Well, I tried hard, but if I had been really thinking, I would have known immediately because Rhoda was a widow before 1834 and as Forrest wrote:
"This George sure sounds good, but there is a major problem with him. There was a Widow Hughes in Pendleton Dist, 1820 and I am sure it was Rhoda--the data matches. George Hughes was enumerated in 1810 in Pendleton District and it almost a certainty it was our George because the children listed match his family to a "T".
If our George served in the Revolutionary War, but died before 1820, then he would not show up in the Rev War Pension records. The Act of Congress setting up pensions was not passed until 1828, then broadened in 1832.
This George Hughey or Hughe did serve in the Revolutionary War. I viewed his Pension records (S21306) this morning. He fought at King's Mountain with his Captain, James Withrow. He also fought Tories in several small skirmishes in NC & SC. He says he was born in Brunswick Co., VA (the county just east of Lunenburg, from which Lunenburg was formed in 1746). He was born 22 July, 1758. When he volunteered for service in the war in 1780 he was living in Rutherford Co., NC. He said that since the Revolution he had lived in Union and Spartanburg Counties, SC and was living in Spartanburg Co. in 1834 when he applied for his pension. George couldn't sign his name. His mark was a vertical line with a horizontal line touching it midway and going off to the right. It looks like a "T" lying on its side. Vouching for George were W. J. Guthrie, a clergyman, Abner Bemon, and Edmund Corley."
I do wonder about the Rutherford connection and also I wonder about a Hughey being from Brunswick and Rutherford then moving on to SC as did the Hughes family.
Posted by JHSGran at October 15, 2006 09:36 AM