THE HUME FAMILY HISTORY

UPDATED JUNE 2, 2009

THE HUME FAMILY

The Hume Family is our tie to nobility. I have charts going back as far as Sir Thomas Hume of

Hume, eldest son of Sir John Hume. This takes us back to about the year 1000 which is probably

further than most of us really care to go.

Sir Thomas Hume was thirteenth in the direct male line from Crinian, Lord of the Isles, who was

slain in 1045. This line, which is that of the Earls of Dunbar, is given in Paul's Scots Peerage III,

Page 239.

A rather extensive History of the Hume Family was put together in 1903 by John Robert Hume

of St. Louis, Missouri. Most of the early line is extracted from that work.

The Hume Family home was Wedderburn Castle in Scotland. It was here in Wedderburn that the

Hume who came to America was born. This brief genealogy begins with George Hume who

came to America in the early 1700s.

Our American line went from George Hume to George Hume II to John Hume to Stanton Hume

who married Sarah Breckenridge. Their daughter, Ann Elizabeth Hume married Lemuel James

Patterson in St. Louis County, Missouri. This is the connection of the Hume line with my

mother's Patterson line, and how they became a part of my direct lineage.

GEORGE HUME

George Hume was born at Wedderburn Castle in Scotland on May 30, 1698. Together with his

father, Sir George, and his uncle Francis, he participated in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.

The Jacobites were supporters of the Stuart claim to the throne of England after the expulsion of

James II in 1688. They supported James son, Prince James Francis Edward. When the Stuarts

were defeated in Battle by the English the Humes were stripped of their power and made to pay

for supporting the losing side.

George's uncle, Sir Francis Hume was banished to the colonies in 1715. Sir Francis died a few

years later. After two years in prison, George Hume was deported to join him in Virginia.

George's cousin was the Colonial Governor Spottswood in Williamsburgh. Governor Spottswood

had remained loyal to the Crown and young George Hume was placed under his care.

George Hume arrived in Virginia in 1721 and in 1723 became a royal surveyor. In 1727-28, he

laid out the present city of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

George served as a lieutenant in the Colonial Troops of Spottsylvania County under Captain

William Bledsoe. He produced his commission in open court and took oath on September 2,

1729. This service will entitle descendants to membership in the Society of Colonial Dames and

the Society of Colonial Wars.

On February 16, 1727 George Hume married Elizabeth Proctor, daughter of George and Mary

Proctor. Elizabeth was living in Fredericksburg in Spotsylvania County while George was

establishing his reputation as a surveyor here.

In 1731 George Hume received his commission as Deputy to the King and with a marriage

dower of 2,000 acres he and his family took up residence in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

From the ages of 16 to 18, George Washington studied surveying as an apprentice under George

Hume in Fredericksburg.

George, like all the Humes, was an Episcopalian and was a vestryman in St. George's Parish.

George was King's surveyor for Lord Fairfax from 1743 to 1750 in Orange County, Virginia.

The latter part of his life was spent in Culpeper where he was surveyor during the 1750s. George

Hume died in Culpeper which at the time was in Madison County, Virginia in 1760.

George and Elizabeth Hume had six children: GEORGE HUME JR., Francis, John, William,

James and Charles Hume. The following is what I know of these children.

George Hume II

George Hume the second was born in Culpeper County, Virginia in 1729. In 1754, he married

Jane Stanton, the daughter of Thomas Stanton. This is my lineage, and the life of George Hume

II is covered in the next section.

Francis Hume

Francis was the second son. He was born about 1730 in Culpeper County and was a farmer there

until his death in 1813. He married Elizabeth Duncan August 13, 1763 in Fauguier County

Virginia. She died in about 1822 at the home of her daughter Nancy Hume Sharp in Boone

County, Missouri at the age of 94.

Francis served in the French & Indian War with Captain John Field. He also served with Field in

the American Revolution. He received bounty lands in Culpeper County for this service in 1811.

Francis and Elizabeth had two daughters and four sons:

ELIZABETH HUME who married John Almond of Spotsylvania County.

NANCY HUME who married Lewis Sharp of Culpeper.

JAMES HUME who married Catherine Barnes on October 2, 1797.

ARMISTEAD HUME who married Priscilla Colvin on December 25, 1798. He died in

Culpeper County January 19, 1815. Priscilla then married the Reverend Abner Baughan

on November 17, 1817.

CHARLES HUME who married Celia Shumate on June 1, 1803. He was in Fauquier

County, Virginia when he served in the War of 1812, and was commissioned an officer.

He served with his cousin, Joseph Hume and was discharged at Fredericksburg on

December 17, 1814. He moved to Madison County, Kentucky in 1818. The majority of

the lands were in Madison County, but the house itself was in Garrard County. In the

early 1820s they moved to Trimble County, Kentucky on the Ohio River. He lived there

until his death in 1838 or 1839. Their children were:

James Armistead Hume born about 1804 in Fauquier County. He married Mary

Nicholson and died young without children. Mary remarried and went west.

Sarah Elizabeth Hume was born November 8, 1808. She married Zachary Taylor, a

cousin of the President on January 13, 1830. She lived into her eighties.

Lewis Hume a Reverend. He was born in Fauquier County on June 22, 1814. He

switched from the Episcopalian faith to the Scotch Presbyterian and became a minister

in that church in Louisville, Kentucky. He married Lamira Douglas McGee on June 6,

1843. He died in Spencer County, Kentucky on his farm on May 22, 1888. Lamira died

there on May 22, 1886 exactly two years before her husband.

Lucinda Hume was born about 1824 and died unmarried February 2, 1895.

Joseph Squires Hume was born November 14, 1827. He married Sarah Ann McGee in

March 1854. He was a physician. He died June 4, 1860. Sarah was born February 14,

1828 and died August 17, 1902.

Emily Hume was born June 8, 1830. She married Charles Norwood on February 15,

1846. She died January 13, 1893.

John Hume was born in Garrard County, Kentucky. He married Ellen Snyder.

BENJAMIN HUME who married Nelly Frost.

John Hume

John Hume was born in 1732. At age eleven, he was taken by his uncle, Captain James Hume,

and placed in the British Navy. He studied in Norfolk and went with his uncle to sea.

He returned to America and married Helinor Manson in Boston in 1766. He was involved as an

Indian in the famous Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773. After the Revolution, he moved to

the area of Waterville, Maine (still part of Massachusetts at the time) and remained there the rest

of his life.

James and Helinor had three sons and four daughters:

JOHN HUME who married Nancy Webb.

GEORGE HUME who was killed in the War of 1812.

CAPT. WILLIAM HUME, who married Augusta Jackman.

ELINOR HUME who married a Simpson.

DAUGHTER who married a Crosby.

DAUGHTER who married a Winn.

DAUGHTER who married a McCusic.

William Hume

William was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia in about 1734. He studied law in Virginia, and in

1754 married a Granville girl from South Carolina.

They had two sons:

ALEXANDER HUME who was a lieutenant in the Second South Carolina regiment and

was killed in one of the first battles in the American Revolutionary War. He was killed at

Savannah on October 9, 1777 on the second day after he enlisted in the Army. He was not

married.

JOHN HUME was possibly the eldest child. He married a Long from Massachusetts and

they had two sons, both of whom died as children. His first wife died. He then married Jeane

Glenn and moved to Long Run, Kentucky in about 1783. John became ill and wrote his will

in 1798 and died in 1802. Their children were:

John Hume was killed in a skirmish with Indians in Kentucky as a young teenager.

William Hume died of small pox as a child in 1790.

Sarah Hume married Thomas Sturgeon on April 11, 1786. Both died in 1845. They

had 5 sons and 5 daughters.

A Daughter who married Christian Young.

After his first wife died, William returned to the Virginia frontier and married Susan Elzephan of

Charleston, South Carolina. He ran a store for a number of years and they had five sons and a

daughter:

Rev. GEORGE HUME was born in Culpeper, Virginia in October 1755. He worked with

his father in their store up to the Revolution. He enlisted with his father and was made

Chaplain of his Regiment. He served in that capacity until the end of the War and was

discharged in 1781. He was ordained a minister in the Baptist church and married a cousin,

Elizabeth Proctor in 1781. He went west into Kentucky with his family. They settled in

Harrodsburg and then moved north to Campbell County, Kentucky. Elizabeth died in 1797

and George married Susan Hutchinson in 1799. Susan died in 1819 and at an old and infirm

age, George married a third time and died three months later in 1821. His children were:

Anna Hume born in Virginia in 1781. She married Edward Stephens and died in 1855.

