The "brickwall" that was William Hudson born circa 1827 in Virginia and who died ca 1887 in Pulaski Co., Illinois, married Emily Jane Cain and had son Louis Hudson, daughter Millie Hudson James and was a step-father to Emily's son, Thomas Benjamin Cain, now has some bricks knocked out and daylight is coming inside the murky places.
A close DNA return between this man and a Silas Beverly Hudson born July 1834 in Virginia and who died in 1908 in Howard Co., Missouri was a key.
I had made his father unknown and took a guess based on other returns that his grandfather was David Hudson Jr and Elizabeth Gentry Hudson.
As a result, both David Jr and his father David Hudson Sr. and wife Keziah Plunkett Hudson, also came up, followed closely by his father Rush Hudson.
Searching through the potential fathers for William ruled out some sons of David Hudson Sr. (for instance William Oliver Hudson who was born 1828 in Culpeper Co., Va and died before 1870 , probably in Perry Co., Alabama based on court records related to his surviving daughter Aurelia Hudson Ogeltree).
I found Silas B. Hudson in several places and it became apparent that there were two Silas B. Hudson's (one was in Missouri at the time the other was still in Culpeper Co., Va.) The Silas B. Hudson in 1850 in Rappahannock Co., Va was a Thomas wife presumed wife Sarah and a daughter named Tennessee E. Hudson. Rappahannock and Culpeper are neighboring counties in the time and several sons of David Hudson had settled there to establish their own large families. Later records indicate that several lines of Hudson will marry 1st to 2nd degree cousins repeatedly over several generations. Many are linked to a specific congregation in Virginia where many found spouses as well.
I suspect that, if the degree of closeness between William and Silas is as close as suggested that there may be a first wife to Thomas or he is the product of another close marriage and his parent or parents died resulting in him being fostered out among other family members or taken elsewhere with other kin. Here is where those with deeper and closer readings on the DNA will need to explore to provide more precise kinship.
I found that one son of David Hudson Sr. was William P. Hudson who went into Ohio Co., Kentucky and named a son Louis or Lewis and another son of David Sr. was Martin Hudson who apparently lived with this son of Wm P. in that local as an elderly man. A young William Hudson, perhaps traveling with these families may have made his way further west, just as Silas will to be in Boone Co., Mo on the 1860 census with a wife and two small children.
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