HUDSON, JOHN
, was born April 25, 1794, in Mecklenberg county, Virginia, and taken by his parents to Cabell county, West Va. John Hudson was a soldier from that county, serving from Sept., 1813, to April, 1814. He was married in Cabell county, Oct. 8, 1814, to Margaret McCray, who was born April 7, 1803, in Rockingham county, Virginia. They had three children in Cabell county, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the autumn of 1826, in what is now Loami township, where they had eight children. Of their children--YOUNG M., born Sept. 22, 1819, in Cabell county, W. Va., was married in Sangamon county, Ill., Oct. 5, 1843, to Minerva L. Meacham. They had one living child, ELSA JANE, who married Daniel Staley, Jun. See his name. Mrs. M. L. Hudson died Sept. 2, 1851, and Y. M. Hudson was married, Feb. 2, 1853, to Mrs. Jane Webb, whose maiden name was Fowler. They reside in New Berlin.
JANE C., born Aug. 3, 1821, in Cabell county, W. Va., married in Sangamon county to Wm. Hodgerson. They have eight children, and live five miles south of Waverly.
WILLIAM E., born Dec. 31, 1824, in Cabell county, W. Va., married in Sangamon county to Harriet Nipper, who died Aug. 31, 1851. Mr. H. married Mary Lacey. They have three children, MARY M., ELLIE K. and LUCINDA A., and live three and one-half miles west of Loami.
RACHEL S., born Feb. 22, 1830, married Willis Meacham. See his name.
JOHN M., born Jan. 4, 1833, married March 29, 1860, to Sarah J. Campbell, have one living child, LUCY E., and live three and one-half miles south of New Berlin.
GEORGE W., born Jan. 30, 1836, married Nancy H. Park, and he died, without children. She married James L. Short.
ANDREW J., born Jan. 23, 1839, married Feb. 20, 1862, to Mary M. Smetters. She was born Aug. 28, 1840, in Ohio. They live three and one-half miles south of New Berlin, in Loami township.
FRANCIS M., born Nov. 14, 1842, in Sangamon county. He enlisted April 16, 1861, (the first man to enlist in Loami township) in Co. G, 7th Ill. Inf., on the first call for 75,000 men; served full term, and was honorably discharged. He was elected Coroner of Sangamon county, in 1864. He lives with his father near Loami.
SARAH E., born Feb. 9, 1845, married Thomas N. Park. See his name.
Mrs. Margaret Hudson died Oct. 2, 1854, and John Hudson was married June 21, 1855, to Mrs. Grezelle McNew, whose maiden name was Park. They reside now--1873--in Loami township, three and one-half miles west of Loami, and the same distance south of New Berlin.
Mr. John Hudson says that his father and the father Bishop, Thomas A. Morris, lived neighbors, in Cabell county, W. Va. When Thomas A. was a young man, he was a deputy under his brother Edward, who was clerk of Cabell county. While in the office, at Guyandotte, the county seat, Thomas A. attended a Methodist camp meeting there, and was converted. He visited his father soon after and told him he felt it to be his duty to preach the gospel. His father then proposed to give out an appointment for his son in two weeks from that time, with the promise that if he (the father) thought the son could preach, he would tell him so. The appointment was filled, the father listened very attentively, and at the close said to his son: "Well, Tommy, I think that if you don't get the big head, you will make a preacher." That was thought to be an evidence of remarkable liberality on the part of the old gentleman, in view of the fact that he belonged to the anti-mission or predestinarian Baptists.
Mr. Hudson heard that effort of the boy, and the criticisms of the father, and has been familiar with the history of the young preacher through all his progress to the present superanuated Bishop Morris.--1873. Two brothers of Bishop Morris were early settlers in Sangamon county. See their names.