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Below is a family biography included in The History of Greene County, Illinois published by Donnelley, Gassette & Loyd in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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HUDSON, D. B. farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 8, P.O. Roodhouse. David Hudson was born in Greene County, in 1828. His father, a native of Virginia, moved to Kentucky in an early day, where he formed the acquaintance of and married Miss Mary Duncan. During the Autumn of 1827 he wended his way to Illinois, locating four miles northeast of Carrollton, Greene County, where an improved claim was purchased. After many years the head of the family became an exceedingly prosperous farmer; He passed away in 1852, a true type of the western pioneer; his loss was deeply deplored. Mrs. Hudson, who still survives, is a resident of Kansas, and is now upward of eighty years of age. David departed from the scenes of his earlier days in 1849, for California, crossing the plains by wagon. Arriving in California he proceeded to the Placerville mines, where he worked as a miner three years. Securing considerable of the shining metal, he returned to Greene County, where he was shortly after married to Miss Mary Van Tyle, a daughter of Otto Van Tyle. Since his return from California Mr. Hudson has followed farming, and very successfully, owning 380 acres. Of seven children born of this marriage, six are living: Julia, Noah, Robert, Charlotte, Mary and Martha. Disbrow, deceased. Mr. Hudson was married in Scott County.
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