Eugenia Williamson Hume

[1][4] She began teaching at 18[1] and was known as a teacher for many years before graduation from elocutionary school.

She and her sister, Mazy Williamson, also gave elocutionary entertainments in various parts of the West.

[1] In 1897, the sisters gave entertainments together in Missouri, Eugenia doing the poses and Mazy giving the recitations, some of the most successful of which were by Banks.

[1] On April 18, 1899, she married Dr. John R. Hume, a leading physician of St. Louis and professor of physiology at Barnes Medical College.

[1] Eugenia Williamson Hume died in St. Louis on October 13, 1899, at the age of 34[1] from a valvular lesion of the heart after an illness of five hours.