; d. 1780 Maryland.
161. Eleanor..
164. Thomas Warren Jr. , b. 1706-8; d. ?
165. Jane Lucas, b. c1712; d. bef. 1758
166. John Roberts, b. 1710; d. Caswell Co., NC
167. Susanna ? b. 1710
168. David Roper, b. 1729; d. NC.
169. Sarah Yates, b. 1733;
170. John Yates, b. 1720 Lunenberg Co., VA; d. 1779 Caswell Co., NC
174. John Burton Jr., b. Sept. 7, 1725 Henrico Co., VA; d. 1761 Amelia Co., VA
175. Mary Farley, b. c1735.
186. Robert Pickens, b. Nov. 26, 1747 Frederick Co., MD; d. July 19, 1830 Easley, SC.
187. Dorcas Hallum, b. Feb. 1, 1760 NC; d. Feb. 5, 1823 SC.
188. Joseph Brittain, b. c1723; d. Aug. 22, 1774 Rowan Co., NC
190. Robert Brank, b 1720; d. 1777
191. Jean ?
272. Abraham Rychen Jr., b. 1655 Amsterdam, New Netherlands, (NY;); d. Aug. 20,
        1746 (NY)
273. Griete Janse Van Buytenhusan, b. Jan. 10, 1661, New Netherlands (NY).
        d. Nov. 15, 1732.
274. Theunis Hendrick Wiltsie bpt. Jan. 10, 1674; d. c1760
275. Deborah Beekman, b. 1679 Brooklyn NY;
280. Matthys Hendricksee Smock, b. c1669; d. betw 1721-1727
281. Elizabeth Koning, bpt. Oct. 11, 1676;
282. Charel Fontain, b. aft. 1666 Kings Co., NY; d. will probated May 17, 1734, NJ.
283. Magdaleentje Reynerse, b. 1666 NY; d. aft. 1734 NJ.
284. David Demaresst, bpt. Oct. 3, 1681, Bergen, NJ. d. 1761
285. Mattie de Baune, b. May 4, 1690; d. Oct. 26, 1752 NY, NY
286. Peter Demarest, b. 1683 Hackensack, NJ. d. Aug. 31, 1752 New Bridge, NJ
287. Marritje Meet, b c1691; d. c1720 NJ.
320. Alexander McKean, b. c1670.
321. (?) Adams
328. Thomas Warren Sr., b. c1683 Rappahannock Co., VA; d. April 13, 1749
        Spotsylvania Co., VA.
329. Mary Hackley, b. c1688; d. bef. Jan. 31, 1750 Spotsylvania Co., VA.
330. William Lucas, b. c1675; d. pre-1758 VA
331. Jean (?)
336. William Roper, bpt. April 2, 1708.
348. John Burton, b. 1695; d. (will - 1778).
349. Kathrine Cocke, b. c1700; d. Sept. 10, 1725.
350. Henry Farley, b. c1700; d. 1769 Halifax Co., VA.
351. Mary (?)
372. Robert Pike Pickens, b. 1697, Ireland. Died June 1, 1793, South Carolina.
373. Miriam Davis, b. c1710
374. William Hallum, b. 1731 MD; will proved Sept. 6, 1782 Pendleton Co., SC.
376. James Brittain, b. c1700; d. will of Aug. 1774 Rowan Co., NC.
377. Mary Witty, b. 1705.