Charles Herschel Hughart (1910)
HUGHART, HUMERICK, ROBERTS
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:53
The Atlantic Evening News
Atlantic, Iowa
Monday, November 28, 1910
Page 1, Column 5THE DEATH OF CHARLES HUGHART
WELL KNOWN IDAHO RAILROAD MAN DIES IN SALT LAKE HOSPITAL—WELL KNOWN HERE.
Was Son of Mrs. Hannah Hughart of South Chestnut Street in This City.
The word reached this city yesterday in the shape of a telegram from Salt Lake City, telling of the death in a hospital there yesterday of Charles Hughart, a former resident of this city and county, and for many years a well known and popular passenger conductor on the Oregon Short Line, running from Pocatello to Huntington, Ore.
Death was the result of typhoid fever and complications and came after the deceased was taken ill at his home in Pocatello and had been taken for better care to the hospital where he died.
Deceased was born on the 6th of October 1868, in Madison county, this state, and was raised in this county. He went west and went into railroading and his genial personality and knowledge of the business soon won him recognition and he had for years had one of the best runs on the road and was well liked by both officials and employees.
He leaves a brother, S. M. Hughart, in the drug business at Nampa, Ida.; his mother, Mrs. Hannah M. Hughart, of South Chestnut street, this city; Mrs. E. E. Roberts of Oklahoma, is a sister. Mrs. C. W. Humerick of this city is a sister-in-law, E. A. Hughart is a nephew and he leaves other relatives here.
The remains will be brought here for interment, but the exact time of their arrival is not yet known.
This afternoon it was learned that the remains will probably reach this city Wednesday. Mr. Hughart left this city about twenty years ago.
_______________________The Atlantic Daily Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa
Wednesday, November 30, 1910
Page 1, Column 3George Berg of this city received the following telegram today concerning the arrival of the remains of Conductor Charlie Hughart: “Emma, Harold, and myself will accompany the remains of Charlie homeward. Leave here in the morning and reach Omaha Thursday P. M. and Atlantic at 9 o’clock Friday morning. Wish you would make all arrangements for funeral there Friday afternoon according to the wishes of Charlie’s mother. If we make any changes in plans will wire you” S. C. Hughart.
________________________The Atlantic Evening News
Atlantic, Iowa
Wednesday, November 30, 1910
Page 1, Column 4Funeral Held Friday Afternoon.
The remains of the late Chas. Hughart, the Oregon Short Line conductor, whose death was told of in this paper previously, will arrive in the city Friday morning at nine o’clock. The funeral services will be held at the M. E. church at 2:30 Friday afternoon and the interment made in the Atlantic cemetery. Mrs. Hughart and son, Harold, wife and son of deceased, S. C. Hughart of Nampa, Ida., his brother, and Fred Humerich of Pocatello, Mrs. Hughart’s brother, will accompany the remains.
________________________The Atlantic Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa
Friday, December 2, 1910
Page 1, Column 3CHARLES HUGHART DIES IN SALT LAKE
RAISED NEAR ATLANTIC
Was For A Number of Years Very Popular on the Oregon Short Line
A message was received here yesterday by Charles Humerick that his brother-in-law Charles Hughart, of Pocatello, Idaho had died in the hospital in Salt Lake City yesterday morning at 10 o’clock. The remains will be brought here for burial. Hughart was raised near Atlantic. He was born in Madison county. He leaves a mother, Mrs. H. M. Hughart of this city and a wife and son Harold. He also leaves a sister Mrs. E. E. Roberts of Vinita, Oklahoma and brother, S. M Hughart of Nampa Idaho. Deceased had been a conductor on the Oregon Short Line for a number of years and for several years had run the Portland Special, the crack train of this line. He was secretary of the Order of Railway Conductors on his division. He had lived in Idaho for the past twenty-one years. Mr. Hughart was a nephew of S. E. Shannon of this city.
The funeral announcement will be made later.
________________________The Atlantic Daily Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa
Saturday, December 3, 1910
Page 1, Column 1FUNERAL OF THE LATE CHAS. HUGHART
Dr. Griffith Preached an Eloquent Funeral Sermon—Many Attend the Service
Funeral service over the remains of the late Charles Hughart were held at the Methodist church here yesterday. There was a good attendance of old-time friends of deceased. The remains were buried in the cemetery here Dr. Griffith preached an eloquent funeral sermon from the text “In the midst of life we are in death; so teach us to number our days that we may apply ourselves unto wisdom.”
The deceased was born in Madison county, Iowa, Oct. 6, 1868 and died at the hospital in Salt Lake Utah on November 27, 1910 aged 42 years, 1 month and 21 days. He came to this county with his widowed mother in 1880. In 1889 he went to Pocatello, Idaho and entered the employ of the Oregon Short line railway company. He returned to Atlantic a year later and was married to Miss Emma Humerick, to this union one child was born, Harold Hughart now in college.
Beside the wife and son left to mourn the loss of a devoted and kind husband and father, he leaves a mother, sister and a brother. The mother resided here in Atlantic, the brother Samuel Hughart in Nampa, Idaho and the sister is Mrs. E. E. Roberts of Vinita, Okla.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Shannon are double uncle and aunt and the sorrow falls upon them and their children as the death of one of their own household; owing to the early death of Mr. Hughart, the father, the relation of these families were very intimate during Charles’ boyhood. He began at the bottom in the employ of the railway company and by thorough industry and good habits worked his way up to the position he held as passenger conductor and secretary and treasurer of the Order of Railway conductors.
He was especially of a genial and happy disposition, always kind to kindred and acquaintances and even to strangers within his gates. His presence was continual cheer and sunshine and his going on before leaves a vacancy in the hearts of his loved ones that can never be filled. They cherish the memory of husband, father, brother, nephew and cousin, Charles Herschel Hughart, as one whom to know was to love.
His kindly spirit, his perpetual good cheer, his characteristic integrity and honor leaves an example for those who come after to emulate. A friend has gone whose fidelity will never be forgotten.
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