Charlevoix County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Hughes, George 
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Cemetery:           Brookside Cemetery
Name:               George Hughes

Date Of Photograph: October 5, 2014
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George Hughes
1818-1917

George Hughes was born May 18, 1818 in Scotland
George died Nov 16, 1917, at age 99, at  Charlevoix



OBITUARY

Courtesy Charlevoix Library
Charlevoix Courier 
November 21, 1917

GOES TO HIS REWARD AT AGE OF 99 YEARS

Funeral Services Were Beautiful and Most Impressive

George Hughes, the oldest man in northern Michigan and one of the oldest in the
entire country, who has resided in Charlevoix for many years, passed in the
Great Beyond Friday morning of last week at the advanced age of 99 years and
five months, death resulting from natural causes attributable to his extreme old
age.

Mr. Hughes was bom in Montrose, Scotland, May 18, 1818, and passed away at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Cooper in this city, where he had made his home for
the past 20 years. Previous to that time he had lived with the family of Richard
Cooper for about 26 years.

In his youth Mr. Hughes was a salt water sailor and had visited many foreign
countries. His tales of his experiences on the seas in foreign climes were very
interesting, and at the beginning of the German war he was anxious to have the
papers read to him, recognizing many of the places mentioned as having been
visited by him during his sea-faring days.

The funeral services were conducted at the residence of H. C. Cooper, Saturday
afternoon at three o'clock, by Rev. C. E. Taggart, who used the Episcopal burial
service, and read from the chapters he found marked in Mr. Hughes' old bible.
Interment was at Brookside cemetery, the casket being lowered into the grave
just at the setting of the sun, a fitting tribute and a most appropriate closing
for the life of this grand old man.


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