Avery County NcArchives Obituaries.....Hughes, Mrs. S. P.  1932
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Avery Advocate March 3, 1932
Mrs. S.P. Hughes Of Newland Dies Rites Held Monday
	Mrs. S.P. Hughes of Newland, died Sunday afternoon at 2:30, at the 
Grace Hospital, following a week of serious illness.  Final rites were held 
Monday afternoon at eh Baptist church in Newland with interment following in 
the family cemetery at Hughes.
	Mrs. Hughes had undergone a serious operation several years ago and was 
suddenly stricken again with the same ailment about a week or ten days before 
her death.  She was taken from her home in Newland to the hospital in Banner 
elk, but failed to rally from another operation.
	Funeral services were conducted at the Newland Baptist church by Rev. 
F.C. Watts, pastor of the church and Rev. J.M. Lewis.    Rev. Lewis officiated 
at the rites held at the graveside.
	The funeral was largely attended by relatives and friends who mourned 
the passing of this pioneer of Avery county who has taken an important part in 
its development.
	In addition to her husband S.P. Hughes, her father James Stewart 
several grandchildren two brothers and a sister and host of distant relatives 
she was survived by the following eight living children.  Wilburn, Walter, 
John, Mrs. Nettie carpenter, Mrs. Blanche Hughes, Mrs. Minnie Lusk, Mrs. Ethel 
Ray and Miss Pearl Hughes.  
	The deceased was born on May 6, 1867


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