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1008

IV Theodocio Eula Hudson, m Mr. Self; is now a widow, a teacher.

VI Earley Halbert Hudson, railroad passenger conductor.

VII

Mercer Alberta Hudson, d, one month.

Lery Olney Hudson was born at Commerce, Ga., July 20, 1870; was raised on a farm, and got his high school training at Commerce. He decided on the ministry as his calling from his youth up. He graduated at the Mercer University, the Baptist institution of Georgia, in 1894. In 1895 he graduated in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. He then accepted a call to the First Baptist Church at Columbus, Kans., and has been there and in that vicinity ever since, and his church and community have the utmost confidence in his integrity and conscientious devotion to his work. The climate does not agree with him, and he has some ill health to contend with, which is a handicap.

On Jan. 1, 1897, he married Miss Maud Gresham of Columbus, Kans.

1897

1002 Rev. Lery O. Hudson-Miss Maud Gresham 1009
Progeny: Five Children; Two Sons, Three Daughters

I

Paul Hudson, a ministerial student at college in
Fort Worth; is married and has one child.

Mildred Hudson.

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1011 II
1012 III
1013 IV
1014

Eula Hudson.

V

Mona Hudson.

Robert Lee Hudson.

All are being educated in high school and college.

James Lonnie Hudson was born in 1872. As a boy he worked on his father's farm. After his school training at Commerce, he served the required apprenticeship in locomotive engineering, a profession to which he aspired from his early youth. His ambition was to sit at the throttle of a great locomotive, pulling a long passenger train. He is employed by the Southern Railway, and pulls the first train out, Atlanta to Washington, and has always enjoyed the confidence of the railway company, and he is president of the American Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.

1895

1003 James Lonnie Hudson Imogene Mayne 1015
Progeny Eight Children

I Stella Hudson, m Walter Pullam; one child, Walter
Pullam, Jr.

1016

Halbert Hudson, graduate electrical engineer at
Georgia Technical Institute, and is an electrical
engineer for Southern R. R.; m 1921; no children.
Etta Virginia Hudson, a business girl.

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1020 V

1021 VI

1022 VII

Meldren Hudson, a business girl.
Imogene Hudson, student in high school.
James Hudson, d, age two years.

Margarett Hudson, in primary school.
1023 VIII John Westley Hudson, school boy.

1007 Earl Halbert Hudson, son of J. A. and Josephene Adair Hudson, was born Sept. 5, 1886, at Commerce, Jackson County, Ga. His parents moved to Atlanta, Ga., in 1904. Since then he has been with the Southern Railway, ranking as conductor. He is highly respected by all his higher officials, owing to his fine moral and business qualifications. He is a devoted churchman of the Baptist faith.

1907

1007 Earl Halbert Hudson-Miss Maud Thomas 1024

1025

Progeny: One Son

of Atlanta

I Charles Halbert Hudson, b Oct. 28, 1909. He is a bright high school boy, and has developed musical talent.

1004 Cary Hamilton Hudson, the third son of J. A. and Henrietta Josephene Hudson, finished high school, and sophomore year at Mercer University. He then went east and served the required apprenticeship in electrical telephone construction, and soon showed such skill and talent that he was placed in charge of a switchboard at Trenton, and at Atlantic City, N. J. He died of meningitis Sept. 20, 1894. He was not married.

1005 Theodocio Eula Hudson, the only living daughter, finished grammar school and high school at Commerce, Ga. She attended the senior class at Brenau College at Gainesville, Ga., and graduated in one year. As a teacher she shows some talent, and has been engaged in her profession almost continually, in grammar grades, high school, and as principal. She shows thrift enough to accumulate quite a lot of real estate and financial securities.

In 1909, August, (1005) Miss Eula married (1026) Mr. T. G. Self. He died in 1913.

She has traveled extensively in the United States and Canada, and is now teaching in Los Angeles, Calif.

1006 Eugene Calvert Hudson, the fifth child of J. A. and Henrietta Josephene Adair Hudson, after finishing grammar school, enlisted in the U. S. Navy and served two terms with credit, and touched at every port in the world. He married about 1918.

Mrs. Henrietta Josephene Adair Hudson deserves great commendation for her success in raising and educating her children.

888 James B. Adair, M.D., was born July 5, 1853, a son of James M. Adair and Martha Barnett Shields Adair, and was named for both of his parents. He got a high school course at Commerce, Ga. He selected the profession of medicine because he liked the study of scientific medicine, and from philanthropic motives. His profes