[1] As Hallie Quinn Brown wrote, "during the years of great growth and development of the city of Chicago, the lives of both Anna Elizabeth and Joseph Henry Hudlun blossomed with kindly impulses and good deeds.

[4] Herself a respected member of the city's Board of Trade, she was active in the Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, and in the black women's movement.

[1] Anna was an early member of the Old Settlers Club, which sought to keep alive "the memories of the work of the pioneers and the Negroes and to be of general to the Colored people of the city".

[1] Joseph and Anna Hudlun also played an active role in the Underground Railroad,[6] part of a network of black Chicagoans who fought the institution of slavery.

[2] A newspaper report described her as "one of the oldest Afro-American settlers in Chicago", and noted that at her funeral, which was held at Quinn Chapel, there were more than 50 floral tributes, and "many letters of condolences were received... from all parts of the country."