John A. Hudgins was born in Virginia in November, 1840. He enlisted in Co. C, 54th VA Inf., Capt. James Craig Taylor's Co. in September, 1861 at Christiansburg, Montgomery County, VA. He was about 21 years old and he served "until the close of the war". Just after the war, at the age of 26, he married Victoria A. Walters and they had five children.They were married 15 April 1867. They lived in Montgomery County until just before 1900 when they moved to Tazewell County. According to his 1905 application - made in Tazewell County - for a Virginia Confederate pension he was a farmer "all my life". He made the application based on the revised 1902 pension claim law and on the basis that he had "fallen from a horse in 1898" which left his right shoulder injured ("stoved up") and caused him to have lost most of the use of his right arm. He stated further that he had fallen "on the ice and brook (sic) my wrist and my feet is give out so I can't hardly walk on them". His claim noted that he depended on his sons to do most of the farm work. He is included in the 1909 Tazewell County Confederate Pension List with the notation (1902). His wife, Victoria, died in 1925. John A. Hudgins died in 1929. They are both buried in Bluefield, WVA. . (Quotes are direct from pension application)

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