Mary Virginia Hudson

Mary Virginia Hudson (1900-1941), circa 1908

I really would have liked to have known my paternal grandmother.  But unfortunately, she died when my father was just five years old and as a result I know very little about her.  Mary Virginia Hudson was named after her grandmother, Mary Virginia Tarvin and was the eldest child of Orin Tulley Hudson and Maude Belle Nicoson.  She was born in Brazil, Clay County, Indiana on August 27, 1900.  Both of her parents were also born in Clay County, Indiana.

Virginia married Russell McCullough on November 15, 1919 in Clay County, Indiana when she was 19 years old.  She and Russell had five children together, they are John, Marjorie, Orin, Dale and Claude.  Child number six was on the way, when she fell on the steps to their house.  She was fairly far along in the pregnancy and the fall triggered labor to begin.  The doctor was called and he tried to save the unborn baby’s life and her life to no avail.

When she died on July 27, 1941 in Clay County, Indiana she was 40 years of age.