My paternal granddad David Aaron Hughes was born on November 12, 1898, in either Whites or Coleraine Township¹, Bertie, North Carolina, His father, Millard Ervin Hughes, was 37 and his mother, Frances Mariah (Williams) Hughes, was 34 when David was born.
MARRIAGE and MILITARY SERVICE²:
He married Nannie Faye Hoggard on Sunday September 21, 1919, in Colerain, North Carolina; both were age 21. This was 3 ½ months after my granddad was Honorably Discharged from the Army, after serving about 2 years during WWI as a Private, served from Jul 31, 1917 to Jun 2, 1919. His Military Serial # was 1294139.
His served in 111th Field Artillery 29th Division, HQ (Headquarters) Company, and most probably went to France. Basic training for this brave soldier would have been "Camp A.A. Humphreys in Fairfax, Virginia and post was founded during World War I, named for Union Civil War general Andrew A. Humphreys, who was also Chief of Engineers. The post was later renamed Fort Belvoir in the 1930s, in recognition of the Belvoir plantation that once occupied the site." [Source: Wikipedia] [More info⁴ on my grandad's Army unit especially occupation in France, at bottom of this Bio].
*You can see how gorgeously handsome Davis Hughes was in his Army uniform...
........................if you look at his photo top left, .....................
~~~~~~~No wonder grandma Hoggard married him!~~~
CHILDREN:
After the Wedded Bliss, my grandma and grandpa had four sons and four daughters between 1922 and 1935.
Sons were:
(1st born) Joseph David "JD" Hughes (married M. Sanford ), (2nd born) Cecil Franklin Hughes Sr. (my father who married Elaine Margaret Betz, my namesake), (3rd) William "Pop" Curtis Hughes (married H M Moss), (7th) Douglas "Ben" McDonald Hughes (married M M Harris & then H M Moss);
Daughters were: the
(4th born) Dorothy Colleen Hughes (married E R Perry), (5th) Helen Faye Hughes (married Richardson), (6th) Romona Faye Hughes (married A K Scott), & last born was (8th) Elsie Irene Hughes (who died at about about 1 ½).
All above are deceased.
~And...
I miss them all, especially my mama & daddy, & my Aunt Hilda (Moss).~
DEATH:
Grandpa Hughes gained his Angel Wings on December 24³, 1948 in Hertford, North Carolina, at the age of 50, and was buried in Edenton, North Carolina in Beaver Hill Cemetery.
Updated by Elaine Hughes-VanDuren and husband Bob "Cookie" VanDuren , 16Jan2020.
ABOVE IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS, SO MAY HAVE ERRORS. WILL BE UPDATED SOON.
EMV/rkv
[¹ Coleraine and Whites Township are only a few miles apart, along the Chowan River, and north of Hwy 17 south at Merry Hill exit. Merry Hill is just across the river from Edenton NC]
[² According to Application for Headstone for Military Veterans dated Dec. 28, 1948, found in Ancestry.com]
[³ Cause "Undermined [but probably] Heart attack: According to Death Certificate]
[⁴ HISTORY OF David Aaron Hughes' Army 29th Division, 111th Field Artillery especially during WWI:
29th Division contained units from Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, North Carolina [which my grandpa Hughes was with], South Carolina and West Virginia.
•29th Division Association:
To keep alive the spirit that never knew defeat; to glorify our dead, and to further keep before our country, the record of the 29th Division in all wars.
•The 29th Infantry Division is one of America’s most illustrious military units. It participated in the U.S. Army’s supreme operation of both World Wars, first in the great Meuse-Argonne offensive in 1918,
•The 29th Division entered its first major battle on October 8, 1918 by launching an attack in the Meuse-Argonne region of France.
•The 29th Division's nickname, the “Blue and Gray Division,” derives from the lineage of its constituent militia regiments, which fought on opposite sides during the Civil War.
•The 111th Field Artillery has been part of the 29th Division since the inception of the division in 1917.
•The 1st Battalion, 111th Field Artillery, was originally constituted as the 1st Battalion Artillery, Virginia Volunteers and organized on 8 November 1877 from existing units to include the “Norfolk Light Artillery Blues” (organized on 22 February 1828), now Battery B, 1st Battalion 111th FA, and the “First Company Richmond Howitzers” (organized on 9 November 1859) , now Battery A, 1st Battalion 111th FA.
•Overseas activity of the 29th Division during WORLD WAR I:
On December 15, 1917, my grandpa's Division "the Blues" departed for Camp McClellan, Alabama, where the blues became a regimental unit of the 111th Field Artillery of the 29th Division. It was hereafter known as Battery B.
And in June 1918, the 29th Division moved to France and it arrived on French soil in Cherbourg on July 16th. The next few months were spent in more training. Just as the 111th arrived at the front, the Armistice was signed. The 111th landed back in Virginia in May of 1919].
