James Douglas Hudson

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: 1922 - , , West Virginia, USA
    Christening: 
          Death: 1951
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: killed in Austria with C.I.C.

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Parents

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         Father: Roland Banks Hudson
         Mother: Bessie P. Parker

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Notes

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General:

Per Decendants of Lynn Banks Hudson a 9 page typed family history
I. Jenings 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 1930 US Census 4/14/1930 2302 Bland St. Bluefield City, Mercer, West Virginia
Roland B. Hudson is the 44 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 proprietor of a retail grocery and is not a veteran. He is married to 43 year old Bessie Hudson who was born in Virginia as were her parents. When they first married Roland was 27 and Bessie was 26. They have 5 children, all born in West Virginia and attending school: 16 year old daughter Mary Ann Hudson; 15 year old son Roland Hudson Jr; 13 year old daughter Dorothy P. Hudson; 11 year old son John W. Hudson; and 8 year old son James D. Hudson. Also living with the family is 71 year old mother-in-law Annie S. Parker, a widow. Annie was born in Virginia, her father in Georgia, her mother in Virginia. When Annie first married she was 25.

Per 1940 US Census 4/12/1940 2310 So Blank, Beaver Pond Twshp, Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia
Roland B. Hudson is the 54 year old white male head of household, who owns his home valued at $12,000. Roland was born in Georgia, his father in Kentucky, his mother in Georgia. He and the entire family lived in this same house in 1935. Roland, who finished 4 years of high school, is the owner of a retail grocery store and worked 78 hours the last week of March. In 52 weeks of work in 1939 he did not earn wages but had other income over $50. His wife, 53 year old Bessie Hudson, was born in Virginia, finished 4 years of high school, and is the respondent for this survey. They have 4 children living at home, all born in West Virginia: 22 year old daughter Dorothy Hudson, 4 years high school, does home housework; 21 year old son John Hudson, 4 years of high school, works as a clerk in a retail grocery store, 78 hours the last week of March, and earned $718 in 52 weeks work in 1939; 18 year old son Douglas Hudson, 4 years of high school, 78 hours the last week of March, earned $480 in 26 weeks work in 1939; and 9 year old son Lynn Hudson, attends schhol and has finished 3rd grade.