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.