Fayette-Greene County PA Archives Obituaries.....Hughes, Chauncey November 18, 1936 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Jane Grim majaza28@hotmail.com June 27, 2008, 12:57 pm Nov 19, 1936 .Indianna Evening Gazette & Clearfield Progress Newspaper Nov. 19, 1936 Indianna Evening Gazette & Clearfield Progress Newspaper: Overnight News: West Newton, Pa. Nov 19, 1936 Chauncey Hughes, 69 years old corn husking champion of this neighborhood dies in a field in a farm near Masontown. Neighbors who found his body said his hands clasped a corn husk. Physicians attributed death as heart disease by aggravated by exertion. The obituaty of Chauncey Hughes is in The Morning Herald of Nov. 19, 1936. He died while husking corn to make a record. It says- With a husk of corn in his hand and out to make a record, Chauncey Hughes, aged 69 years, ten months and 13 dys, dropped dead at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning in the field of Chester Pierce at Newtown, Pa. Hughes was born and reared in Fairchance, a member of the well known family of that name there. Thirty eight years ago when Bessemer was opened he moved to that community and has resided ther ever since until recently when he went to Bobtown. Hughes was better known as "Tucker" an apellation he bore almost since childhood. Surviving are his widow Mary Ann and the following children: Mrs. James Leasure of Masontown, Irwin, Charles Joseph, Woodrow, Ralph, Chauncey and Mrs. James Rimmel, all of Moffit-Sterling. Burial was in the White Rock Church Cemetery near Fairchance. Additional Comments: (There is no mention of his father.) This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb