[2][3] She is a great-great-granddaughter of George Washington Richard Henry Lee Payne, an African-American man who was one of the first blacksmiths at the Biltmore Estate.
[4] She is a fifth-great-granddaughter of Colonel John Hazzard Carson, an Irish-American colonist who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
[6] Lynch-Hudson attended Bennett College, a private historically black all-girls school in Greensboro, North Carolina.
[3] In 2024, she became the first black woman to join the Greenlee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Old Fort, North Carolina.
[7] During her historic induction into the Daughters of the American Revolution, Lynch-Hudson wore a scarf replica of a quilt on display at the Carson House that was made by a foremother enslaved there named Kadella.