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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Emma Pherne Hughes
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Emma Pherne Hughes
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| LAST NAME: Hughes
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FIRST NAME: Emma
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MIDDLE NAME: Pherne
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| MAIDEN NAME: Pringle
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| BORN: 13 Oct 1838
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DIED: 4 Jan 1921
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BURIED: 6 Jan 1921
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OCCUPATION: Housewife
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| BIRTH PLACE: Saint Charles, Warren Co., Missouri
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| DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
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1880 OR CENSUS - Emma P. Hughes, age 42, b. Missouri, is enumerated with husband John Hughes, age 48, occupation grocer, b. Tennessee, along with children Geo., age 22, occupation store clk, Lulu, age 18, Jas. F., age 12, 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
Photo of Emma Pherne Hughes is in Brown Family History book, pg. 222
See also: Biographical sketch of Virgil T. Pringle (Pioneer Cemetery Database)
See also: THE BROWN FAMILY HISTORY II, rev. by Judith Young and Celista Platz. Pub. Newton, KS, Mennonite Press, 1992.
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OBITUARY:
PIONEER WOMAN PASSES BEYOND.
Name of Mrs. Emma Hughes Closely Connected With State History.
Mrs. Emma Pringle Hughes, widow of the late John Hughes, and mother of Mrs. A. N. Bush and J. F. Hughes, of this city, died at her home in Portland yesterday morning. She was 82 years old and since the early pioneer days of Oregon her name, with that of her husband, have been closely connected with the history of the Willamette valley, and until her removal to Portland a few years ago she was one of the most influential citizens of the Salem.
Mrs. Hughes was born in St. Charles, Warren county, Missouri in 1838 and was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Pringle, who were pioneers of Salem. She came to Oregon when eight years old, coming over the old trail by way of fort Hall and the Applegate cutoff. She was accompanied by her parents, and a large group of immigrants, among them being her grandmother, Mrs. Tabitha Brown. They made a road of their own from Humboldt, Nevada, to Oregon, coming through the desert and over the mountains not far from what is now the Klamath country and then into southern Oregon, wading in the water through the Cow Creek canyon and losing part of their cattle and equipment there.
They arrived by way of a trail over the Eola hills and came in sight of Salem, where they had pitched their camp on one of the hills, on Christmas day, 1846, after a journey of nine months, attended with many hardships and privations, depending for their food part of the time on friendly Indians on the plains.
Her father engaged in shoe making in the then village of Salem until 1851, when he settled on a donation land claim of 640 acres four and a half miles southeast of Salem. There he carried on farming for a time but later returned to Salem and was identified in business and public life for many years. The grandmother of Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Tabitha Brown, founded a school at Forest Grove, out of which grew Tualatin academy to which she devoted her time and her means, and from the academy grew Pacific university.
For many years Mrs. Hughes was a leader in the First Methodist church of Salem taking a prominent part in all its activities. She took an active interest in the early life of the Oregon Institute, out of which grew Willamette university. She was in Salem at the time of the unveiling of the picture of Jason Lee over the speaker's desk in the hall of the house of representatives in the Oregon capitol, and she was privileged to be present and was at that time in good health. She was a member of the Oregon Historical society and worked constantly during her life for the betterment of the city and valley. She was the mother of seven children, four of whom survive her and who were at her bedside at the end: Mrs. A. N. Bush of this city, J. F. Hughes of this city, Mrs. William A. Carter of Portland and Mrs. D. A. Mackie of Portland.
The funeral will be held in the Finley undertaking parlors in Portland Thursday morning at 9 o'clock and the burial will take place in the family lot in the Odd Fellows cemetery in this city, as soon as the arrival of the 12:50 Oregon Electric train from Portland Thursday.
Oregon Statesman 5 Jan 1921, 8:3.
Hughes Funeral Today. The body of Mrs. Emma Hughes will arrive on the 12:50 Oregon Electric from Portland today. The funeral procession will be formed at the depot and will proceed to the IOOF cemetery where interment will take place.
Oregon Statesman 6 Jan 1921 5:1
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1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., East Salem Pct., FA #265)
OS 5 Jan 1921 8:3
OS 6 Jan 1921 5:1
THE BROWN FAMILY HISTORY II, rev. by Judith Young and Celista Platz. Pub. Newton, KS, Mennonite Press, 1992., p.221-222
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