HUDNUT BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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HUDNUT, Henry - b: 1832 Wayne Co, OH
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 759
residence: Fairview Twp

Henry Hudnut, farmer and stock raiser, section 15, a thrifty and prominent 
farmer of Fairview Township, is a native of Wayne County, Ohio, having been born 
there May 22, 1832. His parents were David B. and Rebecca (Skamp) Hudnut, both 
originally from New Jersey. Colonel Skamp, grandfather of Rebecca Skamp, 
served under General Washington through the revolutionary war. D. B. Hudnut 
moved to Ohio in an early day and was one of the pioneer settlers of Wayne 
County. They subsequently went to St. Joseph County, Indiana, where the subject 
of this sketch was reared on a farm, receiving a fair education in the common 
English branches. In 1853 he located in Johnson County, Iowa, bought land and 
improved a farm, and was married there November 26, 1857, to Miss Elizabeth C. 
Posey, of Montgomery County, Indiana, and a daughter of Benjamin and Orpha 
Posey. Mrs. Hudnut moved to Iowa when a child, and was educated in Johnson 
County. After his marriage Mr. H. resided in that county for ten years, engaged in 
farming, and in 1867 he came to Henry County, Missouri, and bought a partially 
improved farm and settled where he now resides. He has 193 acres of land, 
mostly in cultivation and pasture, his fine orchard of 400 trees consisting of 
apple, peach, cherry and pear trees. There is a good house on the place located 
about twenty rods from the public road. Mr. and Mrs. Hudnut have six children: 
Arizona (now Mrs. Reuben Moore), William H., Lydia D., Maggie A., Wade W. and 
Hale. Himself, wife and three daughters are members of the Missionary Baptist 
Church at Brownington.

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