Thomas
Alexander
Compton
Born in Flint Hill, Culpeper, Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Walter Compton
and Elizabeth Ann (Adams) Compton
Brother of
Henrietta A. (Compton) Berkley, Grace Ann (Compton) Askew, Nancy Ann (Compton) Askew, Walter Compton, Maria (Compton) Ralls and Mary Jane (Compton) Turbeville
Husband of
Eliza Margaret Cromarti (Shaw) Compton
— married
10 Mar 1828 in Jefferson County, Mississippi, United States
Descendants 
Father of
William Cromarti Compton
Died
at age 59
in Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 21 Aug 2018
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Biography
Thomas Alexander Compton was the third of nine children born to Walter Sydney Compton and Elizabeth Anne Adams. The family were members of the Church of England. Sometime before 1830, Thomas’ parents moved the family from Virginia to Henry County, Tennessee. Some of the daughters married in Henry County.
Sometime before 1828 Thomas decided to seek his fortune further south in the newly opened Mississippi Territory. He settled in Jefferson County, Mississippi near the Mississippi River. There he met and married a North Carolina transfer, Eliza Cromartie Shaw, on 10 Mar 1828. He and Eliza had a successful marriage that produced seven children.
Thomas was an astute businessman and successful planter, owning plantations in Mississippi and across the Mississippi River in Louisiana. He took his family on long vacations in the Tennessee mountains during the hot summer months. All the children were well educated. The boys at Centenary College in Louisiana and at the University of Virginia. The girls by tutors and finishing schools. Life was good for his family until his death in 1861, which also brought the Civil War and the beginning of the end of life as they had known it.
Sources
- "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4LJ-H1F : 12 April 2016), Thomas A Compton, Warren county, part of, Warren, Mississippi, United States; citing family 1001, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13155853/thomas-alexander-compton
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Thomas:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Thomas:
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Thena (Slape) Jones 
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A760917 [compare], Ancestry member TSlape50
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~3.12%
Coneigh (Berkley) Sea :
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~0.78%
Ric Tobin :
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