There is a brick wall on my husband's tree. A William Hudson b. ca1827 in a) Virginia (1880 response on census in Pulaski Co., IL, or, b) "at sea" a later response by his daughter on the census, or, c) England (1870 response on a census in Evansville, Vanderburgh, Ind. So - which one ? His son will say on census records that he was born in Indiana so no help there!!
Lately, someone has begun tacking on a middle initial or name "O" or "Oliver" and claiming the Pulaski Co., ILL William was the son of Abner Hudson and wife Elizabeth Mason. No documentation or proof provides evidence of this connection. No DNA matches have appeared with my husbands Ancestry tree. Everyone I have emailed with a query "where did you get this information?" shrugs and says "somewhere".
More credible records indicate that William Oliver Hudson, s/o Abner followed his family out of Virginia into Alabama.
WikiTree states: "William was born in 1828. He is the son of Abner Hudson and Elizabeth Mason. [1] He is recorded in the 1850 Census, Culpeper County, Virginia, living with his widowed father, Abner Hudson. In 1855 he is listed in the Perry County, Alabama Census alone. The census of 1860 in Uniontown, Perry, AL, shows his profession as Physician. (William O Hudson, in will filed in 1869 leaves the custody of his daughter, Aurelia, to John L Chambers of Perry County, AL. ) He was married about 1859 to M E Chambers, daughter of John and Mariah. They had a son Jack born in April 1860, and a daughter Aurelia, born 1862. In July 1869 Probate records of his father's estate, names him as deceased, and survived by his wife M E Hudson, and daughter Aurelia, left in the custody of John L Chambers, of Perry County. Aurelia's residence is substantiated by the 1870 census records" .[William Oliver Hudson (1828-) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree]
Surprisingly, this seems the most substantive information yet located concern this man!
So until then, my working theory involves two possibilities.
1. Wm Hudson more c 1827 in Virginia, md in Evansville, Ind and replied to the census with England because there were other Hudson/Hotson's in the area who had come from England a generation before and since. He replied because he was a southerner in post Civil War times when being such was often denied. Many simply went west to avoid answering.
2. Wm Hudson was born in England, or crossing the sea, to arrive, perhaps in Virginia. He married Emily Jane Kane/Cain in 1868 Evansville, then migrated to Pulaski Co., Ill.
When he died is assumed to be southern Illinois with a date between 1880 and 1910 (when one descended thought he remembered hearing of his death at then).
The two men -Wm Hudson and Wm O Hudson - were not the same man, Now, if some DNA will come along to match with my husband's on Ancestry!
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