OBIT: Mary (McCONNELL) HUGHES, 1899, Altoona, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ MRS. MARY HUGHES. At 4.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon Mrs. Mary Hughes, wife of Charles Hughes, died at her home, 1924 Fourteenth avenue, of appendicitis, with which she had been ailing since Saturday. Deceased was a daughter of Frank and Anna McConnell, deceased, and was born at Newry in March, 1847. In 1872 she married Mr. Hughes and seven years later came to this city to reside. She was a member of St. John's Catholic church. Besides her husband she is survived by four sons, Harry, Frank, Thomas and Charles, all at home, also by two brothers, Edward McConnell, of Altoona, and Thomas McConnell, of Conemaugh. Interment will be made at Newry. Morning Tribune, Wednesday, December 27, 1899 FUNERAL NOTICE. The funeral of Mrs. Charles Hughes will leave the Altoona station at 8.05 o'clock Friday morning and proceed by train to Newry, where the interment will be made. Morning Tribune, Thursday, December 28, 1899