James Hughes

"There were quite a number of settlers of Irish birth among the early colonists on Hardin's creek more, possibly, than were attached to any Catholic settlement in the State, with the single exception of the wholly Irish settlement on lower Cox's creek, in Nelson county. In addition to the family of Henry Hagan, already referred to, there were those of James Hughes, Robert Cook, Flannigan, Robert and Patrick Raney and James Gannon. Descendants of all these, good citizens, and still faithful to the religion of their fathers, are numerous in Marion and the adjoining counties, especially in the congregation of St. Charles."

Ben. J. Webb, The Centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky. (Charles A. Rogers, 1884; Reprinted by McDowell Publications)