Wallace - Person Sheet
Wallace - Person Sheet
NameCRUMP, Sara Macrae
Birth Date22 Oct 1913
Birth PlaceMemphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
Death Date8 Jan 2004 Age: 90
Death PlaceNassau, Bahamas
FatherCRUMP, Frank Millington Sr. (1868-1922)
MotherMACRAE, Sara (1883-1958)
Spouses
Birth Date4 Dec 1912
Birth PlaceMemphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
Death Date6 Mar 1995 Age: 82
Death PlaceMemphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
Misc. Notes
George Wilson Humphreys, a business, civic and church leader and former king of the Memphis Cotton Carnival, died of heart failure Monday at Methodist Hospital. He was 82. Mr. Humphreys was born in Greenwood, Miss., and came to Memphis with his family when he was 1.

He attended Memphis University School. He graduated from Woodberry Forrest School in Orange, Va., and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1935. He was a lieutenant commander in the Navy during World War II, serving at Pearl Harbor.

He was the 1959 king of the Memphis Cotton Carnival (now Carnival Memphis) and was long associated with the carnival and its activities. He was president of the Memphis Cotton Carnival Association in 1963.

In 1946, he founded the G. W. Humphreys and Co. cotton firm and later became vice president at Union Planters National Bank. His cotton background extended back beyond the time when his great-grandfather, Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, was the governor of the cotton-growing state of Mississippi from 1865 to 1868.

The Humphreys family has long been familiar with the royal Carnival activities. His wife, Sara Crump Humphreys was the first Royal Club princess. In 1959, his daughter, Sara Macrae Humphreys Howard of West Palm Beach, Fla., was the Royal Club princess. His wife also has been a duchess and queen of Memphis. A brother-in-law, Frank M. Crump, was a former president of the Cotton Carnival Association.

He was a former director of the Memphis Cotton Exchange, and was a former member of the Memphis Airport Commission and vice chairman of the Memphis Community Chest in 1959. He was a member of the Memphis Board of Realtors. Mr. Humphreys was a former member of the Board of Trustees of Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center, and was former chairman of Lausanne School's Board of Trustees. He was an active member and elder of the Second Presbyterian Church, serving as chairman of several major capital fund-raising efforts. He also was a former member of the church's board of deacons. Mr. Humphreys was a former member of the Memphis Country Club, member and past president of the Memphis Hunt and Polo Club, member of the Summit Club and former member of the Delta Sailing Club and the New York Southern Society.

Mr. Humphreys also leaves three other daughters, Floyd Wilson Humphreys-Stoltzfus of Coronado, Calif., and Blanche Crump Humphreys Toms and May Wilson Humphreys Fox, both of Richmond, Va., and eight grandchildren.
ChildrenSara Macrae
Last Modified 5 Mar 2021Created 12 Feb 2022 by Robert Avent