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Note: CHRONOLOGY OF BEATRICE HUDSON'S LIFE: Oral interview July 3, 1995 by George Chatham
--Family first came to Idaho to the Joseph Plains
--Moved to Mountain House 1909 or 1910 Stagecoach house on Neusom Creek about 15 or 20 miles from Elk City
--Started school in Grangeville
--Moved to Carabell (Saw Mill & Log Camp) near Stites (no school) (logging camps)
--Stites to Harpster (2 grade-4th or 5th)
--Harpster moved back Grangeville (Wiley born there)
--Came to Orofino when she was 12 or 14 years. (7 or 8th grade)
--Grand Pa left family 1919 and Grandma had to go to work to help support family.
--1920 got hand hurt in Mangel iron.
--Finished school in 1921 from 8th grade.
--Met Harry while she was working in a restaurant in Orofino
--Was 16 years old when her and Harry married.
--Her mom remarried (Charles Sullivan) and moved to Spokane, Washington where Ervie and Wiley started to school.
School Census 1920 Mill Cut Elk River Mill (No proven relation that we know)
Mr & Mrs. RL Weisner
Chris Weisner 10
William Weisner 9
School Census 1921 District 22
Harry Hudson
Willie Hudson 12 (This is Harry youngest Brother)
School Census 1921 District 22
I.R. Wisner
Beatrice 16
George 14
Loretta 12
Arthur 8
Robert 6
NOTES FROM LEWIS HUDSON:
Mother was about five or six years old when they moved out to the Joseph Plains area and that is it, just area, not far from there is the deepest canyon in the world and to get there one feels like all of the hills are the same way. The only way in was by pack horse. Every thing was broken down so a horse could carry it, even lumber was packed in. Mom remembers that her and George were put in sacks and one on each side of a horse, and that it was a long trip. No doubt that it was, I have logged up there and I doubt that a horse could make it with full load, in one day to the top from the river. At the turn of the century that country was covered with large yellow pine trees, average of three feet on the stump and much larger and over one hundred feet high with small meadows here and there. Very impressive to see. Of course no schools and it was that way where they lived most of the time until they moved back to Harpster, Idaho near the mouth of the Clearwater River.
In spite of all Mom did get her eight grade education and that was good for those days and times. When she was 14, or there abouts and employed in a laundry she got her hand burned very badly in a mangel iron, which gave her much discomfort through the rest of her life. Mom help up well except the last three or four years that she has been in a rest home and will be 95 on her next birthday.
--Lewis Hudson Genealogy book 2000
OBITUARY: Beatrice Louella Wisner Hudson by George Chatham (read at her funeral)
Beatrice Wisner Hudson was born to Irviene Ray Wisner and Ella Hanson November 24, 1905 in Spokane, Washington. Shortly after her birth the family moved to Joseph Plains, Idaho where they homesteaded. About 1909 they moved to the "Mountain House", a stagecoach stop, near Elk City. After that the family moved about living in various places for short periods of time. Beatrice started school in Grangeville. Then they moved to Clarabell, a saw mill & log camp, near Stites; then to Harpster; then back to Grangeville. When she was 12 or 14 they came to Orofino, where she finished the 8th grade of school in 1921.
She met Harry Hudson and they were married July 01, 1922 in Clearwater County. To that marriage was born 12 children, 11 who lived: 9 sons and 2 daughters. Harry and Beatrice began raising their family in the Grange Mont, Idaho and in 1950 moved to Harmony Heights above Orofino. After retirement the couple moved to Lewiston, Idaho, where they lived until after Harry's death. Beatrice moved to Peck, Idaho to be near her sons in 1992. She spent the last 4 years of her life in the Clearwater Nursing home, where she passed away, March 12, 2001.
She is preceded in death by her husband Harry and three sons, a infant un-named son, Charles & Thomas.
She is survived by seven sons: Lewis Hudson of Kuna, Idaho; Ralph "Lee" of Potlatch, Idaho; Frank of Kamiah, Idaho; Sam of Peck; Andrew of Kamiah; Edward of Orofino and Joe of Peck, Idaho; two daughters: Ella Bea Stout of Mountain City, TN and Laura Chatham of Fort Wayne, IN.
