Descendants
of John
Humes
Generation
No.
1
1.
JOHN1 HUMES1,2 was born ca. 1740 in Ulster,
Ireland. He died after
1778. His ancestors were among the thousands of Lowland
Scots who were relocated in the seventeenth
century by the English.
Children of JOHN HUMES
are:
2. i. WILLIAM2 HUMES, b.
ca. 1768.
3. ii. THOMAS
HUMES, b. ca. 1769.
4. iii. JOHN
JAMES HUMES, JR., b. ca. 1770, Belfast, Ireland (?); d. 1853, Morgan
Co., Missouri.
iv. ELIZABETH HUMES3, b. ca. 1772; m. ____ TURK.
v. JANE HUMES, b. ca. 1775; m.
_____
CARNAHAN.
vi. EDWARD
HUMES3, b. ca. 1778.
Generation
No.
2
2.
WILLIAM2 HUMES (JOHN1)3
was born in
Ulster, Ireland ca. 1768.
Children
of WILLIAM HUMES are:
i.
ELIZABETH3 HUMES, b. ca. 1800.
ii.
SAMUEL HUMES, b. ca. 1802.
3.
THOMAS2
HUMES
(JOHN1)4
was born in Ulster, Ireland ca 1769
This
obit notice may or may
not refer to the death of Thomas, the s/o John of
Ireland:
Newspaper title: Richmond
Enquirer (Richmond,
Va.).
Publication
Date:
December 7, 1830, page 3,
column 6.
Thomas Humes
(Ref: Library
of VA)
Child
of THOMAS HUMES
is:
5.
i. MARY3
HUMES, b.
1810; d. 1880.
4.
JOHN JAMES2
HUMES, JR. (JOHN1)5,6
was
born ca. 1770 in Belfast, Ireland.7,8,
and died
1853 in Morgan or Miller, Co. Missouri.9 He married (1)
ELIZABETH
CARLIN ca. 1799 in Philadelphia. She was born 1782 in
Ireland10,
and died Bef.
1815. He married (2) MARGARET "WIDOW" PURSE 16 March 1815 in
Richmond, VA11.
She was
born ca. 177712,
and died 11
February 1835 in New Antrim, Smyth Co.,VA13.
Notes
for JOHN JAMES
HUMES, JR.:
According
to his
granddaughter, Mildred Humes Wheatley, John Humes, son of
John
Humes, came to
America from near Belfast... He served an apprenticeship in
Ireland
--which
he later
described as a very hard experience-- and when he was through,
his
mother sent him
to America, where his older brothers, William and Thomas
Humes,
had already
been sent. He first lived at Philadelphia, built
the
first Fairmount
Water
Works, put up
the first power loom, then got a Government appointment and was
made
Superintendent
of the Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, where the first mortar guns made
in
this
country were
produced and used to defend Baltimore during the War of 1812. The
guns
used in the
Lewis and Clark expedition were also made during that time.
From
Harper's Ferry,
John went to Richmond to help built .... Tredagar Iron
Works.
He
lived on Belle
Isle. He was considered a very fine mechanical engineer, and
received
two
patents for his
inventions made while in Richmond.
Family
tradition
says that Elizabeth Carlin, John's first wife, came
to
America on the
same
ship as
John. At that time, she was a young child, and very
frightened
by
the storms at
sea. John soothed the child, and after arriving in America,
he
stayed
in
touch with her
family. When Elizabeth was older, they were married in
Philadelphia,
where
their son
William was born. Their daughter, Elizabeth was
born at
Harper's
Ferry.
Source:
Wheatley
"Memorandum" (ca 1912) written probably by John Wheatley,
who
wrote, "During
the last years of the life of my mother... I talk(ed) with
her
of
matters of family
history..." Note: History of John's role
at Fairmount, Harper's
Ferry and Tredagar not verified.
(10-8-03)
Database:
Philadelphia, 1789-1880 Naturalization Records
Name:
John Humes
Place
of
Origin: Great Britain and
Ireland
Declaration
of
Intent Date: Jun 17, 1799
Declaration
of
Intent Court: Pennsylvania
Supreme
Signature
1:
Signature
2:
Document
Name: John Humes
Database:
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name:
John Humes
Year:
1799
Place:
Philadelphia
Source
Publication
Code: 9297
Primary
Immigrant: Humes, John
Annotation:
Called Section II, Alphabetical Index of Naturalization
Records,
1794-1880,
Maritime Records, Port of Philadelphia. Entries
include
names of
applicants, countries of former allegiance, courts of
record,
and
declaration dates. Reproduced from typewritten material.
Only
a few copies
exist. Republished in one volume by Gale Research
Co.
as Philadelphia
Naturalization Records, no. 2041.
Source
Bibliography:
United States Work Projects Admin..
Index
to Records
of
Aliens' Declarations of Intention and/or Oaths of
Allegiance,
1789-1880,
in U. S.
Circuit Court, U. S. District Court, Supreme
Court
of
Pennsylvania, Quarter Sessions Court, Court of Common Pleas,
Philadelphia. Compiled
by W.P.A.,
Project No. 20837. [Harrisburg:] PA
Historical Commission,
[1940].
25 vols. in 11. Vol. 5. Letter H.)
Early
Virginia Patents.
Page
151 1813
.... John Humes, Richmond. Machine for cutting
screws.
Page
154 1821 James(sic)
Humes, Richmond. Machine for digging canals.
1840
Census Saline Twn Miller Co. MO
(302)
Humes,
John Sr. Age 70+
(301)
Humes,
William
1850
Census Buffalo Twn Morgan Co. MO
John
James Humes age
8014
Place
of birth
listed as Virginia, which is incorrect.
"James" was inserted above/between his first and last names.
Daughter-in-law,
Eliza Gilmore Hume listed as head-of-household.
Occupation: Bet. 1812
- 1832,
Engineer; inventor15
Notes
for ELIZABETH CARLIN:
I
have not been able
to find any solid information about Elizabeth or her family. The
closest
I've come --and it may not refer to "Our"
Elizabeth-- is this notice of a marriage bond in
the
records of the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia,
1761-1803. (Ref.: Genweb)
It
seems worth exploring, as I have been unable to find any other
listings for either a Hume(s) or Carlin in the
area during that
time period.
1798, Dec.
18,
Carl, Elizabeth, and John
Humes
Family
tradition includes a story of John meeting his first wife, Elizabeth
Carlin, during the stormy crossing from Ireland to
Pennsylvania. They were married in Pennyslvania sometime
between 1798 and early 1799 and their first child, William, was born in
Pennsylvania in January of 1800. The family moved
to Harpers Ferry, VA sometime before their daughter
Marie in 1805. Before Elizabeth died, three other
daughters --Julia, Louisa and Elizabeth--were born in
Virginia.
The year of
Elizabeth's death is not known, but in 1815, John was living in
Richmond, VA, where on March 15 he married the Widow,
Margaret Purse.
Notes for
MARGARET "WIDOW"
PURSE:
I believe the tombstone in St. John's Church
Cemetery in Henrico Co. Va is that of Margaret's first
husband. The inscriptions reads:
In memory of
John PURSE
a native of
County Down,
Ireland,
who
departed this life
the
1st January, 1814,
aged 42
years.
John and Margaret Humes had three children, Berry, Margaret and John,
Jr. The family continued to live in the Richmond area, where
John invested in real estate and was in the grocery business.
1830
Census Henrico Co. VA Head of
Household: John Humes
(Names of all but John Humes are
guesses by jmk)
1-male
15-20 John, Jr.
1-male 20-30 Berry
1-male
50-60 John Humes
2-fem 15-20
Elizabeth & Margaret
1-fem
40-50 Margaret Purse
Humes
6- slaves of various ages
On
Feb 23, 1832, when the act was passed creating Smyth County (from parts
of Washington and Wythe Counties, Va.) the families of both John Humes
and his son William were already living in the area. The town
of Marion was laid out in the wheat and rye fields of William Humes.
They were still living in Smyth Co. when John's wife Margaret died in
1835. Neither John nor his son William were included in the
1838 List of Tax Payers in Smyth County. The family is known to be in
Missouri by 1840.
Richmond
Whig Newspaper (Richmond, Va. : Date of pub. Sat, February 21,
1835)
Died-
In New Antrim,
Smyth County, on Feb. 11, 1835, Mrs. Margaret Humes,
consort
of John
Humes, in her 58th year. (p. 3, c. 2)
(Source.: Marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley
from Virginia
newspapers;
available,
Virginia
State Library. )
1840
Census Saline Twn Miller Co. MO
(302)
Humes, John Sr. 1 male Age 70+
John Jr 1
male
(301)
Humes,
William
1850
Census Buffalo Twn Morgan Co. MO
John
(James) Humes age 80
Place
of birth listed as Virginia.
(Living
in daughter-in-law's home.)
Geographic
Reference Library
American
Genealogical Gazetteer
State
Listings Missouri - Humes Mill (historical)
Humes
Mill was a saw and grist mill in the NW
part
of Osage T. It was named for the first
owners,
the Hume brothers.
style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"
Morgan County, MO -
Will Book A, page 84, 1833-1857"
has this entry:
HUMES,
John, of Miller Co., MO - will not dated.
Children,
to wit, William, John, Maria Martha,
July
An McArthy, and Elizabeth
(all
given land, description).
Exr
not named, but money left in hands
of
son, William Humes,to be distributed after death of
testator.
Wit: John Murray & Geo. W.
Murray.
17 Feb 1852 (pages 87-89)
William
died four years BEFORE his father, John. Could this will
have
been written before William's death and filed with the county,
and
after John's death, presented in
court?
Children
of
JOHN HUMES and ELIZABETH CARLIN are:
6.
i. WILLIAM
M.3 HUMES, b. 18
January 1800; d.
30 Nov. 1848, Morgan Co., Missouri.
7.
ii. MARIA HUMES, b. 17 November
1805,
Harper's Ferry, VA; d. 1893.
8.
iii. JULIA HUMES, b. ca. 1807.
iv.
LOUISA HUMES, b. 180916;
d. 24 April 1826, Belle Isle, VA17
9.
v. ELIZABETH HUMES, b. 1813,
Harper's Ferry,
VA.
Children
of JOHN HUMES and
MARGARET PURSE are:
10.
vi. BERRY3 HUMES, b. ca. 1816.
11.
vii. MARGARET HUMES, b. ca. 1817.
12.
viii. JOHN HUMES, b. ca. 1819.
Generation No.
3
5.
MARY3
HUMES
(THOMAS2, JOHN1) was born 1810, and died 1880. She married
JOSEPH CARUTHERS. He was born 1795, and died
1845.
Notes
for JOSEPH
CARUTHERS:
Source:
Email
from Peter Binkley, Sept. 9, 2000:-
Quick
note about the
Caruthers connection: do you know the story of
Mary
Humes
(1810-1880) and her connections? She was Ed's father's
first
cousin,
daughter of Thomas Humes (1770-?), and she married
Joseph
Caruthers
(1795-1845). Their son James Caruthers married Ann
Joplin
- sister of
the Lou Joplin who married T.R. Humes, Ed's
brother
(with me so
far?) Now, Joseph Caruthers had a sister
Elizabeth
(1790-1857), who married a man named Thomas who abandoned
her
with a baby son
named Finice (1818-1860). Elizabeth gave Finice
her
maiden name of
Caruthers, and they moved to Oregon and
homesteaded
an area
that is now part of Portland. Finice never
married;
and when he
and his mother were dead, no heir could be found
for
what was by now
a very valuable parcel of land. Some of our Humes
connections
ultimately tried to claim the inheritance on the basis of
the
Caruthers
connection, but failed to prove the relationship. My
great
aunt wrote up
a fascinating history of the case, full of
skullduggery,
which
I'll dig out and photocopy for you if you like.
