Caldwell County MO Archives History .....ENOS DUDLEY FAMILY IN HAMILTON 1860 
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	THE ENOS DUDLEY FAMILY IN HAMILTON 1860
	Narrator:  George Dudley, 75

     George Dudley is a son of Enos Dudley who was one of the very early 
settlers of this town.  He may be called the master "hotel builder" of 
Hamilton.  He came to the county about 1860 as a carpenter from Va.  He wanted 
to come west and try his fortune.  He was the first and as far as is known, 
the only one of his own family to pioneer.  He seems to be no relation to the 
Wm. Dudley of the Mirabile neighborhood who came earlier.  He went down to 
Kingston 1861 to help build the new court house.  While there, he fell in love 
with one of Billy Jones' daughters, who lived in the country between Kingston 
and Far West.  One of these daughters married Enos Dudley, another married 
Thomas Peddicord (parents of Gertrude Peddicord of Hamilton) and a third 
married 1) Mr. Clark, 2) William Goodman of Kingston and later of Hamilton.  
(See the Goodman story.)  After the court house job was finished, Mr. Dudley 
came back to Hamilton.  Here he and Mr. Goodman built the Hamilton House, an 
hotel which stood opposite the depot, and was quite popular.  Before it was 
finished, he sold his part to Goodman.  (See the Hamilton Hotel.)  Later, he 
and Goodman built the Western House on Main fronting the east; it too was 
frame and covered about three store buildings.  It was in the middle of the 
block.  He and Goodman, being both rather  self opinionated, fell out and 
again Dudley left Goodman's partnership.  He bought a new lot and built a 
carpenter shop for himself, and no one else.  This Dudley shop was on the site 
of the present Walter Whitt residence.  That was in the late 60s and 70s.  The 
Dudley home was on the same lot.
     In the 70s, the Dudleys bought an extensive tract in the south east part 
of town which for some time remained undeveloped.  During the 70s, there was a 
race track on it and community affairs were staged there, like the barbeque.  
Today, it is known as the Dudley addition to Hamilton, and in it is the home 
of George Dudley, the narrator.  Even within the last twenty years, Dudley's 
pasture has been used for traveling tent shows and ball games.
     Interview  1933.


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