LEWIS HUGHES (died 16 Dec 1956)
Lewis Hughes Died At Samaria Sunday
Lewis Hughes, 76, lifelong Oneida county resident, died Sunday afternoon at Samaria after being ill for the past year.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Samaria chapel with Bishop Carl Evans in charge. Interment was in the Samaria cemetery.
Mr. Hughes was born at Samaria June 26, 1881, a son of Lewis and Mary Ann Davis Hughes. Reared at Samaria, he attended school there and also at B.Y. College in Logan, Utah. He fulfilled a two-year mission in England for the L.D.S. Church. He was a High Priest and first counselor in the Samaria ward bishopric. Mr. Hughes, who engaged in farming, also served as a justice of the peace at Samaria. He married Emma John Smith at Logan, Utah, February 27, 1907. Mrs. Hughes died in 1949.
Surviving are two sons, Stephen James Hughes and David Earl Hughes, Samaria; a niece reared by the Hughes’, Mrs. Marjorie Smith Crossley, Salt Lake City; eight grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Lorenzo Anderson, Malad; Mrs. Frank Atkinson, Ogden; Mrs. Charles Bowen, San Bernardino, California.

Funeral Program

Memorial Services for
Lewis Hughes, 75
Wed., Dec. 19, 1956 – 1:00 P.M.
Samaria L.D.S. Ward Chapel
Bishop Carl A. Evans officiating

At the Home
Family Prayer – Dave Hughes

At the Chapel
Prelude and Postlude Music – Jessie John
Vocal Solo, “One Sweetly Solemn Thought”, Leora Brown
Invocation – Silas Anderson
Obituary – Bishop Evans
Speaker – John J. Roderick
Vocal Duet, “In the Garden”, June and Gwen Ward
Speaker – Dr. Thomas W. Richards
Vocal Solo, “The Lord’s Prayer”, Louis Yearsley
Benediction – D. M. Williams
Accompanists – Iris Barker and June Ward

At the Cemetery
Dedicatory Prayer – J. Guy Benson

Flowers
Arranged and supervised by the Samaria Ward Relief Society

Casket Bearers
Stephen L. Hughes, Dale R. Daniels, Levi Hughes, Lewis Neal Hughes, Ralph Hughes, Chester Hughes