Louisa Hughes

Louisa was born in 1820 in Of, Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Louisa's father was Abner Hughes and her mother was Sarah Iddings.  Her maternal grandparents were Joseph Iddings and Alice Howell. She had four brothers and three sisters, named William, Joseph, Benjamin, Jeremiah, Maria, Elizabeth and Lucinda.  She was the third oldest of the eight children. She had four half-brothers and four half-sisters, named Samuel, John, James, Abner, Sarah, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Mary.  She died at the age of 83 in 1903.¹