Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Duggar, Henry 1827 - 1866
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    HENRY DUGGER was a native of Virginia, and removed from Petersburg, that
state, to Gallion, Ala., about 1840, locating on a large plantation. Previous to
coming to Alabama he was a merchant, but after coming to Alabama he followed
farming. He was married twice, his first wife being a Miss Stark, of a highly
respectable family of Virginia. She bore him two children, a daughter and a son,
the former dying in infancy. The son was named Henry B. Dagger. The mother died
in Virginia, and the father married for his second wife a Miss Vaughan, who-bore
him six sons and one daughter. Mr. Dugger removed his family to Alabama, as has
been stated, about 1840, and died in 1852 or 1853 upon returning from a visit to
his friends in Virginia. His widow still lives in Gallion. Henry B. Dugger was
born in Petersburg, Va., in 1827, and enlisted in Virginia for the Mexican war.
He served through that war, and his widow now receives a pension for his
services. He was one of the crew of a vessel belonging to the United States navy
that visited Africa under Commodore Skinner, an uncle of his, just before the
late Civil war. He returned to the parental home in Alabama after the Mexican
war, and married Miss Sarah W. Williams, a native of North Carolina, brought to
Alabama by her parents at an early day. She was of a highly respectable South
Carolina family. Her marriage to Mr. Dugger occurred in 1853, and they soon
after located in Greensboro, where he began keeping the Greensboro hotel. The
Civil war coming on, he enlisted as a private soldier and fought gallantly
through that, as he had done through the Mexican war. At the close of the latter
war he returned to Greensboro and again took charge of the hotel, which his wife
had kept during his absence in the army. In 1866 he was shot and killed in front
of his hotel in a personal encounter. His widow still survives, and resides in
Greensboro. His son, Greene W. Dugger, is now the proprietor of the Greensboro
hotel, succeeding his father in its management. He was born in Greensboro May
21, 1858. He received a fair education at the Southern university, leaving
school at the age of seven-teen and going on a farm in Hale county, which he
managed from 1875 to 1887. In the spring of 1888 he took charge of the hotel,
which he still manages. In politics he is a democrat, yet he has never sought
office. In 1885 he married Miss Florence R. Anderson, of Hale county, by whom he
has two sons and one daughter. Mrs. Dugger is a daughter of Thomas I. Anderson,
now one of the oldest citizens of Hale county, formerly one of the most
extensive and wealthy planters in the county. The mother of Mr. Dugger is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and is a most exemplary
christian woman.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1060-1861
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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