That
might account
for the Car(r)uthers name, either through Ed's
brother's
Tom's wife
Lou Joplin, or through Ed's father's
cousin.
Children
of MARY HUMES and JOSEPH
CARUTHERS are:
13.
i. JAMES
H(UMES?)4 CARUTHERS, b. ca. 1830.
ii.
NELLIE
CARUTHERS, b. ca.
1832.
6.
WILLIAM M.3 HUMES
(JOHN JAMES2, JOHN1) was born 18 January 1800 in
Philadelphia, PA or Virginia18,
and died 30 November 1848 in
Morgan Co., Missouri. He married ELIZA STUART GILMORE 12
November 1829 in Sidney Vale Plantation19,
daughter of JOSEPH GILMORE and
MILDRED ROWLAND. She was born 03 May 1807 in Rockbridge Co.
VA20,
and died 13 October
1860 in Missouri21.
Notes
for WILLIAM M. HUMES:
When William was a young boy living in
Richmond, VA., he cut his hip while
swimming, and the resulting
injury (described as a "white swelling"), caused
him to be sent
to Philadelphia for extended treatment. He received most
of
his education there. Later, after he returned to
Richmond, his health remained
bad, and hoping it might improve if
he left the climate of the Tidewater area, he went
up to
Rockbridge County. Finding a business opening, he became a
merchant at
Balcony Falls and also at Gilmore's Mill. It was there that he met and
married
Eliza Gilmore. For
awhile, they were in Marion, Smith County, (sic)Virginia,
where
William engaged in the manufacture of cotton yarn. (Source:
Eileen Hacker)
Marion, Va., is the county seat of Smyth Co., not Smith. On
Feb 23, 1832, when the act was passed creating Smyth County (from parts
of Washington and Wythe Counties, Va.) the families of both William
Humes and his father John were already living in the area. The town of
Marion was laid out in the wheat and rye fields of William Humes. They
were still living in Smyth Co. when John's wife Margaret died in
1835. Neither John nor his son William were included in the
1838 List of Tax Payers in Smyth County. The family is known to be in
Missouri by 1840.
Smyth
County History & Traditions,
(pg 78)
In the May
term of court of 1832... they (the commissioners) were determined to
fix the county seat on lands of William Humes west of Staley's Creek
and south of the main road. (pg 182) When Smyth County was formed and
for some years thereafter, William Humes had a cotton mill on Staley's
Creek. He seems to have operated on a small scale in the old
mill on the foundry site and to have ground grain there at the same
time. October 25, 1833, the court acted favorably on a petition of John
and William Humes to build a ten-foot dam across the river between the
present dams of Look and Lincoln, and Marion Ice and Coal Company
Plants. This dam and a grist mill were built....The "other
machinery" mentioned in the Humes petition was no doubt the cotton mill
machinery and was probably operated in the new plant. (pg 296) (Marion)
was laid out in the wheat and rye fields of William Humes.
Applicantions for the Erection of Dams in Smyth County, Virgina 1832-
1902
Humes, John & William Middle Fork of
Holston 1833 Bk/pg 2/8 & 17
History
of Marion, Va
<http://www.marionva.org/history>
When the new
County of Smyth became a geographical and political reality in 1832,
it was
imperative that a county seat be located and a courthouse built as
quickly as
possible.
Five commissioners were appointed to search for a centrally located
site for
the new Seat
of Justice.... the commissioners selected the site for the new town
(Marion) on William and John Hume's 280 acre tract of land, west of the
Royal Oak Survey and Staley's Creek, and south of the Main Road.
According to the title bond signed by William Hume, May 24, 1832, the
original Town of Marion consisted of 27 acres of land, more or less.
Missouri Census, 1830-70
Year Surname 1840
HUMES WILLIAM Miller County MO 116 Saline
Township
(Ref: Obituary of James E.
Humes):-
William Humes was a well-known planter and wealthy
woolen manufacturer, having
land interests in central Missouri,
conducting at the same time, a large business in
milling,
lumbering, and the manufacture of woolen goods. Hss woolen
mill near
Gravois was one of the first mills of its kind
estabished west of the Mississippi
River. The maiden name
of James E. Humes' mother was Eliza Stuart Gilmore,
descendended
from the Gilmores and Rowlands, well-known families in
Virginia.
From
Peter
Binkley:-
The farm just
north of Gravois Mills was purchased by William Humes sometime in
the 1830s or 1840s. He and his father, John Humes, who had recently
moved from Virginia, already owned land in neighbouring Miller
County. The farm bore the name "Val de Moulin" - valley of the mill
- because of the nearby grist mill that gave Gravois Mills its name.
This mill also came into the possession of the Humes family,
together with a woolen factory. After William's death in 1848, and
his father's death in 1853, the farm and the mills were run
by
William's three surviving sons: Joseph, Thomas and
Ed. Their sister Mildred married William Wheatley.
During the
Civil War the Humes family had a difficult time. Mildred and William
Wheatley spent the war in the North; Ed served in the Confederate
army; Joseph had his house pillaged by Union soldiers. After the war
William and Mildred returned to Missouri and took possession of
Mildred's childhood home, where they lived until 1873. It is not
clear what happened to the property after this: it may have been
taken over by one of the Humes brothers, or it may have been sold.
In any event, by 1890 the Humes family had all left Gravois Mills,
and the farm was in other hands (the family cemetery having been
reserved). When Tom Williams visited the area in the 1960s, he was
told that the old house had been torn down several years
earlier.
Wheatley
Family
History
includes photos of the old farm
including old slave cabins which still
existed in the 1960s. Other photos show the Humes brothers' grist
mill and woolen factory, at Gravois Mills. The mill is
currently listed as an historical
site.
Geographic
Reference Library
American
Genealogical Gazetteer
State
Listings
Missouri - Humes Mill (historical)
Humes
Mill was a saw and grist mill in the NW
part
of Osage T. It was named for the first
owners,
the Hume brothers.
William
died in 1848,
leaving a wife and young children between
the ages
of 8 and 18.
It would appear that his estate was in some sort of
trust with guardianships for widow and minor
children. In spite of the entry below, it took some 25 years after
his death and 13 years after his wife, Eliza Gilmore Humes' death,
before the estate was finally settled. Perhaps it
had something to do with when his youngest child --my g
grandfather, James "Ed" Humes-- came of age.
The
real Est. of W Humes decd. Was sold by order of Circuit Court Oct.
15th 1857
on the following
terms—Widow entitled to dower
& 6 of 6 absolute. Each heir 5 of balance, date of sale second Monday in
April 1858—E.S.
Humes purchaser, at $550000. ¼ in six mos, ¼ in 12 mos, and bal. In two
years, all with
interest at six percent from date of sale. . .
Re William and Eliza's
children: John Carlin died the year after his
father.
More About WILLIAM M. HUMES:
Burial: Humes Private
Cemetery
More
About ELIZA
STUART GILMORE:
Census:
Morgan Co.
MO 22,23
1850
Census Buffalo Twn Morgan County, MO
Eliza
is listed as
head of household. (William died in 1848.)
Her
father-in-law,
John Humes, is shown living with her.
HH#699
Eliza
Humes 43 4000 VA
Thomas 19 Laborer "
Joseph 16 " "
Mildred 12 MO
James 10 "
Mary
(Mary*) 8 "
John (James*) Humes 80 VA
Elizabeth Lans.... 20 VA
Car____ Popejoy 23 Laborer
(male) TN
* written
above an entry. e.g. after John Humes name in
the square for age was written "80" with a small
"10" written above it. "James" was inserted
above/between his first and last names.
Note: ages & locations of birth differ from other
census
reports
of some family members, e.g. James reported his
place
of birth as VA in later census.
1870
Census
Osage Twn Morgan County, MO
HH# 73
Humes Joseph 35 Miller 4000 250 born
VA
Mary 35 KY
Alice 7 MO
Ede 5
Joseph 2
James E 28 Miller 4000 VA
HH#74 Thomas 37 Miller 4000 VA
Mary 25 MO
HH#35
Caruthers Ann 29 MO
Eva 12
Thomas 3
Children
of
WILLIAM HUMES and ELIZA GILMORE are:
i. JOHN CARLIN4 HUMES, b. 04
August 1830,
Sidney Vale, Rockbridge Co. VA;
d. 14 June
184924.
14.
ii. THOMAS
ROWLAND HUMES, b. 20 August 1832, Virginia; d. 24 July 1899,
Texas.
15.
iii. JOSEPH
GILMORE HUMES, b. 30 August 1835, Virginia; d. 1896,
Texas.
16.
iv. MILDRED MARIA
HUMES, b. 17 July 1838, Miller Co. Missouri; d.
1908.
17.
v. JAMES
EDWIN
HUMES, b. 10
September 1840, Sidney Vale, Rockbridge Co.
VA;
d. 17
December 1912, Wilbur, WA.
vi.
MARY ADA HUMES, b. ca.
1844, Missouri;
d. Aft. 24 August 1860, Osage, Morgan Co. MO25,26.
Notes
for MARY ADA HUMES:
In
a
box of
memorabilia belonging to my grandmother, Julia Humes Bilyeu, was an
autographed "Roses Album" with the name Mary A Humes written
inside the cover. The book has a dark embossed cover and looks like
any autograph book of today. At first, I thought this might
have belonged to Mary Allie Humes, but on checking the
dates, it became clear it had belonged to Mary Ada Humes,
daughter of William and Eliza Gilmore Humes and sister of
James, aunt of Julia Humes Bilyeu. An inscription below
Mary's
name can be made out:
"Mary Ada
Humes,
Presented
by friends"
Included
in the poems and greetings is the following
inscription:
To Mary, Thine
Album is a basket
sweet,
In which friends that seldom
meet,
Drop each a
pretty flower.
L.D.H
Later,
another entry contains a long poem addressed to Mary, and signed,
"Your friend, L,D, Henry"
which is probably the same person,
although I'm not sure the handwriting looks similar, as one
is
printed neatly, the other a cursive signature. Commas
were often used rather than periods in both, which seemed to be a
common practice, as was using what looks like a large " f " for the
"ss" in Missouri and other words.
Most
of the entries are poetry, some of which are long and
complex. Most deal with parting friends; one mentions friends parted by
death. Typical, is this entry written and signed
with a
florish by WM Wheatley, her brother-in-law. It is
dated
Ju __ 11, 1860. (I don't think any of the
entries
showed a later date.)
To Mary,
Though
tempests may rise
to cloud
fair skies
(For here
we must have some foul weather)
Still
friendship will smile
Though care
frowns awhile
And we will
be good friends together.
Other
entries include:
A long poem signed by Emily E. Hume,
" Your true cousin". Note: No "S" on the name.
"Lines
to Mary" signed by May (Meg?) T__urman? French
Vale,
April 12, 1860
"Lines to Mary" - A long poem regarding death and
parting friends signed by A,W, Scanman (or Seaman)
The signature
of Mary A. Phillips of Locust Vale, Mifiouri (Missouri).
Note: A Mary Jane Phillips married Joseph
Gilmore Humes. I had assumed this was she, until I remembered
that she was a Humes by ca 1858)
Many of the
entries and signatures are difficult to read due to penmanship as
well as fading ink. Names include M (N)
att Allen,
Versailles, MO dated Oct 31st 1859; Amanda and Jane
Allen of Morristown, TN.; Margaret A Baltner (?); Sallie A.L.
