A Casey Family History

The Family of Moses Monda Hough, especially including MILLIE ANN HOUGH SUSTAIRE! :-)

Here we go again; another Grandmother lost in the big genealogical shuffle of history! Millie Ann Hough, born 1 Jan 1842 and died 6 Feb 1889, was my 2nd Great-Grandmother. The daughter of Moses Monda Hough and Nancy Ferguson, she married the enigmatic Taylor Sustaire. She was 28 years old and her new husband only 17! At least some of the Hough family traveled south to Texas along with Millie and Taylor. One that certainly did was Millie's younger sister, Emmaline Hough, who had married John A. Knotts in North Carolina. Though it seems to me that it would be simple enough to separate the two sisters, good folks keep skipping over poor Millie Ann, sandwiched as she is right in the middle of Martha A. Hough, b. 1840 and Emmaline Hough, b. 1856. Moses certainly had a large passel of kids!

One sure fire way to demonstrate the existence of two women is to see them both at the same place at the same time. While in this case it isn't possible to do, we do have both women resting in peace near one another. Millie Ann Hough Sustaire and Emmaline Hough Knotts are BOTH buried in Purley Cemetery.

You can check the Purley Cemetery transcription for Emmaline Hough Knotts here. Photo of headstone coming soon.

Many researchers continue to record "George Sustaire" as Millie Ann's husband, when actually George Norman Sustaire was her son, b. 1877.

Another of Moses and Nancy Hough's children also made it to Franklin County, Texas. William Andrew Jackson Hough, b. 4 Apr 1844 d. 20 Aug 1921 is pictured with his wife, Sarah Bowers on the Franklin County Genealogy site. W.A.J. Hough was a Justice of the Peace in the county.

I guess there is no Hough family researcher that doesn't owe a large debt of gratitude to the remarkable work of Dr. Granville W. Hough and Barbara Breece Roesch. I found Ms.Roesch to be a generous and professional genealogist, who very graciously embraced my Millie Ann's data and sources. She is a veritable font of knowledge as they say!

I'm not really trying to reinvent the wheel here. Solid research continues on the Hough family line and well sourced data is being published. My aim is only to contribute a little record here for Millie Ann, to honor her memory and legacy.