Willie Hughes

1. Foster Name: Wilfred Hughes
2. Alternate Foster Name: Wilford
3. Foster Family: Frank and Emily Roy
4. Location of Family: Auburn, NE
5. Sending Organization: Children's Aid Society
6. Arrival Place: Auburn, NE
7. Age on Arrival: 4
8. Date of Birth: 1911, New York City, NY
9. Date of Death: 1990, VT
10. Gender: male
11. Spouse Name: Elizabeth Janette Roy
12. Notes: The 1920 census lists Wilfred as the Roys' adopted son. In May 1926, the Roy family moved to San Bernardino,CA, whereFrank was a farmer. Wilfred graduated from high school in San Bernardino and then from the University of California Berkeley, where he majored in electrical engineering. In 1931, he married Elizabeth MacLellan and they lived near San Francisco, where in 1938 Wilfred was a superintendent at a manufacturing company. y 1943, Wilfred and Elizabeth lived in Los Angeles. In 1946, Wilfred received a promotion to his company's manufacturing headquarters in New York, NY, and he and his wife and their daughters relocated there.
13. Source: Nemaha County Herald (Auburn, NE), 15 February 1915, and 21 May 1926, and 28 August 1931, and 23 June 1938, and 7 July 1938, and 11 February 1943, and 10 October 1946; 1920 United States Federal Census; 1930 United States Federal Census; Wilfred Roy Gravestone, Craftsbury Common Cemetery, Craftsbury, VT.