Harry Olive Humphrey Harry Baker Humphrey 1873 1955

Harry & Olive Humphrey Harry Baker Humphrey 1873 - 1955 Llewellyn M Humphrey 1903 - 2001 Robert R Humphrey 1904 - 2002 Helen Humphrey (Heidi) 1906 -2010 Olive Agatha Mealey 1875 - 1962 Isabel Humphrey (Tedda) 1906 - 1991 Harry B Humphrey 1911 - 1996 John W D Humphrey (Gee) 1915 - 2006

Garnett & Viva January Garnett Peelle January 1883 - 1967 Viva Mae Morton 1883 - 1969 Roberta January 1909 - 2004 Return

Robert Regester Humphrey 1904 - 2002 Shirley Joan (Schoof) 1932 Lois Anne (Angus) 1935 Roberta January 1909 - 2004 Alan Baker Humphrey 1939 Beth Pelle (Grady) 1944 Return

Shirley 1932 Carl H Schoof 1921 - 2004 Lois 1935 Robert Angus 1936 Alan 1939 Jane Simonson 1946 Beth 1944 Ed Grady 1936 Return

-----m. 1959 d. 1972 ----- Loretta Bridget Lyons 1940 Alan Baker Humphrey, Jr. 1959 Gwendolyn Joan Humphrey 1960 -----m. 1973 ----- Alan Baker Humphrey 1939 Bridget Loretta Humphrey 1962 Robert Thomas Humphrey 1963 Elizabeth Jane Simonson 1946 Dylan Wells Humphrey 1976 - 2008 Ross Edward Humphrey 1980 Return

Alan Baker Humphrey Jr. 1959 Gary Humphrey Boba 1993 Eleanor Boba 1957 Alida Boba Humphrey 1996 Return

Kenneth James Pridgen 1955 Gwen Joan Humphrey 1960 Matthew Alan Pridgen 1995 Return

Robert Thomas Humphrey 1963 Diane Lisa Amend 1964 Return Magdalena Jean Humphrey 2002

Bridget Loretta Humphrey 1962 Colleen Ann O’Rork 1952 Return

Lois Anne Humphrey (Angus) 1935 Troy Rae Angus 1967 Robert Joseph Angus 1936 Traci Anne Angus (Dean) 1971 Return

Traci Anne Angus 1971 Eric Christopher Dean 1971 Tyler Christopher Dean 2002 Taylor Anne Dean 2005 Return

Troy Rae Angus 1967 Jennifer Downey 1979 Mircalla Lindsey Downey-Angus Return

Isabel Estella Humphrey (Tedda) 1906 - 1991 George Harold Godfrey 1888 - 1982 Susan Wadsworth Godfrey 1940 Malcom David Godfrey 1940 Return

Mary Lorraine Register Humphrey 1907 - 1953 Eugene Register Humphrey 1933 Llewelyn Mealey Humphrey 1903 - 2004 David Ford Humphrey 1934 - 2013 Margret Otilla Disher Humphrey 1907 - 1994 Edward Sydney Humphrey 1935 Return

John Mark Mc. Lernon (Mac) 1898 - 1956 Roberta Irene Mc. Lernon 1932 - 1998 Helen Wadsworth Humphrey 1906 - 2009 Patricia Mc. Lernon 1934 Harold Paul Hass 1918 - 1999 Sheila Jean Mc. Lernon 1938 Return

Frank Whitlow 1939 - 2004 Dale William Whitlow 1959 Sheila Mc. Lernon (Gerhart) 1938 Sherrie Jean Whitlow (Jones) 1961 Return

Dale William Whitlow 1959 Travis Wayne Whitlow 1990 Shelley Stokes 1957 Tyler William Whitlow 1990 Return

John W Jones 1960 Katie Lynn Jones Pascoe 1986 Sherrie Jean Whitlow Jones 1961 Shannon Liegh Jones 1988 Return

