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James H. Hughen died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. B. Gentry, in Saline County, Ark., on January 18, 1922. He was born in South Carolina, July 21, 1826, but his parents moved to Georgia while he was young. He united with the Methodist Church at the age of eighteen, and was teacher and superintendent of a Methodist Sunday School sixty-one years. He was living in Jackson County, Ala., when the War between the States came on. He loved the Southland, and bared his breast against the invading foe. Joining the 4th Alabama Regiment under Captain Smyth, he followed General Forrest in many of his campaigns. When the war ended he returned to his home to find it almost completely destroyed. In 1871 he took his family to Arkansas and there made his home until the summons came calling him away from the trials of life. Slowly and peacefully he sank to rest. He was nearly blind for two years, but, during the last year his eye sight retunred. He read the VETERAN, and readt the Testament through six times. [Mrs. C. B. Gentry, Slocomb, Ark.]
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, March, 1922.
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