In a message dated 08/13/2000 1:01:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, WVMONROE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << could you look up the name Hudson in the "History of Monroe County, West Virginia"? >> Hi, There is no biography on the Hudson family in the book. There is a J C Hudson listed as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War who was a member of Thurmonds Rangers. My gr gr grandfather was also a member of that group. They were home guards who protected the families in the area. I am familiar with the Hudson family a little as well as the Pitzer family. I am from WVa, and still own property there. I am going back again next week. On Little Stony Creek, which is off Route 1, War Ridge Road, down in the hollow (holler, as we refer to it) was the "Old Pitzer Place". Some of my family lived in it after them. It was a log house as I remember it. It set on the left hand side of the road at the foot of the hill going down into the holler. I remember going there when my Uncle Bud and Aunt Flora lived there. They were making cane syrup. They had a big vat in the middle with a paddle being pulled around the vat by a donkey. The Hudson family lived at Marie. I believe they had 16 kids. Marie is just up the road from the Pitzer Place. You go past the Pitzer house (which is no longer standing) and follow the road up the other side of the hill and out a ways. That is Marie. My great grandmother, Maggie Shanks Walters, had a son, Emmett Shanks, who married Mattie Virginia Hudson, born 1896, died 1981. Virginia had a sister, Chessie Hudson. I may have some more info on the Hudson's somewhere. A number of the Hudson family is buried at the New Hope Methodist Church at Marie. I have a Monroe and Summers County Cemetery books if you need any addidtional info. Phyllis