(could
be A.S.); L(S?)uggies A. L(S)alvy (?) of Linn Creek,
Mifiouri. (Missouri)
7.
MARIA (CARLIN)3 HUMES (JOHN
JAMES2,
JOHN1)27
was born 17 November 1805 in
Harper's Ferry, VA28,
and
died 1893. She married DANIEL STEPHEN MCCARTHY29
20 May 1823 in Harvey's Island,
Henrico Co, VA30,31,32.
He was born 16 September 1795 in Kerry Co. Ireland, and died 03 July
1848.
Child
of MARIA HUMES and DANIEL MCCARTHY
is:
i.
JOHN
HUMES4 MCCARTHY,
b. ca. 1825.
Notes
for JOHN HUMES
MCCARTHY:
Obit pub. for McCarthy, John Humes (LVA)
Newspaper
title: Richmond Enquirer (Richmond, Va).
Publication Date:
January 21, 1859, page 4, column 7.
Peter Binkley
lists children or Maria and Daniel McCarthy
as:
1
Eliza Jane McCarthy (1824-1824)
2 Susan McCarthy (1825-) .
3 Edward McCarthy (1826-1827)
4 Edward McCarthy (1827-?) m. Princetta Hill Slater (?-?)
5
John McCarthy (1829-1833)
6 Elizabeth McCarthy (1830-1835)
7 William McCarthy (1833-?)
8 Robert Wilson McCarthy
(1834-1840)
8.
JULIA (CARLIN)3 HUMES
(JOHN JAMES2,
JOHN1) was
born ca. 1807. She married FLORENCE MCCARTHY. He
was
born ca. 1797.
Children
of JULIA HUMES and FLORENCE MCCARTHY are:
i.
CARLTON4 MCCARTHY.
ii.
WILLIAM MCCARTHY.
iii.
FLORENCE MCCARTHY.
iv.
JULIA MCCARTHY.
v.
JULIAN MCCARTHY.
vi.
MARIA MCCARTHY.
vii.
EDWARD MCCARTHY.
Marriage
Notes from Peter
Binkley:
1.3 Julia Humes (?-?) m. Florence McCarthy (?-?)
1.3.1
Carlton McCarthy (?-?) m. Susan
Apperson (?-?)
1.3.1.1
Louise McCarthy (?-)
1.3.1.2 Mary McCarthy (?-)
1.3.1.3 Lucy McCarthy (?-)
1.3.1.4 Susan McCarthy (?-)
1.3.1.5 Julian McCarthy (?-)
1.3.1.6 Edward McCarthy (?-)
1.3.2 William McCarthy
(?-?) m. Lou Holliday (?-?)
1.3.2.1
Frank McCarthy (?-)
1.3.2.2 Julia McCarthy (?-)
1.3.2.3 Agnes Holliday McCarthy
(?-)
1.3.3 Florence McCarthy (?-)
1.3.4 Julia McCarthy (?-?)
m. Hotchkiss
1.3.5 Julian McCarthy (?-?)
1.3.5.1 Florence
McCarthy (?-)
1.3.6 Maria McCarthy (?-)
1.3.7 Edward
McCarthy (?-1864)
9. ELIZABETH
(CARLIN)3
HUMES (JOHN JAMES2, JOHN1) was born 1813 in
Harper's Ferry, VA33.
She married THOMAS
JEFFERSON DAVIS 25 October 1832 in Smyth Co. VA34. He was born
ca. 1802,
and died in Oregon35.
Children
of ELIZABETH HUMES and THOMAS DAVIS are:
i. MARIA 4 DAVIS, b. ca. 1833.
ii. NANCY DAVIS, b.
1839.
iii. MARY
JANE DAVIS, b. 1842.
18. iv. ELIZA DAVIS, b. 1844.
v. JULIA DAVIS, b. 1849.
vi. ROBERTA DAVIS, b. 1853.
vii. JAMES DAVIS.
viii. JOHN DAVIS.
10.
BERRY3 HUMES
(JOHN JAMES2,
JOHN1)36
was
born ca.
1816.
Notes
for BERRY HUMES:
There is a
listing for Berry Humes with the MO 2nd Inf. Co.D
(This is
the same Co. as James Edwin Humes first joined at the
beginning of the Civil War.
With the age difference, I'm guessing
this Berry Humes would refer to a Berry, Jr. )
Child
of BERRY HUMES and unk. wife
is:
i.
BILLY4
HUMES.
11.
MARGARET3 HUMES
(JOHN JAMES2,
JOHN1)36
was
born ca. 1817. She married JEROME B. CAMPBELL 22 October 1835
in Smyth Co. VA37.
He
was born in Augusta Co. VA.
Notes
for JEROME B.
CAMPBELL:
1838 Personal Property Tax Smyth
Co.
Name Tithes Blacks Blacks Horses Tax
12-16 16+
Campbell, Jeroam
(sic) 1 0 1 7 1.52
Children
of MARGARET HUMES and
JEROME CAMPBELL are:
i.
THOMAS4 CAMPBELL38.
ii.
FLORENCE CAMPBELL38.
iii.
BONAPARTE CAMPBELL38.
12.
JOHN3 HUMES
(JOHN JAMES2,
JOHN1)39
was born ca. 1819. He
married SALLY TAYLOR.
Children
of JOHN HUMES
and SALLY TAYLOR are:
i.
BERRY4 HUMES.
ii.
EMILY
HUMES.
iii.
ELIZA
HUMES.
iv.
WILLIAM
HUMES.
v.
ED
HUMES.
vi.
LUTY
HUMES.
Generation No. 4
13.
JAMES H(UMES)4 CARUTHERS
(MARY3 HUMES, THOMAS2, JOHN1)
was born ca. 1830. He married ANN JOPLIN. She was
born
1840.
More
About ANN JOPLIN:
Ann's sister, Lou Joplin, was the wife of T.R.
Humes
Children
of JAMES CARUTHERS
and ANN JOPLIN are:
i.
EVA5
CARUTHERS, b. ca. 1860; d. 1926; m. WILLIAM MARTIN
BOND.
ii.
THOMAS
C.
CARUTHERS, b. ca. 1862.
14. THOMAS
ROWLAND4 HUMES
(WILLIAM M.3, JOHN JAMES2, JOHN1) was
born 20 August 1832
in Virginia40,41,
and died 24 July 1899 in
Texas42.
He married
MARY "LOU" JOPLIN 25 July 186443.
She was born 1845 in
Virginia, and died 1929.
More
About THOMAS ROWLAND HUMES:
Burial: 25 July 1899
Family Info:
Married Lou Joplin; son Joseph Gilmore Humes
Notes for MARY
"LOU" JOPLIN:
This is the "Aunt Lou" who, at the request of her
sister-in-law, Mildred Marie Humes Wheatley, made a
penciled memorandum of the Rowland family Bible page that listed
Thomas and Martha Rowland's children. The Bible was
later destroyed in a fire in Thomas and Lou Humes' house, but
the penciled copy still exists in the family archives kept by Peter
Binkley. The Bible had passed from the
Rowlands
via Millie Rowland Gilmore to her daughter, Eliza Gilmore Humes,
then to Eliza's son Thomas Humes.
1880
Federal
Census Osage, MO
Thomas
HUMES Self 48 VA County
Surveyor VA VA
Mary L.
HUMES Other 34 MO Keeping House VA VA
Mary
JOPLIN MotherL 70 VA VA VA
Eva
CORATHERS Niece 20 MO AL MO
David EDMUNDSON Other 17 VA Laborer VA VA
Children
of THOMAS HUMES
and MARY JOPLIN are:
i.
JOSEPH GILMORE5 HUMES, b. 1866; d. 1867.
ii.
MARY HUMES.
Notes
for MARY HUMES:
From Peter Binkley - Email Sept
2000:
Quick note about the Caruthers connection: do you know the
story of
Mary Humes (1810-1880) and her connections? She was
Ed's father's
first cousin, daughter of Thomas Humes (1770-?),
and she married
Joseph Caruthers (1795-1845). Their son James
Caruthers married Ann
Joplin - sister of the Lou Joplin who
married T.R. Humes, Ed's
brother (with me so far?) Now, Joseph
Caruthers had a sister
Elizabeth (1790-1857), who married a man
named Thomas who abandoned
her with a baby son named Finice
(1818-1860). Elizabeth gave Finice
her maiden name of Caruthers,
and they moved to Oregon and
homesteaded an area that is now
part of Portland. Finice never
married; and when he and his
mother were dead, no heir could be found
for what was by now a
very valuable parcel of land. Some of our Humes
connections
ultimately tried to claim the inheritance on the basis of
the
Caruthers connection, but failed to prove the relationship. My
great aunt wrote up a fascinating history of the case, full
of
skullduggery, which I'll dig out and photocopy for you if
you
like.
That might account for the Car(r)uthers name, either
through Ed's
brother's Tom's wife Lou Joplin, or through Ed's
father's cousin.
15.
JOSEPH GILMORE4 HUMES
(WILLIAM M.3, JOHN
JAMES2, JOHN1) was
born 30 August 1835 in Virginia44, and died 1896 in Texas45. He married
MARY JANE
PHILLIPS. She was born 1835 in Kentucky46,
and died 1911.
CENSUS
YR: 1870 Territory: MO. County:: Morgan Osage Township
4 73 73 Humes Joseph 35 Miller 4,000 250 Virginia
5 73 73 Humes Mary 35 Keeping
house Kentucky
6 73 73 Humes Alice 7 Missouri
7 73 73 Humes Ed 5 Missouri
8 73 73 Humes Joseph 2 Missouri
9 73 73 Humes James
E. 28 Miller 4,000 Virginia ( brother)
10 74 74 Humes Thomas 37 Miller 4,000 Virginia ( brother)
11 74 74 Humes Mary 25 Keeping
house Missouri (sis-in-law)
1880
Federal
Census Osage, Morgan, Missouri
Joseph
HUMES Self 45 VA Miller VA VA
Mary J. HUMES Wife 45 KY Keeping House KY KY
Mary A.
HUMES Dau 15 MO VA KY
Thomas E. HUMES Son 13 MO At
Home VA KY
Joseph G. HUMES Son 11 MO At
Home VA KY
John
WHITE Other 23 MO Servant KY KY
Henry HARVARD Other 49 ENG Chemist ENG ENG
Children
of JOSEPH HUMES and MARY PHILLIPS
are:
i. WILLIAM5 HUMES, b.
1859
Census:
1870, Not in household with parents.
ii. JOHN HUMES, b. 1861.
Census:
1870, Not in household with
parents.
19. iii. MARY ALICE HUMES, b. 1863, Missouri.
20.
iv. THOMAS EDWIN HUME(S), b. 31 October
1865,
Morgan County, Missouri;
d. 06 October
1939, Belle, MO.
v. JOSEPH GILMORE HUMES, b. 1868,
Missouri47; d.
1911.
vi. WALTER HUMES, b. 1870; d. 1871.
16.
MILDRED MARIA4 HUMES
(WILLIAM M.3, JOHN
JAMES2, JOHN1)
was born 17 July 1838 in Miller Co. Missouri48,49,
and died 190850.
She married WILLIAM
MCCOY WHEATLEY51
1858 in
Gravois MIlls, Morgan County, MO. He was born 182751,
and died 190051.
