SOME HUDSONS OF
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
I work with a brick wall called HUDSON. The earliest of the
line is a William Hudson born ca 1827 in either Virginia, England or “at sea”.
Those were the responses on two census records he answered and one his daughter
answered. The son said he was born in Indiana. So….
I have added all Hudson names found - and although I did not like labeling them by a racial designation - I know that it can save time if seeking a particular group if there are some filters at work. Alexander and Pulaski Counties have been frustrating for me in the past because of the way so many records were unavailable unless you could travel to Cairo, etc. Also, when Illinois made its marvelous move to place so many state records of marriages, etc. on line, they were two counties that were severely under represented. Isn't that the way with brick walls?
Also, knowing how difficult it can be to find help via some of the Hudson family associations (some of those genealogical groups acted more as gatekeepers than search assistants) and still today, while other surnames have published their DNA links on lines two to four generations removed, the Hudson name remains one locked up tight. If you are a Hudson from a line that may not have many twigs on it - you need all the help you can get and so that situation is a bit disappointing.
Here - in some minor way to help - are some HUDSON
family units noted from census records for southern ILLINOIS (Pulaski and
Alexander County mostly):
1850 Census
Alexander County, Illinois, Agriculture Census. Wesley
Hudson. White.
1860 Census:
Alexander County, ILL.
Agricultural census – Moses Hutson. White.
Hazelwood, Alexander Co., Ill Census, Dougala P.O.
Moses Hutson, 56, b. KY ; wife Leah 54, b. NC; Alice, 11 b.
ILL; Robert Carter or Curtis? 19 b. IL. White.
Union County,
Illinois. John W. Hutson, agriculture census. White.
1870 Census
Macoupin Co., IL
Wm Hutson, b ca. 1825, White, b. England; with wife Emily,
1831, white, b. England. Children Ann, William, Henry, Charles (all born IL)
and a 16 Almira Dober.
Mound City, Pulaski
Co., IL
Adrian Hudson, 30, b. Canada, White; naval officer; wife
Maggie, 20 b. Pennsylvania; occupants at the Mound City Hotel.
John Hudson, 49, b. Alabama, African American, wife Harriet
24, b. Missouri; Caroline, 2,b. IL, Margaret, 5 months b. Il.
Zach Hudson, 1846, Alabama, teamster, 24; Texannie b.1851,
Tennessee, 19. African American.
Cuba Hudson, d. Nov 1879, Mound City, Illinois. He was born
1842 in Louisiana and was 36 when he died of consumption. African American.
Township 16, Range 1 West, Pulaski Co., IL (this is roughly
the area of Villa Ridge, Il)
Robert Hudson, 29 b. England; wife Jeanette (Green) b. 30,
Scotland; son Lewis, 8 b. Illinois. Martha McGuire, 28, TN (domestic?) White.
Township 16, range 2 East, Pulaski Co., IL. Geo Hudson, 1845, Ohio, White, in the home of
a Wm and Elizabeth Gallaway.
Alexander County
Hazelwood, Alexander Co., IL
James F. Hutson, 47, b. Il. White; wife Mary E. b. TN;
Thomas H. 9 b.IL; Francis, female, 6n IL; Martha, 2 b. IL.
Unity, Alexander Co., Ill
Daniel Hudson, b. 1842, ILL; Mar J, 23, b. MO; Mary L., 8,
b. IL; Letitia Adams, 15, b. IL. White
Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill (North Cairo Precinct)
John Hudson, 14 b. IL, M.A. Hudson (female) 8, IL in home of
Peter Donnelly. White
Cairo, Alexander Co., ILL (South Cairo Precinct)
Susan Hudson, 13, b. 1857, Mo; residing with a family of
Lewis J, Bryne, 50 from Ireland, a carpenter and MA Bryne, 29, ILL; and B.
Stafford, Ireland. White.
Cairo, Alexander Co., IL (North Cairo District)
Stephen Hudson, b 1845, Alabama, African American. Susan, 5,
b. IL; Jane 20 b, Tennessee.
1880 Census
Pulaski Co., Ill
Cuba Hudson, 1843, Louisiana (shows up on some mortality
lists due to his death in 1879). African-American
Texannie Hudson, b. 1857, Tennessee. African-American.
William Hudson, b. 1827, Virginia, wife Emily, son Lewis
Hudson, daughter Millie Hudson and stepson Thomas Benjamin Cain. White.
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