Person:Robert Hume (4)

Robert Hume, Jr. emigrated from E. Gordon Berwickshire Scotland with his father about 1795. The family settled in Galway, NY. After his marriage to Catherine Rose he settled on a farm east of South Kortright, in the Town of Stamford, Delaware County, New York.

The 1830 census shows this family with 14 persons: an elderly woman age 70-80 ; ine nake, 40-50, one female, 30-40; one female, 20-30; one male 20-3-; one female, 15-20; one male, 15-20; three females, 10-15; one female, 5-10, one male, 5-10; two males under five. Perhaps the elderly woman was Catherine's mother.

Other Humes in Northern New York in 1830, were George Hume (age 30-40) and John Hume (50-60) in Bovina Township. The household of John Hume included an elderly man, age 80-90 (this most likely was Robert Sr., who lived to be 100).

In 1836, Robert and Catherine took their family to Monroe, Michigan, but moved on to Pretty Prairie, Indiana by February 11, 1837. Robert had purchased land in Greenfield township, IN. They were listed in the 1840 census of Greenfield Township, LaGrange County, IN as follows: one male, 50-60; one female, 40-50; one female, 20-30;two males, 20-30; two females, 15-20; one male, 15-20; one male, 10-15.

In the 1850 census (East Lima, LaGrange County, IN) taken in September, Robert Hume was 63, Catherine was 59. Besides John and James, their household included Catherine, age 26. Robert was a farmer with real estate worth $2,900.

From accounts by James Hume, Robert was a stern Presbyterian who insisted on strict observance on the part of his children. However, he mellowed when James, the youngest child, became an adult, telling him that he had to be strict to raise so many children.

Source: Email from Barbara Mcrae April 03, 1998 6:43 AM.