In
the Wheatley
archives is this letter from a lawyer in Springfield Ohio,
dated 11 Dec. 1868, to
Mildred
M. Humes
Wheatley, advising her and her brothers to accept a settlement
offered in
a
case they had
brought over some Carlin inheritance. Mildred's paternal
grandmother's name was Elizabeth Carlin. This is one of the
very few references to any Carlin family member, but I have not
succeeded in tracing it.
Springfield,
Ohio
Dec
11th 1868
Mrs
Mildred M. Wheatley,
Madame:
We
have just written your brother Joseph G. Hume,
concerning
an offer to compromise the
Carlin
will case by Mrs. Ruth E. Carlin, the widow.
She
offers $5000, in addition to the special bequests,
about
which there has never been any controversy.
The
$5000 to be divided between the heirs according
to
their relationship. This would give your branch of
the
family about $625, or $125 each,--less attys fees.
This
is only about one <p.2> third of what we would
recover,
if we should succeed in all we claim; but on
account
of the uncertainty of the case, in view of the
adverse
decisions already made, we think it better to
accept
this offer than to take the risk of losing the whole
thing.
We have, therefore, advised all the parties we
represent
to accept Mrs. Carlin's offer, and settle up
the
whole matter at once. Please let us know whether
you
are agreeable to this arrangement, immediately,
as
we desire to hear from all without delay.
[Peter
Binley
reports that a Wheatley Ledger 4, p.32, records
the
receipt of a cheque for $141.62 from the Carlin
estate.]
Notes for WILLIAM
MCCOY
WHEATLEY- Courtesy of Peter Binkley
"
Upon his
marriage Mr. Wheatley bought a farm in Johnson County, Mo., and
after farming for three years, proceeded with his family to his old
Pennsylvania home for a visit. While he was there the outbreak of
the civil war occasioned his resolution to sell his Missouri farm
and remain in the East. He continued inactive until 1865, when he
embarked for Montana Territory, taking with him a steam saw-mill
which he proposed to erect at the point now known as Diamond City.
After a protracted, adventurous, and dangerous trip he sold out his
venture before completing it, and at the end of a year was back
again in Pennsylvania. " (Citation: J. Simpson
Africa,
History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883), p.34.
The
summer of 1865
saw a great increase in steamboat traffic up the Missouri River from
St. Louis to Montana, in response to the discovery of gold near
Helena the previous year. William Wheatley, along with his
brother-in-law Joseph Humes and a man named Wilson (about whom
nothing further is known)1 decided to profit from the gold rush by
transporting a saw mill to the gold fields. Apart from the ordinary
need for shelter, the use of long wooden sluices in the gulches
caused a great demand for cut timber. Mildred seems to have remained
in Missouri with the children (John, 4 years old, and Mildred, 2),
probably staying with Jose's family. When William left she was very
pregnant with Mary Eliza.2 Our
knowledge of
this trip depends on William's letters to Mildred from on board the
steamers Sam Gaty and General Grant, and to his father from Missouri
after his return.
WILLIAM
M. WHEATLEY was born August
22, 1827. His grandfather,
John Wheatley, a native of
Nottingham, England, was for a long time a well known
merchant
in that city, but by reason of his openly avowed sympathy for the
French
revolutionists, in 1788, coming into home disfavor,
resolved to emigrate to America.
He carried a stock of
goods with him, and located in Northumberland,
Pennsylvania,
whither his friends, Doctor Priestly and Doctor
Cooper, had preceded him. He
traded his goods for a farm
near the town, was a justice of the peace and
scrivener during
the later years of his life, and died at Northumberland in
1840,
aged eighty-eight years. He had five children, of whom John
Wheatley,
Jr., was the second. The latter, who was born in
Northumberland, married
Harriet, daughter of Martin Withington,
died in 1873, aged seventy-seven
years. William M., his
second child and oldest son, remained at home until
he reached
his twenty-fifth year. He tarried awhile in Missouri, and in the
summer of
1857 married Mildred, daughter of William Humes
(formerly of Rockbridge county,
Virginia, but then of Morgan
county, Missouri), whose father, John Humes, a famous
master mechanic of his day, was the builder of the Harper's Ferry
arsenal.
On July 10, 1882, with A. R. Whitney, of New
York, he founded the Portage
Iron Company (limited). They
purchased the old Portage Iron works at
Duncansville, and at once
enlarged the property to its present
proportions.
Biographical
and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair
Co, PA: Samuel T. Wiley, Philadelphia, 1892. Transcribed
and
submitted to the Blair County, PA, USGenWeb archives by
Debbie
Robinson Stearns
Obituary
of
William McCoy Wheatley, clipped from a Spokane newspaper, 8 Sept.
1900
In 1856 [sic] he came west for the first time, and
was interested in a number of business enterprises in Montana. He
was the first man to set up a steam sawmill in what was then the
territory of Montana. He also surveyed and laid out Diamond City,
Mont., and the old settlers of that section all remember William
Wheatley, who was prominent among them. For family reasons Wheatley
sold out his interests in Montana and returned to Pennsylvania
.
Children
of MILDRED HUMES and
WILLIAM WHEATLEY
are:
i.
WILLIAM EDWIN5 WHEATLEY, b. 1859.
21.
ii. JOHN WRIGHT WHEATLEY, b. 01 May 1861;
d. 18
June 1931.
iii.
MILDRED HUMES WHEATLEY, b. 1863.
iv.
MARY ELIZA WHEATLEY, b. 1865; d.
1958;
m.
(1) RICHARD KIMBALL BISHOP; b. ca. 1897; m. (2) JOHN R. MCBRIDE;
b. 1833; d. 1904.
Notes
for Mary
Wheatley Bishop McBride:
Mary
was an avid
genealogist long before the internet made things easy. Her
data came
from
family records,
snail-mail, and trips to courthouses. According to notes she
made
in
an United
Daughters of the Confederacy application, she was born at Sidney
Vale,
the
Gilmore family
plantation in Rockbridge Co. VA., where generations of Gilmores and
Rowlands
were born,
married and died.
v.
THORTON WHEATLEY, b. 1867.
vi.
WERNER CARLIN
WHEATLEY, b.
1869.
22.
vii. HARRIET
GILMORE
WHEATLEY, b. 1871; d. 1962.
17.
JAMES EDWIN4 HUMES (WILLIAM M.3,
JOHN
JAMES2, JOHN1)
was born 10 September 1840 in Sidney Vale, Rockbridge Co.
VA52,
and died 17 December
1912 in Wilbur, WA. He married (1) MARY ALLA (ALLIE) ROWLAND
October 1872 in Sidney Vale, VA53,
daughter of ROBERT ROWLAND and
REBECCA LACKEY. She was born 11 February 1852 in Highbridge,
VA54,
and died 1889 in
Liberty Springs, AR. He married (2) ANNIE ELIZA ROWLAND ca.
1893 in Arkansas or Idaho (?)55,
daughter of ROBERT ROWLAND and
REBECCA LACKEY. She was born 21 September 1853 in Botetourt
Co. VA56,
and died 20 May
1916 in Berge, WA57.
James
was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Spokane, WA58,59
Notes for
JAMES
EDWIN HUMES:
The
obituary below, written by James "Ed" Humes's
nephew
John Wright Wheatley, and published twice: once in the Versailles
Leader, 10 Jan. 1913, and once in Confederate Veteran, Mar. 1913,
pp.130-31. The Confederate Veteran published a shorter version of
the text, together with a photograph. Passages omitted by the CV are
placed in square brackets; minor variants are not noted. "Uncle Ed"
was much admired by his nephew, and the description of Ed's Civil
War service should be taken with a grain of salt!
James
E. Humes Sr.
[Former Citizen
of Morgan County,
Dies at His Home Near
Wilbur,Washington.]
James
Edwin Humes
was born on the Sidney Vale Plantation on the James River in
Rockbridge county, Virginia, about four miles from the Natural
Bridge on September 10th, 1840, [and died near Wilbur, State of
Washington, December 17, 1912].
His
paternal
grandfather, John Humes, was a native of the Northern part of
Ireland, and immigrated to the United States in the latter part of
the 18th Century. He was a mechanical engineer of distinguished
ability. He superintended the building of the first United States
Mint at Philadelphia, and under his care the machinery and dies for
coining were constructed and placed. President Jefferson presented
him with a medal as a testimonial of his excellent service. John
Humes was also the engineer in the construction of the first
Fairmount Water Works in Philadelphia. Subsequently he superintended
the manufacturing of cannon for the Government at the famous
Treddygear Iron Works at Richmond, Virginia. Early in the 19th
Century he was superintendent of the Harpers Ferry Arsenal, and
under his care were made the special guns, portable boats, and other
equipment for Lewis and Clark in making their various explorations
in the Northwest. He was an intimate friend of Clark, and
subsequently, when Clark, became Governor, he frequently visited Mr
Humes in the latter’s home in Miller county, Missouri.
The
father of the
deceased, William Humes was a well known planter and wealthy woolen
manufacturer, having large interests in Central Missouri, conducting
at the same time a large business in milling, lumbering, and the
manufacture of woolen goods. His woolen mill near Gravois Mills was
one of the first mills of the kind established west of the
Mississippi River.
[The
maiden name of
James E. Humes’ mother was Eliza Stuart Gilmore, descended
from the
Gilmores and Rowlands, well-known names in the history of
Virginia.]
The
subject of this
sketch spent his boyhood at the family homestead, in Morgan county,
Missouri, near the town of Versailles. Being a strong and sturdy
youth and fond of physical activity, he became known as a daring
horseman, an expert shot, and an enthusiastic hunter and sports man.
This mode of life developed that great physical power and nervous
vigor which enabled him to withstand the hardships, exposures, and
labors of his subsequent eventful life.
[The
family being
slaveholders, with interests closely identified with those of the
people of the south,] at the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted
in the Confederate service as a private soldier, and finally reached
the grade of Lieutenant. [He was offered a captain's commission on
the field of battle, but declined the honor, preferring, as he said,
to remain closer to his men.] He served during the entire period of
the Civil war and saw service in all branches-—infantry,
cavalry,
artillery, and in the Navy. He was present and participated in
nearly all of the great battles and was in more than fifty battles
and fights of importance-such as Vicksburg, Shiloh, Cold Harbor,
Wilderness, Manassas, [Winchester,] Petersburg, Fair Oaks and
Gettysburg. He saw service under several of the great leaders of the
Confederate side[-—such as General Early, Colonel Moseby,
Stuart,
Johnson, Jackson, and much of the time in the army immediately under
the command of Gen. Robert E. Lee]. He was very frequently detailed
in command of parties for special attacks on batteries and similar
dangerous and important services. He was wounded on three or four
different occasions, only slightly, however, excepting on one
occasion in one of the battles of Virginia, when he was compelled to
go on a furlough for about three months. Before his furlough had
expired, however, he had gone down into Georgia and went out to
witness the operations at Alatoona Pass. There he became so
enthused, that, forgetting temporarily his disability from wounds,
he grabbed a musket from one of the fallen soldiers and went into
and shared the dangers of that historic fight. At the close of the
war General Jubal Early and several other Confederate Chieftains
organized a colony of Ex-Confederate soldiers to be located in the
State of Vera Cruz, Mexico.
After
the
disbandment of the Confederate Army, Mr. Humes, with nine of his
comrades,
went
to Mexico with
General Jubal Early and several other Confederate military
leaders,
intending
to engage
in cotton growing in the Republic, but conditions were not
satisfactory and
after wandering
through various parts of Mexico, James and his comrades reached the
Rio Grande and
once more entered the United States.
