Dr. David Houston Hudgins of Forney, Texas, physician for 54 years, died at his home on June 25, 1955 of a cerebral vascular accident. He was born to Anderson Pierce Hudgins and Eliza Skelton Hudgins in Scottsboro, Alabama, on March 2, 1868. He came to Texas with his parents in 1880 to settle in Grapevine. He finished his preliminary education there, and graduated from the old Memphis (Tennessee) Medical College in 1894. He interned at a state hospital in Little Rock Arkansas. Following his internship, Dr. Hudgins practiced six years in Crandall, Texas and moved in 1901 to Forney, where he practiced until his retirement in 1949.
Having been a member of the Texas Medical Association since 1904 through the Kaufman County Medical Society, he was elected to honorary membership in 1951. He had served for 17 years as secretary of his county society, was its delegate for 20 years, and was president three times. He was vice-president of the Texas Medical Association in 1928, a past president of the North Texas Medical Society, a member of the American Medical Association, and a charter member of the Fifty Year Club. He kept up with advances in medicine by taking postgraduate courses every five years until he was 60 years old, and had studied in New Orleans, Philadelphia and New York City.
Dr. Hudgins was a member of the Christian Church, the Lions Club and was for many years a member of the Forney Independent School's board of directors. He was a member of the medical advisory board in the selective service system during World War II, and received a medal for his services.
On November 15, 1896, Dr. Hudgins married Miss Nannie Elizabeth Anthony in Crandall. They had two children, and Mrs. Hudgins died in 1909. Miss Mary Alice Pinson became Dr. Hudgins' second wife on April 2, 1913, in Forney. She survives, as do a daughter Miss Inez A. Hudgins of Ridgewood, New Jersey, a son Jack W. Hudgins of Dallas; one brother Dr. Benjamin E. Hudgins of Dallas, two grandchildren and one great grandchild.
= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, September 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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