Roberta Irene Mc. Lernon 1932 - 1998 Heidi Joanne Farwell 1959 Gayle Farwell 1921 James Todd Farwell 1960 Return

Heidi Joanne Farwell 1959 Steve Scholl Megan Scholl Return

Patricia Mc. Lernon 1934 Deborah Jean Greer 1954 Melvin C Greer 1930 - 2005 Tracy Mac Greer 1960 Melvin Edward Greer 1966 Return

Eugene Register Humphrey 1933 Lewellyn Mealey Humphrey II 1959 Velma Ruth Galbraith 1940 Michael Eugene Humphrey 1961 Gregory Scott Humphrey 1963 Return

David Ford Humphrey 1934 - 2013 Judith E. Stoltenberg 1941 - 2006 Travis David Humphrey 1971 Kimberly Joy Humphrey 1973 Return

Travis David Humphrey 1971 Trenton David James Humphrey 2005 Ann Humphrey 1971 Tyler Cyrel-Ford Humphrey 2006 Return

Kimberly Joy Humphrey 1973 Addysen Joy Blades 2005 Darren Ronald Blades 1973 Andrew Ford Blades 2007 Return

Edward Sydney Humphrey 1935 Deborah Kathleen Leonard 1957 Bobby B. Humphrey 1973 Return

John William David Humphrey 1915 - 2006 Barbara Jeannette Humphrey 1943 Marian Blackburn 1918 David Llewellyn Humphrey 1946 Return

Harry Bartholomew Humphrey 1911 - 1996 David Rowland Humphrey 1940 Vivian Laura Linder 1917 - 1996 Judith Kathleen Humphrey 1941 Return

David Rowland Humphrey 1940 Patrick Andrew Humphrey 1964 Larrie Louise Dermedy 1943 David Baker Humphrey 1969 Nicholas Daniel Humphrey 1982 Return

Judy Kathleen Humphrey 1941 Pamela Rigsby 1961 Tina Anderson 1962 Richard Huerta 1968 Debbie Marie Hirt 1967 Brenda Scott 1968 Bobbie Scott 1969 - 2012 Return

