Note: this memorial updated June 24, 2016 with fuller verbatim transcriptions of the obituaries and stories about the death of Thomas F. Hughes.
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Fairfield Ledger
July 2, 1879
Pg. 3 Col. 8
DIED
HUGHES. - At his residence in Fairfield, Iowa, Saturday evening, June 28, 1879, after many years of suffering, Mr. Thomas F. Hughes, aged 62 years, 11 months and 14 days.
The deceased was the son of Rev. Thomas E. Hughes, and was born in Beaver county, Penn., July 14, 1816. He was the ninth child of his parents. Four of his brothers, John, William, Watson and James R., followed in the footsteps of their father in the ministry of the gospel. Six or seven of his brothers' sons entered upon the same work. Mr. Hughes was twice married. His second wife passed away between 11 and 12 years ago in this city. There survive him two daughters, who were left without a mother's care at a very tender age. The deceased united with the Presbyterian church, which was the church of his fathers (sic), in early life, and ever gave good evidence that he was a child of grace and an heir of heaven. He was wont to point out as the time and place of his spiritual birth a quiet cottage prayer meeting, and the means God used as human instrumentality - the earnest, wrestling prayers of an elder in the church. In earlier years his diligence and economy were rewarded by the accumulation of considerable property. Mr. Hughes was unfortunate in having but little to say. While he was fond of holding communication with his friends and neighbors, yet he was a man of slow speech and did not communicate his thoughts and feeling readily to others. He would sit for long times in seeming contemplation. He was very fond of reading and was quite well read on many of the sciences, and took special delight in the subject of astronomy. For the past ten years he was a great sufferer, his ailment being of a painful nature and perhaps culminating in what is known as "Bright's Disease."
His two daughters, Madge and Nellie, are left among us, and deserve our fullest sympathy.
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Fairfield Ledger
July 2, 1879
Pg. 3
Mr. Thomas Hughes, a highly respected citizen, died at his home in this city Saturday evening. He had been a sufferer from Bright's disease for many years, but his final illness was only of a day or two's duration. Mr. Hughes has been a resident of Fairfield for several years, coming here from Wellsville, Ohio, where he had removed a few years previous from Brooks county, Virginia, and was in the 63d year of his age. He was a unusually well read man, and as a friend and citizen bore the highest esteem of his friends. Two daughters are all the family left, his wife dying in this city about ten years ago. The funeral sermon was preached at the residence of his nephew, J. M. Hughes, Monday afternoon, but because of the non arrival of a brother from Dayton, Ohio, the remains were not interred until yesterday morning.
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Fairfield Ledger
July 2, 1879
Pg. 3
Local Miscellany
Wednesday, July 2, 1979
"- R. S. Hughes, Des Moines, was in the city this week attending the funeral of his brother, Mr. Thomas Hughes, who died in this city Saturday."
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Note:
On June 17, 1927 a young boy, referred to as "Junior Gilliland" (a/k/a George James Gilliland) was with a group of playmates when he attempted to climb the monument shaft of the Hughes monument. An urn that was on top of the shaft toppled onto the child, causing the child to fall. Injuries from the fall were fatal, unfortunately. He was laid to rest in Ottumwa where his parents lived. The urn is no longer atop the monument, likely to prevent another similar tragedy from occurring. A story about this incident was published in the Fairfield Daily Ledger on Saturday, June 18, 1927, Pg. 1 Col. 3.
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Special Note:
The following information found on Family Search regarding the life and family of Thomas E. Hughes' parents and siblings. It is presented here in case it helps anyone researching this family to be able to identify and link other family members:
"Thomas Edgar Hughes and Family
Rev. Thomas Edgar Hughes, was born in Washington county, Pa., April 7, 1769, and on May 2, 1799, married Mary Donahey, also a native of that county, born August 22, 1770, and of Scotch-Irish descent.
The children born to Rev. Thomas E. Hughes and wife were ten in number, of whom a brief mention is made as follows: John D., the eldest, born July 27, 1800, was a minister of the Presbyterian church of northern Ohio, where he passed his life and died March 3, 1870; William, born May 28, 1802, was also a Presbyterian minister, and died July 1, 1880; Watson, born September 7, 1804, was likewise reared to the ministry of the Presbyterian church, and died March 25, 1870; Anne, born October 8, 1806, became the wife of Rev. Samuel A. McLean, a Presbyterian minister, and died near Chillicothe, Ohio, leaving a large family; Eliza was born September 16, 1808, was married to William McKee, a merchant, and died at mature years in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio; Joseph, born August 16, 1810, was called away at the early age of fifteen years; Mary Barr, born August 13, 1812, became the wife of Samuel Wells, and at her death left several children; Robert Smiley, born December 29, 1814, was a farmer of Iowa, in which state he died, after middle life; Thomas, born July 14, 1816, also a farmer, died in Fairfield, Iowa, June 28, 1879; Rev. James Rowland, the youngest, ... the venerable pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian church of Dayton, Ohio, is a native of Darlington, Beaver county, Pa., and was born March 17, 1819.
