Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

JEREMIAH M. HUGHES, one of the progressive farmers of Allen County, Ky., 
was born April 29, 1846, on the farm adjoining where he now resides.  He 
is the fourth of three boys and three girls born to Thompson R. and 
Elizabeth (Johnson) Hughes (see H. C. Hughes' sketch).  Thompson R. was 
an extensive farmer and owned a large family of negroes.  Jeremiah M. 
was reared on a farm, and June 14, 1868, married Sarah E. Neal, of 
Monroe County, Ky., a daughter of James M. and Margaret (Dunn) Neal, who 
were born, respectively, in east Tennessee and Monroe County, Ky.  James 
M. Neal came to Kentucky with his parents about 1840, and settled in 
Monroe County.  Mr. Hughes had born to him by this union three children:  
Owen V., Martha M., James Thomas.  His wife is a member of the Baptist 
Church.  After his marriage he located where he now resides on 175 
acres, which he has improved; he also owns another lot of sixty acres on 
Barren River.  In politics is a Democrat; was formerly a member of the 
Grange. 

Hughes Johnson Neal Dunn
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Monroe-KY TN

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