The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-11-08
DEATH OF MRS. M. d. HUMBERT.
She Passed Away on Monday After
noon After a Long Life Of Chris.
tian Service.

which 1OWed from long l1Ie OF Oeau-
tiful Christian service, Mrs. Minerva
Mary Humbert died at her home in
Newberry at 4.5O o'clock On Monday
afternoon. She had been in failing
health for some time, and the end was
not unexpected.
As he helpmeet Of minister Of the
gospel, and herself an active worker
In church affairs, for many years she
had been prominently known through
out South Carolina and in many other
States as one Of the most jealous and
earnest and consecrated evangelists
Of the Most High, to whom she had de-
voted all Of the years Of the life which
He gave her, and which He has taken.
Mrs. Humbert was in the 18th year
of her age. She was the daughter OF
General Henry H. Kinard and Mrs.
Mary Counts Kinard, both Of Newber-
~ county. Her father was born in
1906, and died in 1869. General Kinard
was one of the leading citizens Of
Newberry county and Of the State, and
rendered his State and county con-
spicuous service. Mrs. Humbert's
mother, who, before her marriage, was
Mary A. Counts, was born in 1909, and
died in 1851.
Mrs. Humbert was born in Newberry
on November 20, 1881. In her eigh-
teenth year, on Febrary 81, 1849, she
was married to Co.. W. B. Doyle,
merchant in Newberry. Col. Doyle
lived only a few years, and on Octob-
er 26, 1865, she was married to the
Rev. J. W. Humbert, with whom she
went hand in hand for forty-on
years along a pathway oftimes be-
set with struggles and hardships, with
an unfaltering and unwsvering faith in
her God and their God which has been
a beautiful example to the thousands
who knew her and her husband and
respected and admired and loved them.
The Ger emony which united Mr.. and
Mrs. Humbert was performed by the
Rev. Sidi H. Browne, who was for
many years and until his death the
beloved chaplain Of the South Caro-
lima State Press association.
The Rev. Mr.. Humbert died on July
%, 1906, and since that time, await
ing the summons to join him. Mrs.
Humbert had continued to devote her
time and her energy and her ability
to the work to which they both had
consecrated themselves. She wrote
In the family Bible when he died an
epitaph which, in its sentiment and
it's purity and simplicity; and its fer
vent belief in the immortality OF the
soul, is worthy to be recorded with
the great epitaphs Of history. The
thought never entered her mind that
she was writing a great epitaph, or
that it would ever have the light Of
publicity. In the shadow OF the deep
grief and the heart-ache under which
she labored, she wrote: ."Enter7d
through the gates into the City Of our
Lord, whom he served from early
youth all the days Of his life. June 10,
1906, his list birthday, he said he had
1000 blessings, and was happy in the
Lord all day. He joined the South
Carolina Conference M. E. Church,
South, December, 1859, having served
as an. itinerant minister for forty-dVs
years, never missing roll-call at an
annual conference" In this simple
history of her husbands life, condens-
ed into the smallest possible COM
pass, and yet comprising the whole OF
it, she poured out the great love
which she had for him, and bequeath-
ed to those who knew them both rec
ord which will be stored away in the
archives Of precious memories.
Mrs. Humbert was a charter mern-
her Of the Woman's Foreign Mission
ary society Of the South Carolina Con-
ference, which was organized at the
annual meeting of the South Carolina
Conference in Newberry in 1878. AT
that time she was chosen correspond
ing secretary, which position she held
until the time of her death. To this
work she devoted an immense amount
Of labor. Missionary work was the
great work of her life. To carry the
gospel to those who had heard it not,
to carry the glad tidngs of salvation
to those who had never had the op-
portunity to learn the way Of light,
was the ideal which she held before
her. It may be said Of Mrs. Humbert
that she was the leading woman mis-
s;onary worker in South Carolina. Tne
mass of details which she handled, the