The father of these children was called to his final rest May 2, 1838, his widow surviving him until February 23, 1852.
Rev. Thomas E. Hughes, father of James R., was the founder of Greersburg academy, one of the earliest educational institutions of western Pennsylvania. In this academy some afterward very distinguished men received their early training, and among these may be noted the names of Rev. Robert Dilworth, D. D., the eminent minister and reformer; Gen. John W. Geary, ex-governor of Pennsylvania and renowned as a Union soldier; William H. McGuffey, D. D., of school-book fame, and one of Ohio's most successful educators, and also John Brown (Ossawatomie), the anti-slavery agitator, of Harper's Ferry fame, who was a recognized member of the Hughes family for several years."
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Fairfield Ledger
July 2, 1879
Pg. 3 Col. 8
DIED
HUGHES. - At his residence in Fairfield, Iowa, Saturday evening, June 28, 1879, after many years of suffering, Mr. Thomas F. Hughes, aged 62 years, 11 months and 14 days.
The deceased was the son of Rev. Thomas E. Hughes, and was born in Beaver county, Penn., July 14, 1816. He was the ninth child of his parents. Four of his brothers, John, William, Watson and James R., followed in the footsteps of their father in the ministry of the gospel. Six or seven of his brothers' sons entered upon the same work. Mr. Hughes was twice married. His second wife passed away between 11 and 12 years ago in this city. There survive him two daughters, who were left without a mother's care at a very tender age. The deceased united with the Presbyterian church, which was the church of his fathers (sic), in early life, and ever gave good evidence that he was a child of grace and an heir of heaven. He was wont to point out as the time and place of his spiritual birth a quiet cottage prayer meeting, and the means God used as human instrumentality - the earnest, wrestling prayers of an elder in the church. In earlier years his diligence and economy were rewarded by the accumulation of considerable property. Mr. Hughes was unfortunate in having but little to say. While he was fond of holding communication with his friends and neighbors, yet he was a man of slow speech and did not communicate his thoughts and feeling readily to others. He would sit for long times in seeming contemplation. He was very fond of reading and was quite well read on many of the sciences, and took special delight in the subject of astronomy. For the past ten years he was a great sufferer, his ailment being of a painful nature and perhaps culminating in what is known as "Bright's Disease."
His two daughters, Madge and Nellie, are left among us, and deserve our fullest sympathy.
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Fairfield Ledger
July 2, 1879
Pg. 3
Mr. Thomas Hughes, a highly respected citizen, died at his home in this city Saturday evening. He had been a sufferer from Bright's disease for many years, but his final illness was only of a day or two's duration. Mr. Hughes has been a resident of Fairfield for several years, coming here from Wellsville, Ohio, where he had removed a few years previous from Brooks county, Virginia, and was in the 63d year of his age. He was a unusually well read man, and as a friend and citizen bore the highest esteem of his friends. Two daughters are all the family left, his wife dying in this city about ten years ago. The funeral sermon was preached at the residence of his nephew, J. M. Hughes, Monday afternoon, but because of the non arrival of a brother from Dayton, Ohio, the remains were not interred until yesterday morning.
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Fairfield Ledger
July 2, 1879
Pg. 3
Local Miscellany
Wednesday, July 2, 1979
"- R. S. Hughes, Des Moines, was in the city this week attending the funeral of his brother, Mr. Thomas Hughes, who died in this city Saturday."
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Note:
On June 17, 1927 a young boy, referred to as "Junior Gilliland" (a/k/a George James Gilliland) was with a group of playmates when he attempted to climb the monument shaft of the Hughes monument. An urn that was on top of the shaft toppled onto the child, causing the child to fall. Injuries from the fall were fatal, unfortunately. He was laid to rest in Ottumwa where his parents lived. The urn is no longer atop the monument, likely to prevent another similar tragedy from occurring. A story about this incident was published in the Fairfield Daily Ledger on Saturday, June 18, 1927, Pg. 1 Col. 3.
