FATHER: Robert J. Hudgins
MOTHER: Elvira Willard
MARRIED: Delilah Jane Wainwright (1845-1909)
July 12, 1866 (Montgomery Co., VA)
OCCUPATION: Farmer
CHILDREN:
LAURA GREEN HUDGINS (WALTERS)
(1867-1937)
Nannie Viola Hudgins (Coleman) (1868- )
Nora V. Hudgins (Wainwright) (1871- )
Robert Oakley Hudgins (1875- )
James Monroe Pridmore Hudgins (1877- )
Emma M. Hudgins (Holland) (1879-1907)
Bertha Hudgins (Jackson) (1882- )
John Hampton Hudgins (1884- )
Occupation: Farmer
Both of James' parents were born in Virginia, according to the 1880 census. The census also gives his birth year as 1849. Other records I've seen indicate 1847. It's possible that he was born in 1849 and lied about his age to join the Confederate army, though that would have made him 15 years old when the war ended!
Around 1850, James and his family moved from Prince Edward County to Montgomery County, VA along with several other families via wagon train. James became the first Hudgins to be married in Montgomery County.
James was a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, serving in the 54th Infantry Co. C (in and out as a private according to his general index card). Other records also list him as serving in the 9th Infantry Regiment Co. K (in as a sergeant and out as a private according to his general index card), and the 41st VA Regiment Co. E (in and out as a private according to his general index card). These may be other James Hudginses from Virginia, though. On April 3, 1865--just six days before Lee's surrender at Appomattox--he was captured in Petersburg, VA and held prisoner on Hart's Island in New York Harbor. He was released in Dinwiddie, VA on June 14, 1865.
The family story goes that soon after their marriage, James and Delilah got into a covered wagon and moved to Jackson, Ohio. This is where their first child, Laura, my great-great-grandmother, was born.
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