Lowndes County AlArchives Biographies.....Caffey, Hugh William, Dr. February 20, 
1833 - October 15, 1919
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Source:  Confederate Veteran Vol. XXVIII (1920)


DR. HUGH WILLIAM CAFFEY

Dr. H. W. Caffey died at his home, in Verbena, Chilton County, Ala., on October 
15, 1919, aged eighty-six years.

He was the oldest child of Hugh Patrick and Jane Caroline (Dunklin) Caffey and 
was born near Lowndesboro. Lowndes County, Ala., on February 20. 1833.  His 
father removed to Montgomery in 1836, and on his death, in 1847, the family went 
to Collirene, in Lowndes County, where Hugh Caffey grew to manhood. At eighteen 
years of age he united with the Bethany Baptist Church, and during the years 
since he had held important connections with his Church, of which he was 
ordained deacon in 1859.  He graduated in medicine at Charleston, S. C. in 1855 
and in January 1856, he was married to Miss Jerusha May Rives, daughter of Green 
Rives, of Collirene.  His wife died in September 1861, leaving a son and two 
daughters.  On April 18, 1862, Dr. Caffey enlisted as a private in Company G, 
44th Alabama Infantry, Capt. Thomas C. Daniel, with Col. James G. Kent in 
command of the regiment, which was sent immediately to Virginia.  Dr. Caffey was 
then derailed to work in the hospital at Drewry's Bluff, and when his regiment 
went to Maryland he was sent with the sick :o Richmond, where in the fall of 
1862 he was promoted to assistant surgeon with the rank of captain.  Failing to 
get approval of his request to be assigned to service with his regiment, he 
served until the end of the war in the surgeon-general's department and was 
paroled at Salisbury, N. C., after the surrender of Joseph E. Johnston's army.

Returning home. Dr. Caffey took up the practice of his profession and the 
management of his farm.  His second wife, who survives him, was Miss Alabama 
Gordon, a daughter of Maj. Francis Gordon, of Gordonsviile, Ala. They were 
married October 23, 1865, and to them were born three sons and one daughter, all 
living.  He was county superintendent of education of Lowndes County from 1868 
to 1871; Worshipful Master of Masonic Lodge, 1870; Chairman Lowndes County 
Democratic Executive Committee, 1872 to i875; Judge of Probate and County Court, 
Lowndes County, 1880 to 1886.  Removing to Verbena, Ala., in December. 1886. Dr. 
Caffey united with the Baptist Church there and was made deacon.  In late years 
he had been a member of the Chilton County Board of Revenue, Chairman of the 
County Confederate Pension Board, and a member of the Board of Control of the 
Confederate Soldiers' Home at Mountain Creek. Ala., and he was also justice of 
the peace of Chilton County for ten years. There was no L. C. V. Camp convenient 
for him ;o join, but Dr. Caffey was always ready and willing to help his old 
companions.