[1] Ethel Hudson was 11 years old when, in 1907, she and her older sister, Elizabeth, left a broken home in Salem, Massachusetts, and traveled by train and horse-drawn carriage to be raised and educated by the Shakers.
[2] After Eldress Bertha Lindsay died in 1990, Hudson became the last Canterbury Shaker.
[3] Hudson died in 1992, the 200th anniversary year of the founding of the Canterbury Shaker community.
The United States has only one Shaker community with members that are living.
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