James Francis Hughes LAST NAME: Hughes FIRST NAME: James MIDDLE NAME: Francis NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY:  BORN: 21 Aug 1867 DIED: 3 Apr 1944 BURIED: 1944 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Merchant, Farmer BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co., Oregon DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  OSBH DC (Marion County 1944) 1880 OR CENSUS - Jas. F. Hughes, age 12, b. Oregon, is enumerated with father John Hughes, age 48, occupation grocer, b. Tennessee, Emma P., age 42, b. Missouri, along with siblings Geo., age 22, occupation store clk, Lulu, age 18, Edith age 9, Esther 4, all born in Oregon. Also enumerated with the family are Lulu Northrup (identified as niece of John), age 22 , b. California, Chas. Northrup (identified as nephew of John), b. California, occupation teamster, and servant Yak, age 18, b. China. 2nd MARRIAGE - James F. Hughes married Mabelle Baker in Jackson Co., Oregon on 4 June 1910. 1920 OR CENSUS - Frank Hughes, age 52, occupation investment co., manager, b. Oregon, is enumerated with his wife Mable [sic], age 35, b. South Dakota, along with John, age 6, b. Oregon. BIOGRAPHICAL: James was first married to Ruby Flint (div.) and second to Maebelle Baker, the latter was on June 4, 1910 in Salem, OR [sic]. They were the parents of one child: John Hughes, b. 2 Jan 1913.  SEE: THE BROWN FAMILY HISTORY II, rev. by Judith Young and Celista Platz. Pub. Newton, KS, Mennonite Press, 1992. pg 422 OBITUARY:  At the residence, 230 Vista avenue, April 3, James Frank Hughes, age 76 years. Husband of Maebelle Hughes of Salem; father of John Hughes of Long Beach, Calif.; brother of Mrs. William A. Carter of Portland. Two grandchildren also survive. Announcement of services will be made later by the W. T. Rigdon company.  Oregon Statesman 4 April 1944 5:2  FRANK HUGHES, OLD RESIDENT, DIES IN SALEM J. Frank Hughes, 76, resident of Salem all his life and son of John and Emma Pringle Hughes, members of two pioneer Salem families, died Monday morning at his Vista avenue home in Salem Heights.  Long interested in wildlife projects, Mr. Hughes, was in 1912 appointed to the first game commission by Governor Oswald West. He was for many years a member of the First Methodist church choir. He attended Salem schools and Willamette university.  Mr. Hughes’ father was an early merchant of the city and one of the first painters of the vicinity, the son being associated with him in a store which stood on the present site of the Sears and Roebuck store. His father-in-law, Virgil K. Pringle, was a pioneer Salem shoemaker, later settling on a donation claim in the vicinity of the present Pringle school. Considerable downtown property was acquired by the elder Hughes during his business career, including holdings on South High street and in the area where the old Chinatown was once located. Extensive tracts of farm land also were held on the south River road, one tract being the site of the present Salem Golf club.  The son, on his father’s death, took over managership of the real property holdings, continuing the elder’s farming enterprises and was one of the first to see possibilities of spinach as a bottomland crop. Survivors include: the widow, Maebelle; son, John, who is a test pilot at a Long Beach aircraft plant; sister, Mrs. W. A. Carter, Portland; and two grandchildren. W. T. Rigdon company is in charge of funeral arrangements.  Oregon Statesman 4 April 1944 10:2 INSCRIPTION:  James F. Hughes  1867 - 1944  (shares marker with Maebelle B.) SOURCES:  ODI  1880 OR CENSUS  (Marion Co., East Salem Pct., FA #265)  Oregon Marriages, 1906-1920  1920 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 345, sheet 4A)  OS 4 April 1944 5:2  OS 4 April 1944 10:2 THE BROWN FAMILY HISTORY II, rev. by Judith Young and Celista Platz. Pub. Newton, KS, Mennonite Press, 1992. CONTACTS:  LOT: 053 SPACE: 1 NE LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: