JOHN W. HUMPHREYS
I.R. August 1, 1895 – APOPLEXY – Mr. W. S. Humphreys was seized with an apoplectic fit last Sunday morning. He was at Col. Gray’s, where he makes his home, and most of the family was at church. Dr. Pricer was sent for and was there when the family returned and had his patient in a comfortable condition. But Mr. Humphreys is far from well yet and keeps to his bed, sometimes having a very high fever. Two or three times before, Mr. Humphreys has had these touches of apoplexy, but the one last Sunday was the severest of all. Mr. Humphreys is now 77 years old, and consequently, the attack is no slight matter.
I.R. August 29, 1895 – This Wednesday noon, Mr. W. S. Humphreys sank very fast and could hardly live through the day.
I.W.R. August 31, 1895
JOHN W. HUMPHREYS
AN AGED CITIZEN PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
From Thursday’s Daily. Mr. John W. Humphreys, a pioneer resident of this county and city, died at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Col. George N. Gray, at 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, aged seventy-seven years and eleven months. Death was due to apoplexy, with which he was stricken about a month ago.
Mr. Humphreys was born in Ripley, Ohio, in September 1818, his parents having removed to that point from Greenbrier County, Virginia, his father, Wm. Humphreys engaged in the grocery business at Ripley.
The deceased came to Ironton in the early 1850s and engaged in the grocery business for several years. Later, he was employed as a clerk at Hecla Furnace for several years and afterward at Vesuvius Furnace. In 1875 he went with Col. Gray and family to Huntington, W. Va., and for two or three years was an agent for the Quinnemont furnace company. Returning to Ironton, he retired from active pursuits.
His aged wife survives him. She was a daughter of Rev. John Rankin, once a noted minister of Ripley. Mrs. Gray was their only child, and her home has been their home for many years. Mr. Humphreys was a man of frugal, industrious, strictly temperate, and one of the correct habits and deportment. He was extremely generous, even to his material detriment.
A sister Miss Amanda Humphreys who resides with Col. Gray and her family, and a brother W. S. Humphreys of New York, survive him. Mr. Hiram Campbell and Jos. M. Bimpson is a cousin, and there are many relatives in Brown County. The funeral will occur from Col. Gray’s residence at 4 p.m. Friday, the interment being at Woodland.
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