Dallas-Perry County AlArchives Obituaries.....Charles Earl  Hughes July 26 1944
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Selma Times Journal July 1944- Family Photo Album
MILITARY RITES FOR CHARLES E. HUGHES HELD IN CITY TODAY

Military honors were accorded here today to Pvt. Charles Earl Hughes, a 
veteran of D-Day, who fell in action July 26, 1944, at St. Lo, France, at 
funeral servicies held from the chapel of Breslin Service Funeral Home at 3:00 
o'clock. Officiating, the Rev. Quintin Porch, pastor of the Central Baptist 
Church and Capt. E. C. Johnson, Craif Chaplain, conducted the religious 
services.

Members of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars post attended in a 
body, Ex-service men, in uniform were pallbearers, and members of Company "C", 
167th Infantry, formed a firing squad.

Pvt. Hughes, 19 years old at the time of his death in battle, was born and 
reared in Selma, his mother being Mrs. Earle Worrell Hughes Guyse. He is a son 
of Zackery Sewell "Jack" Hughes of this city. and the grandson of Mr. & Mrs. 
George Thomas Hughes and of Mrs. B. F. Worrell. Bothers and sisters are: 
Thomas and Kenneth Hughes and Marion and Jacqueline Hughes.(The four other 
children were with Jack's second wife Naomi Adams Hughes)

Entering military service soon after his 18th birthday he had completed junior 
work at Parrish High School and was in his senior year. Pvt. Hughes had been 
in uniform less than nince months when he fell in combat, fighting with the 
90th Infantry Division. Burial took place in Boswell Frances, from which point 
the body was returned to his country, by funeral ship. Arrival in Selma took 
place at 2:40 o'clock Tuesday via the Western of Alabama railroad.

In another obituary it list his pallbearers as: Eugene Hughes, Johnnie 
Kennington, Ben Ellis, Jr., Rand Adams, William T. Manderson, and Roy Caldwell.

My notes: Charles E. Hughes was a great grandson of Casper "Smith" Hughes and 
Mary C. Ham, James Henry Dunkin and Mary Winnie Morton Dunkin all of Perry 
Co., Al.


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