Simon Hudson & Sally "Polly" Trueman

Simon Hudson, my wife's 5th great grandfather and father of Margaret Hudson, was born March 19, 1772 in Chesterfield Virginia.  Chesterfield, in Chesterfield County was formed from parts of Henrico Co, VA in 1749.  Simon spent his younger days in Virginia, marrying Sally Trueman also of Virginia in Bedford County Virginia on July 22, 1797.  He was 25 years old.  She was 20.  Her birth was 1777.

By 1810 they lived in Madison County, KY, and there Sally died in 1813 at the age of 36.  She and Simon had 8 children between 1799 and 1812;  Margaret, Polly, Elizabeth, Samuel, Frances "Fannie", Catherine (also listed as Keturals), Dortha, and Simon P.

In 1825 Simon moved to Clay County, Missouri (and listed as the town of Liberty in 1850).  In 1820 Simon had begun to secure federal land grants in Clay County (There is one grant signed by Andrew Jackson).  Simon and his eldest son Samuel were original settlers in Clay County. By the time of his death he had accumulated large tracts of land.  He spent the rest of his long life in Clay county along with his sons.  He died on March 22, 1853 at the age of 81.

Simon Hudson and his son came to Missouri in 1825, and located a large body of Government land in Clay County.  The elder Mr. Hudson was now a man past middle life but full of hope, courage and ambition.  Before his death in 1853, he had prosperously accumulated fifteen hundred acres of valuable land, and was numbered among the substantial and most highly respected citizens of the county.  He lived to be eighty-one years of age, and although his wife, who passed away in 1813, died when he was a comparatively a young man, he never married again.

(Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Clay, Ray, Carroll, Chariton and Linn Counties, Missouri, 1893. Page 281.)