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- 'History of Bond and Montgomery Counties, Illinois'
Newton A. HUGHEY, farmer, P. O. Greenville; is a native of Missouri. He was born October 8, 1838, in Perry County. His father was Milus Hughey, born March 5, 1811, in Rowan County, N. C., and was married November 2, 1837, to Staty Regina Parks, born November, 1818, daughter of Joseph Parks, of North Carolina.
Milus removed with his father Henry Hughey, to Perry County, Mo., about the year 1825, when a lad. Here the family settled.
Henry Hughey was born May 25, 1785. He married Elizabeth Gillen, born January 20, 1788. The fruits of this union were John, Stanhope, Newton A., Jane, Mary and Milus, all of whom attained to man and womanhood, and settled in Missouri.
Henry Hughey died December 25, 1831; his wife, January 26, 1845. Milus Hughey was a farmer, and for many years was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a Ruling Elder of the same. He died January 29, 1867; his wife 1844. But two children were born them - Newton A. and Susan E. The latter married Henry Bimpage; she is now deceased.
In April, 1861, Newton A. Hughey married Julia A. Stevenson, born November 2, 1840, in Cape Girardeau Co., Mo., daughter of A. K. Stevenson, of North Carolina. He was a son of James Stevenson and Jane Fleming. They raised a family of three children. Mr. A. K. Stevenson died November 9, 1881; his wife in 1844.
Mr. Hughey came to Bond County in 1864, locating where he now resides. He has 210 acres, and has put nearly all the improvements on the same. Has four children - Emery G., Linley J., Pearl E. and Roxana. Two died when infants.
Mr. Hughey is a member and elder of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Hughey's brother Linley was a soldier in the late war; member of Company B, Twenty-ninth Missouri Infantry. He died October 1862, in the hospital at St. Louis.
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