Pioneers of Marion County by Wm. Wm. M. Donnel, 1872

Asa Hughs

Asa Hughs first moved from Indiana to Iowa in '36, and settled in Marion county, on Lake Prairie, in '44, from whence he moved to Perry in '45, and made a claim on Walnut creek, in what is now section 12. Here he lived, surrounded by a numerous family till the date of his death, Feb. 13, 1863.