What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of July 6, 1944, reporting the death of Thomas Hatcher Sprint, born July 25, 1894 in Clarke County, named his parents as "the former Miss Mamie Humston of Shenandoah county, and Thomas H. Sprint of Clarke county," and his surviving brothers and sister as J. Ashby Sprint of Winchester, Frank H. Sprint and Mrs. Lucy Sprint Crim.
The Clarke Courier of April 11, 1929 reported that the partnership of Sprint and Petely, apple exporters, formed in 1925 by Ashby Sprint and George Peteley, had been formally dissolved, and that Mr. Sprint would keep the office the firm had used.
The Clarke Courier of July 26, 1928 reported that Ashby Sprint, of Winchester, and Harry C. Warden, of Clarke County, had concluded negotiations for the property of Logan Shutt near Kabletown, Jefferson County, W. Va., and were taking possession at once: 600 acres, about 250 of them in apple orchard, with a packing house that, it was said, "has often turned out 1,000 barrels of packed apples a day."
The Clarke Courier of July 4, 1929 reprinted a Winchester Star report that the first car of summer apples shipped from the section for export, Early Transparents handled by J. Ashby Sprint, Winchester apple exporter, had left Winchester "today," consigned to Connolly Shaw, Ltd., of Liverpool.
The Clarke Courier of September 11, 1930 reported that the officers of the Berkeley Springs Ice and Cold Storage Company, formerly the Morgan County Cold Storage Company, of Berkeley Springs, W. Va., were H. C. Warden of Berryville, president, J. Ashby Sprint of Winchester, vice-president, and J. F. Wilson of Martinsburg, secretary and treasurer, and that it had a capacity of 65,000 barrels.
The Clarke Courier of January 7, 1932 reprinted a Winchester Star report, datelined Charles Town, W. Va., December 24, that a receiver had been asked for Blue Ridge Orchards, Incorporated, by four stockholders, Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Warden and Mr. and Mrs. Ashby Sprint; it listed liabilities of $85,000 and a 579-acre tract in Kabletown district, 285 acres of it in orchard, "taken over by the Warden and Sprint group in 1928."
A trustees' notice in the Clarke Courier of August 31, 1933 advertised for sale on September 30, 1933, under a trust deed dated May 2, 1931, an apple packing house 110 feet by 50 at White Post Station, standing on twenty-two hundredths of an acre owned by the Norfolk and Western Railway Company "and leased to J. Ashby Sprint."
An advertisement in the Clarke Courier of October 1, 1936 announced that special commissioners, under a decree entered on July 15, 1936 in the chancery cause of Lucy Sprint Crim vs. J. Ashby Sprint et als, pending in the Circuit Court of Frederick County, would sell at auction on October 23, 1936 a tract of 306 acres, more or less, "about one-half mile West of Boyce," with a dwelling house, tenant house and large bank barn and about 25 acres in bearing orchard, reciting that it was the land devised under B. F. Humston's will to Mamie R. Sprint for life with remainder to her children.
A notice in the Clarke Courier of February 18, 1937, signed by J. Ashby Sprint and Thomas H. Sprint as administrators of the estate of "the late Mrs. Mamie R. Sprint," advertised cows and heifers, sheep, about 50 barrels of corn and some furniture for sale "on the Sprint farm one mile west of Boyce on the Winchester Pike."
Also indexed as: Ashby Sprint. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.
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