Felix Hughes of Carmichaels, Cumberland twp, Greene County

 Felix Hughes taken from page 509 of "The Ten Mile Country and It's Pioneer
Families" by Leckey

 There are several interesting genealogies of the Hughes family, one of
which carries the record of the family back to Ireland in the year 1542, and
carries down to where we find Felix Hughes and his two sons, Thomas Hughes
and Phelime (Felix) Hughes, and the Loudon County, VA, in 1739.

 Thomas Hughes, one of the sons, had married, in Donegal, Ireland, Bridget
O'Neill, and had at least three sons when he came to America.  They were
Felix, who married married Cynthia Kaighn; John, who married Mary Hunter,
and Thomas Hughes.

 Felix Hughes, the subject of this sketch, son of Thomas and Bridget
(O'Neill) Hughes, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, about 1723, and died
in Greene County, Pennsylvania, in 1805.  He married, in Loudon County, VA,
about 1748 Cynthia Kaighn, said have been an only daughter.  Felix Hughes
and his family, with some cousins, the O'Neill's, joined the party of
immigrants, said have amounted to some 65 persons, who left Virginia in
1769, to settle in what is now Greene County, Pennsylvania.  Most local
histories tell of this migration, which while early, was not the first
settlement made in this section.  Felix Hughes, his son James, and son,
Thomas, settled on adjoining tracks of land near the present town of
Carmichaels on Monday Creek, where they erected a large as strong cabin,
often used as the fort. Felix and his son, James, warranted tracks of land
on which they settled, but Thomas Hughes sold out on July 24,1780, to James
Carmichaels and removed to thew Ten mile where in leter years he laid out
the town of Jefferson.  (Washington County deed book 1-8-207).  There's a
description of "Bear Harbor", the track of land warranted to Felix Hughes
and over which there was to be considerable litigation, and several Hughes
history already written. There are also descriptions of the fort erected on
this land. While numerous descendants have joined the D.A.R and S.A.R. on
service of one Felix Hughes in the eastern part of the state, we have our
own doubts that Felix Hughes left his fort in these trying times.  His age
in the activities of his sons would have been a retarding feature.  As with
John Swan, sr., no service for Felix Hughes can be defintely claimed.  The
Felix and Cynthia (Kaighn) Hughes were the parents of at least six children;
Thomas Hughes, of whom we have written; James Hughes, of whom we shall take
up in this article; John Hughes killed by the Indians and for whom  James
Hughes was sued because of revenging his brothers death; Barnett Hughes, who
died in Kentucky;  Elizabeth Hughes, whose husband, William Hunter, was
killed by the Indians on the way to Kentucky, and Martha Hughes, of whom
there's no record.