1949 :: Death of Mrs. Emma York Hudson

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma York Hudson, 88, an early resident of Highland Park, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Sparkman-Brand Chapel, 2115 Ross. Dr. Marshall Steel will officiate. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. A native of Alabama, Mrs. Hudson was brought to Texas by her family when she was still in her teens. They settled in Rockdale, Milam County. She was married there and later lived in San Angelo. She moved to Dallas thirty-five years ago. Her husband, the late J. Sid Hudson, was manager for the George P. Ide Company, shirt manufacturers who were on Commerce Street for many years. Mrs. Hudson and her husband were among the first to move to Highland Park when the development was opened. Her home was at 3715 Gillon. Later, she moved to 322 East Tenth, where she died Friday. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Burt C. Blanton; a sister, Miss Jennie Lynne York; a granddaughter, Mrs. Jeanne Freeman, and a great-grandson, all of Dallas. Dallas Morning News, August 21, 1949

1945 :: Death of Sid Hudson

J. Sid Hudson, 86, of 4510 Abbott, southwestern branch manager of a shirt and collar manufacturer, before retiring about fifteen years ago, died Monday. He had lived in Dallas about thirty-five years. Hudson was born in Maryland and was brought to Texas as a boy by his parents, settling in Rockdale, Milam County. He was reared in Rockdale and was a member of the Methodist Church there. Before coming here from San Angelo, he traveled Texas and the Southwest as a clothing salesman. Surviving him are his wife, a daughter, Mrs. B.C. Blenton, and granddaughter, all of Dallas, and a brother, Lon Hudson, of Rockdale. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Guardian Funeral Chapel, 2811 Oak Lawn, with Dr. Marshall Steel officiating. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. Dallas Morning News, February 13, 1945