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Walter Gwynn Hudgins

Merchant Marine. American

Born  24 Dec 1886Gwynn’s Island, Mathews County, VA
Died  28 May 1947(60)Hampton, VA

Roster information listed for Walter Gwynn Hudgins


ShipTypeRank / roleAttacked onBoat
BarbaraSteam merchantMaster7 Mar 1942U-126
ElizabethSteam merchantMaster21 May 1942U-103

Personal information

Son of Robert Elliott and Martha Louisa Hudgins, of Gwynn’s Island, Mathews County, VA; husband of Elizabeth Wynne Hudgins, of Baltimore, MD. On Gwynn’s Island he lived directly across the Edwards Creek from his cousin, Walter Gwynn Edwards, both descendants of John Gwynn and Mildred Reade, Humphrey Gwynn and Martha Peyton, Houlder Hudgins and Frances Gwynn, and Walter Gwynn and Dorothy Reade (married in 1763). His home was adjacent to the Hudgins-Edwards Family Cemetery on the island.

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