He was ten years old and made 25 Cents a day. His job was to carry the sawdust away from where they were sawing.  When Hank was about sixteen his family moved to Oklahoma.   He worked at various jobs.  He ran a pool hall in Elk City, Oklahoma before the family moved to Sapulpa, sometime around 1916.  He helped lay some of the brick streets in Sapulpa and also worked in the Ford garage where he helped to complete the assembly of Model T Fords, that were shipped on railcars.  Sometime around 1920 he went to work for the Schramm  Glass factory in Sapulpa.  In those days you had a "partner"in the glass plant because the machines were only  partially automatic and operators had to be close to them. Operators could only stand about 15 minutes at a time on what was called the layer. He and his brother John were partners for years until the machines became fully automatic.  He worked in Sapulpa making fruit jars, Okmulgee making perfume bottles, and Wichita Falls, Texas again making fruit jars. During the depression he worked at anything available, which often times was'nt much.  In 1940 the family was living in Wichita Falls when the word went out that experienced machine operators were needed by the Owens Illinois Glass company in California.  Hank moved his family to the little town of Castro Valley, Califormia.  WWII started in 1941 and the family stayed in the house in Castro valley until 1946 when Hank, Fannie and the two youngest kids moved to a small dairy farm near  Hilmar, California.  In 1951 they moved to Missouri near the town of Anderson.  Hank and Fannie stayed on this farm until he became ill in 1961.  They moved to Neosho, Missouri, and remained there until his death in December of 1964.

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Henry McHughes (only his mother was allowed to call him Henry) he was always known as Hank, was born on his Grandpa Simpson McHughes' farm about halfway between Ramer and Gravel Hill, Tennessee.  Gravel Hill later became known as Eastview. He grew up in that part of the state.  He told of watching the huge monuments that were brought down the Tennessee River and off loaded at Pittsburgh landing, for the  Shiloh National Monument at the Shiloh Battlefield of Civil War Fame.  He also told of his first job in the Tennessee pine woods as a "dustmonkey" in one of the sawmills.