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                   SOURCE:  Sangamon County, Illinois 1850 Federal Census (CORNEAU
0068) gives her age as 8, and her place of birth as Illinois.
SOURCE: She is listed in CORNEAU 0005 as the Corresponding Secretary
of the Every Wednesday Club of Springfield, Illinois; the comprehensive
subject for the Club for 1893-1894 being the Philosophical Study of
United States History; on December 27, she led the discussion on
National and State Governments; her residence is given as 1130 South
6th Street.
SOURCE: CORNEAU 0008 (Kith and Kin Mailing List Feb 1936) lists Aunt
Anna's family as including:  Mr. Charles R. Hudson, Mr. James
Mr. Ridgely Hudson.
SOURCE:  CORNEAU 0013 lists Nicholas H. Ridgely's two wives, their
children, and their grandchildren.  It is undated, but was compiled  at
some point after 1923 and prior to 1935.
RESIDENCE:  Death notice of Suzanne Corneau, Illinois State Journal,
Springfield, Illinois, 23 May, 1918, p. 7: Suzanne Addison Corneau,
daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Addison Corneau, died at 2 o'clock yesterday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Corneau's aunt, Mrs. J.L. Hudson [Anna
Ridgely], 1130 South Sixth street.
CORNEAU 0057 (Road of Remembrance) says of her: Our favorite aunt was
Mother's sister Anna.  She had married late in life we were always
told, being of the ripe old age of thirty years when she was led to the
altar. No one, not even Grandmother, had the least expectation of her
marrying at all, unless, as Grandmother prophesied she took a widower.
She not only married, however, but she married a bachelor and most
happily.  The squat two story brick house where they lived, with its
large barn, lilac bushes and maple trees was the pleasantest home in the
entire family. [In her youth, she had been in the] habit of
Sometimes she used to read to us from the stout little books over which
her pencil had run so rapidly week after week in 1859-1865.  They were
entrancing chronicles.  As she read a wand seemed to touch the
Springfield which we knew, the years dropped away, and the bankers of
the town with their gold-headed canes and high hats, the elderly women
in black silk and jet, became boys and girls again, going on picnics,
sitting in Grandfather's summer house, on those evenings when the young
men were not drilling with the zouaves in the armory as war was
threatened.
The country was threatened with civil war.  Political rallies were being
held everywhere, and Anna attended them with various young men of the
town.  Nicholas Ridgely, like Lincoln, had originally been a
that party passed out of existence he became a Democrat, and Lincoln a
Republican, so it was to the speeches of the Little Giant  that Anna
largely listened. Wednesday evening runs the journal, Mary,
went to church.  Douglas arrived here that night and there was a great
commotion, a large torch light procession passed by the church and with
the music and shouting it was difficult to carry on the meeting.  The
election for President takes place this month and that long contest and
strife will be decided.  I suppose Mr. Lincoln will be elected
not, for I tremble for our country.
After 1861 the Journal is filled with the reverberations of
Another week has gone . . . .  It has been one of the most
of my life, for during these few days war has been declared,
of our beloved country is now prepared to attack the other half.  The
whole country in a state of confusion and excitement. . . .   On Monday
President Lincoln issued a proclamation to each Governor demanding
troops.  Illinois was ordered to send six regiments, that is 60
companies, each consisting of eighty men.  This has, of course, created
great excitement among all gentlemen.  Every one is talking of war, the
news, the latest dispatch.  I never knew such terrible times.  In 1863
the War was still raging.  Anna wrote on January 3rd I have begun a new
week.  I have begun a new year.  What a fitting time for
old year has gone.  It has borne with it many friends whose faces are
shut from my sight forever, but I hope to meet them in the shores of
another and brighter land.  Oh this ravaging war.  Through
has raged - How many friends I have resigned to dust.  Oh that the war
might cease. On New Year's Day[1864] Marshall Lamon [a family friend
Anna was visiting in Washington DC] took Jenny [his daughter] and Anna
to call on President Lincoln.  They were admitted with the Supreme
Court and the Diplomatic Corp and Anna had a chance to see the foreign
ministers in their court dresses.  Old Abe shook her hand but Mrs.
Lincoln was most gracious, talking with them and inviting them to walk
about the rooms in her company.  A band of music played very finely and
the scene was a pretty one.
NOTE:  A 48-page book of excerpts from Anna RIDGELY Hudson's journal
was published:  Title A Girl in the Sixties:  excerpts from
Anna Ridgely (Mrs. James L. Hudson)/edited by her niece, Octavia
ROBERTS Corneau, assisted by Miss Georgia L. Osborne; Author: Hudson,
Anna Ridgely, 1842-1926; Publisher: Springfield, IL: Journal
1929. Description: 48 p. illus. 23 cm; Notes:  reprinted from
of the Illinois State Historical Society, v. 22, no. 3, Oct 1929.  The
Illinois State Historical Library has (as of May 2000) a copy, call
#F896.3 H885g; and the Lincoln Library Main Sangamon in Springfield,
Illinois has a copy Call # BIOGRAPHY H8848a.