Polk County, Missouri Biographies - Atha Gregory HUDSON
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties,
Missouri; 1889, published by Goodspeed, Pg. 657
Polk County Biographies Section

    Atha Gregory Hudson, a harness manufacturer, is a Virginian,
born in Halifax County, November 25, 1813, and is a son of Daniel
and Sallie Hudson, but was left an orphan when about seven years
of age, and was reared in Kentucky.  When about fourteen years 
of age he began learning the harness-makers' trade in Hopkinsville,
Ky., and, after becoming thoroughly acquainted with the details
of the business, worked in that State for a number of years.  
In October, 1851, he came to Cedar County, Mo., where he made his
home until 1877, when he located in Humansville.  During the war
he worked in Sedalia, Mo.  He was married in Kentucky in 1835 to
Miss Catherine Ann Elizabeth Lander, a daughter of Henry Lander,
and granddaughter of Maj. Brassfield, of Clark County, Ky.  They
have two sons and two daughters living: Charles William, a farmer,
of Vernon County, Mo., a substantial citizen of the county, and a
soldier in the late war; John the other son; Ophelia Kate, wife
of Cicero Warner; and Mollie, wife of E. P. White, a railroad
contractor of New Orleans, La.  Mr. and Mrs. Hudson have been
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, from youth.
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