Originally from County Sligo in Ireland, Hudson died in Charlotte in 1891. Hudson was a Marine who fought in the Civil War and helped protect the USS Brooklyn during the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. "It was what we call a no-brainer to have Uncle Fran in his hometown," said John Flaherty, Flaherty's 79-year-old nephew.įlaherty has had a cenotaph - a memorial that is sometimes in the form of an empty tomb - in the area since 1942, John said, as well as a memorial dedicated to him and the town's other Medal of Honor recipient, Sgt. According to the Navy, remains are identified with help from DNA reference samples from family members as well as existing medical and dental records.įlaherty's heroism has become lore in his extended family, who made the decision to have him honored in his hometown of Charlotte.
This information is based on awards reporting made available to the Military Departments. military members who are recipients of a Medal of Honor, Service Cross, or Silver Star. 1, 2020, Medal of Honor recipients receive a 1,406.73 monthly pension with annual cost-of-living increases in line with the Social Security Administration's increases. But his body was finally identified with the aid of DNA technology in 2019. The sole purpose of the information provided on this website is to publicly recognize those U.S. Flaherty was initially buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii, along with 400 other unidentified victims of the attack.