John Hume born in Virginia in 1782. He married Elizabeth Coleman in 1801 and had

ten children. After her death he married Susan McKenzie and had one more child. He

died in 1845.

William Hume was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky March 30, 1786. He became a well

known preacher. It was said his voice could be heard for two miles on a still night. He

married Elizabeth Aldrich in Boone County on October 29, 1807 and lived in Kenton

County, Kentucky. He died of cholera on July 8, 1849. Elizabeth was born July 10,

1791 and died March 12, 1877. They had ten children.

Katherine Hume

Aquilla Hume was born in Kentucky in 1790. He married Mary Baylor February 28,

1811 and moved to Rush County, Indiana and they had nine children.

Lewis Hume born August 8, 1793 in Kenton County, Kentucky. He seems to have been

'albino' with white hair and almost white eyes. He was taken by Indians, but returned

two days later. He married Mary 'Polly' Roberts on January 21, 1818. They lived in

Kentucky until 1832 when they moved to Dearborn County Indiana. He later went to

Rush County with his brother Aquilla Hume and settled in Moscow, Indiana in 1836.

They moved to Jasper County, Illinois in 1854 and in 1860 moved to Sullivan County,

Indiana where he died December 23, 1875. Polly died there September 15, 1873.

Phoebe Hume born in 1795. Married a Rice.

Agnes Hume born in 1796.

Infant Hume born and died in 1797.

Elizabeth Hume was born near Blue Licks, Campbell County, Kentucky on February

4, 1801. She married James Moroney in Dearborn County, Indiana on January 1, 1817.

They had eleven children. She died on December 9, 1871 in Shelby County, Indiana.

George Hume was born October 6, 1806 and married Lucinda Powell in Wilmington,

Indiana. He died and Lucinda married a Smith, was divorced and married Aquilla

Aldridge, a steamboat captain on the Ohio River.

Sarah Hume

ELZEPHAN HUME was born in 1756. He married Sarah Sleet in about 1790 in

Losantiville (now the city of Cincinnati), Ohio at the fort in that town. She was a daughter of

Weeden Sleet. He was acting as a surveyor in setting up the city at that time. About 1800

they returned to Big Bone Creek in Boone County, Kentucky. He served in the War of 1812

with Harrison and then returned to Big Bone where he remained until his death in 1831.

They had six sons and two daughters:

Stripling B. Hume born in 1791.

Leroy Preston Hume born in 1791.

Weeden S. Hume born in 1795.

John Sleet Hume born in 1797, died 1874. He married Mary Howe, born 1799 and

died 1832.

George W. Hume born 1801 and died 1845. He married Pauline B. Connelley, born

1805 and died 1847.

William Hume born 1803.

Eupha Hume born in 1805. She married Baldwin B. Bane March 27, 1828

A Daughter born in 1807. No other information.

JARRED (GERALD) HUME was born in 1760 and became a camp boy with General

Anthony Wayne at age 15 as he was too young to fight. As he became old enough, he was

promoted to Major on Wayne's staff and served for the entire war. He married at age fortyfive to Mary Aldridge in 1805 in Harrison County, Kentucky. He was a surveyor and then

received a grant for 2000 acres. Through a mistake, he settled on the wrong property and

lost everything. This caused his death in about 1811. They had three children:

Joel Hume was born in Campbell (now Kenton) County, Kentucky on June 13, 1807

and he died March 29, 1891. He married Malinda Dusky in Indiana and they moved to

Parke County, Indiana. He was ordained a Baptist Preacher in Vermillion County,

Indiana. In 1840 he moved to Farmersville, Posey County, Indiana. Malinda died in

Poseyville on October 10, 1854. They had ten children. On August 20, 1856 he married

Frances 'Fannie' Yeager, 26 years younger than he was.

Elizabeth Hume married an Armstrong.

Jared Banks Hume who moved to Memphis and died there in 1861.

PATRICK HUME was born in 1776 in Virginia. He married Elizabeth Coleman and had

six children before she died in 1825 in Dearborn County, Indiana. He died in Marion

County, Indiana in 1837.

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