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| | 1879 Menard & Mason Counites--ELDER DANIEL TRAVIS HUGHES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11) |
 | | ELDER DANIEL TRAVIS HUGHES, druggist, Greenview; was born near Flemingsburg, Fleming Co., Ky., Jan. 3, 1829; the youngest, but two, of a family of eight sons and four daughters, of James Hughes, extensively known in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, as a devout Christian and administer in the Christian Church. |
 | | He with his family, emigrated to Sangamon Co., Ill., in 1830 and settled at Sugar Grove, then in Sangamon Co., but now in Menard, but was permitted to remain with his family in their new home but a short time, when, after a long and severe illness, he was called to his reward. |
 | | At present, he is engaged during the week in his drug store, and attending to the duties of his office of Justice of the Peace, and, on Sunday, preaches in the Christian Church at Greenview, and in those of the surrounding country, and is one of the most prominent and influential men in the county. |
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