Richmond Reed Hudson 1852-1906

HUDSON, CRUMB, DAYTON, DARLAND, SEEVERS

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 4/6/2011 at 23:16:12

Pioneer Summoned
R. R. Hudson Died at His Home in This City This Morning
Pioneer Teacher of County
Had Been Prominent in Ministry of Methodist Episcopal Church and Had Wide Acquaintance
R. R. Hudson, a pioneer of Emmet county and a resident of Estherville for many years, died at four o’clock this morning at his home on East Madison street in his fifty-fourth year. He had been ill for some time, suffering from a complication of ailments. The arrangements for the funeral have not been completed.

Richmond Reed Hudson was born in Wisconsin March 22, 1852, and at early age came with his parents to Martin county, Minnesota, where he spent his boyhood. As a young man he taught school in Martin and Emmet counties and was one of the pioneer teachers of this county. He was married in Emmet township June 9, 1877, to Miss Mary E. Crumb. He subsequently entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, becoming a member of the Upper Iowa conference and having charge at Garrison, Vinton and Toledo. He retired from the ministry ten years ago and three years later returned to Estherville and has since made his home in this city.

He is survived by his wife and eight children: Mrs. C. A. Dayton of Estherville, Mrs. Harry C. Darland of Emmetsburg, Mrs. Aredale Seevers of Oskaloosa, and Lela, Howard, Ethel, Harold and Hubert at home.

The decedent was a man of many good qualities and enjoyed the esteem of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. He had been in poor health for several years but was of a cheerful and hopeful disposition and always had a kind word for everybody and will be missed in the community in which he had long been a familiar figure. (Estherville Enterprise, Estherville, IA, February 21, 1906)