Robert Hudson served in the Civil War as a private, Company F, 59th Tennessee Infantry, CSA. He was captured at Chickamauga and spent 1 1/2 years in the Union prisoner-of-war camp at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. He lived until 1901.
The line of direct descendants from him to Jim is:
- Robert A. HUDSON, b 1824, NC, d 1901, Dickson Co, TN, m Nov 6, 1850, Dickson Co, TN
+Elizabeth Ann MYATT, b 1828, Dickson Co, TN, d Abt 1863, Dickson Co, TN
- Nancy J. HUDSON, b Jul 14, 1851
- Becky HUDSON, b abt 1853-1857
- Fanny HUDSON, b abt 1853-1857
- Thomas HUDSON, b abt 1853-1857
- Nancy J. HUDSON, b Jul 14, 1851, Dickson Co, TN, d Apr 30, 1919, Fulton, KY Photograph with children and grandchildren
+Thomas Jefferson JAMES, b Jul 15, 1849, Dickson Co, TN, d Aug 9, 1903, Fulton, KY, m Nov 24, 1870, Dickson Co, TN Photograph of T. J. & Nancy
- Ella JAMES JOHNSON, b Sep 14, 1871, Dickson Co, TN
- James Franklin JAMES, b 1877, Dickson Co, TN Photograph of four brothers
- Nora JAMES BAKER, b Jan 28, 1880, Dickson Co, TN
- Albert R. JAMES, Sr, b Dec 24, 1882, Texas
- Oscar JAMES, b Feb 18, 1887, Graves Co, KY
- Beulah JAMES STEVENSON, b Apr 24, 1889, Graves Co, KY
- George Thomas JAMES, Sr, b Jan 21, 1891, Graves Co, KY
- Maggie JAMES ENGLISH, b 1893, Graves Co, KY
- George Thomas JAMES, b Jan 21, 1891, Graves Co, KY, d Nov 10, 1968, Fulton, KY
+Anne Verna KENDALL, b Aug 29, 1893 Hickman Co, KY, d Apr 12, 1982, San Antonio, TX, m Nov 27, 1919
- George Thomas JAMES, Jr
- James Kendall JAMES
- Joseph Rankin JAMES
- James Kendall JAMES
+Martha Lou CHAMBERS