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Special Note:
The following information found on Family Search regarding the life and family of Thomas E. Hughes' parents and siblings. It is presented here in case it helps anyone researching this family to be able to identify and link other family members:
"Thomas Edgar Hughes and Family
Rev. Thomas Edgar Hughes, was born in Washington county, Pa., April 7, 1769, and on May 2, 1799, married Mary Donahey, also a native of that county, born August 22, 1770, and of Scotch-Irish descent.
The children born to Rev. Thomas E. Hughes and wife were ten in number, of whom a brief mention is made as follows: John D., the eldest, born July 27, 1800, was a minister of the Presbyterian church of northern Ohio, where he passed his life and died March 3, 1870; William, born May 28, 1802, was also a Presbyterian minister, and died July 1, 1880; Watson, born September 7, 1804, was likewise reared to the ministry of the Presbyterian church, and died March 25, 1870; Anne, born October 8, 1806, became the wife of Rev. Samuel A. McLean, a Presbyterian minister, and died near Chillicothe, Ohio, leaving a large family; Eliza was born September 16, 1808, was married to William McKee, a merchant, and died at mature years in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio; Joseph, born August 16, 1810, was called away at the early age of fifteen years; Mary Barr, born August 13, 1812, became the wife of Samuel Wells, and at her death left several children; Robert Smiley, born December 29, 1814, was a farmer of Iowa, in which state he died, after middle life; Thomas, born July 14, 1816, also a farmer, died in Fairfield, Iowa, June 28, 1879; Rev. James Rowland, the youngest, ... the venerable pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian church of Dayton, Ohio, is a native of Darlington, Beaver county, Pa., and was born March 17, 1819.
The father of these children was called to his final rest May 2, 1838, his widow surviving him until February 23, 1852.
Rev. Thomas E. Hughes, father of James R., was the founder of Greersburg academy, one of the earliest educational institutions of western Pennsylvania. In this academy some afterward very distinguished men received their early training, and among these may be noted the names of Rev. Robert Dilworth, D. D., the eminent minister and reformer; Gen. John W. Geary, ex-governor of Pennsylvania and renowned as a Union soldier; William H. McGuffey, D. D., of school-book fame, and one of Ohio's most successful educators, and also John Brown (Ossawatomie), the anti-slavery agitator, of Harper's Ferry fame, who was a recognized member of the Hughes family for several years."
Note: this memorial updated June 24, 2016 with fuller verbatim transcriptions of the obituaries and stories about the death of Thomas F. Hughes.
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Fairfield Ledger
July 2, 1879
Pg. 3 Col. 8
DIED
HUGHES. - At his residence in Fairfield, Iowa, Saturday evening, June 28, 1879, after many years of suffering, Mr. Thomas F. Hughes, aged 62 years, 11 months and 14 days.
The deceased was the son of Rev. Thomas E. Hughes, and was born in Beaver county, Penn., July 14, 1816. He was the ninth child of his parents. Four of his brothers, John, William, Watson and James R., followed in the footsteps of their father in the ministry of the gospel. Six or seven of his brothers' sons entered upon the same work. Mr. Hughes was twice married. His second wife passed away between 11 and 12 years ago in this city. There survive him two daughters, who were left without a mother's care at a very tender age. The deceased united with the Presbyterian church, which was the church of his fathers (sic), in early life, and ever gave good evidence that he was a child of grace and an heir of heaven. He was wont to point out as the time and place of his spiritual birth a quiet cottage prayer meeting, and the means God used as human instrumentality - the earnest, wrestling prayers of an elder in the church. In earlier years his diligence and economy were rewarded by the accumulation of considerable property. Mr. Hughes was unfortunate in having but little to say. While he was fond of holding communication with his friends and neighbors, yet he was a man of slow speech and did not communicate his thoughts and feeling readily to others. He would sit for long times in seeming contemplation. He was very fond of reading and was quite well read on many of the sciences, and took special delight in the subject of astronomy. For the past ten years he was a great sufferer, his ailment being of a painful nature and perhaps culminating in what is known as "Bright's Disease."
His two daughters, Madge and Nellie, are left among us, and deserve our fullest sympathy.
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Fairfield Ledger
July 2, 1879
Pg. 3
Mr. Thomas Hughes, a highly respected citizen, died at his home in this city Saturday evening. He had been a sufferer from Bright's disease for many years, but his final illness was only of a day or two's duration. Mr. Hughes has been a resident of Fairfield for several years, coming here from Wellsville, Ohio, where he had removed a few years previous from Brooks county, Virginia, and was in the 63d year of his age. He was a unusually well read man, and as a friend and citizen bore the highest esteem of his friends. Two daughters are all the family left, his wife dying in this city about ten years ago. The funeral sermon was preached at the residence of his nephew, J. M. Hughes, Monday afternoon, but because of the non arrival of a brother from Dayton, Ohio, the remains were not interred until yesterday morning.
