Ella Hudson Day

Ella Hudson Day (born Luella Lucile Hudson; 1876 – November 4, 1951) was a ragtime musician from Texas best known for "Fried Chicken Rag."^[1] She also wrote a few works about Texas due to an "overflow of patriotism." She also stated, "I do not write music because I want to – I write it because I must get it out of my system and that seems the only practical way to do it."^[2]

Her husband, Eugene Day, and she moved to Rotan, Texas, in 1907, where they helped to found the settlement.^[1]