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Peter Wayland Hudson
Peter Wayland Hudson was the 1st child born to Wash and Frances Hudson on August 29th in the year 1877 and passed from this life on July 7th 1969.
His Dawes Roll Number was #5673 and his Census Card was #1980 and he was enroled at age 24 and is listed as a FullBlood Choctaw.
His Birthplace was in Eagletown, Indian Territory, now in McCurtian County Oklahoma.
He Married Myrtle May Campbell on March 14th 1901 in Tuskahoma, Indian Territory.
Mr. Peter Wayland Hudson's story
My people came to Oklahoma from Mississippi, about 1832.
From information I received from my grandmother Ahobatema Hudson, who was about 18 years of age at the time they were brought here, that there were so many of them, and were all afoot and endured some hardship on account of weather, deaths all along the trails.
My great grandmother (Widow Hudson) died some where on the road.
My grandfather, James Hudson, was a minister of the Gospel; the rest were farmers and stock raisers.
I was court clerk from 1907 to January 1921, in Pushmataha County.
At present I am in the Indian service, as land appraiser.
In Tribal Affairs, my Great Uncle George Hudson, was President of the Constitutional Convention in 1856 and in 1858 at the ratification of the Constitution so drafted he was elected first Chief under the new Constitution, in fact the only written constitution the Choctaws ever had, but he was not elected in 1862 because he refused to take part in the Civil War.
My Uncle, Jackson Hudson became county judge of Eagle County, Choctaw Nation, after the Civil War.
This was the county seat at Eagletown and he served 24 years; also, he served 4 years in the Civil War, in the Southern Army.
Peter W. Hudson was born at the old Eagletown in McCurtain County on August 29, 1877.
His parents were Washington and Frances Bohannon Hudson, also natives of Eagletown.
His great uncle George Hudson, served as principal chief of the Choctaw in 1858 and was defeated when he refused to call a meeting of his Council to declare war against the government in favor of the Southern Confederacy.
Peter Hudson's long career in politics was started in 1900 when Green McCurtain, then Choctaw Chief, named Hudson to complete the term of Simon Woods, who died while a member of the Choctaw Council.
He represented Wade County, now a part of McCurtain, LeFlore and Latimer counties.
Later, Hudson was chosen clerk of the council.
At statehood, in 1907, he was elected what was then called district clerk for Pushmataha County, a position which was consolidated with that of court clerk in 1915 and served until the Republican landslide in 1920.
Later, he served as a deputy in that office for eight years.
One of Peter Hudson's boyhood memories had to do with his first train ride.
Hudson rode the Frisco passenger train in August of 1887 when he was a ten-year-old boy.
He had traveled by wagon with his parents from Eagletown to Goodland on his way to Spencer Academy located near Nelson.
At Goodland the family met Hudson's grandfather Joshua Bohannon of Grant.
His grandfather suggested that young Peter just take the new "iron horse" from Goodland to Antlers and save his parents and the real horses a two-day trip.
The family went to the station.
When Peter heard so much noise and saw the steam and smoke, he ran and hid behind the platform.
He came sheepishly back when the family called to him to hurry up. Ticket in hand, he boarded the train and found a seat.
This introduction to trains was an exciting experience especially when he almost lost his hat sticking his head out of the window.
Peter Hudson was enrolled as a full blood in Eagle County in 1896.
Peter W. Hudson and his wife Myrtle Campbell Hudson of Tuskahoma were the parents of four children; Lillian Thelma, Dorothy, Peter W. Jr., and Hiawahnah.
Information Submitted by: Mary Wood and is found here: http://www.choctawnation.com/History/index.cfm?fuseaction=HArticle&HArticleID=381
After his father Washington 'Wash' Hudson had been murdered (1897), his mother sent Peter Wayland as far away as possible.
This was done to prevent the oldest son Peter from attempting to take revenge for his father's murder.
Revenge was evidently a Choctaw way of doing things, an eye for an eye kind of deal.
Wash's murderer, also a Full-Blood (Choctaw) committed suicide in prison because he couldn't tolerate being locked up.
So it was a tragedy all the way around.
Cindy Young has his burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Myrtle May Campbell and The Choctaws
by Sharon DeLoache
My grandmother, Myrtle May Campbell, was called "Big Mama", a perfect name.
She was the big heart of our family, beating out happiness and generosity and love.
When I knew her, she was a big lady, with a perfect lap for grandchildren and the softest wrinkled cheek for kisses.
But that had not always been so.
Fifty years earlier, she was a tall, slender, fair-skinned, blond, blue-eyed girl.
She was a descendent of the Scotch-Irish who had accepted King James's offer of land, acting as a buffer against the Northern Irish.
Finally, some of those forebears arrived in the American South.
Her parents moved to Indian Territory in 1875--settling in Tuskahoma, the capital of the transplanted Choctaw nation that had come over the "Trail of Tears" from Mississippi.