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Fairfield Ledger
July 2, 1879
Pg. 3
Local Miscellany
Wednesday, July 2, 1979
"- R. S. Hughes, Des Moines, was in the city this week attending the funeral of his brother, Mr. Thomas Hughes, who died in this city Saturday."
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Note:
On June 17, 1927 a young boy, referred to as "Junior Gilliland" (a/k/a George James Gilliland) was with a group of playmates when he attempted to climb the monument shaft of the Hughes monument. An urn that was on top of the shaft toppled onto the child, causing the child to fall. Injuries from the fall were fatal, unfortunately. He was laid to rest in Ottumwa where his parents lived. The urn is no longer atop the monument, likely to prevent another similar tragedy from occurring. A story about this incident was published in the Fairfield Daily Ledger on Saturday, June 18, 1927, Pg. 1 Col. 3.
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Special Note:
The following information found on Family Search regarding the life and family of Thomas E. Hughes' parents and siblings. It is presented here in case it helps anyone researching this family to be able to identify and link other family members:
"Thomas Edgar Hughes and Family
Rev. Thomas Edgar Hughes, was born in Washington county, Pa., April 7, 1769, and on May 2, 1799, married Mary Donahey, also a native of that county, born August 22, 1770, and of Scotch-Irish descent.
The children born to Rev. Thomas E. Hughes and wife were ten in number, of whom a brief mention is made as follows: John D., the eldest, born July 27, 1800, was a minister of the Presbyterian church of northern Ohio, where he passed his life and died March 3, 1870; William, born May 28, 1802, was also a Presbyterian minister, and died July 1, 1880; Watson, born September 7, 1804, was likewise reared to the ministry of the Presbyterian church, and died March 25, 1870; Anne, born October 8, 1806, became the wife of Rev. Samuel A. McLean, a Presbyterian minister, and died near Chillicothe, Ohio, leaving a large family; Eliza was born September 16, 1808, was married to William McKee, a merchant, and died at mature years in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio; Joseph, born August 16, 1810, was called away at the early age of fifteen years; Mary Barr, born August 13, 1812, became the wife of Samuel Wells, and at her death left several children; Robert Smiley, born December 29, 1814, was a farmer of Iowa, in which state he died, after middle life; Thomas, born July 14, 1816, also a farmer, died in Fairfield, Iowa, June 28, 1879; Rev. James Rowland, the youngest, ... the venerable pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian church of Dayton, Ohio, is a native of Darlington, Beaver county, Pa., and was born March 17, 1819.
The father of these children was called to his final rest May 2, 1838, his widow surviving him until February 23, 1852.
Rev. Thomas E. Hughes, father of James R., was the founder of Greersburg academy, one of the earliest educational institutions of western Pennsylvania. In this academy some afterward very distinguished men received their early training, and among these may be noted the names of Rev. Robert Dilworth, D. D., the eminent minister and reformer; Gen. John W. Geary, ex-governor of Pennsylvania and renowned as a Union soldier; William H. McGuffey, D. D., of school-book fame, and one of Ohio's most successful educators, and also John Brown (Ossawatomie), the anti-slavery agitator, of Harper's Ferry fame, who was a recognized member of the Hughes family for several years."
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Fairfield Ledger
July 2, 1879
Pg. 3 Col. 8
DIED
HUGHES. - At his residence in Fairfield, Iowa, Saturday evening, June 28, 1879, after many years of suffering, Mr. Thomas F. Hughes, aged 62 years, 11 months and 14 days.
The deceased was the son of Rev. Thomas E. Hughes, and was born in Beaver county, Penn., July 14, 1816. He was the ninth child of his parents. Four of his brothers, John, William, Watson and James R., followed in the footsteps of their father in the ministry of the gospel. Six or seven of his brothers' sons entered upon the same work. Mr. Hughes was twice married. His second wife passed away between 11 and 12 years ago in this city. There survive him two daughters, who were left without a mother's care at a very tender age. The deceased united with the Presbyterian church, which was the church of his fathers (sic), in early life, and ever gave good evidence that he was a child of grace and an heir of heaven. He was wont to point out as the time and place of his spiritual birth a quiet cottage prayer meeting, and the means God used as human instrumentality - the earnest, wrestling prayers of an elder in the church. In earlier years his diligence and economy were rewarded by the accumulation of considerable property. Mr. Hughes was unfortunate in having but little to say. While he was fond of holding communication with his friends and neighbors, yet he was a man of slow speech and did not communicate his thoughts and feeling readily to others. He would sit for long times in seeming contemplation. He was very fond of reading and was quite well read on many of the sciences, and took special delight in the subject of astronomy. For the past ten years he was a great sufferer, his ailment being of a painful nature and perhaps culminating in what is known as "Bright's Disease."
