Hiram Cummings
Hiram Cummings, the subject of this sketch is a native of Kentucky, born in 1818. He came to Missouri in 1833, and located in Jackson County. He served under Col. Gentry in the Florida war; in ’47 he enlisted and went to Mexico, to serve during the Mexican war; returned in ’48 and employed with McCoy & Walds as Wagon Master on the overland freight line to Ft. Laramie and New Mexico. He was subsequently employed by Young & Hobson. Then by Major & Russel in the Salt Lake freighting trade. At the time of the Mormon war, being detained at Ft. Bridger by the U. S. troops, he and three others started home, a distance of 1,200 miles, with pack mules, arriving in February ’58. He located in Johnson County, near Little Santa Fe, where he still lives hale and hearty. In ’43 he married Mill. Watts, of St. Charles County, Missouri. They have two sons and three daughters, all living.
Atlas Map of Johnson County, Kansas, E. F. Heisler and Co., 1874, p. 58.
