General Notes

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FRANCIS CHARLES HUME, has been twice married. First to Mary Belle Harlan, daughter of Joseph Harlan, of Sumner Co., TN, November 25, 1868. She died childless two years later. Married second, Marie Lee, at her mother's house in San Jacinto Co., TX, July 3, 1873, her stepfather Rev. J. W. D. Creath, officiating. Mrs. Lea Hume, is daughter of late Vernal B. Lea and his wife Catherine Davis, daughter of General Jones Davis and Eliza Hill his wife, in Polk, now San Jacinto Co., TX, September 20, 1852.

Vernal B. Lea, was the fourth son of Temple Lea, of Alabama, and his wife Nancy Moffit. His wife was born June 26, 1816. Nancy Moffitt Lea, was born November 9, 1773, and died January 28, 1834, Temple Lea, was born May 1, 1780, he was the son of George Lea, of North Carolina, and he son of William Lea, of England. There were three other sons of Temple Lea, all older than Vernal B., there names are as follows: Martin A., born June 26, 1799; Henry C., born October 7, 1804; Wallace, born September 13, 1811. Also four daughters, Varilla, born November 17, 1801; Adaline, born March 26, 1808; Margaret, (Peggy) born April 11, 1819; Emily Antoinette, born February 10, 1822. Margaret and Emily, came to Texas. Emily A., as the wife of Mr. Charles Powers, and Margaret, as the wife of General Sam Houston. She outlived the General, and died at Independence, Texas, 1867, leaving children and grandchildren.

Varilla, married Rob't Royston, in Alabama, October 8, 1817, and died December 22, 1881. Their son Martin H. Royston, lived and died in Galveston, his death occured in 1890.

Catherine Jones, wife of Vernal B. Lea, was at the time of her marriage the widow of Wm. Goodall, and had one living child Anne, afterwards Mrs. H. W. Roberston. She had by her second marriage four children, as follows: Temple, born July 3, 1853; Margaret H., March 6, 1849, married Jas. Hogue, November 1, 1871, died January 19, 1872. James Vernal, born January 12, 1851. Married Alice Mitchell, January 24, 1878.

Marie Lea Frances Hume, wife of Judge Charles Hume, living in Galveston, Texas.


Source - "History of the Hume Family", by John Robert Hume