The Cairo Citizen 1888 (ipage.com)
The brick wall of William Hudson,, b ca 1827 Virginia (or England?) and died 1880-1910 may have just been lowered a tad.
According the transcript work of the page linked above an interesting story appeared in the Thursday Jan 5, 1888 issue of the Cairo Citizen, lifted from the Villa Ridge Voice..."Thursday, 5 Jan 1888: A sad accident happened to a man by the name of William Hudson, on Friday of last week. While cutting a tree, a limb fell, striking him on the head, crushing the skull and inflicting a necessarily fatal wound. He was still alive at last accounts."—Villa Ridge News
The 'Friday of last week" would have been Dec. 29, 1887. No death notices have been found but several interesting things happen post this event:
-1889, son Louis Hudson marries a Victoria Waters. Circumstantially, based on cemetery plot receipt, for the Cairo Cemetery, it is believed that Emily Cain Hudson died in 1886. She was listed as being sick with a bilious fever on the 1880 census in Mound City, Pulaski Co., IL. In that time period and in that location the area was afflicted by malaria, typhoid, and yellow fever (all of which were often labeled as bilious fever). The swampy conditions, frequent flooding, and proximity of a heavily traveled waterway meant illness were brought in and emerged naturally. Several severe tornadoes had ravaged the area in this window of time as well stirring up and then transmitting diseases due to contamination of water sources, illness, etc.
-In 1887, Wm Hudson's daughter Millie was a young girl, so with loss of mother than a father, she would have been left in the care of her elder brother Louis Hudson and half-brother Thomas Benjamin Cain. Louis may have married Victoria Waters in 1889 as a way to solve several problems.
-In the late 1880's and early 1890's Millie may have traveled with her mother's brother, Thomas Benjamin Carter. He was crippled from a wound in the Civil War and may have done some travel (based on a family story). Thomas B. Carter remained in contact with his nephew Louis Hudson and when he enters the soldiers hospital in Leavenworth, Kansas he lists Louis Hudson of Villa Ridge, Illinois as his next of kin .
To date, no record of any other William Hudson associated with Villa Ridge has presented itself. Anyone with data that confirms or contradicts the idea that this is the same William Hudson of the 1880 census of Mound City and whose grandson Jess Hudson, son of Louis will be born in Villa Ridge in 1890, please leave a comment and share what information you have. Or, visit my page on Ancestry on this man and message me.
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