Franklin Monroe Hudson married my Mary Stephenson in Limestone County,Alabama on 02 Feb 1881.
1880 Census of Limestone
George Alexander Stevenson 58 b. Alabama Runs Sawmill
Elizabeth Stephenson 53 b. SC
Josephine 21 b. Al
Samuel 18 b. Al
Nettie 12 b. Al
Susan Glasco border 40 b. SC
Mary 19b. TN
Frank Monroe Hudson was born in Limestone Co,Al in 1852. In 1880, Frank Monroe Hudson was a widower.
Franklin Monroe Hudson told his memories of Limestone County,Alabama to his daughter Stella Hudson who wrote his memories down. I got a copy years ago from one the Hudsons.
Civil War.
The first Yankees in our part of the country came to Florence(Lauderdale Co,Al) on gunboats. we were eating breakfast one Sunday morning and got word that the Yankees had landed at Florence. The old men and boys all got excited and gathered up all their old rifles and shotguns in the country. Jerry Stout,the blacksmith,worked all day making butcher knives out of old files and horse shoes to fight the Yankees with. They showed up around our place in a few days. All Yankees were dressed in blue overcoats with capes and funny looking caps. Local men would get hold of the overcoats and dye them black. They certainly were good ones and wore long after the war. I never saw a Rebel army,only individuals. We boys thought the Yankees had horns.
During 1860 and 1861 the men in our community would meet at Uncle Hugh's on the Mooresville Road by the big spring for muster and drill. A gourd always hung by the spring and every traveler that passed would stop for a drink. We boys would march and play soldier. Captain Hobbs made up a company of cavalry. My father George Terry Hudson, Billy Northern,and Bob Christopher went off in the cavalry. They furnished their own horses. Father was so big and heavy that he was soon transferred to the infantry. Tubal Hudson,Sim Hudson,Travers, and Dooley Freeman went into Hobbs Infantry. The Freeman boys didn't come back. Dad and Billy Northern both came back. Bob Christopher was killed. The later companies that were organized went in as replacements. Bill Moore, our school teacher, turned school loose one Friday afternoon, organized a company of infantry and went to Virginia. That day was the last day that I ever attended school(1863). Uncle Drew Hudson(one of Stephen Hudson's sons) went into the army from Arkansas and came to our house from the Rebel army in Virginia on furlough. He stayed about two weeks,returned to the army and was killed. Uncle Joe Cox from Helena, Arkansas was killed in the army. His wife and kids returned to Alabama after the war.
End of this section. I will post more of his memories about the war in Limestone later.
1880 Census of Limestone
George Alexander Stevenson 58 b. Alabama Runs Sawmill
Elizabeth Stephenson 53 b. SC
Josephine 21 b. Al
Samuel 18 b. Al
Nettie 12 b. Al
Susan Glasco border 40 b. SC
Mary 19b. TN
Frank Monroe Hudson was born in Limestone Co,Al in 1852. In 1880, Frank Monroe Hudson was a widower.
Franklin Monroe Hudson told his memories of Limestone County,Alabama to his daughter Stella Hudson who wrote his memories down. I got a copy years ago from one the Hudsons.
Civil War.
The first Yankees in our part of the country came to Florence(Lauderdale Co,Al) on gunboats. we were eating breakfast one Sunday morning and got word that the Yankees had landed at Florence. The old men and boys all got excited and gathered up all their old rifles and shotguns in the country. Jerry Stout,the blacksmith,worked all day making butcher knives out of old files and horse shoes to fight the Yankees with. They showed up around our place in a few days. All Yankees were dressed in blue overcoats with capes and funny looking caps. Local men would get hold of the overcoats and dye them black. They certainly were good ones and wore long after the war. I never saw a Rebel army,only individuals. We boys thought the Yankees had horns.
During 1860 and 1861 the men in our community would meet at Uncle Hugh's on the Mooresville Road by the big spring for muster and drill. A gourd always hung by the spring and every traveler that passed would stop for a drink. We boys would march and play soldier. Captain Hobbs made up a company of cavalry. My father George Terry Hudson, Billy Northern,and Bob Christopher went off in the cavalry. They furnished their own horses. Father was so big and heavy that he was soon transferred to the infantry. Tubal Hudson,Sim Hudson,Travers, and Dooley Freeman went into Hobbs Infantry. The Freeman boys didn't come back. Dad and Billy Northern both came back. Bob Christopher was killed. The later companies that were organized went in as replacements. Bill Moore, our school teacher, turned school loose one Friday afternoon, organized a company of infantry and went to Virginia. That day was the last day that I ever attended school(1863). Uncle Drew Hudson(one of Stephen Hudson's sons) went into the army from Arkansas and came to our house from the Rebel army in Virginia on furlough. He stayed about two weeks,returned to the army and was killed. Uncle Joe Cox from Helena, Arkansas was killed in the army. His wife and kids returned to Alabama after the war.
End of this section. I will post more of his memories about the war in Limestone later.