BIO: by Karla Todd Sherer

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Frank is the son of Benjamin F. and Mary Ann Gordy Hudson. The second born son of Benjamin, he followed footsteps of his father. He was born and raised on a sugar plantation in Bayou Sale, Louisiana. It was established and run by his father and grandfather before him along with other family members. Several of them ran this operation and/or worked on any of the 3 plantations Benjamin owned in various capacities. On this land they grew and milled their own sugar cane and shipped it via the Intracoastal Canal, to New Orleans to sell. One of many in that day, the plantation was called South Bend Plantation. After the Civil War, the sugar planting became less lucrative and other crops were tried such as cotton, corn, and fruits. Mostly berries, figs, and some citrus. It is said of Bayou Sale that the land is so very fertile that most any crop does well and it's one of the few places where crop rotation does not have to be done.

Frank served in the Civil War at Franklin for "Gordy's Battery". Frank was only a teenager when he signed up to fight - His outfit was:

State: LA
Branch: ARTILLERY
Unit: 1ST BATTERY (ST. MARY'S CANNONEERS)
He was held as a POW and at the end of the war he was paroled from the prison - still a teenager.

Frank married Mary Agnes "Mollie" Moore on 21 Jan 1868. They had 9 children. Mollie died 25 May 1883 leaving Frank with many children, all still very young.

Frank later married Sallie E. Gordy Friend, 26 Jul 1890, in St. Mary Parish She is the half sister of his deceased first wife Mollie. She brought with her two daughters from a previous marriage. They are:

Addie Elnora Friend Simms
1880 – 1952
Bettie E. "Betsey" Friend Garritson
1885 – 1953

Along with their children from first marriages, Frank and Sallie had 3 sons together. These children were all raised in Bayou Sale. See their sons connected below. Frank met Sallie as a neighbor and as extended family, being a sister to his deceased wife. She was raised on the Gordy Plantation - a neighboring sugar plantation also long owned by her family.

After the war, as the cost of growing the cane crops became less profitable and their children grew up and left, Frank and Sallie left the land around 1916 and lived for a while in Iberia Pa., LA, with son Richard Irving. They then moved across the river near some of their children in Pt. Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas between 1917 and 1918 and Frank died in 1919 in Pt. Arthur, TX.

In loving memory of my great grandfather - rest in peace - your family has not forgotten you...