John Henry Hughes and Minnie Belle McClimans

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Husband John Henry Hughes

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           Born: 29 Apr 1885 - Cranberry Twp, Venango Co, PA
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           Died: 21 Sep 1974 - Warren, Warren Co, PA
         Buried:  - Sunset Hill Memorial Gardens, Cranberry Twp, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Clinton Wesley Hughes (1854-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Mary Elizabeth Kennedy (      -Aft 1927) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1 Sep 1907 - Jamestown, Chautauqua Co, NY 3

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Wife Minnie Belle McClimans

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           Born:  - Sugarcreek Twp, Venango Co, PA
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           Died: 1966
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Children

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1 F Maybelle V. Hughes

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         Spouse: Jackson B. "Jack" Sheffer (      -      )
           Marr: 1925 - ? Venango Co, PA

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2 F Evelyn Audine Hughes

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           Born: 14 Sep 1908 - Victory Twp, Venango Co, PA
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           Died: Jan 1985 - ? Oil City, Venango Co, PA
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         Spouse: Warren Thomas Crossley (1905-1963)
           Marr: 21 Nov 1942 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 4

         Spouse: Raymond James Stevens (1915-1974) 5
           Marr: 9 Jun 1972 - Plumer, Cornplanter Twp, Venango Co, PA 6

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3 F Ruth Ann Hughes

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           Born: Abt 1912 - Venango Co, PA
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         Spouse: Ronald Eugene Morrison (1916-1979) 7
           Marr: 10 May 1938 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 8. (Divorced on 22 Aug 1961)

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4 M Paul Hughes

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           Died: 1972
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General Notes: Husband - John Henry Hughes

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Unk newspaper,
Sept. 23, 1974
John H. Hughes, 89, Succumbs in Warren
FRANKLIN - John H. Hughes, 89, former Victory Heights resident and at one time an oil field worker in Venango County, died at 5:20 am Saturday in Warren after an extended illness.
He was a retired employe of Sylvania Electric in Warren.
Born in Cranberry Township April 29, 1885, he was a son of Clinton W. and Mary Kennedy Hughes.
He was a member of the Free Methodist Church in Warren.
His wife, the former Minnie Belle McClimans, died in 1966.
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Jack (Maybelle) Sheffer of New Castle, Mrs. Raymond (Evelyn) Stevens of Oil City RD 1 and Mrs. Ruth Morrison of Franklin; a sister, Mrs. Frances Malliard of Conneaut Lake; two brothers, Archie Hughes of Hollywood, Calif., and Ralph M. Hughes of Victory Heights; 9 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.
A son, Paul died in 1972. Five sisters and a brother also are deceased.
The family will receive friends at the Burger - Gardinier Funeral Home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 pm today. Funeral services will be held at 11 am Tuesday in the funeral home with Rev. James W. Grant, pastor of the First Free Methodist Church in Oil City, officiating.
Interment will be in Sunset Hill Memorial Gardens.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 467.

2 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 1270.

3 Joan S. Hanson & Kenneth L. Hanson, Marriages from Venango County Sources (Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1994), Pg 118.

4 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #23366.

5 Margaret Segui Kahle, Sharrar Family (Emlenton, PA: Self-Published, May, 1971), Pg 15.

6 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #38671.

7 Maude Gadsby Watkins, Gadsby Cousins (Stockton, CA: Privately published, 1988), Pg 88.

8 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #21038.