Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 1108 - 1109

REV. AMBROSE C. HUME, a minister of the Baptist Church, and at present located in Holdrege, Neb., is a native of Dearborn County, Ind., where he was born June 21, 1824. His parents, Patrick and Elizabeth (Colman) Hume, were natives of Virginia and Kentucky respectively, and on the paternal side of the house the family is of Scotch ancestry.

             The mother of our subject died when a young woman at her home in Indiana, and Ambrose C. when a lad of eleven years removed with his father from Dearborn to Marion County, Ind., where he was partly educated in the district school, and developed into manhood. Now anxious for a college course he entered Franklin College, a Baptist institution at Franklin, Ind., where he studied for a time, but on account of ill-health was obliged to abandon his books and return home. He now occupied himself in teaching in Marion County, Ind., and was there married, on the 1st of March, 1846, to Mrs. Lavina (Harding) McCray, widow of John McCray, of Marion County, and the daughter of E. D. and Mary (Robinson) Harding, natives respectively of Kentucky and North Carolina.

             Mrs. Hume was born in Connersville, Ind., Dec. 3, 1821, and when two years of age removed with her parents to Marion County, where they located about four miles west of Indianapolis, being among the first settlers on Eagle Creek. There were no houses in that region at the time, and they were obliged to camp out until a cabin could be erected. Indianapolis was then a hamlet of three buildings. The father of Mrs. Hume, however, was a man of great courage and perseverance, the descendant of a hardy race of men who had made their mark in life, and was not dismayed by the difficulties which he encountered in the building up of a new home. He possessed many of the traits of his father, Robert Harding, after whom Hardingtown, Ky., has been named, and who was one of the prominent men of that region.

             To the parents of Mrs. Hume were born seven children, five now living, namely: Laben, of Marion County, Ind.; Oliver, of Danville, Ill.; John, of Hendricks County, Ind., and Sarah A., the wife of Robert Spears, of Hendricks County. Mr. Harding became prominent among the men of that section of country, where he labored in common with them, not only in the building up of a home, but in contributing to the development and prosperity of the county. Mrs. Hume was reared to womanhood in Marion County, where her first marriage, with Mr. John McCray, took place in February, 1840. Mr. McC. was a native of Indiana, and they became the parents of one child only, a son John, who was born Feb. 24, 1842. The latter during the late war enlisted as a Union soldier, and died of fever, contracted by exposure and hardship, at his home on the 21st of November, 1863. Mr. McCray departed this life at his home in Indiana, in November, 1841.

             To Mr. and Mrs. Hume there have been born seven children, namely: Oliver E., of Hendricks County, Jan. 28, 1847; Shelton M., at home with his parents, March 28, 1849; Laben J., June 4, 1852; Ede C., of Lyon County, this State, Aug. 18, 1855; Mary E., Mrs. Richard Gorin, of Clearwater, Dec. 19, 1857; Sarah I., the wife of John Shields, of Ashland, Dec. 6, 1860, and Ellsworth, Jan. 15, 1864.

             Mr. and Mrs. Hume after their marriage continued residents of Marion County, Ind., and Mr. Hume labored as a minister at Blue River, Homer and Southport. Later they removed to Hendricks County, in which locality he expounded the Gospel principally at Eminence and Stilesville. They came to Clearwater in the spring of 1885, and Mr. Hume took charge of the Baptist Church, preaching here one year, and then, through the solicitation of some of his Indiana friends who had settled at Holdrege, Neb., he assumed charge of the church there in November, 1887, where he still continues his pious labors. His family, however, remain at Clearwater, where Mrs. Hume owns village property and occupies a handsome home. Mrs. H. is also the owner of a good farm of 160 acres in Ninnescah Township, besides valuable property in Wichita, and also in Ashland, this State.

             Ambrose C. Hume has been a watchman on the walls of Zion, proclaiming glad tidings of great joy to many people, for a long period of years, during which time his conscientious labors for the Master have met with their legitimate reward in the satisfaction which he feels in contemplating the fact that he has done what he could to fulfill the Master's will. Politically, he is a Prohibitionist, and is a member in good standing of the G. A. R., at Clearwater. Mrs. Hume is the earnest sympathizer of her husband in his work, and a devoted member of the Baptist Church.

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