I have noticed the name HUDSON in some of the messages on DC and wonder if any of you have ever run across a Pleasant HUDSON? According to the 1860 Obtion Co., TN Census, he was born in Georgia about 1813. Death certificate information from three of his children given conflicting information about his birth place. Two say Tennessee and one says England! Hudson Family Asso. has Virginia as place of birth. I tend to think the 1860 Census is the best clue. Before 1840 he married a woman named Paulina, Plynia or Opalina HUBBARD born 1821 in TN. Again there is conflicting information from death certificates of the children. One doesn't give any information about her; the other says Paulina. The HUDSON Family Assoc. received information from a descendant of another daugher who called her Plynia/Opalina. The 1860 Obion Co., TN Census enumerator used initials for my family (darn his hide!). She is listed as "P", age 39, born TN. A Pleasant HUDSON has been found in Scott Co., MO in the 1840 census with a son under 5. This fits my line to a "T". He shows up next in Mississippi Co., MO where he purchased land. Can't find him anywhere in the 1850 Census, but he purchased land in Obion Co., TN in 1849 -- although the title wasn't filed and recorded until 1853 in Madison Co., TN. He had considerable holdings by 1860 as the Obion Co., TN Census shows property value of $8,000 and personal value of $2,500. He was a farmer. Can't find him in anywhere after 1870 so perhaps he passed sometime in the 1860's. Several of his children remained in Obion Co.; others moved to nearby Cape Girardeau Co., and Butler Co., MO. The 1880 Obion Co. Census turned up some interesting information. Living in the household of the youngest daughter was "mother-in-law", Mary P. HUDSON, age 69 born TN. Leads me to wonder if Mary Paulina was her full name but she went by Paulina. Sorry for the long message to ask a simple question. It would be grand to run into parents, siblings or other relatives. Given and middle names in this family were John Benjamin, Henry, Mary Ann, Elizabeth Jane, Waller Benjamin, Tennessee, Molly, Fannie, Cora,