Edward Henry McCabe Hughes (1897-1975)

Edward Henry McCabe Hughes was born on 2 October 1897 in New Castle, Delaware. He died 8 May 1975 in Newark, Delaware. He married Ethel Morris Thompson on 8 January 1919 in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware.

Edward H.M. Hughes' marriage certificate

Edward H. M. Hughes' WWI draft card

Edward H. M. Hughes' WWII draft card

The Morning News, 9 May 1975
Edward H. Hughes, 77, of Canoe Club Rd., Newark, died yesterday at Tilton Terrace Nursing Home, 801, N. Broom St., after a long illness.
    He was an electrician for Continental Can Co. for 40 years, retiring in 1962. His wife, Ethel M., died in 1960. He is survived by a son, Edward H. Jr., of Elwood, Inda.; three daughters, Marian Stewart and Grace Myer, both of Wilmington, and Jane Barker, of McDaniel Crest; a sister, Grace Augustine, of Los Angeles; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
    Services will be Monday morning at 11 at Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Home, 24th and Market Sts., where friends may call Sunday night. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

PARENTS

Charles Hughes

Arabella

SPOUSE
Ethel Morris Thompson

CHILDREN
Marion Ethel Hughes
Grace Mildred Hughes
Jane Blanch Hughes
Edward H. Hughes

SOURCES

• 1900 census, Ward 2, New Castle, Delaware
• 1910 census, Chester, Delaware, Pennsylvania 
• 1920 census, Wilmington Ward 7, New Castle, Delaware 
• 1930 census, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware 
• 1940 census, Representative District 7, New Castle, Delaware 
• The Morning News, 9 May 1975 
• The Evening Journal (Wilmington, Delaware) 16 January 1919