Minnie Hughan's suicide.

Minnie Hughan's last day was Monday, June 24, 1935.In the afternoon she told the superintendent of Twilight House, where she lived, that she was going to town. Instead,68 year old Minnie made her way to Watson's Bay in the suburb of Vaucluse. Watson's Bay is the location of the notorious cliff face known as The Gap, which has been the site of hundreds of suicides over the years.
While two horrified men looked on, she climbed the safety fence, threw her coat, handbag and hat onto the rocks, and launched herself off the top of the cliff. The drop is more than 200 feet onto rocks, and Minnie's death would not have been immediate as her cause of death was given as "asphyxia from drowning (suicide).
The police were called straight away, and the Water Police soon recovered Minnie's battered body from the waters of the Pacific Ocean.
The last of Allan and Phoebe Hughan's family was dead.I hate the thought of Minnie having no one to attend her funeral, although she did have several Hughan first cousins who were still alive and living in the general Sydney area at the time of her death.Her Aunt Bertha's children Roland Bishop, Myrtle Grant, Violet Ramsden and Daphne Bishop were all living in Sydney ( they died in 1946, 1942,1947 and 1969 respectively)...one would hope that they would have gone to farewell a cousin. Her uncle, Oscar Hughan, also had children living around Sydney and the Blue Mountains (Hubert in North Sydney, Oscar Milward in Bankstown and Wilfred in Islington), but Phoebe Hughan had a falling out with Oscar Hughan, her brother-in-law, before her death, so the two families may have been estranged.
The person who acted as informant on Minnie's death certificate was C. Mathews Drew, who was noted as being "cousin of deceased's husband, 2 Hunter Street, Sydney."
Minnie's body was taken to the Sydney Hospital, and then to the Northern Suburbs Crematorium, where she was cremated on June 25, 1935. Her mother Phoebe Hughan had been buried at Rookwood Cemetery- it is not known what was done with Minnie Hughan's ashes.