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About Thomas Cole Humber
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Thomas Coles Humber
1/4/1804 - 1/25/1883
Email from John L. Humber (jlhumber@@intrex.net) on 2/8/97 --
Well Hello Cousin Bobby!
How interesting theworld gets to be these days. Without the ROOTS
Registry how long would it have taken for us to discover each other?
Your genealalogy is most interesting. I have no nowledge about any John
Humber earlier than the one who married Betty Meeks. He is the first I
know about. However, that does not mean there wasn't one, of course.
You mentioned the Humber Bible at the Virginia Library. That is
Elizabeth Christian's Bible (Thomas Baskett, 1752). It descended through
the Cox side of the family and was on loan to the University of Virginia
for a time by Josephine McPherson Cox of Charlottesville, VA,when I feel
certain it was photographed. However that branch of the family decided
that my father was thepersons they wished to have it passed to at
Joesephine's death. My father died before that transfer was made. So
one memorable day in the early 1970's my wife and children and I got in
the car, drove to Charlottesville and brought Elizabeth Christian's
Bible home with us. Needless to say, a copy of the two pages on which
she wrote down her family's information will be in the mail to you
tomorrow. Also my great grandfather, who was raised in part by Elizabeth
Christian at Air Hill,drew a pencil picture of her which he kept in his
Bible.
One thing emerges as really interesting from your nformation with what
I have discovered in KY, however. I went to Crab Orchard to see if I
could find some Humbers a couple of years ago. I found Joe Humber in
Harrodsburg, KY and from him I found several others in Lexington and in
Crab Orchard. Bernie Fish in Crab Orchard took me up to the Crab Orchard
Graveyard and where the oldest Humber grave there was for a Thomas Cole
Humber, b. 5 Jan 1804, d. 20 Jan 1833, barely 29 years old. He seems to
be the patriarch of that branch judging from their information.I was not
able to tie him in with the Air Hill Humbers until I came home and
looked in Elizabeth Christian's Bible. There she recorded the birth of
two grandchildren. One was Thomas Cole Humber, b. 5 Jan 1804,as the son
of Charles Christian Humber. That's right CHARLES CHRISTIAN HUMBER.
Did Charles Christian Humber have a previous marriage in Virginia from
which issued Thomas Cole and then moved on into AL after his first wife
died? Did he move to Crab Orchard and left there after the death of a
first wife? After Thomas Cole was on his own? Do you know when 4
Charles Christian married Lettice Hammon?
In my lineage down from 4 William, you have one too many people in the
line. This number of generations could normally be expected I suppose,
but 4 William's son, 5 Oliver Perry Humber (my didn't our family go in
for those famous names though )married three time and outlived the first
two. We come down from his eldest son from the third marriage,6 Robert
Lee Humber, Sr., my grandfather. His son, 7 Robert Lee Humber, Jr. was my
father and I make it down as 8 John Leslie Humber.
As you will see on the pages I'll send you the "illegible" name of John
and Elizabeth's children was Lucy - but it is quite legible.
Some of the other dates don't mesh either, but you can see what you can
make of it all with the data in your book. I have a great deal on the
Humbers, especiall our line, of course, and the Georgia branch. Robert
Christian Humber was the patriach of that branch down there and I have a
good deal on them.
Your mother lives in Athens, you say. My wife's sister taught at the
University there for 30 years in the Home Economics Dept. and the dean
of that dept married a good friend of my father's and mine - Dr. Joe
Pou. I wonder if by some chance she might know him.
Well things do get interesting. On the surface it seems that you might
have some family in KY who are closer to you than me. As you probably
did, I found the Land Grant card in the VA library on the net, not only
for John Humber of Goochland, but also for John Humber in KY. on Casey
Creek which flows into the Green River. I located Casey Creek and am
sending you a map showing its location and Crab Orchard, KY.
Well, enough for now, I guess. We'll keep plugging away. What fun.
Best wishes,
John
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Thomas Cole Humber's Timeline
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January 4, 1804
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| 1837 |
February 17, 1837
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| 1839 |
April 12, 1839
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Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, Kentucky, United States
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| 1883 |
January 25, 1883
Age 79
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Crab Orchard, Lincoln, Kentucky, United States
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January 1883
Age 78
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Crab Orchard, Lincoln, Kentucky, United States
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