Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485320718:1030:191555462
• _FSFTID: K639-JWX
• _UID: 08138A2303344DFAA8E7560A84D02BEB9FA4
• Census: 21 Apr 1910, Albany Township, Nevada, Arkansas, United States
• Census: 2 Jan 1920, Missouri Township, Nevada, Arkansas, United States
• Occupation: 2 Jan 1920, Missouri Township, Nevada, Arkansas, United States; farm laborer
• Education: 1926, Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas, United States; Freshman at University of Arkansas; Address:
  University of Arkansas
• Education: 1927, Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas, United States; Sophmore at University of Arkansas; Address:
  University of Arkansas
• Education: 1928, Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas, United States; Junior at University of Arkansas; Address:
  University of Arkansas
• Graduation: 1929, Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas, United States; Address:
  University of Arkansas
• Occupation: 1929, Portland, Ashley, Arkansas, United States; vocational agriculture instructor, Portland High School
• Census: 21 May 1930, Portland, Ashley, Arkansas, United States
• Occupation: 21 May 1930, Portland, Ashley, Arkansas, United States; teacher
• Occupation: 1931, Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas, United States; assistant instructor, department of agriculture, University of Arkansas
• Occupation: 1932, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; Vocational Agricultural Instructor
• Residence: 1932, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States
• Occupation: 20 Feb 1933, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; vocational agriculture instructor, Wilson High School
• Occupation: 22 Mar 1933, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; vocational agriculture instuctor, selected as most popular teacher
• Occupation: 14 Apr 1933, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; vocational agriculture instructor
• Occupation: 22 Jun 1933, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; vocational agriculture instructor, attending agricultural extension conference to perfect plans for putting the recent cotton reduction legislation in effect
• Occupation: 23 Jun 1933, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; assistant to county agent
• Occupation: 24 Jun 1933, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; vocational agriculture instructor
• Occupation: 11 Sep 1933, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; vocational agriculture instructor, listed as an instructor for the upcoming year
• Occupation: 1934, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; County Agent, South Mississippi County
• Occupation: 20 Jul 1934, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; appointed accting county agent for south Mississippi County
• Occupation: 6 Aug 1934, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; acting county agent, south Mississippi County
• Occupation: 25 Aug 1934, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; county agricultural agent
• Occupation: 8 Oct 1934, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; appointed permanent county agent for south Mississippi County
• Occupation: 1935, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States; Address:
  USDA State Farm Management Specialist
• Residence: 1935, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States
• Occupation: 23 Jan 1935, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; senior rural supervisor, Emergency Relief Administration
• Residence: 1 Apr 1935, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States
• Residence: 30 Sep 1935, Dyess, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States
• Residence: 14 Apr 1936, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States
• Residence: 1937, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States; Address:
  722 W 28th Apt 2
• Occupation: 1938, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States; State Director, Farm Security Administration
• Residence: 1939, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States; Address:
  722 W 28th Apt 2
• Military: 1940, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States; registered for WWII draft
• Military: 1940, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States; registered for WWII draft.
• Residence: 1940, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States; Address:
  5115 T St.
• Census: 8 Apr 1940, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States; Address:
  5115 T St.
• Occupation: 8 Apr 1940, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States; state director for the Farm Security Administration
• Occupation: 1942, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States; Assistant Regional Director, Farm Security Administration
• Residence: 1942, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States; Address:
  2713 Kilgore Ave
• Residence: 1943, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States; Address:
  2713 Kilgore Ave
• Occupation: 1944, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States; Director of Operations, Southeastern Division, Department of Agriculture, Office of Labor
• Occupation: 1944, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States; Regional Director, War Foods Administration
• Occupation: Jan 1945, Marie, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; practical farm operator for Lee Wilson & Co
• Census: 11 Apr 1950, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; Address:
  Carson Lake Township
• Occupation: 1951, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; Vice President, Lee Wilson & Company
• Residence: 1971, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States

Notes:

CALLED: Hudson. Known as Papaw to his grandchildren.

OCCUPATION: Farmer; Exec. VP Lee Wilson & Co.; Mayor of Marie, AR

Residence: Wilson (Marie), Mississippi, AR

Not in Little Rock city directories by 1944. Not in Raleigh city directory in 1941
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This is a short autobiography that Papaw wrote for himself.

Hudson Wren
Wilson, Arkansas

Born: July 18, 1906
Hill farm in Nevada County, Arkansas (Prescott, County Seat).
Graduated: Prescott High School
College: University of Arkansas - degree in Agriculture
Football - University of Arkansas Razorbacks 1927 & 1928

Upon graduation entered Vocational Agricultural field working with High School boys. First job was the establishment of a new Vocational Agricultural Department at the Portland High School (Ashley County) Southeast Arkansas Delta area. [1930]

Three years later (1932) came to Wilson, Arkansas as Vocational Agricultural Instructor. Worked closely with the management of Lee Wilson & Company.

