Aaron Lee COMPTON

1843 - 1905  (62 years)

• Name	Aaron Lee COMPTON
  Born	16 Jun 1843	Whitley Co., Indiana   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	DBF9A19311E1F143A04B466FFF5446006728
  Died	31 Dec 1905	Whitley Co., Indiana   [1]
  Person ID	I36737	Branch 009 Richard Stafford 1750 VA
  Last Modified	13 Jun 2010

  
  

  Father	Andrew COMPTON,   b. 22 Feb 1808, New Jersey ,   d. 29 Oct 1852, Whitley Co., Indiana  (Age 44 years)
  Mother	Mary A. STAFFORD,   b. 28 Jul 1807, Hampshire Co., Virginia (now West Virginia) ,   d. 22 Dec 1893, Whitley Co., Indiana  (Age 86 years)
  Married	15 Sep 1827	Coshocton Co., Ohio   [1]
  Family ID	F13695	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Ellen GRIFFITH,   b. 5 Oct 1851,   d. 2 Dec 1926, Whitley Co., Indiana  (Age 75 years)
  Married	28 Nov 1872	Kosciusko Co., Indiana
  Children	1. Lottie May COMPTON,   b. Mar 1874, Richland, Whitley Co., Indiana ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Jessie Elnore COMPTON,   b. 4 Apr 1877, Richland, Whitley Co., Indiana ,   d. 3 Dec 1895, Whitley Co., Indiana  (Age 18 years)   3. Lyman LeRoy COMPTON,   b. 9 May 1880, Richland, Whitley Co., Indiana ,   d. 5 Oct 1961, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California  (Age 81 years)
  Last Modified	15 Sep 2021
  Family ID	F13698	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  CENSUS 1870, still at home 1880 IN, Whitley County, Richland, page 412d: Aaron L. & Sarah E. Compto n 1900 IN, Whitley County, Richland, page 104a: Aaron L. & Sarah E. Compto n 1910 IN, Whitley County, probable find 1920 IN, Whitley County, Cleveland, sheet 14b: Sarah E. Compton, widow A. L. COMPTON wasborn in this township June 16, 1843, the son of Andrew a nd Mary A. Compton, natives of New Jersey and Massachusetts. They ca me to this township in the fall of 1837, and located in the forest on Sect ion 21, which they have converted into a delightful home of 332 acres. T he father died in 1852, aged forty-four years, and the mother is still liv ing on the old homestead at the advancedage of seventy-five years. The ir children were ten in number. Our subject was but nine years old at h is father's death, and until a grown man he remainedwith his mother, goi ng to school in winter and working on the farm in summer. In 1872, he marr ied Ellen Griffith, the daughter of John and Margaret Griffith, and to the ir union have been born one son and two daughters. He is a member of the M asonic fraternity, and by industry and economy has secured for himself a t idy and productive farm of 129 acres. OBITUARY, dated 05 Jan 1906

  
  

• Sources

  [S4522] E-Mail Message, 17 Feb 2001A five generation Genealogy by Case [email protected].