Charles Henry Hudson & wife Nancy Theodocia Ward
1900

Charles Henry Hudson (16 Dec 1873 – 24 May 1957) was the son of John Thomas Hudson and Susannah Jane Goyne. He was born in eastern Union Parish near Farmerville. On 6 January 1897, Charlie Hudson married Nancy Theodosia Ward (8 Mar 1878 – 14 Mar 1950), the daughter of John Thomas Ward and Sarah Ann Elizabeth Scarborough. Docia's grandfather, David Ward, had settled a few miles east of Farmerville in 1837, and her family had lived on the Ward's Chapel Road since that time. Her father, Jack Ward, had died prematurely in 1883, when Docia was only five years old. Shortly after their marriage, Charlie and Docia bought a 320-acre farm that adjoined the farm of Docia's family, and they lived there for the rest of their lives.

Charlie Hudson farmed, operated a cotton gin, and later he owned a store. On 11 December 1905, the Bunkerhill Post Office was established in Hudson's store, and he was named as the postmaster. He served in this capacity until the office was discontinued on 30 August 1911. Charlie Hudson represented Union Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1924 – 1928. While in the legislature, Hudson authored a bill that would prevent the notion of evolution from being taught in any public school or university, although the bill died in committee. During the Depression and World War II years, Hudson drove a school bus. Docia Ward Hudson belonged to the Liberty Hill Primitive Baptist Church for her entire life, but as Charlie was a Mason, he did not join the church until the 1950s.