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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Maebelle Hughes
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Maebelle Hughes
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| LAST NAME: Hughes
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FIRST NAME: Maebelle
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| MAIDEN NAME: Baker
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| TITLE: Mrs.
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GENDER: F
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| BORN: 21 May 1884
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DIED: 12 Feb 1948
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BURIED: Mar 1948
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OCCUPATION: Housewife
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| BIRTH PLACE: Madison, Lake Co., South Dakota
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| DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
OSBH DC (Marion 1948) #4572 - Maebelle Baker Hughes, fenakem wudiwed (J. Frank Hughes), b. 21 May 1884 in Madison, South Dakota, d. 12 Feb 1948 in Salem, Oregon at the age of 63 y's 8 months 21 days, name of father John Baker (b. South Dakota), maide name of mother Lila Meriau (b. South Dakota), cremation Mr. Crest Abbey 26 Mar 1948, cause of death - suicide by drowning, Willamette River.
MARRIAGE - Mabelle Baker married James F. Hughes in Jackson Co., Oregon on 4 June 1910.
1920 OR CENSUS - Mable [sic] Hughes, age 35, b. South Dakota, is enumerated with husband Frank, age 52, occupation investment co., manager, b. Oregon, along with John, age 6, b. Oregon.
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OBITUARY:
MRS. HUGHES SAID MISSING.
City and county police are still on the alert for Mrs. Mabell Baker Hughes, 63, who has been reported as missing from her home since early Thursday morning city police reported late last night. As an umbrella and a coat, identified as belonging to Mrs. Hughes, were found Thursday morning on the middle of the Salem-West Salem Willamette river bridge, police searched the river Thursday and alerted all river boats. Police inquiry Thursday revealed that a woman had been taken by a Salem taxicab from the Hughes home to Center and North Commercial streets intersection about 1:52 a.m. The intersection is one block east of the west approach to the bridge. James King, Salem route 1, brought the umbrella and coat to the police station about 2 a.m. Thursday, and stated that he had found them on the bridge.
Oregon Statesman 13 February 1948 2:4
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INSCRIPTION:
Maebelle B. Hughes
1884 - 1948
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SOURCES:
OSBH DC (Marion 1948) #4572
THE BROWN FAMILY HISTORY II, rev. by Judith Young and Celista Platz. Pub. Newton, KS, Mennonite Press, 1992. pg 422
Oregon Marriages, 1906-1920
1920 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 345, sheet 4A)
OS 13 February 1948 2:4
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| LOT: 053
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SPACE: 2 NE
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