Los Angeles County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Hughes, John October 1899 ********************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/obits/obitsca/obitsca.htm ********************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Paula Hinkel phinkel@pacbell.net November 11, 2004, 10:49 pm Los Angeles Times October 4, 1899 pg. 11 A Silent Burial The first funeral service in the sign language of the deaf in Los Angeles was performed last Sunday by Lay Reader Widd at the Peck and Chase undertaking parlors, and at the Rosedale Cemetery over the remains of the late William John Hughes, a deaf-mute, who has been a resident of Los Angeles for over sixteen years, and a member of the Los Angeles Association for the Deaf. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/losangeles/obits/gob2801hughes.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/caobfiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb