Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Henry Compton
and Mary Liggett (Smith) Compton
Sister of
Jacob Richard Compton
Wife of
Levi Lee
— married
[date unknown] in New Jersey, United States
Descendants 
Died
at about age 79
in Abbingdon, Wayne, Indiana
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Aug 2013
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Biography
Elizabeth Compton was born in 1759, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Boys) Compton. In 1782 she married Levi Lee in Kentucky. Levi and Elizabeth would have a large family as follows:
Elizabeth Lee (1785-1832)
Mary Lee (1787-1807)
Levi Lee Jr. (1789-1875)
Sarah Lee (1789-1810)
Gershom Lee (1790- )
David Lee (1792-1866)
John Levi Lee (1792-1842)
William Lee (1798-1866)
Nancy Lee (1799-1871)
Nathaniel Lee (1803-1854)
Icabod Lee (1805-1856)
Elizabeth was a queenly looking lady, tall, well built and very fair in complexion and came from a colonial family. She and her daughter Nancy came with her son to Wayne County, Indiana, near Abingdon, where she died in 1849, age 84 years and 23 days.
Sources
- Family Search Profile: [1]
- Comptonology, Volumes 1-5, by C. V. Compton, Published by C.V. Compton, 1939. Volume III, No. 6, Page 102. [2]
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elizabeth:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elizabeth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elizabeth:
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~1.56%
J Decker
:
23andMe
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~1.56%
~12.50%
Lyle McElhaney :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T938135 [compare], FTDNA kit #700095
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Robert Green :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member bobup41751
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~0.78%
Peter Danforth :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A078013 [compare], Ancestry member padanforth
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Rejected matches › Elizabeth (Lee) Ratts (abt.1861-abt.1951) › Elizabeth Lee (1765-) › Elizabeth (Compton) Dusenbery (1761-1797)
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