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F. M. Hudgens is a Virginian, his birth occurring November 30, 1836, and in that State his parents, Robert W. and Mary (Pittman) Hudgens, were also born, the latter being of English descent, a daughter of Thomas Pittman, and granddaughter of J. Pittman. Thomas Pittman’s wife was a Miss Rose, a daughter of Patrick Rose (his mother being Miss Fitzehugh) and whose wife was Mary Nicolas, of England (her mother being a Miss Fry) and J. Pittman’s wife was a Miss McCraw. Robert W. Hudgens moved to Arkansas in 1862, and is farming the land which he bought and homesteaded. His farm comprised 260 acres, of which fifty acres were bottom land. The average yield of cotton to the acre is about one-half bale, and corn from twenty-five to thirty bushels per acre, the amount of land he has under cultivation being 10’) acres. The immediate subject of this sketch received a limited education, but learned the carpenter’s trade from Gilbert Potter, of Maine, started out in life for himself, working at this trade, in which he did remarkably well. In 1861 he enlisted in Company A, Thirty-first Louisiana Infantry, and was at the battle of Indian Mound, and later at Port Gibson and Big Black Ridge, fifteen miles east of Vicksburg, from which place they fell back to Vicksburg, but was at the siege of Vicksburg. He moved to Arkansas in 1868. His first marriage occurred in 1860, his wife dying February, 1868, leaving one child, Virgie M., who is still living. His second marriage took place on July 4, 1869, to Miss Mildrid A. Hogue, a daughter of W. T. Hogue, a resident of Arkansas. They have a daughter married, who is the wife of Eugene Hill, of Ashley County. Mr. Hudgens has attained to the Blue Lodge in the A. F. & A. M., is a Royal Arch Mason, and also belongs to the K. of H. and O. E. S. Mr. and Mrs. Hudgens belong to the Missionary Baptist Church.