Roland Banks Hudson Jr.
Sex: M
AKA: Rowland
Individual Information
Birth Date: 21 Jan 1915 - Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia, United States
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Events
• Residence: 20 Oct 1963, Pikesville, , Kentucky.
Parents
Father: Roland Banks Hudson
Mother: Bessie P. Parker
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Beth Caton
Marriage: 7 Jun 1939 - , Bland Virginia, USA
Notes
General:
Per Decendants of Lynn Banks Hudson a 9 page typed family historyMarriage Notes (Mary Beth Caton)
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 1920 US Census 1/22/1920 135 Adams St, Bluefield City, Mercer, West Virginia
Rowland B. Hudson is the 33 year old white male head of household, who owns his home free of mortgage. Born in Georgia, his father in Georgia, his mother in Alabama, He is self employed as a merchant in his retail grocery. His wife is 32 year old Bessie P. Hudson who was born in Virginia, her father in North Carolina, her mother in Virginia. They have 2 children, both born in West Virginia and attending school: 6 year old daughter, Mary A. Hudson; and 4 year old son, Rowland B. Hudson.
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 U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name:Roland Banks Hudson
Race:White
Age:25
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date:21 Jan 1915
Birth Place:Bluefield, West Virginia, USA
Residence Place: Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia, USA
Registration Date: 30 Oct 1940
Registration Place: Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia, USA
Employer: Pilot Life Insurance Company
Weight: 160
Complexion:Light
Eye Color:Blue
Hair Color:Blonde
Height:5 10
Next of Kin:Roland B Hudson
Household Members:
NameRelationship
Roland Banks Hudson Self (Head)
Roland B HudsonFather
Per Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) Jul 13, 1965 Page 22
Property Transfers (the figure is the total value of tax stamps on the deed at the rate of 55 cents for each $500 of the total cash involved)
Robert G. and Donna C. Hettrick to Roland B. Hudson Jr. and Mary Beth Hudson, Lane Allen Road $34.10. [$34.10 / .55 * $500 = $31,000]
Per Lexington Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) Jan 02, 1970 Page 3
[photo of Roland B. Hudson Jr.]
Excellent Insurance Firms Represented By Local Corp.
...
Commercial Insurance Service Corporation has been in operation here since 1965, and is well known, particularly among Eastern Kentucky coal operators.
Roland B. Hudson Jr., president of the firm, has been active in the insurance field for 20 years. Mr. Combs, prior to assuming his position as vice-president of the organization, served in the Southeast Coal Company for 20 years.
"Your inquiries on any insurance matter are invited" state Mr. Hudson. "Proposals and quotations are furnished without obligation."
"We also welcome the opportunity to tell you more about ourselves, and the companies we represent, which are among the oldest and strongest in the industry."
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Per Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) Mar 28, 1971 Page 40
Officers Elected
New officers of the Independent Insurance Agents of Lexington, Inc., include William W. Davis Jr., Security planning Inc., president; Frank R. Purdy, Purdy & Cooke Agency, Inc., vice president, and Ben F. Buckley, Buckley & Co., secretary-treasurer.
Directors include Gene McMurray, of Powell, Walton, Milward, Inc.; Roland B. Hudson Jr. Commercial Insurance Service, Inc.; Don Rose, Carpenter-Warren, Inc.; Richared Arnspiger, R. Arnspiger Insurance, and Tom J. Porter Jr. Al Torstick, Torstrick Insurance Agency, is a state director.
Per Certificate of Marriage, Commonwealth of Virginia
Groom: Roland Banks Hudson, Jr. 24 years old, white single
Bride: Mary Beth Caton 21 years old, white, single
Roland is a salesman, was born in Bluefield, W. Va. His father is Roland Banks Hudson, his mother Bessie Parker. Roland lives at 2310 Bland Road, Bluefield, W. Va.
Mary was born in Huntington, W. Va. Her father is Julian Earl Caton, her mother Pearl Adkins. Mary lives at 501 Albemarle St., Bluefield, W. Va.
Marriage occurred June 7, 1939 in Bland Co., Va. Performed by M. D. Newton, minister of the Presbyterian church.