His two daughters, Madge and Nellie, are left among us, and deserve our fullest sympathy.
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Fairfield Ledger
July 2, 1879
Pg. 3
Mr. Thomas Hughes, a highly respected citizen, died at his home in this city Saturday evening. He had been a sufferer from Bright's disease for many years, but his final illness was only of a day or two's duration. Mr. Hughes has been a resident of Fairfield for several years, coming here from Wellsville, Ohio, where he had removed a few years previous from Brooks county, Virginia, and was in the 63d year of his age. He was a unusually well read man, and as a friend and citizen bore the highest esteem of his friends. Two daughters are all the family left, his wife dying in this city about ten years ago. The funeral sermon was preached at the residence of his nephew, J. M. Hughes, Monday afternoon, but because of the non arrival of a brother from Dayton, Ohio, the remains were not interred until yesterday morning.
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Fairfield Ledger
July 2, 1879
Pg. 3
Local Miscellany
Wednesday, July 2, 1979
"- R. S. Hughes, Des Moines, was in the city this week attending the funeral of his brother, Mr. Thomas Hughes, who died in this city Saturday."
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Note:
On June 17, 1927 a young boy, referred to as "Junior Gilliland" (a/k/a George James Gilliland) was with a group of playmates when he attempted to climb the monument shaft of the Hughes monument. An urn that was on top of the shaft toppled onto the child, causing the child to fall. Injuries from the fall were fatal, unfortunately. He was laid to rest in Ottumwa where his parents lived. The urn is no longer atop the monument, likely to prevent another similar tragedy from occurring. A story about this incident was published in the Fairfield Daily Ledger on Saturday, June 18, 1927, Pg. 1 Col. 3.
---------------------
Special Note:
The following information found on Family Search regarding the life and family of Thomas E. Hughes' parents and siblings. It is presented here in case it helps anyone researching this family to be able to identify and link other family members:
"Thomas Edgar Hughes and Family
Rev. Thomas Edgar Hughes, was born in Washington county, Pa., April 7, 1769, and on May 2, 1799, married Mary Donahey, also a native of that county, born August 22, 1770, and of Scotch-Irish descent.
The children born to Rev. Thomas E. Hughes and wife were ten in number, of whom a brief mention is made as follows: John D., the eldest, born July 27, 1800, was a minister of the Presbyterian church of northern Ohio, where he passed his life and died March 3, 1870; William, born May 28, 1802, was also a Presbyterian minister, and died July 1, 1880; Watson, born September 7, 1804, was likewise reared to the ministry of the Presbyterian church, and died March 25, 1870; Anne, born October 8, 1806, became the wife of Rev. Samuel A. McLean, a Presbyterian minister, and died near Chillicothe, Ohio, leaving a large family; Eliza was born September 16, 1808, was married to William McKee, a merchant, and died at mature years in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio; Joseph, born August 16, 1810, was called away at the early age of fifteen years; Mary Barr, born August 13, 1812, became the wife of Samuel Wells, and at her death left several children; Robert Smiley, born December 29, 1814, was a farmer of Iowa, in which state he died, after middle life; Thomas, born July 14, 1816, also a farmer, died in Fairfield, Iowa, June 28, 1879; Rev. James Rowland, the youngest, ... the venerable pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian church of Dayton, Ohio, is a native of Darlington, Beaver county, Pa., and was born March 17, 1819.
The father of these children was called to his final rest May 2, 1838, his widow surviving him until February 23, 1852.
Rev. Thomas E. Hughes, father of James R., was the founder of Greersburg academy, one of the earliest educational institutions of western Pennsylvania. In this academy some afterward very distinguished men received their early training, and among these may be noted the names of Rev. Robert Dilworth, D. D., the eminent minister and reformer; Gen. John W. Geary, ex-governor of Pennsylvania and renowned as a Union soldier; William H. McGuffey, D. D., of school-book fame, and one of Ohio's most successful educators, and also John Brown (Ossawatomie), the anti-slavery agitator, of Harper's Ferry fame, who was a recognized member of the Hughes family for several years."
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