Washington County News | 1931-11-19 | Page 5 | Utah Pioneer Dies in Nevada

UTAH PIONEER DIES IN NEVADA Carmelia Burgess Hughes died at the home of her son in Mes-quite Mes-quite Wednesday. Funeral services ser-vices were under direction of the ward bishopric and interment inter-ment was in the Mesquite cemetery. ceme-tery. The speakers were former Bishop William E. Abbott, Elder Frank Leavitt and Bishop Howard How-ard Pulsipher. Carmelia Burgess, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Burgess, was born in Ohio, January 9, 1S44. She came with the pioneers pio-neers to Salt Lake City in 1S4S and helped in the settlement of several towns in Utah, preceding preced-ing 1890, when she moved to Mesquite, where she has since resided. She was married to James Hughes in the Endowment Endow-ment House in Salt Lake in I860. She was the mother of 12 children and was a devoted church worker. She was assistant assist-ant to the Sunday school superintendent super-intendent and was counselor in the Relief Society for many years. She was a maternity nurse. Surviving are three sons, W'l-liam W'l-liam R. Walter W. and Charles Arthur Hughes, all of Mesquite. There are 88 grandchildren, 175 great-grandchildren and 23 great-great-grandchildren.