[URL info available from us about above facts⁴ available upon request]
MARRIAGE and MILITARY SERVICE²:
He married Nannie Faye Hoggard on Sunday September 21, 1919, in Colerain, North Carolina; both were age 21. This was 3 ½ months after my granddad was Honorably Discharged from the Army, after serving about 2 years during WWI as a Private, served from Jul 31, 1917 to Jun 2, 1919. His Military Serial # was 1294139.
His served in 111th Field Artillery 29th Division, HQ (Headquarters) Company, and most probably went to France. Basic training for this brave soldier would have been "Camp A.A. Humphreys in Fairfax, Virginia and post was founded during World War I, named for Union Civil War general Andrew A. Humphreys, who was also Chief of Engineers. The post was later renamed Fort Belvoir in the 1930s, in recognition of the Belvoir plantation that once occupied the site." [Source: Wikipedia] [More info⁴ on my grandad's Army unit especially occupation in France, at bottom of this Bio].
*You can see how gorgeously handsome Davis Hughes was in his Army uniform...
........................if you look at his photo top left, .....................
~~~~~~~No wonder grandma Hoggard married him!~~~
CHILDREN:
After the Wedded Bliss, my grandma and grandpa had four sons and four daughters between 1922 and 1935.
Sons were:
(1st born) Joseph David "JD" Hughes (married M. Sanford ), (2nd born) Cecil Franklin Hughes Sr. (my father who married Elaine Margaret Betz, my namesake), (3rd) William "Pop" Curtis Hughes (married H M Moss), (7th) Douglas "Ben" McDonald Hughes (married M M Harris & then H M Moss);
Daughters were: the
(4th born) Dorothy Colleen Hughes (married E R Perry), (5th) Helen Faye Hughes (married Richardson), (6th) Romona Faye Hughes (married A K Scott), & last born was (8th) Elsie Irene Hughes (who died at about about 1 ½).
All above are deceased.
~And...
I miss them all, especially my mama & daddy, & my Aunt Hilda (Moss).~
DEATH:
Grandpa Hughes gained his Angel Wings on December 24³, 1948 in Hertford, North Carolina, at the age of 50, and was buried in Edenton, North Carolina in Beaver Hill Cemetery.
Updated by Elaine Hughes-VanDuren and husband Bob "Cookie" VanDuren , 16Jan2020.
ABOVE IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS, SO MAY HAVE ERRORS. WILL BE UPDATED SOON.
EMV/rkv
[¹ Coleraine and Whites Township are only a few miles apart, along the Chowan River, and north of Hwy 17 south at Merry Hill exit. Merry Hill is just across the river from Edenton NC]
[² According to Application for Headstone for Military Veterans dated Dec. 28, 1948, found in Ancestry.com]
[³ Cause "Undermined [but probably] Heart attack: According to Death Certificate]
[⁴ HISTORY OF David Aaron Hughes' Army 29th Division, 111th Field Artillery especially during WWI:
29th Division contained units from Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, North Carolina [which my grandpa Hughes was with], South Carolina and West Virginia.
•29th Division Association:
To keep alive the spirit that never knew defeat; to glorify our dead, and to further keep before our country, the record of the 29th Division in all wars.
•The 29th Infantry Division is one of America’s most illustrious military units. It participated in the U.S. Army’s supreme operation of both World Wars, first in the great Meuse-Argonne offensive in 1918,
•The 29th Division entered its first major battle on October 8, 1918 by launching an attack in the Meuse-Argonne region of France.
•The 29th Division's nickname, the “Blue and Gray Division,” derives from the lineage of its constituent militia regiments, which fought on opposite sides during the Civil War.
•The 111th Field Artillery has been part of the 29th Division since the inception of the division in 1917.
•The 1st Battalion, 111th Field Artillery, was originally constituted as the 1st Battalion Artillery, Virginia Volunteers and organized on 8 November 1877 from existing units to include the “Norfolk Light Artillery Blues” (organized on 22 February 1828), now Battery B, 1st Battalion 111th FA, and the “First Company Richmond Howitzers” (organized on 9 November 1859) , now Battery A, 1st Battalion 111th FA.
•Overseas activity of the 29th Division during WORLD WAR I:
On December 15, 1917, my grandpa's Division "the Blues" departed for Camp McClellan, Alabama, where the blues became a regimental unit of the 111th Field Artillery of the 29th Division. It was hereafter known as Battery B.
And in June 1918, the 29th Division moved to France and it arrived on French soil in Cherbourg on July 16th. The next few months were spent in more training. Just as the 111th arrived at the front, the Armistice was signed. The 111th landed back in Virginia in May of 1919].
