Flora, I have a copy of "A Genealogy of the Parks Family" by Henry William Clark, pub. 1905, that gives extensive data on the Parks, Hudson and Ross families. According to this book, Lunsford Hudson came to SC in 1780. "He was a son of Abraham Hudson, who was born in 1729 and died June 6, 1806. The Hudsons emigrated from England to America and settled in Va. When a child Abraham's nurse accidentally let him fall in a fire and one of his hands was severely burned and injured. His father, through sympathy for this affliction, willed him two plantations on the James river. . . . " Lunsford Hudson and his wife Amelia Parks (dau. of Thomas Parks and his third wife, Annie Brockman) had 13 children, the fifth of whom was Melissa Martin Hudson, who "was educated in the common schools and married John Ross, a farmer, Nov. 23, 1820. Mr. Ross was born in Greenville district, S.C., and received a common school education. He and his wife were members of the Baptist Church. . . They had fourteen children. . . " (named) Contact me privately about getting a copy of this data to you, if you like. Best, Mary in Columbia, SC > John Henry ROSS Sr - > Marriage: 23 November 1820 > Wife: Melissa Amelia Martin HUDSON - > Birth: 28 January 1806 Place: Greenville Co SC > Death: 15 June 1880 > Father: Lunsford HUDSON - (1768-1856) > Mother: Amelia PARKS - (1781-) > Children... > 1. F Child: Gilly Caroline ROSS - > Birth: 26 January 1828 Place: Greenville Co SC > Death: 20 September 1905 Place: Oconee Co SC > Spouse: Reuben Winfield LEE - > Marriage: About 1846 > Flora Newby > 3243 Old Chapel > Spring Texas 77373 > 281 353 4226 > [email protected] > Anyone know my Ross and Hudson families? > thank you Flora