Jeremiah Hough - assembling the family

Norman Whitney of OH in the same household of the first post above married a Rebecca Huff of VT (death cert. of their son Frank Whitney (1860-1935)

... but Mary "Meriam" Bacon (Mrs. Levi Fisk){in the same household} is also from VT... This suggests that Jeremiah Hough Sr. unknown wife and the mother of the the hough children above may have had <Bacon> as a maiden name

Ira Hough?
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114300403/ira-a_-hough
with
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114300391/idella-narcissus-hough

Looking at Rebecca "Roxanna" C. Hough : I would suggest that Roxanna may be the daughter of Jeremiah... (or possibly a niece)
Plus: It is known that Rebecca "Roxanna" C. Hough 's mother's maiden name was Bacon. <This draws a tie with the Fisk family again for Levi married a Bacon.

To be clear: The 1850 census as mentioned in the opening post is key. From a close analysis of the members to the two households, numbered 107 & 108 that spill over on two pages, we are introduced to connections between the <Fisk> <Hough> <Whitney> and <Bacon>.
My primary goal now is to find then maiden name of the wife of Jeremiah Hough .

In researching possible parents for the above mentioned <Bacon> family (in Vermont), I stumble across Roxanna Bacon who is said to have been from Rutland and married a Willard. The family lived and died in Putney VT. So she is not a match but is in the right place and era. \

There is a Babbuel Bacon of a prior generation in Brandon, Rutland Co.: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141489338/babbuel-bacon

key "crossroad" unions:
1) Rebecca "Roxanna" C. Hough married Norman J. Whitney
2) first name unknown Hough is the mother of Rebecca "Roxanna" C. Hough
3)Jeremiah Hough has a daughter-in-law Persis A. Hough ... This probably rules out <Whitney> as a candidate for a wife.

Just noticed:
Woodruff Hough 's mother-in-law is a <Bacon> This probably (but not necessarily) rules out <Bacon> as a candidate for his own mother...

covering all bases:
John C. Huff {Hough} of LaSalle (1840)
has no sons... This virtually eliminates the possibility that Pvt, Jeremiah, Rolli, Warren, or Levi could be his sons.
See: 1840 United States Federal Census for John C Huff
Illinois La Salle Not Stated

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94859135/woodruff-b-hough (1793-1826) was born in Lewis County Ny... The county of Lewis NY keeps on showing up. This make me wonder if this Woodruff is the uncle of Woodruff Hough. It is helpful that "Uncle" Woodruff parents are named: "son of Matthew & Barnes Hough"

Bingo!
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/15982346/person/20...=
This seems to be a well-documanted tree
Jeremiah and Matthew shared a mother in Obedience née Bernes who was previously married to a Mr. Woodruff (the way I read it). The father is Matthey Hough
BIRTH 01 MAR 1763 • Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut
DEATH 2 APR 1819 • Turin, Lewis, New York

Jeremiah is listed here as:
BIRTH 1800 • Meriden, New Haven, CT
DEATH 1845 • La Salle Co, IL (no references)

Matthew Hough

Jeremiah's brother? Amos Hough

We'e converged on a good thing... I've just messaged you.

I've done some merging and editing in the Hough tree around, To me everything looks like it's pretty solid now.

And to think this all grew out of my interest in following the story of the "Half-breed outlaw" Charles Hough, outlaw