VIRGINIA COMPTONs
K. Straight - 1994
Research Notes

[This info was typed from my personal notes and
was NOT photocopied, scanned, or downloaded.]

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Source:  Genealogical Abstracts from 18th Century Virginia Newspapers
Source Location:  Penrose Public Library, Colorado Springs, CO

John COMPTON, deceased, his executrix, Catharine COMPTON of Richmond will sell all of the goods 
and household furniture.  (Virginia Argus, 1/3/1797)


William COMPTON, aka William Smith, late of Norborne Parish, Berkeley County, shoemaker, 
convicted of murder at the District Court of Winchester, escaped from jail in that town last 
September and is now at large.  (Virginia Gazette & General Advertiser, 5/24/1797)
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Source: 1860 Federal Census Records for South Illinois.   
Author:  Ronald Vern Jackson.

Johnathan COMPTON born in Virginia about 1813. Wife named Elizabeth. Children: George 
(b. 1841-Ohio); Charles (b. 1851-Ohio); Debra (b. 1853-Ohio); John (b. 1855-Illinois)Nelson (?) 
(b. 1860).  In 1860, Jonathan COMPTON was living in southern Illinois.  He owned and ran a farm 
worth $14,000 and had $2,500 in personal property. He had three laborers working on the farm:  
a 14 year-old girl named Hannah Michling from Ohio; a 23 year-old farm hand names Victor 
Albert from Switzerland, and another farmhand, Jefferson Graybill who was 22 years old and 
was from Ohio.

Also:
Johnathan Jesse COMPTON (b.1819) living in southern Illinois, but may have been
born in Ohio. Wife was Julia A. Taylor (b. 1819). Children: John COMPTON 
(b. 1846-married Isabelle Rogers FRAMPTON), and Catherine (b. 1845 --married John
HOSDON).  The children were born Canal Fulton in southern Illinois.  There may
have been more children.
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