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Surnames: Hudson, Davis, Richardson, Sharp
Classification: Biography
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>From "Biographical Memoirs of Wells County, Indiana," Logansport, B. F.
Bowen, 1903, pp. 218-219.
HUDSON FAMILY.
Twenty-five Hudsons, among whom were five Johns, came from England and
Ireland in the year 1600, the principal portion of this number landing in
Pennsylvania. They were given between three and four thousand acres of
land for their transportation and taking allegiance to the old country.
The Johns aforementioned were distinguished from each other by John Pond,
John Delight, etc., according as they happened to live by a pond, or other
appellations suggested by surrounding circumstances. They described their
land as follows: "On north side of marsh of Wicomico." This is a sample of
deed: "John Hudson, 'John Pond,' thirty-four acres, surveyed October 9,
1674, in Dorchester county, on the north side of a marsh of Wicomico
river." Dennis Hudson, great-grandfather of the subject, was born in
Ireland. Grandfather Selby Hudson was a sea captain, commanding a vessel
during the Revolutionary war. He was on his way to some point with a
vessel loaded with soldiers, when he met vessels returning with the news
that peace had been declared. He then moved to Rochester county, Maryland,
where he lived for several years, still retaining the position of sea
captain, and made his stopping place at his home at Snow Hill, from which
place he removed to Brown county, Ohio. He constructed the first steamboat
that was built at Cincinnati, Ohio. He had two sisters, Margaret and
Hester Ann, and three brothers, Melvin, Eli and Elihu; Eli died in Jay
county, Indiana.
Selby Hudson was twice married. His first wife was Hettie Davis and to
them were born two children who lived, Thomas and Katie Ann. His second
wife was Elizabeth Richardson, by whom he had several children. To both
marriages were born twenty-two children. When Selby Hudson came to
Cincinnati, Ohio, he moved his family there. James W. Hudson was born in
Maryland, his father later remvoing his family onto a farm in Brown
county, Ohio, when James W., the father of the subject, was a small boy.
Soon after his removal to Brown county, Ohio, James was sent on an errand
to his uncle's. He started, wearing a new pair of trousers. It being a
customary thing in those days to wear long shirts, he hung his trousers in
a tree by the wayside and thus dressed in the usual costume for boys of
the period, he continued his journey, performed his errand, and returning
by the same way, he repossessed himself of the, what seemed to him,
unnecessary part of his apparel which he had left hanging in the tree and
wore them back home. Selby Hudson died in Clinton county, Ohio, at the age
of eighty years; James W. grew up on the farm in Ohio, and there met and
married Catherine Sharp, a daughter of Stockdale and Mary Sharp.
After his marriage James W. Sharp settled in Ohio, where he remained until
1853 (1833?), when he removed to Jefferson township, Huntington county,
Indiana. About 1883 he moved to Wells county and lived virtually with
Wilson Hudson until his death. Catherine, his wife, died November 1, 1894,
aged eighty-two years ten months and twenty-two days. James W. died August
19, 1899, aged eighty-seven years ten months and six days.
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