William Joshua Hudson was not the only Hudson in the area in the 1800's, but his lifetime certainly spanned nearly the entire decade and his genes run through a tremendously large group of people living today due to his many children.
He was born in June of 1796, near the Virginia/North Carolina line and died in Stanly County in January of 1896. Within months, he would have been 100 years old.
I have posted several times concerning my line of Hudson descendants, first Caroline Hudson, daughter of Burrell, one of Joshua's sons by his first wife, who died during the war between the states, my grandmother's grandmother. And another post concerning Caroline's brother, Marion.
Sweet Caroline This is the link to the story of Caroline Hudson Singleton
Marion Hudson's story This is the shocking story about Marion M. Hudson, Caroline's brother.
Recently, I have came across more Hudson that are not to be found in the "Hudson Book".
The first one is Marion Patterson Hudson.
Patterson, as he was known, was the son of Lundy Cornelia Shepherd and Great-Great Uncle Marion Hudson, mentioned above.
Nealie Shepherd was the daughter of William Edmund Deberry Shepherd of Richmond County, and Francis C "Fanny" Carter. Nealie was born in Richmond County on June 27, 1872. Her mother and younger brother, are buried with her grandparents in the old Marcus Carter cemetery near the Green Top area of Stanly County, not far from the Swift Island bridge. Fanny died December 23, 1873 and little William W. Shepherd died September 18, 1873. So Nealie was only about a year and a half old when she lost her mother. It is unknown exactly when their father died, but prior to 1880, Nealie and her older brother, Tom Shepherd, came to live with their grandparents, Marcus Princeton Carter and Nancy Marks Carter.
The grandparents did not survive until the children were grown and Nealie ended up marrying very young, on November 19, 1887, at the age of 15, to 40 year old Joseph I Mauldin. It is not yet known when Joseph Mauldin died, but prior to the estate settlement of Nealie's grandfather Marcus's estate in 1895.
Nealie gave birth to her only child, Patterson on June 10, 1891.
Nealie and Patterson show up in the 1900 census back in Rockingham, where she was born. Nealie was listed as a widow having had one child with one living, and Patterson's birthday was increased to June of 1888, three years ahead of his actual age, with his employment as "Farm Labor". These two had it hard in the early years.
By 1910, Nealie and Patterson had found employment with a bachelor farmer named Lewis Dawkins. Nealie was a housekeeper, and Patterson, a Hired Hand. This is when their luck turned. But also, when they fell off the map of any prior research. They disappeared.
However, they did not die. I felt there was more to discover about these two, so I started looking at the employer, Lewis Dawkins. And found them.
Sure enough, Lewis and Nealie were married in 1913 and appear together as husband and wife not only in the 1920 census, but in numerous land records and transactions.
Patterson also found love and married in Rockingham in 1913, to a next door neighbor. Many land records mention the Richardson's as having property adjoining that of the Dawkins. But it was not Patterson Mauldin who married Flossie Richardson, it was Patterson Hudson.
Patterson gave his father's name as "Hudson" when he married 15 year old Flossie Richardson, and his mother as Nealie Dawkins and instigated two mysteries. One of these mysteries was cleared up when he married his second wife, Louella Harrington. He told who his real father was, and went by Hudson from there on. The other mystery was what happened between he and Flossie Richardson? She did not die, but went on to several marriages and a family of her own. Was their marriage annuled because of her age? So far, I've not been able to discover a divorce record, but one month later, in January of 1914, Patterson married Louella Harrington, who became the mother of his children, and named Marion Hudson, my GGG Uncle Marion, and a grandson of William Joshua Hudson, as his father. One month is no time for a divorce. There must have been some drama, some lack of parental permission from Flossie's end, or an annulment for some other reason, as one month is too quick for a divorce.
On his marriage record to Louella, Patterson's name is followed with Shepherd, his mother's maiden name, in parenthesis. Perhaps this nod toward his illegitimacy was the reason for his brief and quickly ended marriage to Flossie. Perhaps Frank Richardson did not approve of the marriage after finding out Patterson was the result of an adulterous affair. It seems likely that Joseph Mauldin was deceased prior to Patterson's birth. Marion Hudson was very solidly married to his wife Mary Rummage Hudson, and Patterson was born prior to his last son with her. Patterson is never seen as a Mauldin or a Shepherd again. He apparently cherished his father, and must have had a good relationship with him, as he named one of his own sons, Marion Morrison Hudson, Uncle Marion's full name.
