Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1918 — MONON BOY DIED FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION [ARTICLE]

MONON BOY DIED FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION

Another White county boy has made the supreme sacrifice in the war. Corporal Eugene M. Hughes, son of Smith and Clara (Kirk) Hughes, of Monon, died from wounds received in action, according to an official telegram received by Mr. and Mrs. Hughes from the war department Tuesday evening. The date of his death was not given. Corporal Hughes was born February 4, 1897, at Pierce City, Mo., and enlisted in the coast artillery May 3, 1917, at Monon. He was sent to Ft. Wayne, thence to Ft Thomas, Ky., was later transferred to Ft. Mott N. J., and still later to Ft. Totten, N. Y. He sailed for France August 7, 1917, and arrived there August 21. He was a member of the Ist division, ambulance train, motor section.