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.]