COMPTON, Harriet “Hattie” (Armstrong)

Date of birth:  abt 1849 – Indiana
Date of death: 9 Aug 1897 – Tipton, Tipton County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, August 13, 1897,
Volume XXXVIII Number 5, page 1 column 1

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

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The remains of Mrs. Hattie Compton, wife of Len Compton, who died at Tip­ton Monday, were brought to Edinburg Tuesday evening. Funeral services were held Wednesday, conducted by Rev. J. Wesley Turner, now of Evansville. De­ceased was a former resident of Edin­burg.

Note: The 1880 US Federal Census for Nineveh, Johnson County, Indiana records thirty-year-old, Indiana-born farmer Len Compton, his thirty-one-year-old, Indiana-born music teacher wife, Harriet Compton, their Indiana-born children, eight-year-old Rinaldo and four-year-old Irene Compton, thirty-four-year-old, Kentucky-born farm laborer, Joseph A. Noble, and Harriet’s sister, eighteen-year-old, Iowa-born school teacher, E. Armstrong.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson