George Washington Compton (1810 - 1877)

Born 4 Apr 1810 in Culpepper County, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Amelia (Wood) Compton — married 11 Feb 1830 in Fauquier County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 19 Jan 1877 at age 66 in Palmer, Christian County, IL

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Biography

George was born in 1810. He was the son of George Compton and Sarah Duke.

He was married to Amelia (Wood) on February 11, 1830 in Culpepper County, Virginia. Soon after his marriage George W. Compton started with his young wife for Ohio, and settled in Coshocton County. This was about the year 1818. He chose as his location the point of land running down between the Tuscarawas and Walhonding rivers, which there unite to form the Muskingum.

George W. Compton was a man of great industry and of superior business management. In his youth he had enjoyed but scanty educational advantages, but possessed good natural abilities, and was known as a shrewd and successful trader. He had no ambition for public life, and was better suited for the plain career of a quiet farmer. He was moral and temperate in his habits, and was respected by everybody who knew him for his many good qualities as a neighbor and a citizen. He was a member of the United Brethren Church. In his politics he was a Republican, and had been a member of that party from its first organization. He accumulated considerable property.

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Article below contributed by Willis Oller: George Washington Compton Newspaper Obituary published Feb 01, 1877, Ohio Historical Society Roll 8831

Died Mr. George Compton, for more than twenty-five years a resident of Coshocton County, died at his home in Christian county, Illinois, Jan 19, 1877, after a brief illness. He was born in Virginia in the year 1810, came to Ohio in 1830 and settled near Roscoe, where for many he lived, enduring the hardships common to life in a new country. He moved to Illinois in 1855, where by industry and economy he accumulated a fine estate. He lived a faithful Christian Life and died a triumphant death. To his children who were gathered around him his last words were, "Do all you can for the church and meet me in Heaven." Five brothers and one sister, the youngest of whom is sixty years of age, all residents of Coshocton County, mourn his loss.

Source: Find A Grave Memorial [1]

Sources

• "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR8C-LRZ : 5 December 2014), George Compton and Amelia Wood, 04 Jan 1830; citing Fauquier, Virginia, reference r4 p319; FHL microfilm 31,634.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX3P-NZ5 : 9 November 2014), George Compton, Jackson, Coshocton, Ohio, United States; citing family 291, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX45-RG2 : 30 December 2015), George Campton, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M64F-ZD4 : 17 October 2014), George Compton, Illinois, United States; citing p. 12, family 87, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,693.
• Find A Grave Memorial [2]
• "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9G-XQJD : 4 November 2017), George W Compton and Charlotte Walker, 21 Sep 1870; citing Montgomery, Illinois, United States, county offices, Illinois; FHL microfilm 1,315,684.
• "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRHJ-42T : 29 January 2020), George Compton, 1830.
• "Illinois Marriages, 1815-1935", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2PS-8ZR : 14 February 2020), George W. Compton, 1870.
• "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR8C-LRZ : 6 August 2020), George Compton, 1830.

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Information about birth and parents part of profile merged with this one - entered by Kern Brogan, Friday, January 2, 2015.