Hamilton "Ham" Hughes

1861 - 1937  (75 years)

• Name	Hamilton "Ham" Hughes
  Birth	6 Jul 1861	, Yancey County, , North Carolina
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Mar 1937	Mitchell County, , , North Carolina
  Burial	Hughes Odom Cemetery, , Mitchell County, North Carolina
  Notes	"Hamelton was born in the Big Rock Creek section and lived his entire life there. He was a farmer, and lived on the land which he inherited from his father. He also bought and sold several tracts of land in this same area. Ham was fun loving, hard working and a gregarious man who loved his family more than anything else. When the Cloudland Hotel was first built on Roan Mountain, he played the fiddle with a band there whenever he got the opportunity. Some of the songs played were: "Boil that cabbage down", "Cripple Creek", and "Turkey in The Straw". His wife was a very staunch woman and considered fiddle playing to be "frolicking", which was to her mind a great sin. A little fiddle playing and banjo plunking around the house was not so bad, but to go play where there might be dancing and no telling what else, was a matter of great concern to her. This difference of belief was not so serious though, and they lived their entire married lives together without serious conflict". Source - Article written by Hamelton's granddaughter, Lorraine Hughes Tester and published in Heritage of the Toe River Valley - Avery, Mitchell & Yancey Counties, Vol I, Pg 294 Second Source - Article 165. Delano ("Del") McCoury (son of Hazel Hughes, daughter to Ham Hughes, pg 234, Heritage of the Toe River Valley, Vol III Source - Heritage of the Toe River Valley - Avery, Mitchell & Yancey Counties, Vol I, Pg 294
  Person ID	I52001	DeLoach Ancestry
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	Charles Hughes,   b. 13 Oct 1805, Burke County, , , North Carolina d. Abt 1909, Mitchell County, , , North Carolina (Age 103 years)
  Mother	Matilda Young,   b. 26 Sep 1820, Burke County, , , North Carolina d. Abt 1887, Mitchell County, , , North Carolina (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1835	, Yancey County, , North Carolina
  Family ID	F15327	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Melissa Odam,   b. Jul 1872, Washintgon County, , , Tennessee d. 18 Sep 1937, Mitchell County, , , North Carolina (Age ~ 65 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1900	Mitchell County, , , North Carolina
  Children	1. Hattie Hughes,   b. Abt 1902, Mitchell County, , , North Carolina   2. Lilly Hughes,   b. Abt 1906, Mitchell County, , , North Carolina   3. Daisy Hughes,   b. Abt 1907, Mitchell County, , , North Carolina   4. William Harrison Hughes,   b. Abt 1909, Mitchell County, , , North Carolina   5. Hazel H. Hughes,   b. 13 Feb 1910, Mitchell County, , , North Carolina d. 27 Dec 2002, York County, , , Pennsylvania (Age 92 years)   6. Living
  Family ID	F11524	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart