middle name could be "Columbus"

son of William C. Hudson & Taffenous "Taffy" Moore

born in Virginia, moved to Dickson County, TN, then to Fayette County, TN by 1826.

husband of Jemima Tatum

father of ten children:

Tennessee Hudson b.@1826-d.@1900 (Tennessee Hudson (1826-1900) was born to Thomas C. Hudson and Jemima Tatum in Tennessee. She was a resident of Clark County, and married Elias E. Dawdy on July 1, 1847, in Dallas County. She died in 1900)
James H. Hudson b.@1827
Henry Hudson b.@1828
Missouri Hudson b.@1829-d.@1898
Jesse Hudson b.@1830
Francis Agnes Hudson
Nancy Matilda Hudson September 12, 1835-August 10, 1885

"On August 25, 1836, he purchased eighty acres of land in Clark County, Arkansas, and later bought an additional eighty acres. He was a practicing attorney, a major member of the Somerville Land Company and served in the Fourth and Fifth General Assemblies of Arkansas."
∼When Thomas C Hudson was born on September 20, 1797, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, his father, William, was 52 and his mother, Taffenous, was 33. He was married three times and had six sons and 10 daughters. He died on October 9, 1884, in Clark County, Arkansas, having lived a long life of 87 years.

He first married Rebecca Hulme (1805-1872) on 22 Jul 1815 in Williamson County, Tennessee. He married Jemima Tatum in about 1824 in Tennessee. His third wife is unknown.

His father, William, was a Revolutionary soldier from Dickson County, Tennessee.

In the 1860 census of Clark County, Arkansas, Thomas and Jemima are living in the household of his son-in-law and daughter, Elias and Tennessee. The 1870 census enumerates Thomas and Jemima in the household of Elias and Tennessee, Mary Dawdy, Elias' mother and Sarah Dowdy, Elias' sister.