The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-04-01
DIED IN RAPID CITY
Mrs. Ruth Hughes, u Former Mitch
ell Lady, Died at Rapid City a
Few Days Ago.

The Rapid City Journal of Satur-
day gives the following account of
the death of Mrs. Ruth Hughes, who
until a few years ago, was a resi-
dent of Mitchell:
Died. in Rapid City, Friday, March
26. 1909, Mrs. Ruth Hughes, of pneu-
monia, aged eighty years, four
months and twelve days.
Ruth Goodwin was born at Port
Huron, Mich, November IA, 1928,
and was married January %, 1914,
at Lexington, Mich, to James
Hughes. from there they moved to
Manitowoc, Wis, where their fam
lily of nine children were born. Mr..
and Mrs. Hughes remained in Wis
consin until March, 1869, when they
came to South Dakota, making the
trip overland in a "prairie schooner"
and settled at Yankton, where they
went through all the hardships of
pioneer life. Having the pioneer
spirit imbedded deeply members of
the family caught the Black Hills
fever in 1877 and came here, Mrs.
Hughes among them. For about a
year she remained in the Hills, liv-
ing on Castle creek, and there one
of the daughters was married, being
one of the first weddings in Penning-
ton county. In 1873 Mrs. Hughes
went back to Yankton, and one year
later they went to Mitchell where she
lived until five years ago last October
when she came to Rapid City to
spend her remaining days. Mr..
Hughes died in Yankton in 1892, at
the ripe old age of "a.
Eighty years is a long time to live
in this wearisome world. and often
times Mrs. Hughes must have found it
~wearisome, for sorrow and grief were
ever stalking in her path. But she
was not one to mourn as one without
hope. One after anothc. of her low
cd ones we're taken from her until
not n of her parents or brothers or
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six children were taken, so that of
all the large family only three re-
manned to comfort her in her old age.
But these three were more than a
host of some children would have
been. and her last years were happy
ones as she waited for the boatman
to ferry her across to the ones wait
Ing on the other side.
Mrs. Hughes vas one of the bust
est women yer known. She was al
ways at work and if not at one thing
then at another. Needle-work was her
delight, and there was nothing IN the
line of fancy work that she could
not do. Samples of her handiwork
have graced fairs and exhibitions of
all kinds, and aged as she was she
kept up with all the new things in
embroidery and lace work. The day
before she was taken i'll she was
working at a piece of lace. During
the winter she had pieced a quilt,
and during her sickness she spoke of
going up in the Hills next sulnme to
cook for her sol George. While
there we're many clouds in her four
score years. the sunshine she spread
around her made all CHEEKY and
bright, so that wherever she was
people were better and happier. Who
can measure the height aud depth OF
good that was given to the world
through a life like hers! Eighty years
of sunshine and shadow, of happt-
ness and sorrow, of good and III, but
all turned for good to those about
her.
Mrs. Hughes was taken sick Feb
ruary "a with. pneumonia, and there
seemed little chance for her from
the first. Her daughter, Mrs. s. j
Cornell, came from Sioux City to
be with her, and her son George, OF
Merritt, came as soon as word reach
him. Her second son, James, and
wife we're also constant in their at
tentian, but her span of life was at
san end, and at 2:15 yesterday she
passed away. The funeral services
will be held Sunday afternoon al
1880 in the Episcopal church, con
Quoted by Rev. George Kellar.
Real Estate Transfers of the Week.
Mary Miller to Eden Miller,
lot 10, block 4. Gleascn's
add, Mitchell ......
g. r. Holmes to Wesley G.
Schreimer, S. E. quarter,