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Confederate Veteran, February, 1922.
Capt. WILLIAM J. HUGHES, who died at
his home in Shreveport, La., on April 13, 1921, was born in Chester,
S.C., August 29, 1837. The family removed to Alabama in his early
childhood and thence to Louisiana just before the beginning of the War
Between the States. He enlisted in Company D, of the 9th Louisiana
Regiment and served gallantly as a soldier of the Confederacy. After the
war he was married to MISS MARY CLARK, of Bossier Parish. He was a
merchant and planter at Rocky Mount for a number of years, but removed
to Shreveport in 1910 and made his home there permanently. He was laid
to rest in the Rocky Mount cemetery. He was a fine type of citizen and
his passing was widely mourned.
[ John T. Pearce, Commander General,
Louisiana Division U.C.V.]
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