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ation. It is quite true that the New* % * SHELBY* COUNTY PIONEER IS* LAID TO HIS LAST REST.SHELBYVILLE, Mo., May 7.— William A. Hughes was stricken with paralysis Wednesday morning of last week and died last Monday, May 4. He was horn in Boone county, Mo., Peb. 18, 1830. . The remains were •burled 1$. the I. O. O; P. cemetery Tuesday, with Masonic honors. Mr. Hughes was one.of our most-highly respected citizens,, and was a representative of an 0I4 family of pioneers. His grandfather, Joseph Hughes, was one of the rirsfc pioneers of Kentucky, entering the trackless, savage haunted wilds of that region more than 20 years before it became a state, in about 1766, and several years before Daniel Boone ever made a track in its wilderness. Mr. Hughes was eight years of age when, his parents moved to Shelby county. He ■was reared in this county and has since made it his permanent home. In 1860 he married Mis* Mary Bowling, a daughter of Alexander Bowling of Virginia. Mrs. T. B. Damrell is the onlyrchild.
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Quincy Journal

Quincy, Illinois, US

Thu, May 07, 1908

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