Mrs. Lucina Olin, daughter of Henry Olin, was born March 28, 1830, in Canton, St. Lawrence county, New York. Her father removed to Wabash, Indiana in the year 1838, when Lucina became acquainted with William D. Hudson, and on July 19, 1849, they were married at her sister's, Mrs. Clarissa Olin-Sharp, in Niles, Michigan. They have lived in several places in the West, and quite a good deal of this time in Missouri. But in late years they have lived in South Dakota. Mr. Hudson has quite a large ranch at Fairburn, Custer county, where they lived for quite a number of years. They have a family of five children, three daughters and two sons, and all alive and married except the youngest son, who is twenty-one ears old. We have the photos of the two sons. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson, both, and the oldest son have their portraits in the Olin Record. It will be seen that Mrs. Hudson was a very large woman, and at her death weighed over three hundred pounds. Mrs. Olin was an active and energetic woman although of great weight. Mr. Hudson was a mechanic and away from home a good deal, but she was the superintendent of the farm, and saw that everything was attended to perfectly during his absence. She was a good mother and kind companion to her husband, who survives her. She died August 17, 1887, at Fairburn, South Dakota, in the fifty-seventh year of her age. Her sickness was of short duration, only lasting twenty-three hours.
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Mr. Hudson was born at Saratoga Springs, in New York, September 10, 1822, and came West in an early day. We have never had an acquaintance with Mr. Hudson, but I take him to be a good husband, a kind father, and a good citizen. On our first acquaintance by correspondence, he used to write us how much he thought of the Olin family. He gave us the photo of himself and wife, and wanted them to be put in the book, so that he could be seen as one of the kindred of the Olin family. Mr. Hudson survives his wife, but as he is in his seventieth year, and has been a hard-working man, he feels his age, and during the last year he has been of such poor health as to keep him a good deal of the time from hard labor. But as he has five good, dutiful children, no doubt but they will see that he does not suffer for want of a good home in his old age.
Their oldest son, Charles S. Hudson, is married, and lives in the mining town of Terry, South Dakota. His portrait will be seen in our record book.
Julia A., b October 22, 1851, at Niles, Michigan; m October 3, 1882, to George D. Dawson, at Memphis, Missouri. He was born October 3, 1846, at Memphis, Missouri; no other record.
Charles S., b October 22, 1855, at Sand Hills, Missouri; m October 3, 1880, to Alice Ries, at Memphis, Missouri. She was born December 27, 1860, at Memphis, Missouri. They had four children:
Edna C., b April 16, 1882, at Sand Hill, Michigan; d June 15, 1891, at Galena, South Dakota.
Paul L., b December 15, 1883, at Black Hawk, South Dakota.
Herman R., b June 30, 1885, at Black Hawk, South Dakota; d June 8, 1890, at Galena, South Dakota.
Ava F., b January 21, 1889, at Grasshill, South Dakota; no other record.
Louisa E., b February 6, 1866, at Sand Hill, Missouri; m November 26, 1885, to J. B. Harris, at Fairburn, South Dakota. He was born October 16, 1845, in Tennessee. They had two children:
John H., b October 11, 1886, at Sand Hill, Missouri.
Lucine J., b September 4, 1889, at Sand Hill, Missouri; no other record.
Caroline, b November 30, 1869, at Sand Hill, Missouri; m April 27, 1890, to Charles J. Bowers, at Fairburn, South Dakota. He was born August 15, 1870, at Medina, New York. They had one child born March 4, 1891, at Fairburn, South Dakota.
Henry B., b June 1, 1871, at Niles, Michigan; no other record.
Zerusha, b February 17, 1832, at Canton, New York; no other record.
Martha, b May 18, 1834, at Canton, New York; d in infancy, at Cleveland, Ohio.
Fred S., b August 10, 1836; no further record.
