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HUDSON, GEORGE D. farmer, Sec. 34, Rockbridge, is the tenth of a family of twelve children; born in this county, township 10, range 10, Aug. 14, 1844. His father, Peter B., is an old settler, he having, with Mary, his wife, whose maiden name was Settle, come to this county at an early period of the county’s history. George D.’s acquaintance with academic halls and college walls was principally from the outside. At the age of twenty-two he embarked for himself and began farming. Nov. 4, 1869, he was married to Nora Keating, born June 9, 1849 Have now three children: Effie, born May 21, 1871; Georgia, born Jan. 14, 1874; Freddie, born March 11, 1877. Before his marriage, he rented land, but, subsequent to his marriage, moved to Sec. 34, Tp. 10, and bought 80 acres, and has since added to it until he now owns 560 acres, which he is getting well improved, and is at the present time investing a good deal of money in the way of tiling for and draining the same. Mr. Hudson has been a candidate for the office of Sheriff of the county; but as the county is strongly Democratic, and there having been less than a dozen men of the Republican faith elected to office in the county since 1840, an aspirant of the Republican faith for political honors stands in the minority, with but little hope of his election. Mr. Hudson is a zealous advocate of the temperance cause; is also musically inclined, and a lover of the harmony of sound; is now leader of the Rockbridge Cornet Band; is a member of the Carrollton Chapter, and of Sheffield Lodge A. F. and A. M., No. 687.