Hightower Hudson
Sex: F
AKA: Hyte
Individual Information
Birth Date: 3 Mar 1872 - , , Georgia, United States
Christening:
Death: 11 Apr 1936 - 413 Blvd N.E., Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States
Burial:
Cause of Death: chronic pulmonary tuberculosis
Find A Grave ID: 29807266
Events
• Residence: 27 Mar 1931, Atlanta, DeKalb, Georgia.
Parents
Father: William Butler Hudson {FGID: 15951648}
Mother: Eliza Smith {FGID: 15951657}
Spouses and Children
1. *Baldwin B. Davis
Marriage:
Children:
1. Dorothy Davis
Notes
General:
Per Decendants of Lynn Banks Hudson a 9 page typed family history
I. Jennings Price Hudson b. February 26, 1838; d. June 26, 1913
The following information has been gathered through the kind cooperation of some of the many grand-children and great grand-children and is preserved here in loving memory of our common ancestors and gallant forebears for the benefit of the youngest living and those yet to come.
There are, as yet unconfirmed, reports that the ancestors of Lynn Banks Hudson came from England and settled in Virginia. According to Amherst County, Va., official records Joshua Hudson, Jr. married Elizabeth Banks on November 1, 1784. His father, for whom he was named, was very much alive as were his brothers and sisters: i.e. Sarah Hudson "right, Rush Hudson, Mary Hudson Dawson, Elizabeth Hudson Dennis (Joshua, Jr.) Reuben Hudson, George Hudson, Frances Hudson Tate, Ann Hudson Gillespie, Lucy Hudson Sandidge, Peggy Hudson Childress, Molly Hudson Balenger, Rachel Hudson Mills, Patsy Hudson Rucker. They were mentioned in his father's will in 1801, as was his father's brother, Robert Hudson's, heirs: i.e. Bennett Hudson, Edmund Hudson, and Permelia Hudson, his first cousins.
The tax rolls of Virginia show only one Joshua Hudson in Amherst County in 1783. Presumably, Joshua, Jr. was still living at home. Lincoln County, Ky. tax rolls show a Joshua Hudson in 1787, and those of Fayette County, Ky. show a Joshua Hudson on February 26, 1790. Joshua Hudson, Jr.'s will was probated in 1793. His executors were his father and his brother Reuben. He left two children, Nancy Hudson and Horatio Hudson, "infants." So Horatio must have been born about 1787. Hence he would have been 14 when his grandfather died in 1801.
The Garrard County, Ky., census for 1810 shows Oratio Hudson "under 26" (he would be 23), married, the father of two boys under 10. The 1820 census record shows Arasha Hudson "26-45", married; with a son "10-16" and three boys and a girl "under 10." The first mention in the Garrard County land grant books has Arasha Hudson buying 242 acres on Sugar Creek in 1827.
There were 17 in his household in 1830, including 6 slaves: Arstia "40-50", is wife, 2 sons "20-30", 1 son "15-20", a boy and a girl "10-15", 2 sons "5-10", and a boy and a girl "under 5." In 1832 he bought 75 more acres and finally in 1835 Arasha Hudson bought 45 more acres, all on Sugar Creek. These children were Joshua and James, Washington B., Lynn Banks and Nancy, Isaiah B.. and Reuben, and Melvina and Commodore Perry Hudson. (According to W. W. Clayton's History of Davidson County, Tennessee, there was another daughter, Mary Louisa) Lynn Banks and Isaiah married sisters: the latter marrying Margaret Schooler; the former, Eliza Schooler.
