Family Histories of Coleman
County, Texas
ROY HUDSON
by Nellen Hudson
From
A History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985
edited
by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates - used by permission
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| Roy Hudson was born December 26, 1884 at Aquilla, the son of Thomas
Jefferson and Mary Elizabeth (Brannon) Hudson, and lived there until 1906
when his father bought the ranch in Coleman County. He started out
with his older brother, Frank, to the new ranch. On the way he developed
a bad case of mumps and had to return home, never getting to Coleman County
at that time. Before the trip to Coleman, he was married to Miss
Ella Murphy from Hubbard, in Ellis County, when brother Frank bought his
own place and moved away. Roy, Ella, and three-year-old daughter,
Dorothy, came to Coleman County to manage the ranch. Their son, Henry
Roy, was born in 1914. Both the children attended Novice school.
Roy Jr., was called into the army at the outbreak of WWII and was stationed
on Corregidor, when it was captured by the Japanese, on May 6, 1942.
He was a prisoner of war in Japan and suffered many hardships and injuries
until his release at the end of the war. Roy and Ella lived in the
house at the ranch headquarters until his death in 1952. Elba moved
to West Columbia, to be with her daughter, Dorothy. She died April
11, 1958. Both are buried in Coleman (see Frank
Hudson,
Joe Hudson and Thomas
J. Hudson, Jr.). |
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