Patterson's own entire name was "Marion Patterson Hudson", as we see in his death certificate.
The Richmond County Directory for 1916 - 1917 shows:
Da\\kins, Louis Farmer (Lewis Dawkins as a Farmer)
Hudson, Patterson Farmer (Patterson Hudson as a Farmer - Note: He is listed as Hudson, not Mauldin.)
Patterson and Louella had the following children:
Louis Thomas Hudson (1914-1950)
Allen Patterson Hudson (1916-2004)
John Calvin Hudson (1919-1996)
Twins: Born Feb. 1, 1922
Marion Morrison Hudson, named after Patterson's father, Marion Morrison Hudson,
who died as an infant on January 9, 1923 of "Teething" at age 10 months.
and only daughter, Mary Cornelia Hudson, named obviously for her grandmother,
Nealie.
And the youngest son: William Augustus Hudson 1925 - 1970, seen most of the time as "Gus" W. Hudson, who attended the Univerisity of North Carolina, Class of 1954 and died in New Bern, North Carolina.
Patterson Hudson's occupation, after being a farmer, was also given as "Junk Dealer".
Marion Patterson Hudson and wife Louella Harrington Hudson are buried at Richmond County Memorial Park in Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina.
Listing his grandchildren would carry over into living persons, so I will leave his family tree with this. Descendants should be able to find their way to William Joshua Hudson, who is well documented, from here.
Lineage from William Joshua Hudson to Patterson Hudson and his children:
William Joshua Hudson Homesite where he raised 22 children .
Mary Elizabeth Hudson
Mary Elizabeth Hudson was one of those lost family members that
showed up in two censuses as a young girl and is included in family trees, often with an incorrect surname, but the buck stopped there. No one had her date of death, or marriage, or children, but she had them all. No one connected to her on the bottom end, through her husbands family tree, has her connected to any parents or above. I found her
Mary's story begins with the story of the Murray family and the records of Green Wesley Simpson in the Tyson Community of Stanly County. Through mentions in his family bible and through letters, Wesley Simpson records the removal of the family of Benjamin Murray, his wife Martha, his son Jesse and Jesse's wife MaryAnn Poplin Murray, his daughter Rebecca Ann Murray Hudson and possibly Rebecca's husband Henry Hudson, his nephew, Wesley Murray, son of Mariah Murray and his nephew "Wash" Turner, or James Washington Turner, son of Ben's sister Phoebe Murray Turner and John C Turner to Arkansas. There may have been others with them. An 18 year old Eldridge Murray reappears in the 1870 Census with Martha Murray, who has returned to North Carolina, with daughter Rebecca Hudson, now a widow and her young daughter Mary Hudson.
Rebecca Ann Murray had married Henry Hudson, brother of Burwell Hudson and son of William Joshua Hudson. Henry was a twin of Archibald Hudson, and like their older brother Burwell, both perished in the Civil War. Henry H. Hudson died of disease, listed as 'moribund', in a report from the Richmond, Virginia hospital, on October 24, 1862 and died the next day, October 25.
The Murrays may have set off for Arkansas after the death of their son-in-law, Henry. Maybe Ben Murray was trying to get his small family away from the war, or perhaps they were looking for greener pastures in Arkansas.
It is assumed that Jesse, his wife Mary Ann and old Ben all died in Arkansas, as Martha, also seen as "Patsy" Murray, Rebecca's mother, returned without him.
The neighborhood around her was interesting as well, and all family. The transcriber of the census misspelled Mary's name as "Dadur", but it is clearly Hudson in the actual handwritten census.
Next to Martha and family in the 1870 census is P J Aldridge, age 19, and his wife, Mary , The Edmund "Coley" family, the elderly George Coley, next to them with W. W. Aldridge, (actually W. H. Aldridge), Rebecca's future husband living with George and wife as farm labor, Josiah Aldridge, whose brother Garner had married Ben Murray's sister Priscilla and had also perished of disease while enlisted in the war, and next to him, 80 year old Caleb Aldridge and his second wife, 49 year old Elizabeth. All of these are my ancestors and family.
P J Aldridge, was actually James Pinkney Aldridge, son of Josiah.(Don't you just love how first and middle names were interchangable.) Josiah was the son of Caleb. Pink Aldridges daughter , Judie would marry James Robert Hudson, son of Caroline, the sister of Marion Hudson mentioned above in the section on Patterson Hudson. James Robert Hudson and Judie Aldridge Hudson were the parents of my grandmother, Hattie Helen Hudson Thompson.
