Husband of Phebe (Davis) Hughes and Sarah M. (Slingerland) Hughes, aged 55 years.

Anthony Hughes was buried in the Hughes family plot on March 20, 1881.

Interestingly, Anthony Hughes and his second wife, Sarah (Slingerland) Hughes, both died on the same day and were likewise buried together on the same day.

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ARTICLE, Paterson (NJ) Daily Guardian, 3/18/1881.

LIVING AND DYING TOGETHER.

Mr. Anthony Hughes, formerly a well known shoelace manufacturer of this city, died yesterday afternoon at his residence on Trenton Avenue, and singular to state his wife died at the same time. For over twenty-five years, Mr. Hughes had been subject to hemorrhages of the lungs, losing as much as a quart of blood at one time. He was pale and thin, and for many years had not been able to speak above a whisper. It was predicted twenty years ago that he would not live three months, and his case has been a mystery to the doctors. For some weeks past, he had been gradually failing and his death was hourly expected. Yesterday afternoon his wife was called in and she noticed that he was dying at last. This naturally gave her a shock, and she felt something come up in her throat. She went into the adjoining room, where an attendant found her suffering from a hemorrhage. She gasped that her husband was dying. The attendant ran in and found Mr. Hughes already dead. Then running back to the room where Mrs. Hughes had been left, she was found dead also. It is hard to say which expired first, and it is very likely that both breathed their last at precisely the same moment. Mrs. Hughes had attacks of hemorrhage before, but never violent enough to cause alarm. This one was probably brought on by the shock of her husband's dying. She was Mr. Hughes' second wife, but they had lived together a good many years. The case is in every respect a singular one.