The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

27- tii. Van Allen, ^ b. in Haralson County, Ga., 24 June, 1863; killed by lightning, 2 July, 1S77,
in Polk County, Ga.
28. xiii. Son ,' stillborn, 19 May, 1866.
29. VII. Susan =; m. Thomas Denson; died at or near Arkadelphia, Clark County, Ark.
Children (besides others, whose names are not known):
30. i. James 3; | . .
.,,.,,. } died in the Civil War; were both teachers of penmanship.
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31. n. William^;
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32. VIII. Sallie-; m. Milton Thompson, of Walton County, Ga., who d. in Cherokee County,
Ga., some twenty years ago. She died in Clark County, Ark. Child:
33. ill. Andrew^; was in the Civil War.
(By 2d fnarriage)
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34. IX. Martha =; m. (i) Harry Henderson, an aged man; m. (2) Robert Green, of Baldwin
County, Ga., by whom she had a large number of children. Res. (1886)
Social Circle, Ga.
35. X. Maky=; m. (i) Capt. Wilson, who died in the Civil War; m. (2) Green, an
own cousin to her sister Martha's husband; m. (3) Horatio SpofTord Pounds.
Res. (1886) Putnam County, Ga. Children (by ist marriage):
36. i. Hattie' (Wilson); m. Linn Nungeiser, of Jasper County, Ga.
(By 2J marriage):
37. ii. Charley'' (Giccn).
1%. XI. Nancy =; m. (i) Daniel; m. (2) Drummond, who died in Titus County,
Te.xas. She res. (18S6) Social Circle, Ga.
39. XII. ]\Iack= (or Josiah); died during the Civil War.
40. XIII. Georgiana '; married and died in Atlanta, Ga.
(From the Connecticut Western Neius, Canaan, Ct., Jan. 27. iSSO.,1
Merrell Humphrey [the head of Family 82, page 223] died 15 Jan., 1886. He came to Canaan, Ct., in
1841, and erected the building known as Humphrey's drug store, and commenced a small drug business, together
with general merchandise. Alter one year he sold out to his brother, the late G. Humphrey, and returned to West
Norfolk, where he opened a small store, which he kept for some time, and afterwards taught school for a number
of years, also doing considerable land surveying, for which he was somewhat noted. He returned to Canaan in
1876, and in 1880 built the house in which he died. He did land surveying and other work here as long as he
was able—was always a great worker and had an iron constitution. He contiibuted much valuable information for
the Humphrey's Family Genealogy. He was a modest, unassuming person; a man of sterling integrity, who believed
in doing what he thought was right though the heavens fell, and who shall say the world is not better for his having
lived in it ?
A former local editor of the Connecticut Western Nttvs voluntarily offers the following tribute: "With the death
of Merrell Humphrey a remarkable character is withdrawn from mortal view; a remarkable career is closed and a
master mind is conquered. On the altar of principles and honest conviction he laid sacrifices that would make men
of less courage and greater worldly ambition hesitate, or retreat. In early life he espoused, with heart and soul, the
cause of Abolition, before that cause was ripe and when the term 'Abolitionist' was a term of reproach, and a
crime for which the penalty was social ostracism. The great principles of human liberty, and equality, he maintained,
should apply with equal force to body, mind and soul; and in his relations, man to man, he proved his sincerity in
that conviction. He ' measured men by the scale of character, and as shoddy ' had no place in his own makeup,
so it had in others no claim on his consideration.
He was a profound thinker and scholar and a masterly writer, a number of his productions having been given
publicity in the News some five or six years ago over 'Dr. Longfellow,' 'Peter Pixley,' and other signatiu-es,
every sentence of which contained a deep-set jewel of thought.
He was a fascinating conversationalist and in his presence one always felt the magnetism of a giant intellect.
With his unswerving fidelity to his pronounced convictions, his wonderful fund of acquired information, his
natural endowments of mind no less wonderful, and his unmistakable and convincing power of expression, it would
seem that either a lack of physical energy, or of ambition for fame deterred him from taking such an active part in
the warfare for human protjress and eipial rights as would have sent his name down in history as the peer of his
co-patriots. Garrison and Phillips."