He
then went to
Virginia, where he spent some time with relatives, uncertain what to
do, owing to the unsettled and disastrous conditions generally
prevailing as a result of the war. A relative, Captain Yeatman, was
a ship owner who had a line of sailing vessels plying between
Norfolk and the Orient. He invited him to accompany him on a trip to
China. They touched at Aspinwall, [now Colon,] crossed the Panama
railroad to Panama, [returned to Aspinwall, and thence pursued their
voyage southward,] going around the Horn and reaching Nagaski,
(Japan) Hong Kong, and Manilla; on their return voyage they arrived
at Havre, France, and made a visit to Paris and Italy, and
ultimately returned to the United States.
Returning
to his old
home in Missouri, Mr. Humes entered into business with his two
brothers, Joseph and Thomas, and engaged in lumbering, milling, and
the manufacturing of woolen goods. The firm was prosperous for a
number of years, but ultimately sustained serious reverses through
endorsing for friends, and the deceased was again thrown on his own
resources.
He
married, in 1872,
Miss Alice Rowland, the daughter of a prominent Virginia family and
in company with her and their small children, he went to Arkansas,
where for a number of years he was engaged in farming. Subsequently,
he went to Texas and New Mexico, where for four or five years he was
engaged in freighting for the large Cattle Companies. At this time
this part of the country was overrun with cut throats, bandits, and
bad men, and disturbed by frequent incursions of the Commanche and
Apache Indians, and on many occasions Mr. Humes has stood off a
prowling band of marauders. In 1889 Mr. Humes moved to Post Falls,
Idaho, where he lived a number of years. [Subsequently he rented a
farm near Saltese Lake, Washington.] Four yours ago he purchased a
large wheat farm near Wilbur, Washington, which he was conducting at
the time of his death.
Without
special
advantages, Mr. Humes can on the whole be said to have lived a
successful life. During many years of his life he saw adversity and
the harder phases of existence. His life was continually one of
strenuous labor and service for others. In spite of the vicissitude
of fortune and the many adverse conditions he had from time to time
to encounter, he accumulated a modest fortune and successfully
reared a large family—-fighting for them, working for them,
defending them and training them all in the fear of God. Only a few
weeks ago he made a visit to relatives in Spokane and vicinity and
remarked at the time that he was ready any time for the last
roll-call, and that it might come at any time. He paid visits to all
of his children, who fortunately were all living nearby at various
points in Washington and northern Idaho, and before returning home,
in response to an urgent request from one of his neph-ews, he sat
for his photograph and remarked at the time that, "this is probably
the last picture I will ever have taken." Prophetic words! for only
a few days later, on arriving at the town of Wilbur, Washington, he
had the misfortune to slip on an icy sidewalk, receiving a fracture
of the hip bone which produced complications resulting in his death,
December 17th.
Mr.
Humes had an
extensive acquaintance among the Confederate officers and enlisted
men, also with many persons prominent in political life in Virginia
and Missouri. He especially enjoyed the intimate friendship of
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, whom he visited only a few years ago
when on a trip through the East.
Mr.
Humes was a
remarkable man, unique in endowments both physical and mental. He
was a magnificent specimen of physical manhood, was scarcely sick a
day in his life, and was able at all times to play his part where
none but strong and brave men were called for.
He
was strong in
both moral and physical courage, and he knew not the meaning of
fear. He had seen so much of life in all its phases that he acquired
a philosophical mind after doing his duty took things as they came
without fear, murmur or complaint; and yet, withal, he was
singularly modest and unassuming. He never spoke of anything he did
as though it was anything unusual, but simply as a matter of course.
He never got excited and rarely angry except under intense
provocation, and then his retort and resistance were terrible. He
was noted for his truthfulness and was never accused of exaggeration
in narrating the many interesting episodes of his life. In a modest
unassuming way he was a dispenser of much practical charity and good
works among his fellowmen.
He
reared with his
family, and aided otherwise, a number of fatherless boys and girls
who afterward made a success of life and now bless his memory. He
was very fond of little children and always had a kind word or some
good natured remark to make to them. In every community in which he
lived he was highly respected and universally honored as a good
citizen and neighbor. While he was firm in maintaining his rights,
and uncompromising in his adherence to what he considered his duty,
he was considerate and forgiving toward those who had injured him or
differed from him in opinion.
He
had always been a
man of action, therefore his sorrow-ing relatives and friends feel
that, after all, it was but fitting that he should fall like a
soldier, in the possession of his strength and faculties and not
spend his last moments in the agonies of a protracted
illness.
A
distinguished
Texan, now a resident of Spokane, said of Mr. Humes:
Mr.
J.E Humes enjoyed the love of all his intimates and the respect
of every community in which he lived. The hero of many
gallant
exploits
in border adventures, in Indian fights, and as a
soldier, he was as modest
as he was brave, kindly, and generous.
In his domestic relations he was
ideal, and he goes down to his
grave leaving a record which is an inspiration
of good to all.
"Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of
that man is peace."
Besides
his widow, Mr. Humes left surviving the following children: Mrs.
Walter Linke,
Greenacres, Washington; James E Jr., Wilbur,
Washington; Mrs. Peter Girard, Cataldo,
Idaho; Mrs. Grover
Byers, Spokane, Washington; Mrs Ernest M. Brown, Colfax,
Washington; Mrs. Burton E. Smith, Winona, Washington; Mrs.
Roy
Billyou(sic), Amber,
Washington
J.W.
WHEATLEY
Nephew
of
deceased
Spokane,
Washington,
Dec. 18, 1912
James'
obit was pub. in a Versaisse,
Mo. newspaper, and also in the Confederate Civil War Veteran's
magazine. Article Title: Civil War/James Humes, CSA Volume:
21 (March 1913 )
Burial:
Greenwood Cemetery,
Spokane, WA58,59
Military
Record:-
Military service:
Bet. 1861 - 1864, Served with
Confederate Missouri State Guard
and Lee's Army of N. Virginia.
Wounded three times.
Email
April 1, 2000 from Peter Binkley :-
James
Edwin Humes
enlisted in the Missouri State Guard
[Co.
C, 1st
Regiment, 3rd Division) as a lieutenant at the beginning
of
the war, and
served in Sterling Price's army in the summer of 1861.
He
was captured at
the battle of Wilson's Creek, and missed the remaining
battles
that year,
but was evidently exchanged by the end of the year. I
don't
know anything
about where he was held or when he was released.
He
was probably
elected lieutenant by the men in his company.
He
enlisted in the
Confederate service (as opposed to the Missouri
state
service) at
Osceola on Dec. 20, 1861, in the 1st Missouri
Infantry
Regt. Most
of the Missouri State Guard enlisted in the
Confederate
service
at this time. His regiment had to change its
number
to the 2nd a
few months later when they found out that there
was
already a 1st
that was organized somewhere else - this leads to
all
kinds of
confusion in the sources. He was now a sergeant, again
probably
by
election. He served with the 2nd in the Iuka and Corinth
campaign
of 1862 and
the Vicksburg campaign of 1863; he appears to
have
been at
Vicksburg when it surrendered in July. There is a copy
of
his parole, dated
at Vicksburg, 6 July 1863.
-At
this point his
story gets a little murky, but by sheer dumb luck
I
stumbled onto some
answers (and by even more dumb bad luck I don't
have
*all* the
answers yet - I'll get to that in a minute). After the
surrender
at
Vicksburg, the Confederate prisoners were paroled,
meaning
they were
released by the Union troops (who didn't want to be
burdened
with
transporting and feeding several thousand prisoners)
but
had to sign an
oath that they would not fight again until they
had
been officially
exchanged for Union prisoners. They were supposed
to
stay with their
regiments and go into a parole camp, but the
desertion
rate was
so high that the Confederate authorities were
forced
to grant a
general furlough. This wasn't much use to the
Missouri
troops,
however, since they couldn't go home across Union
lines
into Missouri,
so they were about the only troops to stay in
camp.
Ed seems to
have been an exception: he took advantage of the
furlough
to return
to his native Virginia, where he still had family
ties
with his
mother's Gilmore family in Rockbridge County. He must
have
been exhausted,
half-starved, maybe wounded or sick. He never
rejoined
the 2nd;
there is a note in his service record that he
joined
the cavalry.
I figured it would take ages to track down what
cavalry
unit he
joined.
Here's
where the
dumb luck came in: I was in the university library
looking
up an old
article in the Missouri Historical Review, and I
happened
to pick up
the latest issue. It had part one of an article
about
Woodson's
Missouri Cavalry: a unit formed out of exchanged
prisoners
from
Missouri units who found themselves in Virginia.
Rather
than return
to their units in the West, they formed a
(dismounted)
cavalry
company under Charles Woodson, and served with
Lee's
Army of
Northern Virginia until the end of the war. This seemed
to
fit with the
stories about Ed that came from Mary McBride, so I
wrote
to the author
of the article to ask if J.E. Humes was a member
of
Woodson's company
- and sure enough, he was! I've written to the
National
Archives to
get his service record in Woodson's unit, but it
will
be a few weeks
before I get it. He must have been at the battle
of
New Market in
1864, where Woodson's unit played a very important
role
and took heavy
casualties. Part two of the article will cover
their
service in the
last months of the war.
Here's
where the bad
luck comes in. I've been waiting for the next
issue
of the
Missouri Historical Review to show up in the library,
and
I noticed this
week that the library has cancelled its
subscription!
I can
see that Missouri history might not be a top
priority
in an
Alberta university, but couldn't they have waited one
more
issue??? I'm
going to put in an interlibrary loan request for
the
second part of
the article. The author of the article did confirm
that
the men who
went to Mexico with Ed after the end of the war were
all
from Woodson's
company.
A
curious feature of
Woodson's men is that none of them talked about
their
service in
Virginia after the war. The author of the article
tracked
down several
of their post-war accounts of themselves,
including
Woodson's,
and they are all vague or downright false.
Reminds
you of Ed,
doesn't it? Apparently he has some theories about
this
in the second
part of the article, but he didn't want to spoil
it
for me by
revealing them in email.
Database:
WA 1890 Veterans Schedule
JAMES
E. -CONF- HUMES
State: WA
County: Spokane
County
Township: E.
D. 43
Year: 1890
Page: 002
After
James
returned from
his travels following the Civil War, he again visited his
Gilmore
and Rowland cousins in Virginia and became reacquainted with his young
cousin
Mary Alla Rowland. When James &
Mary
Alla married in October 1872, they took over
the care of Mary's siblings. Mary's
father
had
died in the last few months of the Civil
War, and
her mother --who died in 1873-- was already ill.
Marriage
Record Rockbridge Co. Virginia
October 17, 1872, James Ed.
Humes, 30, s, b/Rockbridge,
living in Morgan Co., Md.(sic),
Woolen
Manufacturer, son of Wm. Humes and Eliza Humes
Married
Mary Allie Rowland*, 20, s, b/Botetourt Co., living in
Rockbridge
Daughter of Robt. Rowland and Frances Rowland
P.B.
Price officiating, *Allie underlined.
1880
Federal
Census Osage, Morgan, Missouri
Name Relation Age Birthplace Occupation Father's
Birthplace
Mother's Birthplace
James E. HUMES Self 38
VA Woolen
Manufacturer VA VA
Mary A.
HUMES Wife 24
VA Keeping
House same
Faney S.
HUMES Dau 6
MO
Mildred M. HUMES Dau 4
MO
Anna B.
HUMES Dau
2 MO
James E.
