Notes for JAMES HUDNER: JIMMY AS HE WAS CALLED WAS A SHOEMAKER, IN NEW MARLBORO, MA. HE LIVED ON A STEEP SIDE HILL LYING BETWEEN THE HIGHWAY AND THE RIVER SOME HUNDRED FEET BELOW. THE HUDNER HOME WAS PERCHED UPON AN EXCAVATED LEVEL A DOZEN FEET LOWER THAN THE TRAVELED HIGHWAY, AND THE FRONT DOOR YARD WAS SCARCELY MORE THAN A ROD IN WIDTH BEFORE IT WAS HALTED BY THE RETAINING WALL WHICH HELD THE HIGHWAY ABOVE. THIS LEVEL SPOT AS FRONT DOOR YARD AND PLAY GROUND FOR THE GROWING FAMILY OF NINE CHILDREN , THEN CAME THE HOUSE ITSELF A ONE STORY AND HALF AFFAIR WHICH EXTENDED TO THE EDGE OF A PRECIPITOUS JUMP TO THE WATER SOME HALF HUNDRED FEET BELOW SUCH A PRECARIOUS FOOTING THE ENTIRE FAMILY LIVED AND PROSPERED UNTIL GROWN TO THE HOME LEAVING PERIOD, AND NEVER A ONE OF THEM IS KNOWN TO HAVE EVER TUMBLED DOWN THE HILL INTO THE WATER.NOTHING REMAINS TODAY TO REMIND ONE OF THE STRANGE SITE FOR A HOME.
More About JAMES HUDNER: Burial: Unknown, MILL RIVER CEM. NEW MARLBORO, MA..
Children of JAMES HUDNER and CATHERINE VEASY are:
+JOHN T. HUDNER, b. 06 Jul 1855, NEW MARLBORO, MA., d. 27 Apr 1920, PITTSFIELD, MA.
JAMES HUDNER (b. 1830, d. 16 May 1889)
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