In the spring of 1933, the Roosevelt Administration came into into office and implemented a program to plow up each third row of cotton because of oversupply and low prices. While still in Vocational Agriculture was pressed into temporary duty as inspector for Federal plow-up program. Traveled Northeast Arkansas where got to view much fine farm land and meet many wonderful people. This program known as Agricultural Adjustment Act was the forerunner of ASCS.

In 1934 succeeded Stanley D. Carpenter as County Agent of South Mississippi County. At that time the Federal Agricultural Adjustment Program was administered by the County Agricultural Extensions Service.

Shall never forget some of the headaches incident to this early program, especially in 1934 when there was a difficulty in securing the "Bankhead Certificates", a type of permit necessary for a farmer to have before he could either gin or sell his cotton. The crop was early (August) and the certificates were late (September). Farmers were broke and disgruntled because of the unnecessary delays cause by Government red tape. Such was indeed a critical time for the farmer. All were greatly in dept, the creditors were pushing them for payment, there was a good cotton crop in the field opening fast, but the Government procedure was obstructing the normal operation procedure.

With the help of an excellent County Committee: J.F. Thompkins: Burdette; Rufus Branch, Pecan Point; and Clay Ayers, Osceola; South Mississippi County did manage to be the second county in the State to receive their allotment of "Bankhead Certificates" and were able to gin the cotton slightly late, but much ahead of any other group of farmers except Pulaski County.

A little nostalgia:
At the time of the plow-up campaign of 1933 the idea was so novel that farmers could not imagine such action. Cotton was celling for 4c-5c per pound. "The bank holiday" of March 1933 was fresh on the minds of everyone. Banks were going broke, Insurance Companies were being forced to foreclose on mortgages, entrepreneurs were jumping from tweleve story buildings, as this county was in the depths of the greatest depression it had known.

Henry A. Wallace was Secretary of Agriculture and reluctantly he decided to take some remedial action after the Plow-Up was announced and it became evident that it was going to be generally accepted the price of cotton increased from 4c-5c per pound to 5c-6c per pound. Not much in dollars but that one cent represented a 20% advance. By 1934, the time of the "Bankhead Certificates", the price of cotton had increased to a whopping 7c per pund - $35.00 per bale.

In 1935 the USDA began a rather comprehensive action program in this County. USDA leased 12,000 acres of farm land and moved "Rural Rehabilitation clients" onto this tract in an effort to help see them through the depression. At about the same time the Federal Government bought 16,000 acres of cutover timber land and started a project of development. This was the beginning of Dyess, Arkansas having taken its name from W.R. Dyess of Luxora, Arkansas who was the guiding spirit behind this undertaking.

[Little Rock] In the fall of 1935 I joined USDA as State Farm Management Specialist. Later became the Regional Farm Management Specialist. In 1938 I became Arkansas State Director of Farm Security Administration within USDA. During the ten years I was with USDA I held the positions of Assistant Regional Director FSA, at Raleigh, N.C., and later Regional (seven southeastern states) Director of War Food Administration at Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1945 I returned to Mississippi County as a practical farm operator. My position was Unit Manager of 12,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Marie, Arkansas. This involved taking over a tract of land which had been leased out and allowed to grow up by the former operator. All equipment had to be purchased at a time of strictest rationing and controls. This involved bartering, trading, and even dismantling a railroad, trading the steel to a farm implement company for farm tractors with which to farm the land.

In 1951 I became Vice President of Lee Wilson & Company, a diversified agricultural-industry operation in South Mississippi County, with operations in Crittenden County, Arkansas and Elko County, Nevada. There are sixteen departments or divisions within Lee Wilson & Company, representing a wider diversity of interests.

Civic affairs:

1. One of the original incorporators of Mississippi County Soil Conservation District and a member of the governinging board since its foundation. Served as President of the Board two terms, a total of eleven years.
2. Past Chairman of Rural Development Authority that authorized original survey of Mississippi County, its needs, and helped formulate plans that have served as a basis for water-sewer development in rural areas.
3. Past member of State Board of Economic Education, State Department of Education
4. Past President (1972-1973) of Arkansas Soybean Association. Now serving as Chairman of Research and Extension Committee of Arkansas Soybean Association.
5. Member of Board of Directors of Bank of Wilson
6. Member of Board of Directors of Mississippi County E.O.C. Inc.
7. Church affiliation: Methodist. Member of the Official Board of the Wilson United Methodist Church. Two terms as Chairman of the Board.
8. District Representative of Methodist Children's Home, Little Rock, Arkansas
9. Mayor of the Town of Marie, Arkansas

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Education:
In 1926, Hudson enrolled as a freshman at Arkansas. He was in charge of publicity for Agri Days. He was on the Razorbacks football team, a member of Tri Eta dormitory fraternity

Education:
Hudson remained active with Agri Days in his sophomore year. He pledged and joined Kappa Sigma fraternity as well as continuing in Tri Eta. He was a member of the Press Club. And he continued to play football.

Education:
In his Junior year, Hudson was again in charge of publicity for Agri Days, was a part of the Arkansas Boosters Club, played football, was in the Press Club, was still in Tri Eta and Kappa Sigma and the Varsity Club.

