Ophelia was, as I have been told, one of the most likeable people the Webb bunch has produced in all its descendants. She was a genuinely good person, and from merely the look of the photo, I would believe it! She and J.L. had four children altogether. They are listed below.
Clifford "Sis" Hughes
(md. A. Curtis Graham)
Sis was born on January 22, 1900. She married
at 19 years and was a homemaker most of her life. She had six children
with Curtis, who was an oil delivery driver before the Depression, but a
farmer after it. They lived in Itawamba County their whole lives. Curtis
died in April of 1981, and Sis died on December 4, 1990, at the age of 90.
They are both buried in the Itawamba Memorial Gardens in the Clay Community.
William Elmer Hughes
(md. Eron Adeline Jarvis)
William was born on September 27, 1901. He was
a farmer, and when he married Eron Adeline, they moved out to Merced, California.
He farmed out there and she was a school teacher and graduate of Mississippi
A&M. She died in an auto accident twenty days before she was due
to retire and William died in 1988, at the age of 86. He was buried
at the Gum Cemetery, but she had wanted to be buried out in Merced. They
had four children together, all born in Mississippi, but who live out west.
Verlon Leonard Hughes
(md. Ruby V. Benson)
Verlon was born on July 4, 1903. He married Ruby Benson,
also from Itawamba County. They had four children together. Verlon
was a farmer and they lived in Itawamba County. He passed away on August
1, 1985, in Fulton and she passed away on February 18, 1989. They are
both buried at the Gum Cemetery in Itawamba County.
Webster Gurfey Hughes
(md. private)
Webster was born on January 12, 1905. He married
a local girl and lived his life as a farmer in Itawamba and Marion (AL) counties,
having two daughters. He passed away in Hamilton, Marion County, Alabama
on January 29, 1999, at the age of 94. He was buried in Itawamba Memorial
Gardens in the Clay Community.
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