homas Hudiburg Junior and relatives settled in Jackson Township in Morgan County, and also in Johnson County. Charles Blanchard's "History of Morgan County Indiana" states that Thomas Jr., owned a General Store, was a farmer, and a Justice of the Peace. His fifth child, Samuel Smith Hudiburgh, operated an Inn.

Thomas Junior went back to Tennessee in 1841 and brought his father and stepmother, Mary back with him to Morgan County, Indiana. Thomas SR. died in 1842.

We have to assume that most of the others, being younger men, were farmers or did the general work necessary in frontier community. The area today does not appear to have been the same rich farmland with which they had been familiar in Tennessee. The Martinsville Recorder of Deeds Office does show that Thomas and also John "Uncle Jack" did buy land, which they sold within a few years at a profit.

We know of at least seventeen individuals buried around Morgantown in eight different cemeteries. There are three definite errors on the headstones. (1) The letter "N" in the middle of the spelling of Hudinburgh appears in three places: (2) the date of Polly's death should be "1842," and (3) "Polly C" should be "Polly McC." The stonecutter may have made the errors, or, a relative may have inadvertently given him incorrect information, or a relative having a stone cut many years later may not have known the correct facts.

After several years, some of the families seem to have decided that Indiana was not for them, and began to move westward toward Missouri and Kansas via northern Illinois. It may have been a better-traveled and safer route.

Quite a few others continued to live in Indiana and some offspring were there in 1970.

Submitted by Taletta McCraine