[URL info available from us about above facts⁴ available upon request]
My paternal granddad David Aaron Hughes was born on November 12, 1898, in either Whites or Coleraine Township¹, Bertie, North Carolina, His father, Millard Ervin Hughes, was 37 and his mother, Frances Mariah (Williams) Hughes, was 34 when David was born.
MARRIAGE and MILITARY SERVICE²:
He married Nannie Faye Hoggard on Sunday September 21, 1919, in Colerain, North Carolina; both were age 21. This was 3 ½ months after my granddad was Honorably Discharged from the Army, after serving about 2 years during WWI as a Private, served from Jul 31, 1917 to Jun 2, 1919. His Military Serial # was 1294139.
His served in 111th Field Artillery 29th Division, HQ (Headquarters) Company, and most probably went to France. Basic training for this brave soldier would have been "Camp A.A. Humphreys in Fairfax, Virginia and post was founded during World War I, named for Union Civil War general Andrew A. Humphreys, who was also Chief of Engineers. The post was later renamed Fort Belvoir in the 1930s, in recognition of the Belvoir plantation that once occupied the site." [Source: Wikipedia] [More info⁴ on my grandad's Army unit especially occupation in France, at bottom of this Bio].
*You can see how gorgeously handsome Davis Hughes was in his Army uniform...
........................if you look at his photo top left, .....................
~~~~~~~No wonder grandma Hoggard married him!~~~
CHILDREN:
After the Wedded Bliss, my grandma and grandpa had four sons and four daughters between 1922 and 1935.
Sons were:
(1st born) Joseph David "JD" Hughes (married M. Sanford ), (2nd born) Cecil Franklin Hughes Sr. (my father who married Elaine Margaret Betz, my namesake), (3rd) William "Pop" Curtis Hughes (married H M Moss), (7th) Douglas "Ben" McDonald Hughes (married M M Harris & then H M Moss);
Daughters were: the
(4th born) Dorothy Colleen Hughes (married E R Perry), (5th) Helen Faye Hughes (married Richardson), (6th) Romona Faye Hughes (married A K Scott), & last born was (8th) Elsie Irene Hughes (who died at about about 1 ½).
All above are deceased.
~And...
I miss them all, especially my mama & daddy, & my Aunt Hilda (Moss).~
DEATH:
Grandpa Hughes gained his Angel Wings on December 24³, 1948 in Hertford, North Carolina, at the age of 50, and was buried in Edenton, North Carolina in Beaver Hill Cemetery.
Updated by Elaine Hughes-VanDuren and husband Bob "Cookie" VanDuren , 16Jan2020.
ABOVE IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS, SO MAY HAVE ERRORS. WILL BE UPDATED SOON.
EMV/rkv
[¹ Coleraine and Whites Township are only a few miles apart, along the Chowan River, and north of Hwy 17 south at Merry Hill exit. Merry Hill is just across the river from Edenton NC]
[² According to Application for Headstone for Military Veterans dated Dec. 28, 1948, found in Ancestry.com]
[³ Cause "Undermined [but probably] Heart attack: According to Death Certificate]
[⁴ HISTORY OF David Aaron Hughes' Army 29th Division, 111th Field Artillery especially during WWI:
29th Division contained units from Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, North Carolina [which my grandpa Hughes was with], South Carolina and West Virginia.
•29th Division Association:
To keep alive the spirit that never knew defeat; to glorify our dead, and to further keep before our country, the record of the 29th Division in all wars.
•The 29th Infantry Division is one of America’s most illustrious military units. It participated in the U.S. Army’s supreme operation of both World Wars, first in the great Meuse-Argonne offensive in 1918,
•The 29th Division entered its first major battle on October 8, 1918 by launching an attack in the Meuse-Argonne region of France.
•The 29th Division's nickname, the “Blue and Gray Division,” derives from the lineage of its constituent militia regiments, which fought on opposite sides during the Civil War.
•The 111th Field Artillery has been part of the 29th Division since the inception of the division in 1917.
•The 1st Battalion, 111th Field Artillery, was originally constituted as the 1st Battalion Artillery, Virginia Volunteers and organized on 8 November 1877 from existing units to include the “Norfolk Light Artillery Blues” (organized on 22 February 1828), now Battery B, 1st Battalion 111th FA, and the “First Company Richmond Howitzers” (organized on 9 November 1859) , now Battery A, 1st Battalion 111th FA.
•Overseas activity of the 29th Division during WORLD WAR I:
On December 15, 1917, my grandpa's Division "the Blues" departed for Camp McClellan, Alabama, where the blues became a regimental unit of the 111th Field Artillery of the 29th Division. It was hereafter known as Battery B.
And in June 1918, the 29th Division moved to France and it arrived on French soil in Cherbourg on July 16th. The next few months were spent in more training. Just as the 111th arrived at the front, the Armistice was signed. The 111th landed back in Virginia in May of 1919].
