These copied pages of the Family Bible of Bettie Harris Hudgins were given to me by my mother last year. Bettie was the wife of my great grandfather's brother Samuel Egbert Hudgins. Sam was the son of Thomas Hudgins and Lucy Rooker Hudgins.
1st page of Bible: Presented to Bettie Hudgings by S.E. Hudgings 1886
2nd page of Bible: Births
S. E. Hudgings was born Sept. 9th, 1854
Bettie Harris Hudgings was born Jan. 21st 1859
Laura Ethel Hudgings was born Aug. 26th ( date can't be seen)
Mary Eunice Hudgings was born July 30th 1881
Lucy Oneta Hudgings was born Nov.12th 1884
Samuel G****** Hudgings was born Jan. 2nd 1887
Daniel Hudgings was born Oct. 20th 1889
Jesse Hudgings was born Oct.29th 1894
Ernest Stuart Edwards was born Feb. 16th 1904 (notation Jackson, TN)
Lucy Emaline Hudgings was born Feb. 23rd, 1833
Laura Ethel Hudgings JR was born Shreveport, LA Feb. 8, 1908
Beverly Adrienne Hudgings born Jan. 2, 1935
Shreveport, LA
3rd page of Bible: Marriages
S. E. Hudgings and L. E. Harris ( notation at top says Lucy Elizabeth)
were married Oct. 22nd 1877.
E. O. Edwards and Mary Eunice Hudgings were married Feb. 6th 1902
J. Hal Price and Laura Ethel Hudgings were married Aug. 22, 1906
S. G. Hudgings and Maude Allen Satcher married April 21, 1907
C. E. Beck and Lucy Oneta Hudgings were married Jan. 12, 1908
Julian Harrison & Jesse Hudgings were married Aug. 6th 1914
Dan D. Hudgings and Bessie Lee Oliver married Aug. 1920
Beverly Adrienne Hudgings & Robert H. Seabrook were married June
16, 1958 in Covington, KY
4th page of Bible: Deaths
Newton Harris was born Aug. 14th 1801, died Aug. 14th 1882. Age 81 yrs.
Mrs. Nancy Harris was born Feb. 14, 1802, died May 24, 1893
Thos. Hudgings was born in Nottoway Co. VA April 20, 1795 died
Oct. 17, 1876
Rebecca ( Truitt) Hudgings was born in Nottoway Co. VA Aug. 4th 1771 died
in Gadsden, Tenn Aug. 12, 1858
S. E. Hudgings died Nov. 3, 1922
Bettie Harris Hudgings died Dec. 4, 1953 at 8:40 a.m.
Lucy Hudgings Beck died Nov. 2, 1961
Dan D. Hudgings died Aug. 13, 1962
Sam G. Hudgings died Oct. 24, 1965
I have to the best of my ability transcribed these pages. I do not know who made the entries of Bettie's death or the entries made after. I also do not know the whereabouts of the original Bible.
Joyce Ann Craig
