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WILLIAM HUMPHRY, Virden, Illinois, son of Squire and Sarah Humphry; father born in Rhode Island, September 20, 1789, mother in Cherry Valley, New York, 1799. His mother's maiden name was Sarah Sweet, daughter of Erastus Sweet. The grandfather and grandmother of William Humphry were born in Rhode Island, and both were of English extraction. His great-grandfather was born in 1737, and served in the English army against the French and Indians, and afterwards in the Revolutionary war as Colonel in the Colonial army; was a prisoner in Quebec nine months.

Father and mother married in 1815, in Ohio. Father died in Ohio, April 4, 1843. Mother died in Ohio, February, 1747. They had eleven children, four sons and seven daughters, all growing to maturity: Lydia, Susan, Sarah, Hannah, Cyrus, William, Elizabeth, Nathan, Emma, Walter, Amelia. Hannah died in 1850. Lydia died in 1873.

The subject of this sketch was the sixth child, and was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, April 16, 1824, and was married to Miss Sarah Stocker, daughter of Adam and Sarah Stocker, in 1844; remained there until 1850, when he came to Morgan county, this State, and in 1855 came to Sangamon county, and improved the farm where he now resides. The fruits of their marriage were ten children, three sons and seven daughters: Caroline E., born January 13, 1846; Squire H., born December 13, 1846; Sarah M., born August 31, 1848; Otis, born December 30, 1850; Mary J., born November 4, 1851; Charles W., born August 26, 1854; Susan E., born August 22, 1857; Ida K., born January 4, 1859; Illinois, born December 18, 1869; Lillian A., born April 14, 1863. Charles W. died November 7, 1855; Mary J. died December 10, 1858. Mrs. Humphry died May 29, 1864.