[Granville-Hough] 6 Jan 2010 - Huff Neighbors

[Trustees for Granville W. Hough]

Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:09:51 -0800
From: Granville W Hough <gwhough at oakapple.net>
Subject: HuffNeighbors - 6 Jan 2010

    In Smith County, we did have an extended Huff family who lived 
mostly in the Sylvarena area and in Jasper County.  One even lived for 
some time in Sullivan's Hollow and was Mayor of Mize. It may have been 
that Taylor Sullivan met and married Emma Huff as a relative of that 
family who lived in Mize. We never established any relationship but YDNA 
testing may show we were related.  They definitely showed up in 
Brunswick County, VA about 1725 under the name Hoof, which in the South 
is pronounced as "huff."  In Smith County, they were teachers, community 
leaders, and progressive farmers.
(My Richardson grandfather called a mule's hooves its "huffs.")

Ganville:
I have the following books:
1. MS Census Data, Hough, Huff, and Hoff families.
2. MS Huff, Hough, and Hoff families, by County
3. MS Huff families (Joseph W. Huff is not mentioned in this book)
(There is no file for Joseph W. in your database)
 
I do see him in the 1920 Census in Smith Co.
J.W. Huff, 72; wife Betty 70, and dau Vida 28 (school teacher).
 
In that same census, there is a Grace C. Huff, 20, (dau of Janice O. 
Sullivan 40, with her father "Harrellson"; also Walter L. Huff, 14, son 
of Janice.

I didn't see an email address for Judy or I would have written her directly.
 
Best Regards,
 
Max

 
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Granville W Hough <gwhough at oakapple.net 
<mailto:gwhough at oakapple.net>> wrote:

      Taylor Sullivan came back to Mize and married again after Emma
    (Huff) Sullivan died.  He lived in Mize for about ten years and was
    instrumental in building the grade school building where I attended
    through the eighth grade.  He died before I started to school and I
    never saw him that I remember.  He was a prominent citizen of the
    town and community.  His second wife was a widow in the Hopkins
    family, and Harold Hopkins and I have exchanged information about
    him.  Harold grew up in Mize and can actually remember Taylor, or
    thinks he can.   I no longer have the research materials on the
    Hough and Huff families.  I gave it all to Max Huff of Houston, TX.
     I no longer have a copy of the listing of all Huff and Hough
    families of MS.  I of course did Joseph Warren and Elizabeth
    (McCurdy) Huff, but I never put it in my computer records.  I never
    did any work on Hastings, Solomon, or Jones, as I did not intersect
    with them with either my paternal or maternal lines.
      Doctors have given up on me several times, and each time I would
     give copies of any work I still had to whomever  first asked for
    it,  as my children  would not know what to do with it.
     Consequently,  the  families of MS, LA, TN, NC, SC, which I put in
    book form  are wherever you find them.  Salt Lake City (the LDS
    Library) has copies of everything I ever published.  Most of these
    publications have been placed on microfilm, and I have received
    queries from South Africa, England, Australia, and New Zealand, as
    well as US and Canada.  So these LDS microfilms do get about.  There
    is likely a good LDS Family History Center in Baton Rouge that you
    can use.
      If you want to ask Max about Joseph W. and Elizabeth Huff, it
    would likely be in the book on Mississippi Hough and Huff Families,
    which I hope I gave to Max.  If Max has to look in the reference
    notebooks, these families lived in Smith, Jasper, Jones, and
    Covington counties, and Joseph W. was son of Phillip Huff.
      Some genealogical eons ago, someone incorrectly placed the
    Brunswick County, VA, Huff families among the Quaker descendants of
    the Hough families of Bucks County, PA.  Their conclusions were
    based on some guesswork by one Elmer Hough, who looked at
    commonality of given names.  I could never find any recorded
    reference which got those Huff families out of VA.  They were also
    recorded there as Hoof.  My collaborator, O. L. "Lou" Hough, went to
    Bucks County, PA,  archives and spent a week tracing various claims,
    and he could actually account for all the suggested links as living
    and dying in PA.  Today, yDNA makes such things much simpler.  If
    one of your Huff male cousins wishes to test it, he will find his
    yDNA to be the same as mine if the Brunswick County group came from
    PA.  If it differs greatly at 67 markers, then the Brunswick County
    Huffs are from another line.  It happens that my yDNA seems to have
    changed least of the Houghs tested, in the last seven to ten
    generations, and has been suggested it probably best represents the
    Viking families which settled in Western England about 1000 years
    ago.  They did not then have surnames, and we do not know how they
    adopted or were assigned the phonetic "huff" or what it originally
    meant.  We would indeed be interested in one of your male Huff
    cousins taking the yDNA test.
      With the best of luck to you in your research.  Granville W. Hough