Biographical Note
Mary Kirby Adrian was born to W. and Joanna Adrian in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 30, 1832. She married Alfred Hughes on November 1, 1849, in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), and they had 10 children. In January 1863, the family moved to Richmond, and after the war, they moved to Baltimore. Mary Hughes died on October 30, 1909.
Sources:
U. S. Federal Census, 1850-1870
"Mary Kirby Adrian Hughes", Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126370902/mary-kirby-hughes, accessed Feb. 21, 2025.
"Alfred Hughs" in the West Virginia, U.S., Marriages Index, 1785-1971, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/search/collections/2538/records/1311061, accessed Feb. 17, 2025.
"Sale of Household Furniture.", Daily intelligencer (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]), 05 Jan. 1863, p. 3, available online from the Library of Congress's Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026845/1863-01-05/ed-1/seq-3/, accessed Feb. 17, 2025.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-110
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of the family of Alfred Hughes (1824-1880), a doctor, Confederate sympathizer, and political prisoner, while he was held at Camp Chase, a Union prison camp in Columbus, Ohio, in 1862 during the American Civil War. Three letters between Alfred and his wife Mary (1832-1909) and sister Eliza (1817-1882), also a doctor, discuss the prison, health of patients, and updates on his parole. There are also envelopes for the letters that are marked as examined by an...
Dates:
1862
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-111
Abstract
This collection contains a letter dated October 28, 1862 by Mary Hughes (1832-1909) from Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), to her husband Alfred Hughes (1824-1880), a doctor, Confederate sympathizer, and political prisoner, while he was held at Camp Chase, a Union prison camp in Columbus, Ohio, during the American Civil War. The letter details the measures being taken to secure Alfred's release, to get a prison pass, and general updates on family members. The envelope for the letter...
Dates:
1862