In Tuskahoma, the Campbell's raised livestock and farmed: a full-day, full-family enterprise.
Eventually, Myrtle met the young man who became my grandfather: Peter Wayland Hudson 'Pete', as dark as Myrtle Campbell was fair, had the raven hair and aquiline profile of the American Indian.
Family lore says that they met while Myrtle and two sisters were chopping cotton and Pete came riding by on horseback.
I envision her stopping in the field, with one hand up to shield her eyes from the sun, looking up at that dark young man.
They were married in 1901.
I sometimes wondered how Big Mama felt about her mixed marriage.
Perhaps her poker-stiff carriage came from looking down her nose at people who dared to look down their noses at her.
Several people actually mentioned the unconventionality of the marriage to Big Mama who rather pointedly advised them to stick to their own knitting.
Perhaps she was only truly uncomfortable in her position as one half of a mixed pair at the Choctaw Council Meetings.
Yearly the Choctaws gathered at the Council House at Tuskahoma for speeches, singing, and dinners on the ground.
Anyone who wasn't a full blood definitely wasn't "in."
Big Mama wanted to be accepted by her husband's people and to fit in with them, but she had a great deal to overcome.
First, of course, was her coloring: she was about as inconspicuous as a lamp in a tunnel.
Second, was her speech; English was not spoken at the gatherings, and whenever Big Mama overheard two people talking, she was certain that they were talking about her.
After years of endurance, however, a mutual respect evolved.
The Choctaws' thinking seemed to have been that anyone whom Pete Hudson had married couldn't be that bad, even if the wrong color.
These two wildly different people had years of fun together.
Big Dad was an inveterate traveler, frequently packing his increasing family into a Model-T and heading out into the wilds, sometimes literally building the road as he went.
Once he was hopelessly lost, having been totally deserted by the Indian's legendary knowledge of woodcraft and direction.
Finding a dwelling in the midst of the desolation in which he unaccountably found himself, he inquired politely of the startled lady of the house, "Ma'am, can you please tell me where I'm going?"
The poor lady, naturally, had absolutely no idea.
Often the intrepid family would camp out during their journey, and there are stories of supremely confident sleepers encircled by ropes to keep the snakes away; of building camps almost on top of railroad tracks, and, obviously by extremely bad luck, in the path of stampeding horses.
Through fifty-five years of marriage with inevitable laughter and tears (two babies died at birth, and a third died of dysentery before my mother was born the first of four to survive), Big Mama never lost her sense of life's wonder.
Knowing she was dying of cancer, her indomitable spirit still shone.
Adoring life, she watched it going with no bitterness, but with the firm convictions of her faith.
She died, and, somehow, that spring the flowers in her garden were all white.
Peter W. Hudson, Sr., and Myrtle May Campbell Hudson's oldest daughter (to survive infancy) was Lillian Thelma Hudson.
She married Tom (Thomas Jefferson) Olive, and they had five children: John Thomas, Mary Frances, Betty Jane, Sharon (me), and Deborah.
So Peter W. Hudson, Jr., is my uncle--mother's only brother.
Hiahwahnah was the Indian name given to the baby of the family, whose name is Frances Clyde Hudson.
Aunt Hiahwahnah is the only surviving one of the siblings.
Both she and my grandfather were such grand people.
After Wash Hudson had been murdered, his mother sent my grandfather Peter W. Hudson as far away as possible.
This was done to prevent the oldest son Peter from attempting to take revenge for his father's murder.
Revenge was evidently a Choctaw way of doing things--an eye for an eye kind of deal.
An interesting footnote: Wash's murderer--also a full blood--committed suicide in prison because he could not tolerate being locked up.
So it was a tragedy all the way around.
The Children of Peter Wayland and Myrtle May Hudson
Pictured below are Lillian and Dorothy with their parents, Peter Wayland and Myrtle May Hudson in 1909.
#1 Floyd
(Died an Infant)
Born: January 11th 1903 - Died: January 11th 1903 and Buried at Old Town Tuskahoma Cemetery, Tuskahoma, Ok
#2 Eva
(Died an Infant)
Born: February 8th 1904 - Died: February 8th 1904 and Buried at Old Town Tuskahoma Cemetery, Tuskahoma, Ok
#3 Marie M.
Born: February 11th 1905 - Died: April 8th 1907 and was Buried at the Old Town Tuskahoma Cemetery, Tuskahoma, Ok. Dawes NB #935; Census Card #1034; enrolled at age 1; blood quantum ½ Choctaw
#4 Lillian Thelma
Born: November 5th 1907 in Tuskahoma, (Indian Territory) Oklahoma. Died: October 31st 1996 in Talihina, Ok
Spouse:
Thomas Jefferson Olive
Born: January 26th 1899 in Winfield, Arkansas
Married: February 28th 1928 in Hugo, Oklahoma
Children:
#1 John Thomas
#2 Mary Frances (Wood)
#3 Betty Jane
#4 Sharon (Deloache)
Sharon is pictured below.
