Hughes, Miss Ora Ella 1875-1930

HUGHES

Posted By: Viv Reeves (email)
Date: 2/7/2006 at 14:26:29

From the LeMars Sentinel, Tuesday, April 1, 1930, Page 4, Column 3:
DEATH CLAIMS MISS HUGHES
CAME TO PLYMOUTH COUNTY WITH HER PARENTS WHEN A LITTLE GIRL

Ora Ella Hughes, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Hughes, well known pioneers of Plymouth county, passed away at her home in LeMars, Sunday, March 30, 1930, at 7 o'clock in the morning. Miss Hughes had been in ill health for several years but not until the early part of November did her illness confine her to her bed.

Miss Hughes was born at Woodbine, Illinois, February 28, 1875, and spent her childhood there with her parents. She came to Plymouth county in 1883, when the family located on a farm three miles north of LeMars, where she attended the country school. The family later moved to LeMars to make their home.

For the past twenty-five years she was a member of the Baptist church and was a faithful and true christian. Her life was one of self-sacrifice and constant thought for others. She leaves four brothers, Frank, Joseph and Sherman Hughes, of LeMars, George Hughes, of Haxtun, Colo., and three sisters, Mrs. W. H. Casler of Akron, Mrs. Chris Hendricksen of Alton, and Miss Cora Hughes, of LeMars, and a large number of other relatives and friends to mourn the passing of a good woman and kindly neighbor.

The funeral will be held this afternoon from the home and services conducted at the First Baptist church, Rev. T. P. Potter officiating, at 2 o'clock.