Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Saturday, September 19, 1970

John H. Hughes

BELZONI, Miss. -- Funeral services for John Haney Hughes, 62, retired farmer, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Gooden Lake Baptist Church near Belzoni. Interment in Bethel Cemetery, north of Holcomb with Barringer Funeral Home of Belzoni in charge.

Hughes was accidentally killed Thursday by an auto as he walked across a highway in Aiken, S.C. He had lived here in Belzoni for 19 years and was a member of the Baptist Church. He leaves five daughters, Mrs. Virginia Christine Chatman [sic Chapman] of Jacksron [sic Jackson], S.C.; Mrs. Opal Ham of St. Matthews, S.C.; Mrs. Sallie Mary Hallman and Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, both of Aiken, S.C.; Mrs. John W. Kendall of Silver City and three sons, J.H. Hughes of Belzoni; Jerry Hughes of Aiken, S.C.; and Robert Hughes of Indianola, one sister, Mrs. Ebbie Payne of Payne, Miss.