Milton Wylie Humphreys was born in Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) on 15 Sept 1844. He was the son of Andrew Cavet Humphreys (1810-1866), a physician and justice of Greenbrier County. Andrew was married in 1832 to Mary McQuain Hefner (1813-1893) and had the following children, viz: Caroline Jane Humphreys who married Robert Mason White; Samuel Alexander Humphreys who married Sarah Haptonstall; Andrew Jackson Humphreys, died 1923, married Eliza Eads; Malinda Agnes Humphreys married Frank Rutledge; Mary Elizabeth, died 1876, married Dudley E. Dent, and Milton Wylie Humphreys.
Sources:
The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy
