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Drury Hudson March 5, 1823 - 
Green County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 4th ed., 1886

DRURY HUDSON was born Mach 5, 1823, and is the fifth in a family of three sons 
and four daughters, all of whom lived to be grown, but is now the only 
survivor. His parents were Pleasant and Margaret (Vance) Hudson. Pleasant 
Hudson was born in Pittsylvaia County, Va., and came to Kentucky with his 
parents in 1808, became a substantial farmer of Green County, was an active 
Democrat, and died October 17, 1843, at the age of fifty-two. He was a son of 
John P. Hudson, who was born in South Carolina, but when a young man immigrated 
to Virginia, where he married a Miss Witcher, by whom two sons and two 
daughters were born, all of whom lived to a ripe old age, some to be nearly a 
hundred years old. His second wife was Joyce Fears, who was the grandmother of 
Drury Hudson; she was born in Virginia, and gave birth to five sons and three 
daughters. John P. Hudson, a Revolutionary soldier, was a blacksmith and wagon- maker, and also carried on a farm in Kentucky, to which State he came through 
the wilderness by wagon. He died in Green County, at the age of eighty-five 
years. Mrs. Margaret Hudson was born in Kentucky, and is a daughter of William 
and Fanny (Wooldridge) Vance, born, respectively, in Maryland and Kentucky. 
William Vance, one of the pioneers of Green County, became a substantial 
farmer. He reared a large family, and died in 1832, over eighty years of age; 
his wife survived him a few years. Drury Hudson was born in Green County, and 
was reared on a farm near Greensburg. From the age of sixteen he hired out till twenty-three, as a farm hand, but, during this time, flatboated some to New Orleans, and in the winter taught in common schools for two years. In the meantime he commenced the study of law. In April, 1850, he commenced selling goods six miles west of Greensburg, which business he followed for nearly five years. March 8, 1855, he married Bettie J., daughter of Fielding and Eliza (Gum) Vaughan, who were both natives of Green County. Fielding Vaughn was a farmer and slave owner, was a trader south for thirty years, and represented Green County in the Legislature two terms. Mr. Hudson and wife had born to them two children: Helen (born January 8, 1856, married W. H. Sandidge; died six months later) and Fielding L. (born September 7, 1862). Mr. Hudson, after his marriage, moved to Kansas, then to Liberty, Clay Co., Mo., where he remained till in August, 1856, when he returned to Green County, Ky., where he has resided ever since. He engaged in merchandising up to September, 1861, when he entered the Confederate Army as a guide for a time; then he became a purchasing agent in the commissary department. He was with Maj. Proctor at Rome, Ga., surrendered at Atlanta, and returned to Green County, where he has been quietly engaged in the practice of law ever since. He served as county attorney one term before the war, and has served as county surveyor, the first under the new constitution, for two terms. He has always taken an active interest in county affairs and in politics; has been a member of the F. & A. M. Lodge, No 54, and also an active member of Chapter No. 36. He and wife are devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and in politics he is an active Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for James E. Polk, in 1844. 


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