Lynn Banks Hudson was born January 3, 1816. He studied medicine and in 1837 (?) married Eliza, the daughter of Margaret Royston and Benjamin Schooler. Eliza was born August 15 1817 and died November 12, 1886. Dr. L. B. Hudson died January 27, 1897. They had 11 children, all born at the Sugar Creek farm. Dr, Hudson was a surgeon in the Confederate Army. In 1866, Dr. Hudson moved to Fern Creek, Two Miles Precinct, Newberg Post Office Jefferson County, Ky. The Garrard County, Ky. census of June 8, 1860 revealed that he owned real estate valued at $17,000 and a personal estate valued at $25,000, and listed him as an M. D. In the census of Jefferson County, June 4, 1870 his real estate was valued at $47,900 and his personal estate at $10,000. The house, 10 miles out of Louisville on the Bardstown Road, is now the Wildewood Country Club, The children were:
I. Jennings Price Hudson b. February 26, 1838; d. June 26, 1913
II. Lytle Royston Hudson b. 1839; d.
III. Benjamin Dudley Hudson b. April 5, 1840; d. March 1, 1885
IV. Eliza Hudson b. 1842, d. May, 1922
V. WIlliam Butler Hudson b. June 19, 1844; d. April 7, 1902
VI. An infant son b. December 13, 1845; d. January 19, 1846
VII. Lynn Washington Hudson b. 1846; d. 1933
VIII. An infant son b. June 16, 1849; d. 1849 (?)
IX. Nancy Hudson b. September 6, 1853; d. February 25, 1906
X. John Banks Hudson b. April 6, 1856; d. April 25, 1881
XI. Allan Burton Hudson b. November 21, 1858; d. June 12, 1897.
In July 1895 Dr. Hudson told his grand-daughter, Elizabeth Mae Mathers, that his father and mother, Horatio Hudson and Margaret Banks, had come to Kentucky in a covered wagon from Culpepper County, Va. with her parents, John Banks, and Mary Collier Banks, They were related, possibly cousins. He thought Horatio's mother was a Miss McKenzie. (But see the Amherst County records above.)
Dr. L. B. Hudson's fifth child, William Butler Hudson, married Eliza Smith (. April 24, 1845); d. March 27, 1931) known as Booty. They had nine children: Cleone Hudson (b. 18 ?; d. ?); Hightower Hudson (b. March 3, 1868; d. April 11, 1936); William Butler Hudson, Jr. (b. 18 ?); d. November 1, 1928); James Lynn Hudson (b. March 13, 1877); Robbie Hudson (b. August 1878; d. May 13, 1879); Lois Hudson (b. 18 ?); Hammond Hudson (b. March 1881; d. May 17, 1884); Ruth Hudson (b. 188?); Roland Banks Hudson (b. 1886).
A. Cleone Hudson married ? Eastman. They had no children.
B. Hightower (Hyte) Hudson married B. Davis (b. May 4, 1870) and they had one daughter, Dorothy Davis (b. 18 ?). Mr. Davis lives at Atlantic Beach, Fla.
1. Dorothy Davis married Harry Bixby (b. 18 ?). They live at Atlantic Beach, Fla.
C. William Butler Hudson, Jr. apparently never married.
D. James Lynn Hudson married Flora Blanche Breeding (b. ?). They live at 309 N. Piedmont Ave., Arlington, Va.
F. Lois Hudson married ? Bartlett (b. 18 ?). She lives at Atlantic Beach, Florida (Box 1255).
H. Ruth Hudson married Frank B. Bryan (. 18 ?). They had three sons: Lynn Hudson Bryan (b. 1910); Frank B. Bryan, Jr. (b. 1914); and William David Bryan (b. 1919). They live at Nettleton, Miss. (Box 192).
1. Lynn Hudson Bryan married Myrtle Johnson (b. 19 ?), and they have two children: Lynn Hudson Bryan, Jr. (b. 1934) and Margaret Bryan (b. 19 ?). They live at Tupelo, Miss.
2. Frank B. Bryan, Jr. married Eleanor Wallace (b. 19 ?) on April 7, 1940 and they have two children: Eleanor Wallace Bryan (b. 1946) and Susan Bryan (b. 1949). They live at Tupelo, Miss.
3. William David Bryan married Marjorie Yates (b. 19 ?), and they have two children: Kay Bryan (b. 1946) and William David Bryan, Jr. (b. 1951). They live at Greenwood, Miss.
I. Roland Banks Hudson married Bessie Parker (b. 188?), and they had six children: Mary Anna Hudson (19 ?); Roland Banks Hudson, Jr. (b. 19 ?); Dorothy Parker Hudson (b. 1918; d. 1948); John William Hudson (b. 1919); James Douglas Hudson (b. 1922; d. 1951, killed in Austria with C.I.C.); Wesley Lynn Hudson (b. 1932). They live at 5444 S.W. 57th St., Miami 3, Fla.
