Jefferson Jimplecute, Thursday, 6 June 1912

Captain W. P. Hudgins

On the 24 May 1912, Captain W. P. Hudgins of Marshall, Texas departed 
this life in his 81st year. Captain Hudgins was born in Tappahannock, 
Essex County, Virginia in October 1831. He was a graduate of two colleges 
and a schoolteacher. When war came to Virginia, he enlisted as a private 
in the 40th Virginia Regiment and at the Battle of Gains Mill; he was 
severely and permanently wounded in his shoulder and arm.

In the year 1862, he was appointed as the head of P. O. and 
treasurer branches of the Trans Miss., Department. C. S. A. Judge John 
H. Reagan, Post Master General giving the appointment, and established 
his office at Marshall, Texas where he has resided ever since and raised 
his family. After the war in partnership with Colonel F. S. Bass he 
taught the leading school in Marshall for years. Later he became the 
local agent of the T. & P. Railroad Company at Marshall, which he held 
until the election of Grover Cleveland, president, who made him treasurer 
and Revenue agent in Texas with offices in Galveston and San Antonio. He 
held this position during both terms of President Cleveland’s Presidency. 
He was afterwards an agent for the North Western Life Insurance Company 
of Milwaukee and then the South Western of Texas until his increasing 
age and physical feebleness forced his retirement. He was a Mason and a 
member of W. P. Lane Camp U. C. V. held in highest love and esteem; these 
orders under the ministrations of two Christian members, Elders Tardy and 
Kramer laid him to rest by his son, W. T. Hudgins in Marshall’s City 
Cemetery.

He leaves his wife, two daughters and one son; Mrs. Rollin Rogers of 
Texarkana, Mrs. Monte Allen of Marshall and Frank Hudgins, civil 
engineer of Ft. Worth.