BRICKS FALLING FROM A BRICK WALL: ANCESTORS OF WILLIAM HUDSON (C1827-1887), VILLA RIDGE, ILL

 Recent DNA results are confirming a link between this man, husband of Emily Jane CAIN HUDSON, father of Louis HUDSON, Millie HUDSON JAMES and step-father of Thomas Benjamin CAIN. He and his family are found on the 1880 Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill census. He, wife, and son Louis are found on the 1870 census of Evansville, Vanderburgh Co., IND. He and Emily married 1868 in that location. On the 1870 census he said he had been born in England. On the 1880 in Virginia. Emily Jane Cain was the daughter of Louis Cain and Melissa "Millie" Greer Carter Cain Sailes Parker. Prior to that marriage his life is a bit murky but may include a stint aboard a ship or life in Kentucky. It is still unclear.

Recent DNA suggests a relationship (brother? cousin?) of William Hudson , father of Louis Hudson and Millie Hudson James of southern Illinois to a Silas Beverly Hudson b. 1834.  He is a possible child of Thomas B. Hudson and wife Sarah of Culpepper Co., Va, or a relative of one Moses Hudson and wife Lucy of the same location. All share a link to David Hudson Jr., according to DNA information, and to his father David Hudson Sr., son of Ruth Hudson.

David Hudson Jr. of Culpepper Co., VA married Elizabeth Gentry. They had the following presumed children (based on documents and wills, etc.):

Abner Hudson (1777-1869/71). Abner md Elizabeth Mason and had children: John Mason Hudson; Albert G. Hudson; Emily Hudson Willis; Sarah F. Hudson Jeffries; William Oliver Hudson (1828-ca1869, AL), he md Mary E. Chambers and had daughter Aurelia Hudson Ogletree and a son "Jack" (or John) who may have died about the time he and his wife died, leaving daughter in care of mother's father; Thurza Hudson, died young, ca 1826?; Mary Ann Hudson Whitehall ;Elizabeth Hudson Tinsley; Robert Hudson, died infancy; Richard Henry Hudson, d1863. Will and other documents pertaining to this family filed in Perry Co., Alabama.

Ezekiel Hudson (1779-1839, SC); md Mary Mason, d/o John and Sallie Mason.

Joel Hudson (1781-1860)

Ambrose

Martha Agnes Hudson (1784, Va)

Moses Hudson (1786)

David Hudson 3rd? (ca1803)

Thomas B. Hudson (1789-1860?). he married Susan Hudson. They may be the parents of Silas B. Hudson. There were several Silas Hudson's: one the son of a James, one the apparent son of a Moses and Lucy Hudson, and the one associated with Thomas and Susan Hudson. Several names (William, Jesse, Louis/Lewis, Elizabeth, Moses, Martin, etc.crop up in the varied lines).

WILLIAM HUDSON (1827-C1880-1910): HE IS NOT WILLIAM OLIVER HUDSON S/O ABNER HUDSON

There is a brick wall on my husband's tree. A William Hudson b. ca1827 in a) Virginia (1880 response on census in Pulaski Co., IL, or, b) "at sea" a later response by his daughter on the census, or, c) England (1870 response on a census in Evansville, Vanderburgh, Ind. So - which one ? His son will say on census records that he was born in Indiana so no help there!!

Lately, someone has begun tacking on a middle initial or name "O" or "Oliver" and claiming the Pulaski Co., ILL William was the son of Abner Hudson and wife Elizabeth Mason. No documentation or proof provides evidence of this connection. No DNA matches have appeared with my husbands Ancestry tree. Everyone I have emailed with a query "where did you get this information?" shrugs and says "somewhere".

More credible records indicate that William Oliver Hudson, s/o Abner followed his family out of Virginia into Alabama.

WikiTree states: "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" .[William Oliver Hudson (1828-) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree]
Surprisingly, this seems the most substantive information yet located concern this man!

So until then, my working theory involves two possibilities.
1. Wm Hudson more c 1827 in Virginia, md in Evansville, Ind and replied to the census with England because there were other Hudson/Hotson's in the area who had come from England a generation before and since. He replied because he was a southerner in post Civil War times when being such was often denied. Many simply went west to avoid answering.

2. Wm Hudson was born in England, or crossing the sea, to arrive, perhaps in Virginia. He married Emily Jane Kane/Cain in 1868 Evansville, then migrated to Pulaski Co., Ill.

When he died is assumed to be southern Illinois with a date between 1880 and 1910 (when one descended thought he remembered hearing of his death at then).

The two men -Wm Hudson and Wm O Hudson - were not the same man, Now, if some DNA will come along to match with my husband's on Ancestry!