Mathew D. HUME

                   Dates of birth and death from Hume graveyard, Canewood, Clay farm, off Winchester-Paris Road, Clark County, Kentucky.  Kathryn Owen, Old Graveyards of Clark County, Kentucky p. 69 (Polyanthos, New Orleans 1975).

Native of Clark County, Kentucky, born June 22, 1803, son of John Hume and Esther Patton; spent entire life in Clark County, KY, engaged in farming, stock-raising, and feeding cattle; married Maria Cunningham, November 6, 1827; four children, Elizabeth, who married James D. Gay, and had two children, one living, Maria; Ann, deceased; Mary Bedford, who has five living children: Matthew, Clay, Franklin, Henrietta and Samuel; Laura Clay, who has three living children, Hume, Frank and Harry; Maria Hume died August 7, 1849; member, Royal Arch Mason since 1825; owns 2,500 acres of fine land; Democrat politically. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky A History of the State 8th ed., pp. 874-75 (F. A. Batley and Co., Louisville & Chicago 1888)(reprinted Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC 1979, 1992).