HUMES Son 7M
MO
Anna ROLLAND SisterL 23 VA
Victoria ROLLAND
SisterL 21 VA
Robert ROLLAND BroL 19 VA
Works In
Factory
Warren ROLLAND BroL 17 VA Works In
Factory
JAMES
EDWIN HUMES and ANNIE
ELIZA
ROWLAND:
After
her sister
Mary Alla died in 1889, Annie married her widowed
brother-in-law,
James Humes, There is some indication Annie may
have
been married
earlier, although she is the only child of Robert
and
Fanny
Rowland who is not listed on the page of Marriages in the
Rowland-Humes
family
bible that had belonged to Robert and Fanny
and
was continued by
first Allie, then Allie's daughters. Even Annie's
marriage
to James is
not included, although it is possible it is listed in
another
family
bible. The children of Annie and James are included on
the
Births
page, and her death
is listed on the Deaths
page.
Kootenai
Co., ID Court House Marriage Book, Vol 1 Pg. 15.
Name:
James E. Hume
Residence: Post Falls
Gender: Male
Spouse: Anna
E.
Millinerl (sic?)
Spouse
residence: Post Falls
Spouse
gender: Female
Marriage
date: Jun 8, 1895
Marriage
location: Rathdrum, Kootenai Co., Idaho
1900
Census Saltese, Spokane Co. WA Dst. 57
Humes,
James
E b Sept 1838 61 Married 5 yrs. (18 yr. x'd out)
VA IR* VA Renting
Annie E Sept
1853 46 5 1
child VA VA VA
Belle Sept 1877 22 MO VA VA
James E Oct 1879 20 farm
laborer MO VA VA
Roberta Sept
1844 15 at
school MO VA VA
Julia July 1887 12 at
school AR VA VA
Rowland ,
Robert L. Feb 1861 38 boarder VA VA VA --------- Elma May 1880 20
daughter WA VA VA
(This listing
indicates Elma is the d/o Robert Rowland, which is incorrect.)
*
This is
the only time I've seen Ireland given as place of Wm .Humes
birth. I believe it is in error, and that he was born in PA.
1910
Census Township: Wilson Creek Co. Dst166B,
Lincoln, WA
Humes,
James E 72 VA VA VA (married
17 years)
Anna
52 WA VA VA (mother of one living child)
James E. Jr 30 MO E.VA E.VA
Lena
R. 26 Iowa (mother of
non-living child)
Note: Anna was born in Virginia, not in Washington State. There is no
"E.VA."
In
response to a
question in the 1910 Census, Annie and James
reported
they
had been
married for 17 years, which would put their marriage in
1893.
In
the family bible,
someone --most likely Annie-- entered the name of her
daughter
Carrie Elma
and a dob of May 7, 1890. It's possible the
census
enumerator
made a
mistake, or Carrie was born before her parents
married,
or Annie
had been married once before.
Addition to the
confusion :
History
of Spokane reports that
James E. Humes m Anna Elizabeth Milnes in 1895.
It also reports
that Mary Alla died BEFORE Julia was born, which is in
error.
Makes one wonder where they got their information. Another lesson in
the need to
verify data.
More
About ANNIE ELIZA
ROWLAND:
Burial: Saltese Cemetery, Saltese, WA
Children
of JAMES HUMES and
MARY ALLA ROWLAND are:
23.
i. FANNY STUART5 HUMES, b. 16 March 1874, Missouri; d. 1931,
Spokane,
WA.
24.
ii. MILDRED MARIA
HUMES, b.
07 January 1876, Missouri;
d. 15 June 1961,
Wallace, ID., Age 85 yrs, 5 mo, 8 days..
iii. ANNIE
ISABELLE HUMES, b. 18
September 1877, Missouri60;
d. ca. 1952, Yakima, WA;
m.
BURTON A. SMITH; b. ca.
1875. Her
sister, Julia, took care of Belle for several
years
before
she died. In exchange, "Belle" promised to
leave
her little house to Julia. Un-beknownst
to
Julia, Belle's debts exceeded the value of the house, but Julia's
son-in-law, Robert
Laurent, was able to purchased the house at auction, and
although it
stayed
in Robert's name,
it
became
the first --and only house Julia ever
owned.
25.
iv.JAMES EDWIN
HUMES, JR.,
b. 31
October 1879, Missouri; d. 19 February 1965,
Grant Co.
Washington.
v. CHARLOTTE LOUISA HUMES, b. 30
January
188261;
d. 16 February 1882, Aged 17
days.62
vi. INFANT DAUGHTER
HUMES, b. 15
September 1883;
d. 27
September 1883.63
vii. ROBERTA ROWLAND HUMES, b. 22
September 188464.Married
Ernest M Brown--
They had eight children65, oldest
five born in Washington, youngest
three in Idaho.
Glenn
E.2 Brown, b.1905; Ellen E. Brown, b. 27 July
1908; Erna
N. Brown, b.1911;
Flora I. Brown,
b. 1913; Leonard Clinton Brown, b.31 Aug 1913; Mable
Brown, b 1918;
Wilma Brown, b 1922, Lucille
Brown, born 1926.
26.
viii. JULIA CARRUTHERS HUMES, b. 25
July
1887,
Liberty Springs,
Arkansas;
d. 17 July 1974, Arlington, WA.
Children
of JAMES HUMES and ANNIE ROWLAND are:
ix. "INFANT SON"5
HUMES, b. 13 April
189766;
d. in
infancy..
27
x. CARRIE
ELMA HUMES, b. 07 May 189067;
d. Everett, WA (?);
m. (1) GROVER
BYERS; m. (2) GEORGE A. SMITH, Washington68;
Marriage
Notes for CARRIE HUMES and
GROVER BYERS/PYERS:
The mother listed below may be Elma, d/o
James & Annie Humes.
Family members had reported Elma's first
husband was Grover Pyers, but
apparently they misread the B for a P.
Washington
State Birth Index, Prior to 1910 - 1919
Parent: G W Byers
Name: Myrtle Annie Byers
Location: Spokane
Parent: Elma
Humes
Birth Date: 06 May 1911
Sex: F
18.
ELIZA (HUMES)4 DAVIS (ELIZABETH
(CARLIN)3
HUMES, JOHN JAMES2, JOHN1) was
born 1844. She married ROBERT ALONZO PAXTON69,70
1868.
From Jamie Rae
Cummins. email Summer 2004
You asked which Paxton Elizabeth Humes
Davis' daughter married.
Eliza Davis married Robert Alonzo Paxton
they are my 4th Great Grandparents.
Eliza and Roberts daughter
Melissa Alice Paxton married William Henry Roush,
their daughter
Laura Elizabeth "Bo" Roush married Thomas Vance Mulkey, their
daughter Melissa Faye Mulkey married James Raymond Morris,
their
son Billy Ray
Morris married Betty Lou Ortwein, and had a
daughter Carrie Ann Morris who married
my dad Carroll Scott
Cummins, then there is me:)
Child of
ELIZA DAVIS
and ROBERT PAXTON is:
i.
MELISSA ALICE5 PAXTON, m. WILLIAM HENRY ROUSH.
Generation No.
5
19.
MARY ALICE5 HUMES (JOSEPH
GILMORE4,
WILLIAM M.3, JOHN JAMES2, JOHN1) was
born 1863 in Missouri72.
She married ROBERT
ERNEST CURD. He was born 1870.
Children of
MARY HUMES and ROBERT CURD are:
i.
VELMA C.6 CURD, b. ca. 1897; d. 1974.
Married
C.H, Owens
ii.
ANNIE GERTRUDE
CURD, b. ca. 1899.
iii.
WALTER
CURD
iv
MARY
CURD
20.
THOMAS EDWIN5 HUME(S)
(JOSEPH GILMORE4
HUMES, WILLIAM M.3, JOHN JAMES2, JOHN1)
was born 31 October 1865 in Morgan County, Missouri73,
and died 06 October 1939 in
Belle, MO. He married DORA HOWARD 20 September 1891 in
Mo.. She was born 14 September 1870 in Versailles, MO, and
died 14 June 1955 in Eminence, MO. Thomas
did not spell his surname with
an S, nor did his descendants.
This
section
was
contributed by Eileen Smith Hacker:
EILEEN7
SMITH (GRACE6 HUME,
THOMAS EDWIN5 HUME(S), JOSEPH
GILMORE4 HUMES, WILLIAM M.3, JOHN JAMES2, JOHN1) was
born
12 March 1920 in Phelps Co. MO. She married ALDEN GEROCK
HACKER 10 March 1943 in St. Paul, MN2. He was born 08 August
1918.
A few thoughts
about my grandfather, Thomas Edwin Hume. He had
a very distinct Scottish accent. When I was a little girl, I
thought he talked "funny." In retrospect, I realize that he was no
doubt very intelligent, because he made his living for a period of
time by proving the answers in mathematic text books for a company
in New York. There would be equations from here to there on his
work papers all over the desk, table, and floor when he was
working.
Grandpa was a
physical fitness 'nut' before it was such a
popular idea. He would chin himself on a tree limb in the front
yard every morning as many times as was his age. For a time he
insisted upon being a vegetarian. I don't know how long that
lasted.
He wanted me to
be interested in riding, but because I was
really afraid of horses, he wasn't at all successful with that
thought. He and my grandmother were divorced when their children
were very young. It was at a time when a divorce just wasn't heard
of, but they did it anyway. My grandmother didn't talk much about
him or the Hume family . . . . I suppose a lot must have gone
wrong with their lives. From what I remember her saying, he was so
very handsome, but perhaps not a great family man. As an old man,
he was a very distinguished looking person. He was tall, well
built, had piercing blue eyes, a healthy pink complexion, and very
white hair that he wore too long to be fashionable at that time.
He also wore a beard which was very white and generally looked
good.
Grandpa could
predict weather with uncanny accurateness. He
would look around the sky, put his finger up to the sky and would
almost always be correct with his predictions.
Children
of THOMAS HUME and DORA HOWARD are:
i.
ESTHER6 HUME, b. ca.
1892.
ii.
GRACE
HUME, b. 13
June 1894, Gravois Mills, MO; d. 24 January 1963, St. Louis,
MO;
m.
FLOYD JACKSON
SMITH, 28 March 1919, St. James, MO.74; b. 14 January
1898;
d.
29
September
1960.
Children
of GRACE HUME and FLOYD
SMITH are:
i. EILEEN SMITH, b.
12
March 1920, Phelps Co. MO.
Eileen
Smith and Captain Alden Hacker
were married in St. Paul Minnesota.
They are the parents of
Deborah Jane Hacker, b. 16 March 1953.
ii. MARILYN SMITH, b. 15 March 1942.
iii.
ARTHUR SAMUEL HUME, b. 05 March
1901; d. 04
July 1971; m. MABEL CROWDER.
21.
JOHN
WRIGHT5 WHEATLEY
(MILDRED
MARIA4
HUMES, WILLIAM M.3, JOHN JAMES2, JOHN1)75
was
born 01
May 1861,
and died 18 June
1931. He married MARY HELEN VAN DEVANDER.
Notes
for JOHN WRIGHT
WHEATLEY:
John was the diarist who visited his Gilmore relatives
at Sidney Vale
in the summer of 1867, when he was 15 years
old. He had a life-long
interest in family genealogy. Copies of many of his genealogy notes
are in my files. See
Peter Binkley's Wheatley Catalog for a
comlete
list.
Child of
JOHN
WHEATLEY and MARY VAN DEVANDER is:
i.
RICARDA ELIZABETH6 WHEATLEY, b. ca.
1880; d.
Aft. 1959;
m.
G.A. BACCHUS,
30
June 191076.
22.
