David Huddleston was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, on Oct. 6, 1801, the son of Jonathan and Phebe (Gardner) Huddleston.  In 1815 the family moved to Union County, Indiana.  There David Huddleston was married under Silver Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends on March 26, 1827 to Elizabeth Powell (1808-1891), daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Powell.             The Huddleston family split when the Hicksite Separation took place--David’s father and a sister became Hicksites, while he and other siblings remained with the larger Orthodox group.  David was active in the affairs of his monthly meeting (the name of which was changed to Salem in 1834) and in Indiana Yearly Meeting, although not without controversy.  In 1841 the monthly meeting charged him with various kinds of disorderly conduct, but the complaint was eventually dismissed.             In 1864, the Huddlestons moved to Dublin, Indiana, where David Huddleston operated a nursery.  As holiness revivalism, with its accompanying use of music, became common among Indiana Friends in the 1870s and 1880s, he was a hostile observer.  Occasionally he contributed articles critical of such innovations to the Philadelphia Friend.  His diaries reflect this skepticism and discuss his occasional confrontations with leading revivalists like David B. Updegraff.  David Huddleston died in Dublin on Oct. 14, 1890.

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