Obituary of Arianna HUGHES (nee KNOWLES)

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives Oct 25, 1999
by Mike Hughes  <  mkhughes@execpc.com  >

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Surnames:  HUGHES, KNOWLES

The following is Arianna's obituary from the Hudson Star-
Times, December 1, 1882.

Death has again laid claim to one of our citizens, Arianna
Knowles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perley Knowles, of River
Falls, born at Concord, N.H. Dec. 25th, 1847.  Fourteen
years ago she was married to George T. Hughes and became a
member of Hudson's social circle.  She died at the home of
her age.  Mrs. Hughes, while fond of society and the company
of friends, gave herself in a large degree to her family,
striving to make home the pleasant and attractive place that
it should be for both husband and children, in which effort
she was eminently successful.  She had been for years, a
great sufferer, at.  But her patience was so great and her
conversation so cheerful that few but her more intimate
friends knew what she endured.  In August last she was
stricken down suddenly at her home near city and the gravest
fears of her friends were awakened; but rallying again she
went to the home of her parents to recruit, but soon Bright's
disease of the kidneys asserted its unconquerable grasp and
though fought by all the power of physicians and friends 
after weeks of intense, yet patient suffering cheered by
hopes of recovery, she fell asleep, mourned by many.  Her
husband and children, and likewise her parents of whom she 
was the only daughter have the sincerest sympathy of the 
entire circle of her acquaintances.