HARRIET GILMORE5 WHEATLEY
(MILDRED MARIA4
HUMES, WILLIAM M.3, JOHN JAMES2, JOHN1) was
born 1871, and died 1962. She married WILLIAM IRVIN
WILLIAMS. He was born 1866, and died 1947.
More
About HARRIET GILMORE
WHEATLEY:
Resided: 1959, normaler, CO.77
Children of
HARRIET WHEATLEY and WILLIAM WILLIAMS
are:
i.
FRANCES
HARRIET6
WILLIAMS, b. 1899; d. 1962; m. ROBERT CEDRIC BINKLEY;
b.
1897; d. 1940.
More
About FRANCES HARRIET
WILLIAMS:
Occupation: Librarian, U of
Colorado
ii.
JEAN
WILLIAMS.
iii.
HARLAN THOMAS
WILLIAMS.
23.
FANNY STUART5 HUMES
(JAMES EDWIN4,
WILLIAM M.3, JOHN JAMES2, JOHN1) was
born 16 March 1874 in Missouri78,
and died 1931 in Spokane,
WA79. She
married
WALTER LINKE ca. 1898. He was born ca.
1872.
Children of
FANNY HUMES and WALTER LINKE
are:
i.
FREDERICK HERMAN6
LINKE, b. 1900.
ii.
JAMES
EDWIN LINKE, b. 1902.
iii.
ARTHUR WALTER LINKE, b. 1906.
iv.
PAUL HUMES LINKE, b. 1909.
24.
MILDRED MARIA5 HUMES
(JAMES EDWIN4,
WILLIAM M.3, JOHN JAMES2, JOHN1) was
born 07 January 1876 in Missouri80, and died 15 June 1961 in
Wallace, ID., Age 85 yrs, 5 mo, 8 days.80. She married
PETER C.
GIRARD. He was born ca. 1864 in Canada.
1930
Census
Mission, Kootenai, ID
Peter C. Girard 66, b Canada;
Mildred M. 54, b. MO
Age at 1st marriage implies it was 2nd
marriage for Peter.
Children of
MILDRED HUMES and PETER GIRARD are:
i.
WILLIAM EDWARD6 GIRARD, b. 1897; m.
ANNA A
MYHAN; b. ca. 1900.
ii.
ALLA
MARGUERITE GIRARD, b. 1899.
iii.
PAULINE ISABEL GIRARD, b.
1901.
iv.
ROBERTA ROSE
GIRARD, b. 1902; m. OSCAR HOPKINS81; b. 1887.
1920
Census
Shoshone Co. ID
Oscar reported as 32, and Roberta
reported as 17.
Children: Virgina 4+ Edith 2+, and William C. 1
mo.
Roberta's mother --Mildred Marie Humes-- b. NY.
which
contradicts Humes Bible, which has all
children of James Humes
b. either MO or VA.
v.
JULIA LETA GIRARD, b. 1905.
vi.
PHILIP ELZEAR GIRARD, b.
1907.
vii.
MILDRED DORA
GIRARD, b. 1909.
viii.
BEATRICE
(BETTY) ANN GIRARD, b. 1913.
25.
JAMES EDWIN5 HUMES, JR.
(JAMES EDWIN4,
WILLIAM M.3, JOHN JAMES2, JOHN1) was
born 31 October 1879 in Missouri82,
and died 19 February 1965 in
Grant Co. Washington83.
He married LENA LINDSEY 1905 in Saltese, WA84. She was born
ca. 1884,
and died 16 February 1946 in Spokane, WA85.
Children
of JAMES
HUMES and LENA LINDSEY are:
i.
EDWIN BURT6 HUMES,
b. 01 July
191086;
d. 03 March 1999,
Spokane, WA86.
ii.
THORTON J. HUMES, b. 27 January 191386;
d. 23 June 1977,
Orient,
Ferry Co. WA86;
m.
DOROTHY L. HUMES; b. 1920; d. 1994, Stevens Co. WA.
Both are
buried at Kelly Hill Cemetery, Stevens Co. WA87
iii.
ALICE FANNIE HUMES, b. 191988.
iv.
MARY LENA HUMES, b. 192089;
d. 193689.
26.
JULIA CARRUTHERS5 HUMES
(JAMES EDWIN4,
WILLIAM M.3, JOHN JAMES2, JOHN1) was
born 25 July 1887 in Liberty Springs, Arkansas90, and died 17 July
1974 in Arlington, WA91. She married ROY L. BILYEU92 30
November 1910 in Post Falls, ID, son of JAMES BILYEU and SARAH
HUDDLESTON. He was born 28 December 1889 in Wardner, Shoshone
Co, ID93, and died 16 February 1954 in Yakima,
WA.
E-mail from Peter
Binkley Re
Julia's middle name:
Quick note about the Caruthers
connection: do you know the story of
Mary Humes (1810-1880) and
her connections? She was Ed's father's
first cousin, daughter of
Thomas Humes (1770-?), and she married
Joseph Caruthers
(1795-1845). Their son James Caruthers married Ann
Joplin -
sister of the Lou Joplin who married T.R. Humes, Ed's
brother
(with me so far?) Now, Joseph Caruthers had a sister
Elizabeth
(1790-1857), who married a man named Thomas who abandoned
her
with a baby son named Finice (1818-1860). Elizabeth gave Finice
her maiden name of Caruthers, and they moved to Oregon and
homesteaded an area that is now part of Portland. Finice
never
married; and when he and his mother were dead, no heir
could
be
found
for what was by now a very valuable parcel of land. Some
of our Humes
connections ultimately tried to claim the
inheritance on the basis of
the Caruthers connection, but failed
to prove the relationship. My
great aunt wrote up a fascinating
history of the case, full of
skullduggery, which I'll dig out
and photocopy for you if you like.
That might account for the
Car(r)uthers name, either through Ed's
brother's Tom's wife Lou
Joplin, or through Ed's father's cousin.
More
About ROY L.
BILYEU:
Occupation: Farmer; produce stand owner.
Marriage
Notes for JULIA HUMES and
ROY BILYEU:
Western States Marriage Record
ID
Number 117962
Grooms First Name Roy
Grooms Last Name BILYEN
Grooms
Residence
Brides First Name Julia
Brides Last Name HUMES
Brides
Residence
County of Record Kootenai Co., Idaho
Place of Marriage Coeur D'
Alene
Date of Marriage 30 Nov 1910
Volume 7
Page 78
1920 Census
Stevens Co, WA Enumeration Dst 291 First Thought Precinct
Bilyeu, Roy Head R(ent) age 30 Idaho MO MO Teamster
Lumber
Carry
All 056
Julia wife 30 Arkansas VA VA
Robert son 8 WA ID AR
Irene dau 7 WA ID AR
Eva dau 5 WA ID AR
Bessie dau 3-6/12 WA ID AR
Washington
Death Index:
Name: Julia C Bilyeu
Place of Death:
Snohomish County
Residence: Snohomish
Gender: F
Date of
Death: 17 Jul 1974
Certificate: 016625
Burial: 22
July 1974, Terrace
Heights Cemetery, Yakima
Washington
Death Index
Name: Roy Bilyeu
Place of Death: Yakima
Age: 64
Gender: M
Date of Death: 16 Feb 1954
Certificate: 3772
Children
of JULIA HUMES and ROY BILYEU
are:
i.
ROBERT C.6
BILYEU,
born 27 October 1911, Spokane Co.,Washington94;
died 25 Aug 1999, Yakima, WA95;
married .(1) JOSEPHINE
____ born ca. 1912; died Yakima,
WA
No
children. He married (2) Mary ___.. No
children.
ii.
IRENE ALLA
BILYEU,
born 29 November 1912, Spokane, Washington State96;
died Oct 1993,
Lynnwood, WA; married . (1)
ALBERT RALPH
MERRILL, ca. 1931; born 16 August 1909,
Fairbanks, AK97;
died 20 September 1981,
Anacortes, WA98.
They were
divorced ca. 1936.
Irene
m. (2) CHARLES A. PULKRABEK, ca. 1942; b. 14 Nov.1915,
Hopkins, MN.
He died August 1987.
More
about IRENE BILYEU &
ALBERT MERRILL:
They had one daughter, Joanne Irene
Merrill, born in Yakima, WA. 09 August 1932. She
married
Jerry Kartak on 03 August 1950 in Seattle, WA. He
was born
in Park Rapids, MN. on 20 November 1930. They have six
children.
iii.
EVA V. BILYEU, b. 15 June 1914,
Cheney, WA;
d. 13 September 1965, San Bernardino,
CA99,100;
married
WILLIAM SHIELDS, ca. 1944, Seattle, WA (?); b. ca. 1916,
Tennessee.
One daughter.
More
About EVA V. BILYEU:
Burial:
17 September 1965, Terrace Heights Cemetery, Yakima
(?)
iv.
BESSIE
COVINA BILYEU101,
b. 07 June
1916, Whitman Co., WA; d. 17 February 1999, Yakima,
m. ROBERT
LAURENT; b. ca. 1913, Yakima, WA; d. 15 April 1992, Yakima, WA102.
They had
two sons and a
daughter. The Laurents owned Laurent's Markets in Yakima and
Ellensburg,
WA.
Burial: Robert and Bessie both buried in Terrace
Heights Cemetery,
Yakima, WA
Endnotes
1. Binkley, Peter, Peter Binkley,
Wheatley Family
History
2. 1850 Census Morgan Co. MO., Son John enumerated as John James Humes,
Jr.
3. Peter
Binkley.
4. Wheatley Memorandum (1912).
5. Bilyeu,
Julia Humes: Miscellaneous genealogy notes.
6. 1850
Census Morgan Co. MO., 1850 Census Buffalo Twn Morgan County, MO,
Census enumerator inserted "James" between the names John and
Humes (male aged 80).
7. 1850 Census Morgan Co. MO.,
Humes/Wheatley family tradition says John born in Belfast,
Ireland. In the 1850 census, however, location of birth as
Virginia, and age 80. Probably a mistake, as the information
was possibly given by a family member who only guessed.
8. Wheatley Memorandum (1912), "John Humes came from near
Belfast".
9. Family tradition. Last known residence
was with daughter-in-law in Morgan Co.
10. Wheatley
Memorandum (1912), Written by child of Mildred Humes
Wheatley, probably John W. Wheatley, ca. 1912.
11. Dodd, Jordan;
Early American Marriages, VA to 1850, Bond reads: John Humes Margaret
(Mrs.) Purse
12. DOB based on age given in
obit.
13. Henley Marriage & Obituary Database, LVA,
NEWSPAPER Richmond Whig & public advertiser
(Richmond, Va.
: 1833 : Semiweekly) ENTRY Died- In New Antrim,
Smyth
County, on Feb. 11, 1835, Mrs. Margaret Humes, consort of John
Humes, in her 58th year. (p. 3, c. 2) DATE OF PUB. Saturday, February
21, 1835. From the marriage and obituary
citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on
microfilm at the Library of Virginia .
14. 1850 Census
Morgan Co. MO., John Humes age 80, place of birth
Virginia. Written above and between his first and last name,
is "James". Perhaps to distinguish him from a grandson named
John who is in the household. Info re his age and location of
birth differs from other information.
15. A.J. Morrison,
"William & Mary College Quarterly Historical
Magazine,"
Vol II Second Series ; July, 1922 #3;, Early
Virginia Patents......Page 151 1813 .... John Humes,
Richmond. Machine for cutting screws. Page 154.
1821 James
(sic)Humes, Richmond. Machine for digging canals..