Edmund "Coley" mentioned above, went interchangeably between Edmund Coley and Edmund Murray, as far as his surname went. He was the son of Ben Murray, prior to his marriage to Martha, as Martha was not quite a decade older than Edmund. Still, they were dear to each other as Edmund took care of Martha in her later years, like a son, and inherited part of her property, as she and Ben had not disposed of it prior to leaving for Arkansas. Edmund was also the grandson of George Coley. He also took care of them in their old age and George and his wife signed all of their property over to Edmund prior to their decease. As Edmond, and his children afterwards, swung back and forth between the surnames Murray and Coley, it can easily be assumed that a marriage did not take place between Ben Murray and Miss Coley, daughter of George. (Her name may have been Fanny, but that has not been proven).
The other grandchildren of Martha Murray, Mary Ann, Ben and John; went to live with their mother's brother, Alsey Poplin, after first staying with their maternal grandmother, Mary Poplin.
The one thing that stands out with Mary Elizabeth's 1870 appearance is that her birthplace is given as Arkansas.
On August 22, 1869, a marriage is record in Stanly County for William H Aldridge, son of Henry G. and Priscilla Aldridge and Rebecca Hudson, daughter of Benjamin and Martha Murray, performed by W.H.D. Green, Justice of the Peace.
It is curious then, why Rebecca's name was not recorded as "Aldridge" and her husband was working for the Coley's, a neighbor. Perhaps, it was her mother, Martha, who had been asked who lived there, and she said her daughter Rebecca, giving no surname at all.
By 1880, the family, including Martha Murray, has moved to Lilesville in Anson County. The census taker recorded all of the offspring in the home as "Aldrich" for Aldridge, including Martha, who has been joined by seven younger siblings.
Family Search gives the marriage of Mary Elizabeth Hudson to W. M. Sanders on November 5, 1891, at the home of William Henry A. Aldridge in Burnsville, North Carolina. W. M. was the son of John W and Mary Ann Sanders, while Mary's parents were given as "Hudson" and Becky A. Aldridge.
By the turn of the century, William and Mary have moved to Cabarrus County. Mary has had 3 children, but only two of them are living, "Ona" and Henry.
Name:W. M. SandersBirth Date:1859Birthplace:Age:32Spouse's Name:Mary E. HudsonSpouse's Birth Date:1861Spouse's Birthplace:Spouse's Age:30Event Date:05 Nov 1891Event Place:At Wm. Henry A. Aldridge'S, Burnsville Twp., Anson County, North CarolinaFather's Name:John W. SandersMother's Name:Mary Ann SandersSpouse's Father's Name:HudsonSpouse's Mother's Name:Becky A. AldridgeRace:White
By 1910, another child has arrived, Edward D Saunders and they have taken in a boarder, whose occupation is a "Cook".
Ed is the last child to arrive, but young Henry A Sanders has passed away. It shows Mary as being the mother of 4 children with 2 surviving and these two, Ed and Leona, will survive to adulthood.
The 1920 census was Mary's last one. She is living with her two children and her half-sister, Nora B Aldridge Bryant and her family is living with Mary as the Head of Household.
Mary died on June 21, 1920 of Breast Cancer. Her death certificate lists Henry Hudson as her father and Rebecca Murray as her mother. The informant was son Ed Saunders.
Mary is buried at the Norwood town cemetery in Norwood, Stanly County, North Carolina. Her birth date is given as November 14, 1860.
After her death, Mary's two children, Ed and Leona, move to Thomasville, in Davidson County. Ed is listed as being a spooler in a Cotton Mill. Ona, his sister, is his housekeeper.
By 1942, the siblings have moved back to Norwood, probably to their old homeplace, and Edward Brower Saundersigned up for the draft for WWII.
Ed Saunders passed away of cardiac arrest on March 3, 1975 at the age of 74. Informant was Cline J. Aldridge of Mt. Pleasant, a cousin. His sister had predeceased him on January 5th, 1967, of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was 68.
Both siblings are buried in Norwood at the town cemetery with their parents. With the passing of Ed Saunders, the lineage of Mary Elizabeth Hudson Saunders came to an end. Yet, they were descendants of old William Joshua Hudson. A grandchild and great grandchildren to add to his large number of descendants, beforehand, unrecognized as such in the family trees.
Patterson Hudson's occupation, after being a farmer, was also given as "Junk Dealer".
Mary is buried at the Norwood town cemetery in Norwood, Stanly County, North Carolina. Her birth date is given as November 14, 1860.
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