Laud Obediah “Obey” HudsonAge: 84 years1860–1944
- Name
- Laud Obediah “Obey” Hudson
- Given names
- Laud Obediah
- Surname
- Hudson
- Nickname
- Obey
 Birth | April 1860 29 26 |
 Census | September 1, 1860 (Age 5 months) |
 Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 12 months)Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 6 years)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 6 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 8 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Census | July 16, 1870 (Age 10 years) |
 Death of a maternal grandfather | Obediah B Pearson 1871 (Age 10 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 17 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 38 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Death of a mother | Amanda Pearson February 12, 1907 (Age 46 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 55 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 56 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 57 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 69 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Death of a brother | Charles Patterson Hudson January 14, 1933 (Age 72 years) |
| Death of a brother | Austin W “Harry” Hudson June 19, 1934 (Age 74 years) |
| Burial of a brother | Austin W “Harry” Hudson 1934 (Age 73 years) Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Arrow Rock Cemetery, Arrow Rock, Saline, Missouri |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 81 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
 Death | May 26, 1944 (Age 84 years) |
| Family with parents |
| father |
Laud A Hudson Birth: 1831 — Missouri, United States Death: |
| mother |
Amanda Pearson Birth: April 1834 40 — Saline, Missouri, United States Death: February 12, 1907 — Saline, Missouri, United States |
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Marriage: December 24, 1852 — Saline, Missouri, United States |
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4 years elder brother |
Charles Patterson Hudson Birth: 1856 25 21 — Saline, Missouri, United States Death: January 14, 1933 — Marshall, Saline, Missouri, United States |
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3 years elder brother |
Austin W “Harry” Hudson Birth: December 26, 1858 27 24 — Saline, Missouri, United States Death: June 19, 1934 — Carrollton, Carroll, Missouri, United States |
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16 months himself |
Laud Obediah “Obey” Hudson Birth: April 1860 29 26 — Saline, Missouri, United States Death: May 26, 1944 — Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States |
| Census | 1860 United States - Census transcript - Laud A Hudson - Household
Saline, Missouri, United States
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| Census | 1870 United States - Census transcript - Obediah B Pearson - Household
Arrow Rock, Saline, Missouri, United States
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