Joel Baker Northcutt and Manerva Jane Hudson

JOEL BAKER NORTHCUTT was born January 22, 1814 in Memphis, Rutherford County, TN, and died February 1890 in Comanche County, TX. He married (1) MARY G. RALPH May 10, 1838. She was born Abt. 1821 in Rutherford County, TN. He married (2) MANERVA JANE HUDSON Bef. 1860, daughter of JESSE HUDSON and MATILDA EVERETT. She was born December 15, 1832 in Georges Creek, Marion County, Arkansas, and died December 27, 1912 in McCulloch County, TX.

Manerva Jane Hudson was born to Matilda and Jesse Hudson in the George's Creek community in Marion County on 13 December 1832. In the early 1850s she married William Edward Wood, who became one of the victims of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Manerva had been left in Arkansas because she was expecting a child. The child, born after William's death, was named George Edward Wood. He was born in 1855 and eventually died in Comanche County, Texas.

A few years later, around 1859, Manerva married Joel Baker Northcott, a widower with six children. One of his daughters, Sarah, had married Manerva's brother William Haney Hudson several years before. When Manerva married Joel, they moved with their children from George's Creek to the Sugar Loaf community in northwestern Marion County. They had three children:

On 15 September 1874 the family moved to a farm near White Rock, Texas. They made subsequent moves to Comanche and to Calf Creek in McCulloch County, where Manerva died in November of 1918. She is buried in Calf Creek Cemetery; Joel is buried in Downing, Texas.