The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

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FAMILY 447.
4518. Hector' Humphrey (A'-'»i"^' [3227J Deacon Alvin,^ Deacon TJieophilus,^ Lieut.
Samuel,^ Ensign Samuel,^ Lieut. Samuel,'^ Michael^). He married three wives; was a preacher
(known as "Heck" Humphrey) in Henry County, 111. He died in Kansas "a number of years
ago," leaving a wife and two children.
[Children : Two, whose records have not been obtained]
F.\MILY 448.
4519- Jeremiah Theophilus'^ Humphrey, [3228] (Akin,-* Deacon Abin,'= Deacon
Theophilus,'^ Lieut. Samuel,'^ Emign Samuel,^ Lieut. Samuel,- Michael'^) was born in Green Co.,
Wis., II Dec, 1820. He married 21 Oct., 1848, Martha Jane d'Corza, dau. of Pierre d'Corza,
of French birth, and his wife, Hannah Bellows, an Englishwoman. She was born in Green Co.,
Wis., 17 Sept., 1826, and died i Oct., 1S68.
I\Ir. Humphrey went to California in 1850, with his brothers Dudley and Frederick, and
commenced mining. In the winter of 1S50-51, he, with seven others, took up a claim in the
head of Grain's Gulch, near Georgetown, Eldorado Co. On this claim of 400 feet, which covered
the entire flat, they sank three shafts, near a large quartz vein, and in one of these shafts they
got a good prospect, but could not reach the bedrock on account of water. Mr. Humphrey
urged the necessity of tunnelling at the lower end of the shaft, but could not get his companions
to adopt his plans, and the place was abandoned. Some years after, other miners tunneled the
old shaft, drifted out over half a million dollars worth of ore, and sold out to one of their
number, who ultimately took out three times as much as they had taken. This is "the nearest"
which Mr. Humphrey has "ever been to a big strike," though he now has a claim at Forest
Hill, of which he has "great expectations." In 1865 and '66 he was prominent in organizing a
Miners' Protection League (as an offset to the influx of Chinese labor in California), of which he
was elected president; and was chosen as a delegate to the Anti-Cooley League of San Francisco.
P. O. address (1884) Forest Hill, Placer Co., Cal.
Children
:
4520. I. Alice jNIay,' b. at Albany, Green Co., Wis., 31 July, 1849; married at Forest Hill,
4521.
4522.
Placer Co., Cal., 23 Oct, 1864, John George (son of Joseph Gregory and Louisa)
Garrison, of Cumberland Co., Maine, where he was born 15 Mch., 1832.
Children (all lorn at Forest Hill, Cal):
i. John Albert," b. 30 Nov., 1S67.
ii. Ernest Avon,'" b. 13 Sept., 1869.
iii. Alice Azona," b. 20 Nov., 1871.
iv. George Howard," b. 3 Sept., 1873.
V. Lillian May," b. 17 Apr., 18S3.
Omar Gleason,9 b. at Albany, Green Co., Wis., 1 Jan., 1831.
Gfokoe Washington,9 b. at Grey Eagle, El Dorado Co., Cal., 22 Feb.,- 1S59; died
15 Jan., 1883.
4528. IV. Charles Ernest,? b. at Volcanoe Bar, El Dorado Co., Cal, 15 Feb., 1862.