Elizabeth (Williams) Hudson (abt. 1800 - bef. 1854)

Born about 1800 in Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Wife of David Hudson — married 19 Jun 1814 in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States

Descendants

Died before 8 Jul 1854 before about age 54 in Illinois

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Biography

Elizabeth was born around 1800 in Kentucky, ^[1] the daughter of Eliza Bell (Link) and her first husband, Mr. Williams (given name uncertain).^[2]

On 16 January 1814 she was married to David Hudson in Pulaski County, Kentucky.^[3] They spent the early years of their marriage there, ^[4] but were in Madison County, Illinois in time for the 1820 census. ^[5]

In Illinois, the Hudsons farmed and reared a family of at least nine children. Elizabeth was also – like her mother Eliza – a midwife. ^[6]

She was enumerated with her family in 1850,^[1] but was apparently deceased by 8 July 1854, when her son Spencer Hudson was appointed administrator of his father’s estate. There is no mention of a widow; and among the items paid for by the estate were two coffins and two tombstones, which sounds as if husband and wife may have died around the same time. The location of their graves is unknown. ^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M85R-Y69 : 12 April 2016), Elizabeth Hudson in household of David Hudson, Greene county, part of, Greene, Illinois, United States; citing family 1397, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ Link, Mary Agnes: Letter to Alice Mary Smith Patterson (niece). Written at Kirksville, Missouri, 28 May 1901; excerpt included in source material of Quentin C. Smith's Link Family Group Record. "When grandfather Link [Christian] married grandma [Eliza] she was the Widow Williams and had two girls. The oldest one was named Elizabeth and the other was named Jane."
3. ↑ "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWBS-WTY : accessed 20 October 2017), David Hudson and Elizabeth Williams, 19 Jun 1814; citing , Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond; FHL microfilm 804,051.
4. ↑ Pulaski County, Kentucky Tax Books, 1799-1875, images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/film/007834499?cat=157327). David Hudson paid personal tax in Pulaski County 1815-1819.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHG3-1SS : accessed 17 October 2017), David Hudson, Apple Creek, Madison, Illinois, United States; citing p. 139, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 11; FHL microfilm 506,763.
6. ↑ History of Greene and Jersey Counties, Illinois (Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Co., 1885), p. 726. “Eliza Link, one of the earliest midwives in the county...attended many of the wives of the old settlers and prominent people. Her daughter, who married a man by the name of Hudson, and who lived on Apple Creek, was a worthy disciple of her mother and practiced the same profession for years.”
7. ↑ Illinois Probate Records, 1819-1988, Images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-YM8D?i=127&wc=SF2S-N3F%3A162587101%2C162644401%3Fcc%3D1834344&cc=1834344), Greene Co. Probate Records 1819-1854, Vol. E, p. 249 (image 128 or 329). Spencer Hudson qualified as administrator of estate of David Hudson, deceased, 8 July 1854.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Quentin Smith for creating Williams-20391 on 10 Dec 13.