What the sources support
Patricia B. Duncan's published abstract of the Clarke County marriage register records that Thomas H. Sprint, 29, a merchant, the son of John W. and Emily Sprint, married Mamie Humston, 23, the daughter of Benj. F. and Fannie Humston, at Berryville on May 26, 1886.
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.
In a will dated April 30, 1902, B. F. Humston gave "my daughter Mamie R. Sprint" the farm in Clarke County "known as the Bellview farm," which the will says was conveyed to him by Marshall McCormick, trustee, and adjoined the lands of Mrs. Julia A. Anderson and others, to hold "for and during the term of her natural life" with its rents, issues and profits; at her death it was to pass to her children and the descendants of any of them then dead.
A notice in the Clarke Courier of December 8, 1927 advertised that, by an order in the matter of Charles Whirley in bankruptcy, horses and colts, a mule colt, hogs and pigs, wagons, binders, harness, farm implements and 75 barrels of corn would be sold at public auction on December 14, 1927 "at the farm of Mrs. Mamie R. Sprint, near Boyce."
The Clarke Courier's list of land delinquent for 1933 taxes, in its issue of November 7, 1935, carried "Sprint, Mamie, Bellview, 300 acres .... $98.75."
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: Mamie Humston. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.
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