16. Henley Marriage &
Obituary Database, LVA, Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va. : 1815 :
Semiweekly) ENTRY Died- On April 24th, at Belle
Isle,
Miss Louisa Humes, daughter of Mr. John Humes, age 17, leaving
father, stepmother, brothers and sisters. (p. 3, c. 5) DATE
OF
PUB. Friday, May 19, 1826. FILM NO. Available on
microfilm (Library of Virginia Film 23a). NOTE From
the
marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J.
Henley..
17. Library of Virginia, Special Collections,
Richmond, Virginia Newspaper Obituaries, 1804-38, also Belle
Isle Enquirer of 19 May 1826 .
18. Peter Binkley; Wheatley Family Archives
@http://www.wallandbinkley.com/, "Mother's
grandfather (Wm. Humes) married Eliza Carlin in Philadelphia, where
were born William..."
19. Dodd, Jordan; Early American
Marriages, VA to 1850, Date of Bond ? Name given as Elizabeth
Gilmore. Samule Houston, Presbyterian Minister
officiated.
20. Josephine Gilmore Yeatman, Wheatley,
J.W.; Genealogy notes of June 28, 1912.
21. Yeatman,
Josephine Gilmore;.
22. 1850 Census Morgan Co.
MO..
23. 1860 Census Morgan Co. MO.
24. Peter
Binkley; Wheatley Family Archives
@http://www.wallandbinkley.com/,
http://www.wallandbinkley.com/wheatley/catalog.html:I.C.h. Letter to
Elizabeth Humes ("Mother" = Eliza Stuart Gilmore Humes, 1807-1860)
from John C. Humes, 1830-49), Boonville, Friday 25 May [1849]. 1849
is the only year between 1838 and John's death when 25 May fell on a
Friday. John died 14 June 1849.
25. Binkley, Peter, Peter
Binkley, Wheatley Family History,, "Electronic," Humes
Genealogy.
26. Census 1860 Morgan Co., Osage Twn.
Enumeration date: 24 Aug 1860. Mary in household with mother
and brothers Tom and James.
27. Peter Binkley, Dates of
birth/death for Maria and family.
28. Hume, Jim, Humes Family Report,
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~humefamily/2/47691.htm.
29. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~humefamily/2/47691.htm.
30. Henley Marriage & Obituary Database, LVA, On Harvey's
Island,
near Richmond: 22 May, 1823...
31. Reverand William H.
Hart, Rector, St. John's Church, Richmond, VA;, (1815-1828,
1836-1842), Register of Marriages22 May,
1823......................Daniel Stephen MCCARTHY, of Richmond, and
MariaHUMES, of Harvey's Island; license bearing date 20 May
1823..
32. Annals of Henrico Parish, Annals of Henrico
Parish Marriages. 22 May 1823 Name: Daniel Stephen McCarthy
Spouse: Maria Humes On Harvey's Island , near Richmond , of Richmond
, of Harvey's Island ; license bearing date May 20, 1823 . .
33. Wheatley Memorandum (1912), "Elizabeth was born at
Harper's Ferry."
34. Dodd, Jordan; Early American
Marriages, VA to 1850.
35. Ricarda Wheatley Bacchus,
Genealogy notes, "Elizabeth m. Thos. JEfferson Davis who lived in
Johnson Co.__& died in Oregon."
36. Binkley,
Peter.
37. Dodd, Jordan; Early American Marriages, VA to
1850.
38. Peter Binkley.
39. ibid
40. Census 1880 Morgan County, MO, Place of birth in Virginia and dob
based on age in 1880 and earlier census reports.
41. Wheatley Family Archives, No. II.G.m, Scrap of paper with list of
children of William and E.S. Humes, written by William McCoy
Wheatley. In the column of birth locations, is written,
"Eastside of State, Washington Co. VA."
42. Mary Lou Joplin
Humes to John W. Wheatley, Aug.1, 1912, The letter from "Aunt
Lou" is in response to a request from John Wheatley to provide dobs
etc. of Humes family members.
43. ibid "Your Uncle
Tom died in Texas in 1899, on the 24th of July, and was
burried (sic) onthe 25th, the thirty-fifth anniversary of our
marriage."
44. William M. Wheatley wrote on a scrap of
paper that Joseph was born in Washington Co. VA.
45. Mary
Lou Joplin Humes to John W. Wheatley, Aug.1, 1912
46. Location and dob based on census of 1880.
47. Location and
dob based on 1870 Morgan Co. Census.
48. Wheatley Family
Archives, Catalog No. II.G.m, Scrap of paper with list of children
of Wm. Humes written by Wm.McCoy Wheatley.Location of Mildred's
birth is written "Pond___ Farm, Miller Co. MO:.
49. Census
1870 Morgan Co. MO, Location of birth given as
Missouri.
50. Peter Binkley, Wheatley
Family History,
51. ibid
52. Obituary of James E. Humes, Location of birth cited by Mary
Margaret
McBride and others.
53. Compiled, Rockbridge Co. Marriage
Records 1851-1883.
54. Lackey-Rowland Family
Bible.
55. 1910 Census, Wilson Ck, Lincoln Co. WA Census
states couple had been married 17 years, which would indicate they were
married in either Idaho or Washington.
56. Lackey-Rowland Family Bible.
57. Saltese Cemetery Records,
HUMES, Annie, b. 09/21/1853, d. 05/20/1916,
Nee:Rowland.
58. Hume, Jim, Humes Family Report, From
a report attached to copies of James obituary and and
circulated among family members: "James EdwinHumes, Sr. was
buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Spokane beside his sister, Mrs.
Mildred Maria Humes Wheatley.".
59. [ [email protected]], Maggie
Rail, (http://www.interment.net/data/us/wa/stevens/addy/addy.htm), Addy
Cemetery, Stevens County, WA has the following listing in records of
http://www.newgs.org. cited by : Humes Ed, no dates, L-9 *No
verification of this being James Ed Humes..
60. Copy of a
penciled memorandum of the family record given in an old
Bible
belonging to Eliza Gilmore Humes, daughter of Miillie Rowland
and Joseph Gilmore, and brother of Thomas., Rowland Family
Bible, Name on page of Births: Annie
Isabel. Location of birth in 1880 Census given as Missouri.
61.
ibid Name written in Births page as Charlotte Louisa.
62.
ibid
63. ibid Named on page of Births and Deaths. Lived only 7 days.
64. ibid Name and dob on page of
Births.
65. Peter Binkley
66. Rowland-Humes Family
Bible, Entry in bible reads: Infant son was born __
April 13 1897, of J E and A E Humes.According to Peter Binkley he
may have been named Robert.
67. Rowland-Humes Family
Bible.
68. Family Data Collection - Marriages[database
online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001.,
Name: George Washington Smith Spouse: Carrie
Humes (No
date given.).
69. Peter Binkley; Eliza married a
Paxton?.
70. Alice Sisemore, (e-mail Oct 2001),
"Electronic," Name and date of Elizabeth Humes Davis
marriage.
71. Peter Binkley.
72. Census 1870,
Location and dob based on census.
73. Census 1870 Morgan
Co. MO, Location and dob based on census. Listed as
Ede,
age 5.
74. Eileen Hacker. Misc. Documents mailed to JMK 6
Oct. 2003, Gilmore/Rowland Genealogy, Gilmore/Rowland (2 pg.)
genealogy outline apparently written by Ricarda Wheatley Bacchus.
Bottom of back page reads: "Wm Humes was my grandmother Mildred
Maria Humes-Wheatley's father.(Ricarda ? Bacchus).
76. Binkley, Peter, Peter Binkley, Wheatley Family History,,
"Electronic,"
http://www.wallandbinkley.com/wheatley/catalog.html#II_B, VII.B.e.8.
Clipping: 30 June 1910. Wedding of Ricarda Wheatley and G.A.
Bacchus. With picture of Ricarda. .
75. ibid
77. Eileen Hacker; Misc. Documents mailed to JMK 6 Oct. 2003,
Gilmore/Rowland Genealogy Outline prepared by Ricarda Wheatley
Bacchus., "Papa's sister --Harrient W. Williams (widow-88 yrs old)
lives in #546 - Geneva Ave. normaler, Colarado with her dtr. Mrs.
Robet Binkley (widow) who is librarian at Univ. of
Colo."
78. Copy of a penciled memorandum of the
family record given in an old Bible belonging to Eliza Gilmore
Humes, daughter of Miillie Rowland and Joseph Gilmore, and
brother of Thomas., Rowland Family Bible, dob in page of
Births. Location given in Morgan Co. Census 1880 as
Missouri.
79. ibid
80. Rowland-Humes Family
Bible; Copy of Family Record Page.
81. Charles B.
Hopkins, grandson of Mildred Maria Humes Girard.
82. Copy
of a penciled memorandum of the family record given in an old
Bible belonging to Eliza Gilmore Humes, daughter of Miillie
Rowland and Joseph Gilmore, and brother of Thomas., Rowland Family
Bible, dob on page Births. Location given as Missouri
in 1880 census.
83. Social Security Death
Index.
84. Rowland-Humes Family Bible; Copy of Family
Record Page, Notation on bottom of Family Record page for
Marriages:"James E. Humes Lena Lindsey, married at Saltese 1905
?"
85. Washington State Death Index, Age 62 at time of
death.
86. Social Security Death Index.
87. This
cemetery can be reached from Hwy 395 by taking the Pierre Lake Rd,
which is just north of the Barstow store. You head east and then
north for about 2 1/2 miles till you reach Gallaher-Barret Rd. Turn
right and continue for about 1 1/2 mile to McNitt Rd, turn left and
it is about one more mile.
88. Peter Binkley, Alice b 1919,
married Vincent Portwr; son Michael Ray Porter.
89. ibid
90. Copy of a penciled memorandum of the family
record given in an old Bible belonging to Eliza Gilmore
Humes, daughter of Miillie Rowland and Joseph Gilmore, and brother of
Thomas., Rowland Family Bible, Page of Births lists name and
dob. Julia was born in Arkansas, but always considered
herself
a Virginian by descent!
91. Washington State Death
Index.
92. ibid "R" listed as Roy's middle initial in
several records.
93. Funeral Records.
94. .ibid
95. Social Security Death Index, ROBERT BILYEU 27 Oct
1911 25 Aug 1999 98909 (Yakima, ) specified) Washington.
96. Washington State Birth Index Prior to 1910
- 1919, Another example of the name Bilyeu being distorted.In this
case, there's also a mistake in the first name.which should
read "Mary Alla", although at some time shortly after her birth,
"Mary" became "Irene".Washington State Birth IndexParent: Roy Bilgen
Name: Mary Alice Bilgen Location: Spokane Parent: Julia Humes Birth
Date: 29 Nov 1917 Sex: F .
97. Alaska State Records, Birth
Certificate.
98. Washington State Records, Death
Certificate: Albert R Merrill Place of
Death: Anacortes Date of Death: 20 Sep
1981 Residence: San Juan Age: 72 years Gender: M Certificate: 022424 .
99. California Death Records, SHIELDS EVA V FEMALE 06/15/1914
09/13/1965
WASHINGTON SAN BERNARDINO HUME (Mother's maiden
name).
100. Kremer Chapel, Funeral Rememberance: Place of Service, 1st
Congregation Church of San Bernardino, CA. 11
AM Friday, September 17, 1965; Dr. George Haskell,
Officiating.
101. Washington State Birth Index Prior to
1910 - 1919, Parent: Roy Billyou Name: Bessie Covina Billyou
Location: Whitman Parent: Julia C Humes Birth Date: 07 Jun 1916
.
102. Washington State Death Index, Date of death 15 Apr
1992.
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