Individual Details

Military

born Oct 12, 1879
Lawyer, self
Mrs. Edna B Hughes nearest relative
Tall, medium buil, brown eyes, black hair

Census (family)

Eddings T Hughes Head M 40 South Carolina SC SC, Lawyer, General Practice
Edna Hughes Wife F 36 South Carolina
Eddings T Hughes Jr. Son M 5 South Carolina

Death

Hughes Passes at Marion Home
Well Known Man Claimed by Death
Sick for six months
Although in Ill Health for some time end comes without Warning.

Special to the state.
Marion, Sept. 5. - Eddings Thomas Hughes, chairman of the ways and means committee of the South Carolina house of representatives, was found dead in his home here tonight. A coroner's jury found that he "came to his death from causes unknown to the jury but with no evidence of foul play." Mr. Hughes had been ill health for six months or more and several months ago suffered a severe attack while in Columbia.
Members of Mr. Hughes' family ae at their summer home at Murrell's Inlet and he had spent the week-end with them there, returning to Marion this morning shortly before noon. He transacted some business at his office and then went to his home. In the absence of his family he has been taking his meals at th home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Carmichael, who lives across the street from the Hughes home, and she it was who discovered the body, lying fully dressed across a bed, when she went to the house tonight about 7 o'clock. Death is believed to have resulted from an attack of apoplexy.
Funeral arrangements have not been made and will not be announced until the return of th family to Marion.
E. T. Hughes, who would have been 43 years of age had he lived until October 12, was a native of Orangeburg but had lived in Marion since 1905, being a member of the law firm of Mullins & Hughes. He aqs a graduate of Clemson college in the class of 1901 and won his law degree at the University of South Carolina in 1905. He married Miss Edna Carmichael of Marion in 1910. He was a member of the board of trustees of Clemson college from 1912 to 1916 and in 1918 was elected a member of the house from Marion. He was elected chairman of the ways and means committee in 1921 under the new rule requiring election instead of appointment. he was not a candidate for renomination in the recent primary, explaining to many who besought him to make the race that his health would not permit. He was a member of the Presbyterian church.