Re: Wesley Hudson, 1808 SC > 1889 GA
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Wesley Hudson, 1808 SC > 1889 GA
Scott Dickson 1/12/01
This is a followup to update my query for Wesley Hudson, b. 1808 in SC.I have found quite a bit more information since January, but am still seeking information on Wesley's ancestors.
First, Wesley Hudson does not appear to have been George Wesley or John Wesley.He had children by both names, but I have yet to find any real record that refers to him as anything but just Wesley.
Second, after much searching, I found Wesley in the 1880 Fulton Co., GA census.In this census, he reported that he was born in SC and his parents were born in VA.In this census, Elizabeth, his wife, was still alive, thus putting to bed stories that she had died in either 1870 or 1875.Subsequently, I have found a death notice for her in 1884 and for Wesley in 1889.
Thirdly, Wesley remarried late in life, after Elizabeth died, to Matilda Moore, a widow who had been a border with the family since at least 1860.After Wesley's death, Matilda went to live with her son by her first marriage.I can't quite yet figure out how she ended up with Wesley's household.Perhaps she is Elizabeth's younger sister.Can't figure that out yet.
I suspect that there is some kind of association or connection with the family of Silas Mercer Norton.Wesley and Elizabeth named their second son, b. 1836, Silas Norton Hudson.This child died in 1841 so not much is known there.Silas Norton was born in Oglethorpe Co., GA and lived for some time inWalton Co., GA prior to coming to DeKalb/Fulton County in 1847.So, that would hint that Wesley was in Walton County, perhaps, in the first part of the 1830's.
Most interestingly, however is Wesley Hudson's association with the founding of Atlanta, GA.Atlanta was founded in the late 1830's as a railhead, the terminal point of the Western & Atlantic Railroad.Originally, it was named Terminus.In 1838, Wesley Hudson was one of 8 people who sold the original right-of-way to the railroad to connect the newly sited Terminus with its crossing on the Chattahoochee River.Wesley owned other property in the area that was in the thick of the fighting during Sherman's capture of Atlanta in 1864.
Shortly after the war, Wesley and family moved to Pumpkinvine in Paulding Co., GA (around 1866).In around 1877, he returned to Fulton County, to Atlanta.The home that he lived in was on the site now occupied by the Georgia World Congress Center.And shortly before Elizabeth died, he returned toPaulding County, though he was remarried in Fulton Co in 1884.
I have yet to find a connection to any other Hudson found near him in the 1850 or 1860 Census.In later years, the son of Notley Hudson lived on the same street that Wesley and his son lived (in the 1880's) and named one of his sons Wesley.But that says pretty much nothing.
So, my info is updated at http://www.mindspring.com/~dicksonhttp://www.mindspring.com/~dickson.If anyone has info on Wesley Hudson, his children, or Hudsons in Walton, Newton, Oglethorpe counties in GA, I would love to hear about it.
Thanks!
--SCott