Mrs. Silas Hughes, missionary

Creator

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Identifier

20038472

Description

Mrs. Silas Hughes, missionary, is pictured here. She is shown standing in a room and holding an Indian (Native American) art in her hand and smiling for the camera. She is wearing a dark color dress. She and her husband came to Fort Worth to live after three years of missionary work on the Navajo reservation at Farmington, New Mexico. The school she and her husband worked, a Methodist institution sponsored by the Woman's Division of Christian Service, where Indian children from six tribes attend nine months a year. Mrs. Hughes was house mother in the girls' dormitory and supervised their comings and goings, as well as their general study. Mr. Hughes taught shop work to Indian boys of all ages. They have many souvenirs of their three years' work. In Fort Worth Mr. Hughes works for American Manufacturing Company. They keep up their church work. Mrs. Hughes is busy with her list of lecture engagements and 15-month-old son, Silas Junior (Jr.). Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram morning edition, July 9, 1944.

Archival Date

1944-07-07

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-604

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Spouses; Missionaries; Schools; Indian reservations; Indigenous peoples; Native American; Navajo; Dormitories; Souvenirs; Manufacturing Company