TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - OBITUARIES - Hugh D. Dudley, 3 Feb 1911
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"Clinch Valley News’
Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA
Friday Feb 10, 1911

Pioneer Citizen Dead

   At the home of his  son, James Dudley, in West graham, last Thursady
at 1 o’clock, Hugh D. Dudley, one of the most respected citizens of
Tazewell County, passed to this eternal reward. The deceased was in his
eighty-ninth years and has been in failing health for the past two
years. A few weeks ago he began to grow weaker, and medical assistance
could not turn his condition for the better.

   Funeral services were conducted at the home Friday afternoon by Rev.
George S. Mc Cleary, of the Christian church and the remains were taken
to Pulaski county and laid to rest, near Dublin beside his wife, who
preceded to the grave by forty-seven years.

   Mr. Dudley reared a family of seven children, three sons and four
daughters, all of whom survive him. They are Mrs. J. C. Fink,  of Falls
Mills,; Mrs. Mary J. Brown, Pampa , Texas; Mrs. J. G. Mc Guire,
Shraders, Va.; Mrs. Maggie E. Thompson, of Rocky Gap, Va; W. E.  and D.
W.  Dudley, La Folette, Tenn.; and James F, Dudley,  all of whom
attended the last sad rites except Mrs. Brown, who, on account of her
health was unable to visit her father during his last illness.

   Mr. Dudley was born August 17, 1822, near Mt Airy, N. C, and when a
boy started with his parents and two of his father’s brothers for
Indiana, but travel in those days was slow and many hardships were met
with, so his father was forced to abandon the trip after reaching
Pulaski county, where the family located, and where the deceased resided
until the early fifties, when he come to Tazewell county in search of
cheaper land, and bought the R. A. Harrison farm near falls Mills, where
he was a permanent resident since1864, until after he sold the land to
the railroad company, more than two years ago.

   He served in the Confederate army until Lee’s surrender. His wife
died in 1864.

 [Cynthia J, Dudley married James C. Fink
 Frances B. Dudley married James Gratton Mc Guire
 William E. Dudlley, married twice (1) Margaret L. Gillespie (2) Minnie
B. Etter
 David W. Dudley married Celia J. ‘Jenny’  (surname?)
 James F. Dudley married Evelena/Elvina Tabor, d/o John T. Tabor &
Elizabeth Crockett
 Mary Jane Shuffleberger, d/o Elias & Nancy Shuffleberger, died 5 July
1864].


Related article:
Friday, February 10, 1911

Mr. Dudley Administrator

   James F Dudley, Hockman, was here on Wednesday to qualify as
administrator of the estate of his father, whose death occurred
recently. The estate amounts, perhaps to something like $18, 000,
chiefly in notes and bonds, Some years ago Mr. Dudley sold his farm at
Falls mills for $25,00, a part of the proceeds of which he dispensed
before his death.

   Of the members of the family present here on Wednesday were Mr. and
Mrs. J. C.Fink, of falls Mills, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Mc Guire, Shraders,
Mrs. H. J. Thompson, Rocky gap, D. W. and W. E. Dudley , of la Folette,
Tennessee

Karen EAGLE Moman
arizonaeagle@qwest.net
July 17, 2002


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