It Happened in May …
Many important and memorable events in Paulding County history have taken place in the month of May:
1841 – Shadrach Hudson, the first settler in Paulding County, passed away May 17 in Auglaize Township, just shy of his 70th birthday. He was born May 31, 1771, in New Jersey. At the age of 18, he enlisted as a soldier under Gen. St. Clair, and was in the bloody conflict of 1793, on the Wabash, now known as Ft. Recovery; only seven, besides himself, survived to be discharged. Last fall, he was taken with the prevailing disease of the country and in the spring he was again taken down and after a few days yielded to death. Died, also on the same day, Mrs. [Lydia] Hudson. She too was a native of New Jersey, born Dec. 18, 1775. The disease of which she died was most painful – that of cancer. The proximity of her death and that of her husband to each other, is worthy of remark. She expired at 9 o’clock a.m., and he at 11 a.m., on the same day. They married in 1794 and lived to see a large family of children grow up…