Re: John H. Hudson/Coffee Co. AL 1860
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In reply to:
Re: John H. Hudson/Coffee Co. AL 1860
8/03/00
I really believe we have a match here.Stewart Co. and Marion Co, where Byrd Hudson was in 1850 are very close and were at one time in the same county.It is a proven fact that the Nancy Ann Hudson who married Simeon Wiggins (who was listed in the Stewart Co. book asabrother of John H Hudson who married Henrietta Gunnels) was a daughter of Byrd Hudson and Mary Bedingfield.She is recorded in the family Bible, as is John H. (b. 1823).Byrd Hudson and Mary Bedingfield moved to Covington Co. AL around 1853, as did his son James A. Hudson (my gg-grandfather) and Nancy Ann Hudson Wiggins.James A. ended up in Crenshaw Co. when it was cut off from Covington.I believe Coffee Co. got divided too.Judging from the Bedingfield GenForum site, most people seem to think that Benefield is just a different spelling of the same name.I suspect that Edingfield is too.I think a lot of people got their names changed by census takers.
Note that the Stewart County book has John H. Hudson's and Nancy Ann Wiggins' father listed as James Bird Hudson and Henrietta Benefield and said James Bird Hudson was born abt. 1824.It would have been impossible for such a person to be the parents of either John of Nancy Ann who were born prior to that date.
Do you have anything on your John Hampton Hudson's parents that would confirm my theory or prove it wrong?Do you know the names of any of his siblings that we could compare with those in Byrd and Mary's Bible (continued by Nancy Ann Wiggins)?
It looks to me like someone just rounded up all the names they could find in Stewart Co. around 1850 and assumed they were all the same family.At least half of them weren't.
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Chris