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Dr. Cecil L. Hudgins was one of two physicians who treated Hollena Brumfield after her ambush. At the time of the Lincoln County Feud, Dr. Hudgins lived in Logan, WV. Earlier today, I visited his grave in Ashland, Kentucky.
Dr. Cecil L. Hudgins was one of two physicians who treated Hollena Brumfield after her ambush. At the time of the Lincoln County Feud, Dr. Hudgins lived in Logan, WV. He later settled in Olive Hill, Kentucky. Earlier today, I visited his grave in Ashland, Kentucky.
Brandon Ray Kirk 
Do you have record or information on a Dr. Cudden that practiced in Logan? He operated the Cudden Clinic I think it was called.
I’m sorry, no. I’ll watch for the name.
I know a bit about Doctor Cudden but it is more in the way of anecdotes.
Doctor Cudden was a good friend and, at one time, a room-mate of my father Frank Moreno who immigrated to Logan circa 1930 from Spain. After working a short time in the mines my father learned to be a dental technician, but as he was making very little in his new profession he began sharing a room in 1932 with Doctor Cudden who was starting out in practice and was as poor as my father, so poor in fact that the doctor didn’t have a decent topcoat with which to take ladies on dates. My father spent much of the money he earned on clothes, had a nice navy blue topcoat, and often loaned it to the doctor for purposes of courting. My father fell in love with a young lady in Logan but she left to spend considerable time with family in Grant County; wanting to stay in touch with her but being unable to write English, my father had Doctor Cudden write weekly letters to her expressing father’s love. My father and the young lady married in 1932 and she, my mother, always joked that she actually fell in love with Doctor Cudden and his letters. During the WWII years, Logan boomed and everyone, my father and Doctor Cudden included, began making good money, and the doctor did well enough to open a large and successful clinic on Cole Street, and my parents took me there when young for treatment. I remember him as having a very good bedside manner and being very patient with me the times I cried when being treated. Doctor Cudden’s nurse at the clinic was a Mrs. Molnar.
There is a Cudden Street in Logan which would seem to be connected with the good doctor, but I cant be sure of that.