SOME NOTES ON THE HUMPHREY (HUMPHREYS) FAMILY By Harry Baker Humphrey Origin It seems to be established on thoroughly dependable authority that the first Humphreys were Scandinavians and that they may have lived on a "Peaceful Island”. The name Humphrey had its origin in the ancient Scandinavian words Holm frid (mod. Swedish Holm frid) meaning peaceful Island suggesting that the first member of our now multitudinous family may have sought and enjoyed the privacy of his own island. Another and less authoritative attempt to explain the origin of the name of our family is that offered by somebody whose ear may have been more keenly sensed to sound than to fact. His opinion was that Humphrey came from homme yrai, the French for true or sincere man. But, however plausible such an accounting for our name may seem, the fact remains that the first Humphreys were Scandinavians. To be sure, there were members of the family in Normandy in the 11 th century and long since. But that part of what is now France had already been overrun by the roving hordes from the land of the Norse. It is not improbable that some of the descendants of the original Holm frid may have found their way into Normandy. At any rate, the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 left Humphreys in that unpeaceful isle. These same members of the family and possibly others who came later out of Normandy started a family tree whose vigorous seed established the name on the court and church registers of England, Scotland, Wales, and subsequently in Ireland. Spelling of the name From all accounts I have thus far been free to examine the names Humphrey and Humphreys are synonymous. I have found in some instances both spellings employed by members of the same family; though, as a general practice, those of a given family line adhere to one spelling or the other, from one generation to another, indefinitely. Variants from the original are such names as Humphry, Humfrey, Homfray, Umphry, Humphries, Humphery, Humphre-ville and Onfroi. The name Pumphrey is the shortened form of the Welsh ap Humphrey (son of Humphrey) and may, therefore, be regarded as a variant of Humphrey, just as Powell (ap Howel) is a variant of Howell. Pronunciation of the name Our standard dictionaries give but one pronunciation for the name Humphrey, namely, Hum (as in hum, hump) fri = Humfri. The Cockney English pronunciation is Umf ri and many there be who bear the name Humphrey, yet pronounce it incorrectly. On the other hand, the Humphreys are legion whose pronunciation of the name does not ignore the initial H. I have been mildly admonished, even criticised, for having departed from the more or less traditional pronunciation of our name. Yet, I can see no good reason why I should not pronounce it correctly. In doing so I shall be none the less a member of the family. In the days of my boyhood I attended school in a neighborhood where there were many children of French-Canadian parentage who answered in their Parish church and in their homes to such family names as Pepin, Chouinard, Bourgeois, Plourde, and Caron. To this day one may hear these names (even find them so recorded on school registers) as Pippin, Sweenor, Bushway, Ploode, and Coral, or sometimes Corron, originally so pronounced and so written — yes, printed — by neighbors and teachers of non-French lineage who had neither the ear nor the patience to pronounce French names correctly, But though these neighbors and teachers and their progeny, even to the nth generation continue to mispronounce these splendid old French names they would still he wrong. And why. perpetuate an error' 'Thy continue to pronounce Humphrey as though it was Umphrey? There is no genuine authority for it. To say: “We have always so pronounced it", does not make it right. Family traits It is with no little hesitancy that I approach a subject so beset with the temptation to lay claim to all the virtues and to refer to them as hereditary and more or less peculiar to the Humphrey family. It would obviously be difficult to prove that such qualities as integrity, moral courage, the art instinct, judicial sense, were family traits or characteristics in any hereditary sense. These qualities or characteristics are not—-can not be peculiarly those of any one family line of such ancient origin as our own. And yet, I have heard it said and have read from the printed page such, statements as The Humphreys are preeminently artistic. The family has to its credit a long and enviable roster of artists, architects, musicians, writers. The Humphrey family has been outstanding in its production of Clergymen, college presidents, jurists, and teachers. Now one difficulty with such generalizations is that they may not bear comparison with those recorded for families bearing such names as Barton, Williams, Bartholomew, Henderson, Regester, Smedley, and others too numerous to mention. In other words, almost any such characterization applied to the Humphreys might easily and equally be applicable to many other families. If we confine our observations solely to our lineal household, the Humphreys of the Dudley, Massachusetts branch of the family it is still difficult for us to say with certainty whether a given characteristic is peculiarly that of the Humphrey side of the house. We must not forget our mothers. And yet, I believe it can be truthfully said that the majority of our family, as far back as we have any record, has been characterized by the following traits and qualities: “mental conservatism; hospitality; the spirit of the pioneer; marked Industriousness; integrity, dependability, love of nature, of philosophy, history, and the beautiful in art and literature: sound business sense; and a profound instinct for the home and for family stability and excellence. The Dudley, Massachusetts, branch of the family has been preeminently agricultural. There have been in the family no artists, no musicians, no writers, no clergymen, no teachers, no scholars, no business men of truly outstanding merit; yet, some of them may have been of more than average ability and distinction. In agriculture, even, we have produced not more than two or possibly three "master" farmers. One of these was, in his day, an outstanding genius in his chosen field and would today undoubtedly be rated as a master farmer of the first rank. My research into the published or other records of the Humphreys of Dudley has failed to disclose any suicides, any idiocy, any predisposition to such diseases as tuberculosis, diabetes, insanity, etc. Our people, being largely of the New England puritan household, have adhered consistently and rather rigidly to certain principles of moral rectitude. Indeed, I might say that the reaching of such principles within our family has become traditional. As a consequence, there have thus far been no murderers to hang on the family tree; no gamblers worthy the name; no victims of delirium tremens; no "Jail birds" and, so far as I can ascertain, no saints. Some of the Humphreys of our branch have quarreled with their wives but they usually have yielded to feminine entreaties before matters got into the divorce courts. As a family, we have been much addicted to hard work; have worried too much; have been thrifty; and have been too cautious in business matters to amass great material wealth. We are not