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             Husband: Reuben HUGHES
                Born: 02 DEC 1791 in Southbury, New Haven, CT
Married: 16 SEP 1811
Died: 04 APR 1837 in Southbury, New Haven, CT
Father:
Mother:
Spouses:
                Wife: Jane BEECHER
                Born: 13 JUN 1792 in Southbury, New Haven, CT
Died: 09 JUL 1869
Father: Ezra BEECHER
Mother: Betsey WHITE
Spouses:
Children
01               (M): William Wheeler HUGHES (1 2 3 4 5)
Born: 22 DEC 1823 (6)
Died: 17 MAR 1904 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (7)
Spouses: Martha A. NETTLETON; Emily C. MCEWEN
02               (F): Mary HUGHES (8 9 10 11)
Born: 13 FEB 1826
Died: 1906 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (12)
Spouses: Horace E. HINMAN

Footnotes

  1. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 255.
    The first library in the town ... passed under the management of Mr. W. W. Hughes, who continued to serve as voluntary librarian as late as 1892 .. contained 700 volumes kept at the residence of Mr. Hughes on the west side of Little River just north of Lounsbury Road and facing the Town Green. His place was known as the Oxford Valley Fruit Farm and his home is said to have been the headquarters for literacy, musical and other entertainments in Oxford.
  2. 1860 Naugatuck Census.
  3. 1870 New Haven Census.
  4. 1880 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  5. 1900 Oxford Census.
    Farmer and Librarian.
  6. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 7.
  7. Ibid., 7.
  8. 1850 Southbury Census.
  9. 1860 Oxford Census.
  10. 1870 Oxford Census.
  11. 1880 Oxford Census.
  12. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Brookside Cemetery, 41.
    Folley, Sarah C. Hinman, wife of Henry P., born 1845, died 1918
    Hinman, Della H., born 1861, died 1876
    Hinman, Fannie E., born 1847, died 1890
    Hinman, Horace, born 1819, died 1902
    Hinman, Mary, wife of Horace, born 1826, died 1906
    Hinman, Austin, H., son of W. B., died 1884, age 4 mos.
    Hinman, Charles L., son of W. B., died 1890, age 4 mos.

Revised: 24-Mar-10
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