REV. SAMUEL D.3 COMPTON (Martha2 Hutchinson, William1 Hutchinson Jr.)15-16 was born on 19 Mar 1829 in Hopkins Co., KY. He died on 14 Oct 1898. He married Ella Ann Townsend, daughter of William Townsend and Elizabeth Ramsey, on 23 Feb 1859 in Hopkins Co., KY. She was born about 1834 in NC.
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10592 HOPKINS CO ? REV. SAMUEL D. COMPTON ? Compton, Hutchinson, Morgan, Townsend, Ramsey 10592: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume II, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, Vol. IV, 3rd edition, 1886. Hopkins Co. REV. SAMUEL D. COMPTON was born in Hopkins County, Ky., March 19, 1829, and is a son of Thomas A. and Martha H. (Hutchinson) Compton, natives of Virginia, and of English descent. Thomas A. Compton, at the age of twenty-two years, about 1816, and while yet a single man, came to Hopkins County, Ky., where he bought wild land near Nebo, improved a farm, upon which he resided until his death in 1849, in his fifty-fifth year. He served during the latter part of the war of 1812, at Norfolk, Va. He was a natural mechanic, and, although he had never regularly learned any trade, he could turn his hand to almost any branch of mechanism, and made all his own wagons, agricultural implements and furniture. He was for many years an officer in the Kentucky State militia. He and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After her husband's death, however, Mrs. Martha A. Compton joined the Baptist Church, of which she was a member until her death in 1874, in her seventy-fourth year. Reuben Compton, the grandfather of our subject, was a veteran of the Revolutionary war, having served for over three years with Gen. Morgan's riflemen. After his father's death the care and support of his widowed mother devolved upon our subject, Samuel D. He continued to farm the home place on shares for several years, and in 1859 bought a part of the old homestead, to which he has added from time to time until he now owns a well improved farm of some 400 acres, where he is extensively engaged in farming and stock raising. He was a magistrate for this district for one term of four years. He was married February 23, 1859, to Miss Ella A. Townsend, a native of North Carolina and a daughter of Wilson and Elizabeth (Ramsey) Townsend. Eight children have blessed this union; four sons and three daughters are living. Mr. And Mrs. Compton are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, in which he has been a licensed preacher for nearly thirty years, and a regularly ordained elder for more than fifteen years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, has advanced to the Royal Arch degree, and has been W. M. of his lodge. In politics, Mr. Compton is a Democrat. His eldest son, Theodore N. Compton, at the age of seventeen, was six feet and five inches in height, and weighed 210 pounds. He joined the church at the age of sixteen, and regularly ordained at seventeen years of age. He has had official charge of three different churches, and is at present pastor of the Clayville Baptist Church, of Webster County, although only in his nineteenth year.