Rev. John C. Hughes
June 30, 1901; Oregonian, p 8

   Word was received in Portland yesterday of the death of Patrick Hughes, a respected pioneer of Curry County. The news came in a telegram to his son, Rev. John C. Hughes, pastor of St. Lawrence Church, this city, Rev. Mr. Hughes received word of his father's illness early last week, and was hurrying to his bedside when the message of his death came.

   Mr. Hughes was born in Ireland and came to Oregon in the early '50s settling in Curry County, where he engaged extensively in farming, and at the time of his death he was one of the wealthiest and most influential agriculturists in the Coos Bay country. He was universally esteemed and respected for his sterling honesty, broad philanthropy and Christian virtues. No worthy person ever asked his help in vain, and he was foremost in every movement for the building up of the State of Oregon. He was a distant relative of the distinguished Archbishop Hughes, of New York. He leaves a wife and seven grown children, and was about 70 years of age. The funeral will be held at Cape Blanco today. This morning at 9 o'clock a solemn requiem mass will be sung at St. Lawrence's Church for the late Patrick Hughes, Rev. C. J. O'Reilly being celebrant, Rev. R. F. Gibney, deacon, and Rev. D. P. Curley, sub-deacon.