I am researching the surnames: Lander & Hudson The help I need is on orphans. Does anyone know where I would write or call about a record of guardianship or indenture of an orphan who lost his last parent in Abt. 1820. He was only 7 years old. Family lore says that Atha Gregory Hudson lost his last parent (mother) at the age of 7 and became an indentured harness maker. Atha Hudson and Catherine Lander are in the 1850 Trigg County, KY census. Here is his bio: History of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade and Barton Counties, Missouri The Goodspeed Publishing Co. 1889, p. 657 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-maker's 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 Shipp Lander, a daughter of Henry Lander, and grand-daughter 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.