Hey, thanks Lena - that one helped me determine the last of their children :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lena C." <gostraka@yahoo.com> To: "Mont. Co." <inmontgo@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:39 PM Subject: [InMontgo] Alford Humphreys > Crawfordsville Journal Review, Wednesday, December 26, 1945, page 5, col. > 3 > County Farmer Succumbs Here > Alford Humphries, 58 years old, a resident of Montgomery county most of > his life, died early Wednesday morning at Culver hospital where he had > been a medical patient the past week. > Mr. Humphreys had been in failing health two and one-half years, and > seriously ill since suffering a stroke of apoplexy several weeks ago. > A farmer of the Elmdale neighborhood many years, Mr. Humphreys was born > Feb. 10, 1885, in Vermillion county, Ill., the son of Samuel and Sarah > Humphreys, parents of fourteen children. > Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Gertrude Humphreys; eleven brothers, John, > Fred, Ross, Wilber, Lee, Asa, Grover, Frank, James, Carl, and Charles > Humphreys; two sisters, Mrs. Carrie Fruits and Mrs. Zella Potter, and a > niece, Helen Humphreys Doan, who was reared at the Humphreys home, near > Elmdale. > The body was taken to the Dickerson funeral home in Stockwell where it > will be kept until Thursday when it will be returned to the late > residence, south of Elmdale. > Funeral services will be at the Waynetown Christian church at one o’clock > Friday afternoon, with burial at the Waynetown Masonic cemetery. > > > > > > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message