Her brother William was the former husband of Elliott. She was married three times, reverting to her maiden name of Hughes after her divorce from her second husband, John Clevenger, in She was the daughter of Charley and Mary Hughes. Hughes married Charles O. Alexander in Howard County on April 26, The marriage was short-lived, as she was married for the second time on February 23, , to John Clevenger in Howard County.
In , they were living at North McCann, and he was a teamster. John was by then a dealer in livestock. By the time of the census, the couple were living at North Buckeye Street in Kokomo, where John's occupation was listed as a laborer, [ 12 ] but the city directory for the same year listed Hughes as living on her own at South Locke.
Hughes' husband, Clevenger, was well known to Kokomo police and had been convicted on liquor violations. On August 16, , he brought a suit for divorce , charging that Sylvia refused to fix his meals, was constantly away from home and was 'in evil associations'. Clevenger and Frank Wallace, a parolee from Michigan City , beat Williams so severely that he was hospitalized for two weeks.
Elliott enlisted the help of Clevenger, and the residence at Fernwood Avenue was purchased. Confessions of Ed Shouse , an associate of Dillinger, placed members of the gang in Terre Haute before the robberies of the Peru police station and the Central National Bank in Greencastle.
Hughes died on January 7, , in Michigan City, Indiana , at the age of Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. American prostitute. Michigan City, Indiana , US. Early life [ edit ].
