1846-????
Adoniram Judson Huggins
Soldier MA/KY
In February of 1846, during his only furlough to the U. S., Adoniram Judson, Jr., made the request in Richmond, VA, that if the North rattled sabers to begin a war over slavery, “I hope they would be met, on the part of the South, with dignified silence.” Census records report that Adoniram Judson Huggins was born that same year, the son of Eri Huggins and Samantha B. Huggins.
- +In the 1850 census, Adoniram J. Huggins is 4 years old and reported as an inhabitant of Acton, MA, living in the household with Eri Huggins, a farmer, along with his mother, Samantha Huggins (age 42) and 5 siblings.
- +The Massachusetts state census of 1855 reports that his father was a shoe peddler and that James Kidder, age 83, was living with the family.
- +The 1860 federal census lists Adoniram Judson Huggins, age 14 is an inhabitant of West Acton, MA, in household dwelling #170 living with Eri Huggins, age 50, a farmer, and 4 other family members.
- +But in 1865, Adoniram Judson Huggins, age 19, is reported as a Solider in Service, from Acton, MA.
A. Judson was attached to Company A, Twenty-sixth Massachusetts Infantry, and served throughout the entire period of the war. Although he escaped the assailing shot and shell of the enemy during all of this long and trying period, it was his fate to be the victim of an explosion soon after the war, being killed in a locomotive explosion in Bowling Green, Ky.[1]
The name A. Judson Huggins is recorded on the Acton, Massachusetts, Memorial Library Soldiers’ Tablet as one of “The Men of Acton Who Fought For The Union.”
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[1] Adoniram Judson Huggins, https://www.actonmemoriallibrary.org/civilwar/records/huggins_adoniram_judson.html