Ancestry of
Howard Hughes

American Business Tycoon

Joshua William Hughes

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• • Great-grandfather of Howard Hughes — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • William Hughes Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Judith Hughes   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Oct 1808 
  • Birth Location:
  • Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Mar 1901 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Moriah Cemetery, Azen, Scotland, Missouri 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Staton Askins
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Jul 1831 
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. Clair County, Illinois 
  • Child:

  Felix Turner Hughes (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Joshua William Hughes

  • ¹ Federal Census, IL, St. Clair County, 1850, Centreville, Image 9 of 63.
  • ² Federal Census, MO, Scotland County, 1860, Johnson, p. 215, Image 17 of 21.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/12/2017).
  • ⁴ Illinois, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1791-1850, Marriage record for Joshua W Hughes and Martha Askins.
  • ⁵ Portrait and Biographical Album of Lee County, Iowa, Chicago: Chapman Brothers (1887), 509.
  • ⁶ Virkus, Frederick Adams, ed., The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy: First Families of America: A Genealogical Encyclopedia of the . . ., Chicago: multiple publishers (1925-), Vol. 4, p. 295.