As the attack began, Humphrey, his wife and their three children were among the civilians who had escaped towards Fort Ridgely 14 miles away.[3][4] They were overtaken and killed while in flight. Only his twelve-year-old son, who had been sent to get water for his mother, survived and eventually reached the fort.[5]
^'Minnesota State Historical Society Collections,' Minnesota Historical Society: 1915, Boyhood Remembrances of Life Among The Dakotas and The Massacre of 1862, John Ames Humphreys, pg. 337-348
^Anderson, Gary Clayton (2019). Massacre in Minnesota: The Dakota War of 1862, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict in American History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 81–85. ISBN978-0-8061-6434-2.
^Folwell, William Watts (1921). "V. The Sioux Outbreak, 1862". A History of Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. pp. 109–114.