[URL info available from us about above facts⁴ available upon request]
MARRIAGE and MILITARY SERVICE²:
He married Nannie Faye Hoggard on Sunday September 21, 1919, in Colerain, North Carolina; both were age 21. This was 3 ½ months after my granddad was Honorably Discharged from the Army, after serving about 2 years during WWI as a Private, served from Jul 31, 1917 to Jun 2, 1919. His Military Serial # was 1294139.
His served in 111th Field Artillery 29th Division, HQ (Headquarters) Company, and most probably went to France. Basic training for this brave soldier would have been "Camp A.A. Humphreys in Fairfax, Virginia and post was founded during World War I, named for Union Civil War general Andrew A. Humphreys, who was also Chief of Engineers. The post was later renamed Fort Belvoir in the 1930s, in recognition of the Belvoir plantation that once occupied the site." [Source: Wikipedia] [More info⁴ on my grandad's Army unit especially occupation in France, at bottom of this Bio].
*You can see how gorgeously handsome Davis Hughes was in his Army uniform...
........................if you look at his photo top left, .....................
~~~~~~~No wonder grandma Hoggard married him!~~~
CHILDREN:
After the Wedded Bliss, my grandma and grandpa had four sons and four daughters between 1922 and 1935.
Sons were:
(1st born) Joseph David "JD" Hughes (married M. Sanford ), (2nd born) Cecil Franklin Hughes Sr. (my father who married Elaine Margaret Betz, my namesake), (3rd) William "Pop" Curtis Hughes (married H M Moss), (7th) Douglas "Ben" McDonald Hughes (married M M Harris & then H M Moss);
Daughters were: the
(4th born) Dorothy Colleen Hughes (married E R Perry), (5th) Helen Faye Hughes (married Richardson), (6th) Romona Faye Hughes (married A K Scott), & last born was (8th) Elsie Irene Hughes (who died at about about 1 ½).
All above are deceased.
~And...
I miss them all, especially my mama & daddy, & my Aunt Hilda (Moss).~
DEATH:
Grandpa Hughes gained his Angel Wings on December 24³, 1948 in Hertford, North Carolina, at the age of 50, and was buried in Edenton, North Carolina in Beaver Hill Cemetery.
Updated by Elaine Hughes-VanDuren and husband Bob "Cookie" VanDuren , 16Jan2020.
ABOVE IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS, SO MAY HAVE ERRORS. WILL BE UPDATED SOON.
EMV/rkv
[¹ Coleraine and Whites Township are only a few miles apart, along the Chowan River, and north of Hwy 17 south at Merry Hill exit. Merry Hill is just across the river from Edenton NC]
[² According to Application for Headstone for Military Veterans dated Dec. 28, 1948, found in Ancestry.com]
[³ Cause "Undermined [but probably] Heart attack: According to Death Certificate]
[⁴ HISTORY OF David Aaron Hughes' Army 29th Division, 111th Field Artillery especially during WWI:
29th Division contained units from Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, North Carolina [which my grandpa Hughes was with], South Carolina and West Virginia.
•29th Division Association:
To keep alive the spirit that never knew defeat; to glorify our dead, and to further keep before our country, the record of the 29th Division in all wars.
•The 29th Infantry Division is one of America’s most illustrious military units. It participated in the U.S. Army’s supreme operation of both World Wars, first in the great Meuse-Argonne offensive in 1918,
•The 29th Division entered its first major battle on October 8, 1918 by launching an attack in the Meuse-Argonne region of France.
•The 29th Division's nickname, the “Blue and Gray Division,” derives from the lineage of its constituent militia regiments, which fought on opposite sides during the Civil War.
•The 111th Field Artillery has been part of the 29th Division since the inception of the division in 1917.
•The 1st Battalion, 111th Field Artillery, was originally constituted as the 1st Battalion Artillery, Virginia Volunteers and organized on 8 November 1877 from existing units to include the “Norfolk Light Artillery Blues” (organized on 22 February 1828), now Battery B, 1st Battalion 111th FA, and the “First Company Richmond Howitzers” (organized on 9 November 1859) , now Battery A, 1st Battalion 111th FA.
•Overseas activity of the 29th Division during WORLD WAR I:
On December 15, 1917, my grandpa's Division "the Blues" departed for Camp McClellan, Alabama, where the blues became a regimental unit of the 111th Field Artillery of the 29th Division. It was hereafter known as Battery B.
And in June 1918, the 29th Division moved to France and it arrived on French soil in Cherbourg on July 16th. The next few months were spent in more training. Just as the 111th arrived at the front, the Armistice was signed. The 111th landed back in Virginia in May of 1919].
[URL info available from us about above facts⁴ available upon request]
