According to the Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, John L. Hughes moved from Arkansas to Texas in 1864. The story handed down in the family is that he came with a family from Arkansas along with his brother, James E., sister, Catherine (twin of James), and brother, Warner. John, the oldest of the children, eventually settled in Grayson County. (I have been unable to determine what happened to William Callison, David G.'s adopted son.)
About 13 years earlier, John Missouri Burleson, a teamster from Alabama, moved with his wife, Sarah Holcomb Burleson and several children to Grayson County, settling a few miles southeast of present-day Sherman.
In 1853, Sarah Burleson gave birth to a daughter whom the Burlesons named, Sarah Kizziah. It is Sarah who in 1870 married John L. Hughes. Her sister, Edith,born in 1853 married John's brother, James Edwin August 20, 1873. (There will be more to come concerning the lives and families of John and Sarah Hughes.)
John and Sarah Burleson are buried in the Burleson Cemetery which is located near Luella, Texas, a few miles southeast of Texas, presumably in the area where the Burlesons lived. Enlarge the tombstone photos and notice the two different spellings of Burleson. It has been said that one of first rules of genealogy is to know how to misspell your own name.
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