My GGGG-Grandfather,
Benjamin Hughes fought in the Revolutionary War .The following paragraphs are
copied from the book “Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches Embracing the
History of Campbell County, Virginia 1782-1926”, by R. H. Early (published
1927)
Benjamin Hughes, born
1763 in Hanover County, was a son of Henry and Margaret Hughes. At the age of
sixteen he enlisted as a private in the Virginia troops under Captains Elisha
White, Samuel White, Samuel Hubbard, Wm. Tinsley, Thomas Richardson, and Wm.
Anderson, -Cols. James Monroe, Mercer, Seawell and Winston. He was in the
battles of Brandywine, Malvern Hill, Charles City Court House, and siege of
Yorktown; and served altogether about three years. His father's home was
burned, but the family records were recorded in the parish register of the Rev.
Patrick Henry, who was a neighbor and friend of the family. After the
Revolution, Hughes moved to Bedford but in 1805 settled in Campbell. He married
a daughter of Littleberry Tucker, of Hanover and was joined in Campbell by his
wife's brother, Thomas Tucker. The name Littleberry is preserved in the Hughes
family.
Children of Benjamin
Hughes:
-Littleberry m., lst,
Winifred, daughter of Clement Jordan, who lived at Far View, near Gladys.
Children, -l Emory, enlisted in Confederate army, killed at Gettysburg; -2
Benjamin, died upon return from the war; -3 Clement served in the war, moved
afterwards to Tennessee; -4 Patrick; - 5 Susan; -6 Nancy; -7 Julia Anne and –8
Parthenia, m. Jabez Snow. Littleberry m., 2nd, Mrs. Tucker, nee Plunkett, widow
of Charles Tucker; children; -9 Thomas; -10 Sarah Alice; -11 Margaret; -12
Charles; -13 Frank; -14 Bowling. Mrs. Tucker had five children of her first
marriage. Littleberry Hughes m., 3rd, Dionysia Oakes; children: -20 Mary; -21
Virginia; -22 Tabitha;-23 Robert, making a household of 23 children.
Daughters of Benjamin
Hughes were: -Margaret**, m. -Strong, -Alice, m. -Roberts, -Katherine, m. Roberts; - Tabitha, unmarried.
Benjamin Hughes, while
resident in Campbell, made application in 1833 for a pension for his
Revolutionary War service, which then was allowed him. He moved to Tennessee
and in 1835 was living in Smith County, sixty miles from Nashville; died 1838,
leaving a widow. Littleberry Hughes died 1890, aged 94 years. Patrick, (son of
Littleberry), who died young was lively and mischievous. It was the custom of
one of the neighborhood preachers, whom Patrick disliked, to spend weekends at
his home. On one occasion, he turned his horse over to young Patrick with the
caution, "Feed him high, Patrick, feed him high." The boy disappeared
for the day and after dinner, to the chagrin of the preacher, the horse was
discovered standing on his hind legs, endeavoring to reach the bundle of oats,
which was tied to the rafters of the stable. Patrick could not resist the
opportunity for his joke, even at expense of the horse. Robert Hughes, youngest
son of Littleberry, lives at the old home, Far View, two miles west of Gladys.
Charles H. Hughes resides at Gladys. Emory Hughes (killed in battle) had
married a sister of James Hughes of a different Campbell family, yet bearing
the same name. James Hughes owned property on Ward's Road in the Yellow Branch
section, and was the father of Emory and B. E. Hughes of Lynchburg.
**Margaret’s daughter,
Edna Strong, married Allen German Bailey, my GG-Grandfather, who died at the
battle of Drewry’s Bluff.