She has 20 grand children, 33 great-grand children, and 2 great-great grand children.
She is also survived by her 4 brothers: Art Wisner, Ervin Wisner, Wiley Wisner and Rolie Sullivan.
During her life Beatrice has cooked for harvest crews and in logging camps, hauled freight, worked in a laundry, delivered mail, plus raised a large active family. In her spare time and later years, she enjoyed gardening, quilting, crocheting, her house plants, and cooking. She also enjoyed the outdoors, camping, and fishing with her family.
She was a charter member of the VFW and World War I auxiliary and member of the Orchards Community Church, and the Golden Nuggets of Lewiston.
EULOGY AND TRIBUTE TO: BEATRICE HUDSON: By George & Laura Chatham (read at funeral)
Wife, Mom, Grandma, Great-grandma, sister, friend, & neighbor are just a few of the titles that our Mother has gone by during her lifetime. In her 95 years of life she has seen many changes both in her family life as well as in the world. Having been born in 1905, she has experienced travel by horse and wagon to travel by automobiles and airplanes. She has witnessed the advent of telephones, electricity, radio and television, to a man walking on the moon and the Internet. She has experienced cooking on open campfire & wood cooking stove, to the use of gas & electric cook stoves and microwaves (Although she was never quiet sure about those new fanged microwaves).
In our family she has experienced the lost of three children, one at birth and two sons, one at the age of 4 and another at the age of 21. She has also lived through the loss of her husband, our father. She said, "Good bye!" to sons who went off to war and she welcomed them home. Through all of this she has continued to face life with courage and very few complaints; even toward the end of her life, she was often more willing to endure the pain than to complain or ask for help.
She taught us her children to respect the rights of others, to be honest and hardworking. No one, if there was a genuine need, was ever turned away from her door, if she had the ability to help. This was true, whether you were a neighbor kid on the outs with your parents and who needing a place to stay for a while, --or a neighbor who needed an extra hand at harvest time, --or a hot dish taken to a neighbor's during an illness or death in the family. We were always amazed at how Mom could multiply a meal she had planned for four and make it enough to feed 15 or 20 people. Whether you were a neighbor who stopped by unexpectedly, she always had tea or coffee and a sweet ready to eat; --or if you were a whole thrashing crew or fire crew, --or 4 or 5 of us kids show up with our families for Sunday dinner, she always seem to have to have enough food for everyone. There was always room for at least one more at the table.
She loved the great out doors both recreationally and in gardening. She could grow anything, both flowers and vegetables. She loved house plants and always had an abundance of them in her home. She loved to fish and camp. As her son-in-law, some of my own kids most precious memories were of the times we went boating and camping up on Dworshak or up at Red River Hot-springs, the one time a year we could make it out to Idaho to see her. We missed the times when she was no longer physically able to go camping with us; but even then, she loved to go for drives and revisited the places we had spent time at.
She loved her grand kids. Several of her grand kids lived or spent time with her while she lived in Lewiston, as they waited for school or they attended college there. She enjoyed playing cards with them, like King in the Corner. The Grand kids were always welcome, even when their parents weren't always behaving.
She always had time for helping a sick neighbor or checking up on a friend or reading or writing letters for someone in the nursing home. We thank you friends and neighbors who helped pay back to her some of those good turns, while she was in the nursing home.
Some of us have often wondered how Mom survived raising 9 boys and 2 girls, but there was never any question who was in control at home even when Dad was gone. She had a way of bring a 6' 3" 19 year old son to his knees, if need be. Mom was the iron maiden with a heart as big as all out of doors. Mom, we're going to miss you!
To Grandma:
Grandmother Willow
Old Mother matron willow tree
Deep your roots are a part of me
Three generations past have come and gone
Yet you have loved on
If my part just a week or a day
Sad may be your day of passing
Morn no more for the by gone day
Death of that day is the only way to a passing peace we find every day
This is the peace that we find in you
It is in the spring of the day that we will find you resting at the pool of tranquility
Season come and season go
There is a place that we know we are in the flower of our day
--Ben Chatham
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