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From: "STAGGS8444" <>
Subject: Re: [SCGREENV] Green Families of Greenville, SC
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:20:22 -0700
References: <200104090230.f392Ukm08650@cgi.rootsweb.com>



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From: "Tim L. Cathcart" <>
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Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 7:30 PM
Subject: [SCGREENV] Green Families of Greenville, SC


> Posted on: Greenville Co. SC GenWeb Query Forum
> Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/SC/Greenville/13099
>
> Surname: Green, Shockley, Hudson
> -------------------------
>
> I did not have a Linnie Shockley listed as a daughter of Susan Hudson and
> Thomas Shockley, but if you have found a link I can provide you much info
> on the Hudson line.
>
> Susan's father was JOHN WESLEY HUDSON, a grandson of Abraham Hudson.
Abraham
> is generally credited with being the founder of the Hudson line in
Greenville,
> SC, and was a descendant of Henry Hudson. John Wesley Hudson was born
October
> 8,1803 and died March 20,1859.
>
> John Wesley married Phoebe Walker. They joined Brushy Creek Baptist Church
> by letter in 1842.
>
> They had 6 children:
> 1. Susan Anna "Thursah" Hudson
> B: 1828, Greenville D: Aug 21, 1862
> Married Thomas P. Shockley. He was born 1805, died April 8, 1862. Thomas
> was the son of Jesse and Mary Shockley.
>
> 2. Pleasant Walker Hudson
> My ggg-grandfather. Married Mary Kemp Green.
>
> 3. John Landrum Hudson
> B: September 11, 1832 D: September 19, 1863 in Charleston, S.C. Married
> Susan Emily Watson on September 11, 1855. She was the daughter of John
> Watson and Amanda Hornbuckle. They had 2 children before his death at the
> age of 31, perhaps in the War Between the States. Susan remarried about
> 1866 to Willis N. Taylor and had 5 more children. She died on April 23,
> 1911.
>
> 4.James Lewis Hudson
> Born May 1, 1834. Died June 20, 1863.
> James Lewis married Susannah Jane Ross in 1857, a daughter of Richard Ross
> and Mary Miller. During the War Between the States, he served with the
> South Carolina Infantry of the Confederacy at Charleston, S.C. He came
> home ill on the weekend of June 20, 1863, and died on that date of typhoid
> fever, leaving Jane Hudson a young widow with one child and another,
James,
> born December 3, 1863. Some years later, date unknown, Jane married J.
> F. Ward, who was born June 14, 1825. He died on March 20, 1906 and Jane
> died on December 15, 1912. J.F. Ward, Susannah Jane Hudson Ward, and her
> son, James Hudson, are buried in Brushy Creek Baptist Church cemetery.
>
> 5. Luther Irvin Hudson
> B: June 1, 1842 D: February 18, 1892.
> Married Sophia Jane Taylor on March 20, 1864 in Greenville County, a
daughter
> of Zion Taylor and Susan Gibson.
>
> 6. Henry P. Hudson
> B: 1850. Married Anna Turner.
>
> _________________
> Will of John Wesley Hudson:
> South Carolina
> Greenville District
> In the Name of God, Amen
>
> I, John W. Hudson, of the State and District aforesaid, do make and ordain
> this my last will and testament, hereby revoking all other wills made by
> me.
>
> Item I. I will and bequeath unto my wife , Pheby, all my property both
> real and personal during her life time or widowhood. If she should marry,
> I will that my executors should sell all my property both real and
personal,
> and give my wife an equal share with my five sons, share and share alike.
> Item II. I will that Irvine Hudson and Henry Pinkey Hudson, my two
youngest
> sons, when they become of age be paid five-hundred dollars each to make
> them equal with my other three sons and that my executors sell property
> to pay the same if necessary.
>
> Item III. I will and bequeath unto my daughter, Thursah Shockly,
five-hundred
> dollars to be paid by my executors.
>
> Item IV. I will and bequeath unto my son, James L. Hudson, the tract of
> land whereon he now lives containing one-hundred acres more or less
formerly
> owned by Pierce McCullester, by the said James L. Hudson, paying bact to
> my estate after the death of his mother, two-hundred dollars without
interest.
>
> I hereby appoint my wife, Phoebe Hudson, and my son, James L. Hudson,
executors
> to this my last will and testament in writings whereof I do set my hand
> and seal.
>
> This the first day of May, One thousand, eight hundred and fifty eight.
>
> Signed, sealed and published as his last will and testament in the
presence
> of
>
> Henry M. Smith
> Willis M. Green
> W. H. Smith, Jr.
>
> Ordinary
> The State of South Carolina
> Greenville District
> By Robert M. Kay, Esquire Ordinary
>
> Personally appeared before me Henry M. Smith, one of the subscribing
witnesses
> to the foregoing Instrument of writing, who made oath on the Holy
Evangelists
> of Almighty God, that he saw John Wesley Hudson, sign, seal, publish,
pronounce,
> and declare the same to be his last will and Testament; that he was then
> of sound and desposing mind, memory and understanding, to the best of
Deponent's
> knowledge and belief; and Deponent, together with Willis M. Green and W.H.
> Smith, Jr., signed their names thereto as witness at his request, in his
> presence and in the presence of each other; At the same time qualified
> Phoebe Hudson and James L. Hudson, Executors therein named.
> ______________________
>
> Hope this helps. I have more if you are interested. I'm actually trying
> to find out the parents and family of Mary Kemp Green, the wife of
Pleasant
> Walker Hudson. Need to link her to the numerous Green and Kemp families
> in Greenville, SC.
>
> - Tim L. Cathcart
>
>
>
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