John Hughes

John Hughes,1873-1932

Born: No­vem­ber 22, 1873, Dow­lais, Wales.
Died: May 14, 1932, Llant­wit Fardre, Pon­ty­pridd, Wales.
Buried: Sa­lem Bap­tist Cha­pel, Pon­ty­pridd, Wales.

By age 12, Hughes was work­ing as a "door­boy" in the coal mine at Llan­twit Fardre, Gla­mor­gan­shire. He event­u­al­ly worked his way up to the po­si­tion of clerk at the Great West­ern Coll­iery in Pon­typ­ridd, in Rhondda Val­ley. He be­longed to the Sa­lem Bap­tist Cha­pel, where he was a dea­con and pre­cen­tor.

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