My great great grandfather James Hiram Modlin was born on February 22, 1863 in Nashville, Tennessee. He died on October 9, 1949 in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky. His father was William S. Modlin, who was drafted and thus served in the Confederate Army in the Civil War, and Cinthia A. Sledge. His great-grandfather was Samuel Modlin who was from Greensboro/Perquimans County, North Carolina and who enlisted in May 1777 in the North Carolina Continental line in the Revolutionary War. This was despite the fact that he was a Quaker. His ancestor was Ezekial Maudlin who was a Quaker from England who migrated to America and died on May 16, 1705 in Perquimans County, North Carolina.

Mary Alice Hudson was the wife of James Hiram Modlin. She was born on August 16, 1865 in Russell County, Kentucky. Her parents were James Hudson and Susan Rucker.

James Hudson was born in 1815 and died in 1897 in Russell County, Kentucky. He was married to Susan Rucker. He was the son of "Old" James Hudson and Louisa Owen.

Our ancestor "Old" James Hudson was born on January 13, 1776 in Bedford County, Virginia. He was the son of Major Joel Hudson and was descended from one of the first Jamestown settlers (see below). He was married to Louisa Owen. He died on August 7, 1861 in Russell County, Kentucky.

Our ancestor, Joel Hudson, was a Major in the Revolutionary War under the command of George Rogers Clark. His parents were Martha Hudson, Jr. and Martha Hancock. He was born in 1728 in Chesterfield, Virginia in 1811 in Bedford County, Virginia.

Our earliest known Hopper/Modlin/Hudson ancestor was Robert Hudson who arrived in Jamestown on the ship "James" in 1622. This was documented by the "Muster of the Inhabitants of Chaplains Choyse and the Trueloves Company taken on January 21, 1624 by Ensigne Isack Chaplaine that was sent to England in 1625 by Sir Francis Wyatt, Governor. His son was Richard Hudson who founded Roxdale Plantation and married Mary Bowman - and who died in 1669.