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Rh Hudgins was married to Miss Lulie Langhorne, and they have seven children living.

Robert S. Hudgins, first commander of R. E. Lee camp, United Confederate Veterans, at Hampton, was born in Elizabeth City county, May 28, 1842. His ancestors, originally of Scotch origin, were for many years identified with the history of the colony and State, and several members of the family participated in the war of the Revolution. His father, Robert Hudgins, born in 1799, in Matthews county, died in 1860, was a wealthy planter and slave owner. He married Harriet Jones, daughter of Col. Thomas Jones, a prominent planter of King William county, whose wife was a daughter of Colonel McDowell, of the British army, and of an ancestry running back to the Howards of England. Mrs. Robert Hudgins had two brothers and one sister—Anderson; Franklin, who married Alice Monroe, sister of President Monroe, and Susan, who married Dr. Dew. Robert S. Hudgins was the youngest of five children: Benjamin F., who served during the Confederate war as captain of the Hampton Grays and died in 1894; Ella, who married James W. Downey, and now resides at Houston, Texas; Salina, who married Sidney S., son of Judge Philip Norbon Nichols, of Richmond, and now resides at New York city; and Annie, wife of Robert W. Drewry, of Richmond, now deceased. He was reared upon the farm and educated at John B. Cary's military academy at Hampton. He rendered his first service to Virginia and the Confederacy as a member of a volunteer company, on picket duty at Old Point Comfort as early as February, 1861. After the secession of the State he became a member of the Old Dominion Dragoons, organized at Hampton, and subsequently attached to the Third Virginia cavalry, Fitz Lee's brigade of Stuart's cavalry. His battles, begun at Big Bethel, were numerous, and the minor encounters with the enemy still greater in number. There was not a battle of the army of Northern Virginia in which the Third Virginia did not have some important part, either in the actual encounter or in the collisions which preceded or followed the main fight. He rode and fought with Fitzhugh Lee and Stuart to the end, and was within sight of the lamented Stuart when he fell at Yellow Tavern. He was finally paroled at Appomattox, having escaped without serious wounds, though he was struck several times by the enemy's missiles, and had his clothing frequently pierced. Since the return of peace he has given his attention to agricultural pursuits at the old home in Elizabeth City county, residing upon one of his farms until 1893, when he made his home at Hampton. He was one of the principal organizers of the Confederate camp at Hampton, and served as its first commander, previously having been a member of R. E. Lee camp, No. 1, at Richmond. On December 12, 1876, he married Mrs. Frances Ann Causey, widow of William Norris Causey, and daughter of Francis Schmelz, late of Hampton. They have a son, Robert S. Hudgins, Jr. Francis F. Causey, son of Mrs. Hudgins by her former marriage, is a promising young attorney of Hampton.

Colonel Frank Huger, born at Fortress Monroe, September 29, 1837, died at Roanoke, Va., June 11, 1897, was one of the most distinguished artillery officers of the First corps of the army of Northern Virginia He was a son of Gen. Benjamin Huger, of the United States and Confederate States armies, and a member of the noted South Carolina family of that name. Colonel Huger was graduated at West Point in 1860, in a class which included