Alabama. She was born in South Carolina on January 11, 1809, the oldest child of John and Elizabeth McGuire McGill. The family moved to Tennessee and then to Alabama where John died when Mary, or "Polly" as she was called was about nine years old. The mother raised the family as best she could. In 1846, she with two of her sons and their families, and others of kin came to join their kindred in Texas, and she died in Cass County in 1861, having accumulated quite a bit of property for those days.

William and Polly [Humphries] moved to Mississippi, near Coffeeville, and lived there till 1836 when they came again to Texas, to their kin on Pine Creek while they selected a location. Married men were given 1,280 acres of land, part grazing and part timber, conditional on their becoming settlers. William was given Conditional Certificate No. 130 issued by Red River County Land Commissioners on August 3, 1836.

He chose a site about 16 miles Southwest of Clarksville, on the higher ground by a fine spring of water, on a creek on whose banks were many beautiful maple trees, so he called it living at the Maple Springs. And years later when there was a postoffice established it, too, was Maple Springs.

Of the children of William and Polly, two had died and were buried in Mississippi. When they came to Maple Springs, there were with them John Adams, born July 25, 1829, Sarah Jane born in Alabama, 1831, and Elizabeth born in