By request. 51. R. H. Hume, p. 450-51 R. H. Hume Was born near Richmond, Kentucky, March 6, 1843, wliere he lived with his parents until he was eighteen years old. At that age he joined the Confederate army, enlisting in company F, Third Tennessee cavalry, and served first under Gen. Zollicoffer, and after his death under Gen. Kirby Smith, serving in that army corps some eighteen months; was discharged and returned to his home in Kentucky, where he was soon after taken prisoner by the Union provost-guards, and imprisoned three months. Was released in May, 1865, and soon after enlisted in company F, Third Kentucky cavalry, under Gen. John Morgan, and served until July 19, of the same year, when he, with his corps, was taken prisoner near Buffington Island, Ohio, and was for a short time imprisoned at Camp Morton, at Indianapolis, Indiana, and from there taken to Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois, and kept until the close of the war. After his release he returned to Kentucky, and engaged in farming until February, 1866, then went to Arkansas and was employed as superintendent on a cotton plantation for one year. Subsequently he was employed as a clerk in the store of W. K Hocker & Co , Lonoke, Arkansas, and engaged in raising cotton. The following year he returned to Kentucky, and after a visit of a few months came to Missouri, arriving in Trenton in April, 1869, where he permanently settled the following year, and engaged in the grocery business, which he followed until May, 1881. With his brother he built the first brick business house in Trenton He has made all his property since coming to Trenton and is among the substantial men of that enterprising young city. November 8, 1876, he married Miss Irena Stombaugh, of Trenton, by whom he has three children: Ethel, Maggie Myrtle and Robert Allen, all born in Trenton.