1. Mary Anna Hudson married Jack McClaugherty (b. 19 ?), and they have a daughter, Susan McClaugherty (b. 1939) They live at Bluefield W. Va. (Box 215).
2. Roland Banks Hudson, Jr. married Mary Beth Caton (b. 19 ?), and they have four children: Roland Banks Hudson III (b. 1940); Nina Hudson (b. 1942); Joe Hudson (b. 1947); and Anne Hudson (b. 1951). They live at 2455 Clifmont, Bluefield, W. Va.
3. Dorothy Hudson married ?, but there were no children.
4. John William Hudson married Helen Maddox (b. 19 ?), and they have two children: John WIlliam Hudson, Jr. (b. 1949) and Joseph S. Hudson (b. 1951).
6. Wesley Lynn Hudson is a graduate of the University of Kentucky. He married Julia Blood (b. 19 ?), and they have two children: a daughter _____ (b. 19 ?) and Wesley Lynn Hudson, Jr. (b. 1953?). They live in New York.
Per 1880 US Census 6/14/1880 City of Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia
William B. Hudson is the 36 year old white male head of household, born in Kentucky, as were his parents. His occupation is keeper of livery stable. His wife is 30 year old Eliza B. Hudson, born in Georgia, as were her parents. She is keeping home. They have 5 children, all born in Georgia: 10 year old daughter, Ida C. Hudson, attends school; Hyte Hudson, 8 year old daughter, attends school; William B. Hudson, Jr., 6 year old son, attends school; James L. Hudson, 5 year old son, at house; and Lois Hudson, 3 year old daughter, at house.
Per 1920 US Census 1/10/1920 49 Virginia Avenue, Atlanta City, Fulton, Georgia
Baldwin B. Davis is the 49 year old white male head of household, born in Georgia as were his parents. He owns his home with a mortgage, and works as a saleman of wooden wares. His wife, 49 year old Hyte Davis, was born in Georgia, her father in Kentucky, her mother in Georgia. Their daughter, 24 year old Dorothy Davis, is single, born in Georgia, and works as a advertising solicitor for a newspaper.
Living with the Davis family is mother-in-law Elizabeth B. Hudson, a 75 year old widow, born in Georgia, as were her parents. Also living with them is brother-in-law 46 year old William B. Hudson, single, born in Georgia, works as an accountant for an Oil Co.
Per 1930 US Census 4/14/1930 1138 Highland Terrace N.E., Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia
Bradford B. Davis is the 59 year old white male head of household who owns his home valued at $10,000 and a radio set. Born in Georgia as were his parents, he is not a veteran but he is employed as a saleman in variety works. His wife is 58 year old Hyte Davis, who was born in Georgia, her father in Kentucky and her mother in Georgia. She works as a booker for Ryceam Agency. When they first got married Bradford was 20 and Hyte was 18. They have a daughter 32 year old Dorothy Beckham, divorced. Dorothy was born in Georgia and is unemployed.
Living with the family is mother-in-law Eliza B. Hudson, an 84 year old widow born in Georgia as were her parents. Also living in the house is sister-in-law Lois Bartlett, age 53, divorced, born in Georgia, who also works as a booker for Ryceam Agency.
Per Death Certificate
Mrs. Hyte Hudson Davis resided and died at 413 Boulevard N.E., Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia on April 11, 1936 of chronic pulmonary tuberculosis and confirmed by x-ray and sputum. She was a white female housewife, married, born March 3, 1863 in Georgia. Her father was W. B. Hudson of Kentucky, her mother Elizabeth Smith of Georgia. She is to be buried in Griffin, Georgia. Informant is Mrs. Dorothy D. Beckham.
Per Findagrave
Hyte Hudson Davis
BIRTH3 Mar 1872 Georgia, USA
DEATH11 Apr 1936 (aged 64) Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
BURIALOak Hill Cemetery Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia, USA
PLOTblock 14
MEMORIAL ID29807266