Austin, TX, United States
Hudson Bend. In 1854 Wiley Hudson (b.1825) and his family settled on the bend of Colorado River that was named for him. The 1860 census showed four families living in this vicinity, including Wiley Hudson with his wife Catherine and eight children, as well as a household headed by his father James.
During the Civil War (1861-1865), Wiley Hudson, his two chaplain brothers and others relatives took up arms for the Confederacy. Three rivers fords enabled the pioneers to cross the Colorado to grind
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