Inscription:
ROBERT S.
SON OF
R. B. AND A. H. HUME
BORN
OCT. 27, 1892
DIED
NOV. 29, 1892
Robert S. Hume
Birth: 27 October 1892
Death: 29 November 1892
Burial: Cold Water Cemetery, Florissant, St. Louis County, Missouri
Notes:
• Robert was the son of Robert Hume and Ann E. Hyatt Hume.
• He was a great-grandson of Stanton Hume, Sr. and Judge Frederick Hyatt.
• According to “Genealogical Research – the Hume Family Tree” written by Robert Swanson and printed .by Heritage Research Service, PO Box 143, Hazelwood, Mo. (the book is in the St. Louis Public Library), the Hume family dates back to Biblical times in the days of Noah and the Tower of Babel.
• The first generation in America was George Hume who was married to Elizabeth Proctor on 16 December 1727. George was a surveyor and taught George Washington how to be a surveyor.
• Robert S. Hume is a member of the seventh generation of the Hume family in America.
