This information provided by Hughes Researcher David Johnson  [email protected], a direct descendant of Aron Emery Hughes.

Descendants of Aron Emery Hughes 

Generation No. 1 

1.  ARON EMERY³ HUGHES  (WILLIAM², JOHN¹ (ASSUMED() was born Abt. 1815 in South Carolina, and died Abt. 1895.  He married ELIZABETH W. BATES December 02, 1838 in Limestone Co., AL, daughter of WILLIAM BATES and NANCY LEWIS.  She was born Abt. 1822 in Tennessee, and died June 07, 1896.     

Children of ARON HUGHES and ELIZABETH BATES are:

                   i.       DRUCILLA⁴ HUGHES, b. Abt. 1840, Alabama; m. ANSON HARDIMAN.

                  ii.       MARY J. F. HUGHES, b. Abt. 1841, Alabama; m. WILLIAM GARNER, October 11, 1860.

                 iii.       MARTHA EUPHEMIA HUGHES, b. March 03, 1845, Alabama; d. February 22, 1913; m. GEORGE HENRY MAY, November 12, 1876.

2.              iv.       HUGHLEY HOUSTON HUGHES, b. March 1848, Lawrence Co., TN; d. April 14, 1932, Lawrence Co., TN.

                  v.       RILEY FRANK HUGHES, b. Abt. 1850; m. MARY E. LILES, November 02, 1869.

                 vi.       NANCY HUGHES, b. Abt. 1852; m. BOB CROWDER.

                vii.       WILLIAM E. HUGHES, b. Abt. 1856; d. Shot and killed in hunting accident.

               viii.       POLLOCK B. HUGHES, b. Abt. 1858; d. Bef. 1870.

                  ix.       JOHN R. HUGHES, b. Abt. 1860.

                   x.       LOVANNA SUSANNAH "LOU" HUGHES, b. Abt. 1862.

                  xi.       MELISSA OLLIDINE "OLLIE" HUGHES, b. Abt. 1866; m. JOHN W. DOTSON.

                 xii.       JAMES HUGHES HUGHES, b. Abt. 1869.

                                                                         Generation No. 2

2.  HUGHLEY HOUSTON⁴ HUGHES (ARON EMERY³, WILLIAM², JOHN¹ (ASSUMED() was born March 1848 in Lawrence Co., TN, and died April 14, 1932 in Lawrence Co., TN.  He married MARY JANE FRANKS.  She was born 1848 in Lawrence Co., TN.

Child of HUGHLEY HUGHES and MARY FRANKS is:

3.                i.       THOMAS HOUSTON "PETCH"⁵ HUGHES, b. 1869, Lawrence Co., TN; d. 1955, Lawrence Co., TN.

                                                                      Generation No. 3

3.  THOMAS HOUSTON "PETCH"⁵ HUGHES (HUGHLEY HOUSTON⁴, ARON EMERY³, WILLIAM², JOHN¹ (ASSUMED() was born 1869 in Lawrence Co., TN, and died 1955 in Lawrence Co., TN.  He married ADA HUNT. 

Generation No. 4

4.  FRANK H.⁶ HUGHES (THOMAS HOUSTON "PETCH"⁵, HUGHLEY HOUSTON⁴, ARON EMERY³, WILLIAM², JOHN¹ (ASSUMED()  He married MABEL RANDALL. 

Notes on Aron Emory Hughes and family - He went by his middle name of Emory (or Emery) his entire life. He was 1/4 Choctaw Indian and was born in South Carolina - so his mother, Elidia (Lydia) must have been 1/2 Choctaw. William Hughes moved his family to Limestone Co., AL between the birth of his sons, William C. in 1818 and A. W. in 1821. Emery first lived in Limestone County with his wife, Elizabeth (Lizzie) and then he lived on a farm on the Giles/Lawrence County line north of the community of Westside (part of the farm was in Giles and part in Lawrence Counties). His Dad and he bought that land together as a joint venture between 1850 and 1854.This land was previously owned by pioneer settler, Robert Hillhouse. When William died in 1854, Emory was given 50 acres of his Dad's half of the 200 acres of land that they jointly owned. His brother, Jesse, got the other 50 acres of his Dad's half of the land. His sister Elizabeth (Married to 
Anderson Hardiman) received 75 acres of land in William Hughes' will, land that was near to Emory's farm. Around 1888 Emory traded farms with his son-in-law, George Henry May, who had married Emory's daughter, Martha. The Mays lived there until George died in 1934. The Hughes Cemetery used to be part of Emory's farm and was given to the county for public burials in 1888. It is still a public-use cemetery today.

Four of the Hughes children died before marrying. Pollock died before 1870 and Lou, Bill, and John all died prior to 1880 (exact dates unknown). All four of them are buried at the Hughes cemetery (part of the problem is that the original graves in the cemetery were unmarked so no death dates are known.)