The above image is from the collection of wills in Perry Co., Alabama related to the estate of Abner Hudson. His son, A.G. Hudson, in Perry Co. had been named one of the two administrators (W.O. and A.G.). This page is a listing of the debts of the estate.
A paragraph below the listing states that "Sept. 9, 1869....this note was in the possession of W. O. Hudson at his death and his administrator claims that it has been paid...A.G. Hudson"
The last note paid was noted for Nov. 31, 1868. This provides a window of death for Wm Oliver Hudson, son of Abner Hudson, and brother to A.G.Hudson of Perry Co., Alabama.
Note:
Another Wm O. Hudson will emerge in later documents but that is the son of A.G. Hudson and so reference in the 1870's and 1880's are for that Wm Oliver Hudson, named in honor of his uncle.
William Oliver Hudson died probably between the payment of that last debt (Nov. 1868) and the time his father's will (filed in Madison Co., Va. but also probated into court in Perry Co., Alabama) was filed by A.G. Hudson (Dec.1868 and Sept. 1869). Another small document in the will papers mention one surviving daughter, Aurelia Hudson who will be placed under the guardianship of her grandfather John L. Chambers. After his death another local man, a medical doctor assumes guardianship of her until her marriage there in Perry Co., Alabama.
Since his son, Jack and wife Mary E. Chambers Hudson, also disappear from local records it is assumed that they too died about the same time. A local outbreak of illness might have claimed their lives and might explain the lack of grave site (often if a plague or fever broke out the dead were buried in mass graves making finding them very difficult). In Nov,, of 1869, the father of Mary makes a request to be named administrator of the estate of W.O. Hudson, making it probable that she died sometime before then and attempts were being made to care for Aurelia Hudson.
