Individual Details

The below is typed from a hand written letter written by H. Kierstede Hudson to Charles Alan Hudson, III, on August 22, 1979, after
Charles Alan Hudson, III, requested family information.
H. Kierstede Hudson
123 Stourbridge Road
Versailles, KY40383
August 22, 1979
Dear Chuck:
I fear the help I can give you will be rather limited.
My children:
Alexandra Farwell Parker, born in N.Y.C on 1/25/45.
H. Kierstede Hudson, III, born in Lexington, KY on 11/10/47.
John Francis Hudson, born in Lexington on 10/2/50
I was born in NY on 7/17/13.
After graduating from Princeton in 1936, I worked for DuPont and
Socony Vacuum, now the Mobile Oil Co.
For 3 1/2 years, I was in Air Combat Intelligence in the Navy, 
winding up as a Lt. Cmdr.From 1946 till 1967
I farmed on a large scale in KY and Miss.Since then I have
been retired.
Dad was born in NYC on Sept 8, 1885.All of his adultlife
he was a stockbroker with C.I. Hudson & Co. and with Reynolds & Co.
He was a graduate of Columbia.
Besides Alan, my uncles were Hendrik and Percy.My paternal grandparents
were Charles I. and Sarah Kierstede Hudson, maternal Reginald and Anna Farwell de Koven.
AFP [--meaning his daughter Alexandra Farwell Parker]--, Lives in Turnersville, N.J. and
has a son, Kenneth and a daughter, Elizabeth Farwell.
H.KIII [meaning son, h. kierstede hudson, iii)-- has a son, John B. and daughter, Kimberly Lea,
and lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee.He works for IBM.
JFH [=John francis Hudson, son]- lives in Versailles.
This is the extent of my biographical knowledge.I hope it will help some.
Your background is very interesting.
Please give my best to Sonny [this is what C. Alan Hudson, Jr. was called by family] when
you next write him.
Lea lives in Philadelphia.I have no street address.
Kindest regards.
Sincerely, Jack
More About Hans Kierstede Hudson:
Education: Graduated from Princeton in 1936..
Nickname: Nickname is "Jack".
More About Hans Kierstede Hudson and Ethel LeRoy de Koven:
Marriage 1: Grace Church, New York New York.
Marriage 2: See the New York Times wedding article..

Birth	17 Jul 1913	New York
Census (family)-shared	20 Jan 1920	(Hans Kierstede Hudson Sr. and Ethel LeRoy deKoven) Manhattan, New York City, New York
Census (family)-shared	7 Apr 1930	(Hans Kierstede Hudson Sr. and Ethel LeRoy deKoven) Mill Neck, Nassau County, New York
Death	13 Sep 1984	Woodford County, Kentucky
Burial		Saint John's Episcopal Church Columbarium, Versailles, Woodford County, Kentucky

Spouse	Elizabeth Frances Francis (1917 - 2005)
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Living

Father	Hans Kierstede Hudson Sr. (1884 - 1954)
Mother	Ethel LeRoy deKoven (1885 - 1943)
Sibling	Reginald deKoven Hudson (1917 - )

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