Sharon is a member of NSDAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) through Cherokee Capital Chapter since 2002.
Sharon has been married for 41 years and have three children and five grandchildren.
Sharon is retired from Tahlequah High School where she taught all levels of high school English for twenty-seven years in the Language Arts Department, serving as Department Chairman for 10 years.
She has earned a Bachelors' Degree in English Education from East Central State College (now University) in Ada, Oklahoma, and a Masters' Degree in Education from Northeastern State university in Tahlequah.
"My great great grandfather was Joshua Bohanon (born 1819 in Mississippi) one of the sons of William Bohanon, Sr., and a full-blood Choctaw woman.
Joshua married four times in the course of his long life; his fourth and final wife was Louisa Christy, the daughter of George Christy and Emily Bohanon.
Joshua and Louisa were the parents of four children: Frances, Jacob, Silas, and Elizabeth.
Frances married Washington Hudson, and their oldest son was Peter Wayland Hudson, my wonderful grandfather."
#5 Deborah
The Children of Peter Wayland and Myrtle May Hudson cont.
#5 Dorothy Aline
Born: Feb 24th 1909 in Antlers, Ok Died: January 14th 1990 in Ardmore, Ok
#6 Peter Wayland Hudson Jr.
Born: December 28th 1913 in Antlers, Ok - Died: February 4th 1968 in Antlers, Ok Married: Mary Eleanor Lucas
Born: June 10th 1921 in Checotah, OK. - Died May 30th 1990 in Muskogee, OK.
Children:
#1 Peter Wayland Hudson III
Born: March 9th 1942 in Claremore, OK.
Children:
One is believed to be named Peter Hudson (IV)
At least one Grandchild named Peter Hudson (V)
#2 Beth Hudson
Born: June 22nd 1940 in Durant, OK. 1/4 Choctaw (enrolled)
Married: Robert Marshall
Children:
#1 Michael Marshall
Born: September 23rd 1963 in Redondo Beach CA. 1/8th Choctaw (Enrolled)
Married: Mary Douglas
Children:
#1 Emma Nell Marshall, Born September 7th 1994 in Torrance CA.
#2 Matthew James Marshall, Born August 6th 1996 in Torrance, CA.
#3 Grace Elizabeth Mary Marshall, Born August 29th 2001 in St. Paul MI.
#2 Melissa Marshall (O'Malley)
Born: July 19th 1967 in Torrance CA.
1/8 Choctaw (enrolled)
Married: Patrick Sean O'Malley
Children:
#1 Breanna Renee Griego
Born: May 12th 1994 in Torrance CA.
1/16 Choctaw (enrolled)
#2 Cassidy Ellen Griego
Born: October 12th 1995 in Torrance, CA.
1/16 Choctaw (enrolled)
#3 Connally Liam O'Malley
Born: July 12th 1999 in Torrance, CA.
1/16 Choctaw (enrolled)
#4 Nita Fiona O'Malley
We now know where Peter was on these three dates:
Groom: Sam Teel, age 26 of Hugo, Choctaw County, Oklahoma
Bride: Miss Pearl Robertson, age 22 of Hugo, Choctaw County, Oklahoma
Who married them: A. W. Rison, County Judge of Antlers, Oklahoma
Where married at: Antlers, Oklahoma
Date of Marriage: December 5, 1917
Witnesses: P. W. Hudson and Mead Harris, both of Antlers, Oklahoma
Groom: William Thompson, age 23 of Yanush, Latimer County, Oklahoma
Bride: Miss Pearl Terry, age 15 of Antlers, Oklahoma
Mother of Pearl Terry: Mrs. Willie Barrett
Who married them: A. W. Rison, County Judge of Antlers, Oklahoma
Where married at: Antlers, Oklahoma
Date of Marriage: December 13, 1918
Witnesses: P. W. Hudson and T. D. Partlow, both of Antlers, Oklahoma
Groom: W. T. Thompson, age 21 of Moyers, Oklahoma
Bride: Miss Amanda Standridge, age 18 of Moyers, Oklahoma
Who married them: A. W. Rison, County Judge of Antlers, Oklahoma
Where married at: Antlers, Oklahoma
Date of Marriage: January 10, 1919
Witnesses: P. W. Hudson and S. E. Welch, both of Antlers, Oklahoma
Groom: W. T. Thompson, age 21 of Moyers, Oklahoma
Bride: Miss Amanda Standridge, age 18 of Moyers, Oklahoma
Who married them: A. W. Rison, County Judge of Antlers, Oklahoma
Where married at: Antlers, Oklahoma
Date of Marriage: January 10, 1919
Witnesses: P. W. Hudson and S. E. Welch, both of Antlers, Oklahoma