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Moses Franklin Hughes

6 Feb 1801 – 6 Aug 1877

Birth	6 Feb 1801
Death	6 Aug 1877
Cemetery	Rocky Mount Cemetery Reid , Calhoun County , Mississippi , USA
Added by	Nanette Claunch Jaco on 12 Mar 2016
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15456272

Bio

Husband of Sarah Isbell and father of Rebecca Melissa Hughes Crocker Moses moved from South Carolina to Georgia about 1827. He stayed there two years and moved to Alabama. He enlisted at Bellefonte, Alabama to fight in the Seminole Indian War October 26, 1837. As a result of his War service, Moses was qualified to apply for 80 acres of bounty land in Mississippi in 1852 and sometime thereafter moved from Alabama to Layfayette Co, Mississippi. Moses was living with his daughter Rebecca Crocker and her husband Elias Crocker when he died. He is buried at Rocky Mount Baptist Church Cemetery along with many other close relatives

Inscription

Military Inscription: MOSES HUGHES ALABAMA PVT* ALA MILITIA** INDIAN WAR FEBUARY 6 1801 AUGUST 6 1877 * Private ** Unit: Alabama Militia

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Family

Parents

• George Hughes 1760–1819 FaG
• Rhoda Garrett Hughes 1769–1855 FaG

Spouse

• Sarah "Sally" Isbell Hughes 1797–1859

Siblings

• John Hughes 1791–1860 FaG
• Jesse H. Hughes 1811–1882 FaG

Children

• Francis Marion Hughes 1827–1892
• Rhoda Isabella Hughes Barton 1830–1882
• PVT George Washington Hughes 1833–1861
• Sarah E. Hughes Hardin 1838–1911
• Rebecca Melissa Hughes Crocker 1840–1909
• Benjamin Franklin Hughes 1842–1905

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