Occupation:
1929-1930 and 1930-1931 school years.

Occupation:
1931-1932 school year

Residence:
Jennie says that while Hudson and Mary first came to Wilson, they also lived at the Dyess plantation for some time during their first stay in Mississippi County. She says that Nannie (Mary) showed her houses in Dyess where they had lived.

Occupation:
Appointed as administrative assistant to county agent to implement cotton reduction in Mississippi, Crittenden, and Cross counties.

Occupation:
As assistant to county agent, will lead round table discussions relative to cotton reductions.

Occupation:
"Mr. Wren has previously been engaged in the teaching of vocational agriculture. Following his graduation from the University of Arkansas in 1929 he taught for two years in the Portland, Ark high school, returned to the university for a year as assistant instructor in the department of agriculture and education, and came to Wilson as a teacher of vocational agriculture in the summer of 1932. He is a native of Nevada county."

Occupation:
"Appointment of Hudson Wren, now county agricultural agent at Osceola, to be the senior rural supervisor for the Emergency Relief Administration in Mississippi County was announced today by B.N. Wilson, county ERA administrator.

Mr. Wren has accepted, Mr. Wilson said, subject to approval of the state agricultural extension service, from which he must obtain a leave of absence. In this new capacity he will be the manager of the 8,500 Mississippi county rural rehabilitation project, near Marie, and will also be agricultural advisor for the Dyess colony. One of his assistants will be Joe Dillahunty of this city, former county assessor, who will have headquarters on the Ridgeland farm, part of the rehabilitation project.

Mr. Wren, a native of Prescott, Ark., was Smith-Hughes instructor at Wilson high school until last fall, when he was named county agent at Osceola to succeed S.D. Carpenter. He has also had experience in agricultural work in southeast Arkansas.

While Mr. Wren's permanent headquarters will be at Dyess colony, his major task this year will be at the county rehabilitation farm, where the ERA plans to locate several hundred farm families, no one relief rolls in this and other counties. The farm has 6,000 acres now in cultivation and plans call for the clearing of an additional 2,500 agres. The land has been leased from the Lee Wilson company."

Residence:
Wren, Hudson H (Mary J) supvr h 722 W 28th apt 4

Residence:
Wren, Hudson H (Mary J) agriculturalist FSO h 722 W 28th apt 2

Military:
This would have been a part of the first registration, 16 Oct 1940, for males aged 21 to 35 within the continental United States.

Residence:
Wren, H Hudson (Mary J) state dir FSA h 5115 T

T St. is now Country Club Blvd in this section.

Residence:
Wren, H Hudson (Mary J) asst dir FSA h 2713 Kilgore av

Residence:
Wren H Hudson (Mary H) asst regional director in charge FSA US Dept ofAgrl h2713 Kilgore av

Occupation:
Legal residence: Arkansas 5th Congressional District, compensation $6500.

Henry married Mary Higgs on 4 Jun 1930 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States. Mary (daughter of John William Higgs and Eliza Johnson (Lida) Cason) was born on 16 Sep 1906 in De Queen, Sevier, Arkansas, United States; died on 26 Oct 1988 in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States; was buried on 28 Oct 1988 in Osceola, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _AMTID: 162485320647:1030:191555462
• _FSFTID: GMF9-FBV
• _UID: 12E984C9AD5040689659C8A275D8327F4420
• Census: 11 Apr 1950, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; Address:
  Carson Lake Township
• Education: 1959, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States; Wilson High School
• Graduation: Jun 1961, Wilson, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States
• Education: Sep 1961, Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas, United States; University of Arkansas
• Residence: 29 Jul 1963, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States; Address:
  307 N. Holmes
• Education: 1972, Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States; Lambuth College
• Graduation: Jun 1974, Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States
• Residence: 13 Aug 1976, Allison Park, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States
• Residence: 1988, Plano, Collin, Texas, United States

Notes:

RESIDENCE: Early years - Atlanta, GA, until college - Wilson (Marie),AR during college - Fayetteville, AR, 1963-1966 - Memphis, TN,1966-1968 - Little Rock, AR, 1968-1976 - Jackson, TN, 1976-1988 -Allison Park, PA, 1988- Plano, TX

EDUCATION: Wilson, Arkansas High School Class of 1961; University of Arkansas, Graduated Lambuth College, Jackson, Tennessee, 1974.

Birth:
BIRTH: Bette Carole's birth certificate says she was born in Emory,Dekalb County. No such place exists, but she was born at Emory Hospital in Dekalb County.

Graduation:
Graduated from Wilson High School

Graduation:
Graduated from Lambuth College

Bette married Robert Harrison Dickson, III [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bette married Kermit Wayne Snipes, Jr. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bette married John Frederick Reglin [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Everett Keith Johnson [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Brian married Kathleen Ann Boyle [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marcus married Laura Ann Wasserberger [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marcus married Heather Lynn Enaya Parr [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Heidi married James Eugene Stives [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]