Having tracked the line of my husband's HUDSON and running into a brick wall at William Hudson born ca 1827 in Virginia (one one census) in England (on another) and "at sea" (where his daughter answered where he was born) who married an Emily Jane Cain in Evansville, Indiana and then shortly thereafter moved to Pulaski County, Illinois and the Villa Ridge area, I am amazed at people adding a "William Oliver Hudson" as his father. This, usually without any validating evidence at all, of course.
Evidence exists that an Abner Hudson, wife Elizabeth Mason Hudson did have a son named William Oliver Hudson. This family group was in Culpepper Co., Va.
An Alabama surname record (Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Surname Files Expanded, 1702–1981 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.) provides some important information:
"Dr. William Oliver Hudson, son of Abner and Elizabeth Mason Hudson, was born in Culpepper Co., Va June1, 1828, married Miss Mary E. Chambers in Uniontown, Ala...went out as a Sergeant of the Canebrake Rifleguards, 4th Ala Regt. and became a distinguished Division Surgeon. He died in Uniontown, Al..."
One source, William Oliver Hudson (1828-) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree, fleshes out some details and notes "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.
1850 Census: [2]
So, based on this information it appears that William Oliver Hudson was born about 1828 in Culpepper Co., Va and died before 1870 in Alabama (because his daughter was in someone else's care).
The conclusion is that this man is not the William Hudson who married Emily Jane Cain in Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana in 1868, moved to Mounds, Pulaski Co., ILL to be recorded on the 1880 census and had children Louis and Millie Hudson, in the home was Emily's son, Thomas Benjamin Cain. They are not found again and it is assumed Emily died before 1900 and a family legend indicates a possibility Wm died in Cairo area ILL circa 1910. Had to the this that one male descendant appeared to not have any connections to the line of Abner and Elizabeth Hudson and it seems certain these are not the same man.
Sources:
1860 Census, Woodville, Perry, AL ; pg 599, house 682 1855 US Census, Perry County, AL
↑ A source for this information is needed.
↑ ["United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M88B-786 : 9 November 2014), William O Hudson in household of Abner Hudson, Culpeper county, Culpeper, Virginia, United States; citing family 653, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).]
Census of 1850,
Will of Abner Hudson, 1868, listing the daughter of William O Hudson, who is in the custody of John L Chambers. Evidence in 1870 Census, Woodville, Perry, AL
Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Surname Files Expanded, 1702–1981 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.(Image and information above)
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