Born 1884 in Virginia, died 1947 Gray County Texas.
He was my great uncle and lived in Oklahoma for many years.
Had a Sister Mary Jane, Elizabeth A. and Brother Joseph G.
His parents were Martha Ellen and James F. Hughes.

From the "Pampa News" for Monday, 29 September 1947:

W. H. HUGHES, 63, PIONEER OIL MAN OF PAMPA, DIES

William H. (Bill) Hughes, a resident of the Pampa area for 21 years up until last June when he moved to Twitty, died in a local hospital yesterday at 8:30 p.m. Mr. Hughes, who was 63 June 28, had been suffering from a heart condition about a year.

Born at Abbingdon, W. Va., in 1884, he lived for a number of years on the British-American lease west of Pampa. For some time he worked for the Prairie Oil and Gas Co., and for a while with the Dixon Oil Company. He had been engaged in farming since 1931, but is known among oil people as well as by the farmers and ranchers of this area.

He leaves his widow, Marie, of Twitty; two sons, Paul of Lamesa and Lewis of the Naval Air Corps; one stepson, Everett Robinson of Turley, Okla; one stepdaughter, Mrs. R. N. Rhoten of Pampa; one brother, J. G. Hughes, Seminole, Okla; two sisters, Mrs. C. M. Purcell, Riverside, Calif., and Mrs. W. D. Easom, Eldorado Springs, Mo.

Funeral services will be held at the Duenkel-Carmichael Funeral Chapel at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Burial will be at Fairview Cemetery.

Pall bearers will be George Dillman, G. H. Kyle, Joe Looper, Wade Thomasson, Rufe Jordan and Earl Lewis.

John A. Mead, familyhistory90@yahoo.com.

THank you so much for this obit. I met him a couple of time when he came to visit his sister, Mrs. W.D. Eason.
Her name was Mary Jane. Their parents were James F Hughes and Martha Ellen Arnold Hughes.
Again thank you