Mississippi, Feb. 11, 1835, and seven others were born here. Sarah Jane died in 1840 and hers was the first grave in the present cemetery there. One son, James, died in 1859 at McKenzie College when there was an outbreak of measles there. Only four [Humphreys] children reached maturity, John Adams [below], Elizabeth [p.116], Mary Eliza [p.121], and Rebecca Reed [p.121].

John R. Humphreys left no heirs other than a wife, his brother William, sister Cynthia H. Robbins and a half sister, Rebecca Humphreys Miller, wife of Martin Miller.

Cynthia and John Robbins had these children[*]: Rebecca, (married Dr. S. E. Clement); John Richard, (married Sally Chambers); Lucinda, (married Col. Nathaniel Townes); Elizabeth, (married Dr. John Rainey); and Joshua R. and Amanda, (died single).

Rebecca and Martin Miller moved to Mt. Vernon and their boys grew up over there. One of them was the late Judge L. Dow Miller of Wheeler, Texas.

John A. Humphreys grew up at Maple Springs, went to California during the gold rush, came home, and about 1860, married Amanda Olive Clark, of Paris, making their home at Maple Springs. Their son died in childhood, and their three daughters were the last of William Humphreys' descendants to bear the Humphreys name. They are Betty, wife of D. L. Sorrels; Lucy, widow of the late Wiley H. Hudson, and Ollie, wife

[* Different lists of children on pp. 210 and 223]