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Historical Summary of I.B. & Jemima HUDSON
Isaiah Banks Hudson, who would later become a Texas cattle and horse rancher, was born on 18 December 1820 in Sugar Creek, Garrard County, Kentucky, within the Bluegrass region.
Following his father's death when he was approximately 15 or 16, Hudson remained at the family homestead with his mother and siblings. On 31 August 1841, he married Jemima Royston Schooler, born 3 October 1823 in Garrard County, Kentucky.
During the 1840s, records indicate that their first five children Margaret Elizabeth, Lynn Banks, Commodore Perry, Mary Florence, and William Tecumseh—were born, and the family's tax value totaled $625, including three horses and one cow.
By 1850, the Hudson family had relocated to Davidson County, Tennessee, residing with Hudson's mother, two brothers, and two sisters. During this period, three additional sons were born: Benjamin, Nicholas Schooler, and Andrew Jackson. In 1856, seeking a warmer climate for Jemima’s health, the family moved to Johnson County, Texas, eventually acquiring land spanning both Johnson and Tarrant counties. Here, the four youngest children—Christopher Columbus, Isaiah Banks Jr., Nanie Laura, and Susie Lucretia—were born, bringing the total number of children to twelve. Among them, only Isaiah Banks Jr. died in childhood, while the remaining eleven survived into adulthood, some living well into the twentieth century, with lifespans ranging from forty-four to eighty-three years.
In 1858, Hudson acquired an additional 160 acres in Johnson County. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, he possessed 200 acres of improved land and 760 acres of unimproved land.
The family's agricultural assets included sixty horses and thirty-five cattle, as well as wheat, Irish potatoes, molasses, and butter produced on their 960-acre property. In the same year, Hudson was mustered in as a Private in the Rock Creek Guards Cavalry of the Johnson County Home Guards (Texas State Troops) and was exempted from active combat duty during the Civil War.
Postwar, throughout the 1870s, the Retta area of Tarrant County endured significant economic hardships, affecting many local farms. Land holdings fluctuated due to legal disputes and court judgments, which often resulted in changes of ownership or financial losses. The Hudson family experienced similar challenges. In 1865, Jemima’s brother, Lytle Schooler, acting as trustee for her benefit, purchased 480 acres from I.B. Hudson using funds from her father's will. Hudson further expanded his holdings with a purchase of 500 acres in 1867.
By the early 1870s, the family possessed 500 acres of improved land, 100 acres of woodland, and 730 acres of unimproved land, with livestock assets comprising ninety-four horses, four hundred cattle, and eighty swine. Hudson registered his livestock marks and brands in Johnson County; his mark was a crop oƯ the right ear and a split in the left, and his brand was a cross (+) on the right shoulder.
Jemima Hudson died of tuberculosis on 17 July 1876 at age 53, and was interred in the family cemetery behind their house in the Retta area of Tarrant County.
Hudson continued operating as a farmer and rancher, and by the 1880s, his properties had decreased to thirty acres of tilled land, fifteen acres of orchards and vineyards, and four hundred acres of woodland, with thirteen milk cows, fifteen other cows, one horse, and two mules. No further agricultural tax records or land sale deeds have been discovered after this period.
On 9 January 1897, at age 76, Isaiah Banks Hudson passed away in Glen Rose, Sommerville County, Texas, at the residence of one of his daughters. He was buried on 11 January 1897 at the former family homestead near Burleson—the Leo O’Daniel Farm near Rendon in the Retta Area of Tarrant County, Texas. This Texas historic family cemetery remains on its original site at Bandon Dunes Drive in Fort Worth, Texas.
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