From "A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans," by William E. Connelley:
"William Compton was a farmer and stockman, and in early times kept a tavern for the mule drivers going between Kentucky and Baltimore. William Compton acquired a considerable estate... He was one of the active leaders in the Methodist Church, and his home was the rendevous of the preachers visiting and laboring in that country. He was thoroughly Southern, and one [two] of his sons was a soldier in the Confederate Army (Col. John Richard Compton and William Egan Compton)."
William had a mill called "Compton's Mill" and was a large landowner and planter in Bluestone, Clear Fork and Mud Fork Valleys. (From "History of Bland county (VA)"
Bluestone was a settlement on the Bluestone River between Springville and Bluefield, Virginia, along the old Fincastle-Cumberland Gap Turnpike, now designated Route 460. William and his family lived between Charles Tiffany and Major George.
The following was written by grandson Thomas Jefferson Compton:
"I quite well remember my first visit to my grandfather's place on Bluestone and the old mill and mill dam nearby..."
William died at his home on the Bluestone after August 1870.
"William Compton was a farmer and stockman, and in early times kept a tavern for the mule drivers going between Kentucky and Baltimore. William Compton acquired a considerable estate... He was one of the active leaders in the Methodist Church, and his home was the rendevous of the preachers visiting and laboring in that country. He was thoroughly Southern, and one [two] of his sons was a soldier in the Confederate Army (Col. John Richard Compton and William Egan Compton)."
William had a mill called "Compton's Mill" and was a large landowner and planter in Bluestone, Clear Fork and Mud Fork Valleys. (From "History of Bland county (VA)"
Bluestone was a settlement on the Bluestone River between Springville and Bluefield, Virginia, along the old Fincastle-Cumberland Gap Turnpike, now designated Route 460. William and his family lived between Charles Tiffany and Major George.
The following was written by grandson Thomas Jefferson Compton:
"I quite well remember my first visit to my grandfather's place on Bluestone and the old mill and mill dam nearby..."
William died at his home on the Bluestone after August 1870.
From "A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans," by William E. Connelley:
"William Compton was a farmer and stockman, and in early times kept a tavern for the mule drivers going between Kentucky and Baltimore. William Compton acquired a considerable estate... He was one of the active leaders in the Methodist Church, and his home was the rendevous of the preachers visiting and laboring in that country. He was thoroughly Southern, and one [two] of his sons was a soldier in the Confederate Army (Col. John Richard Compton and William Egan Compton)."
William had a mill called "Compton's Mill" and was a large landowner and planter in Bluestone, Clear Fork and Mud Fork Valleys. (From "History of Bland county (VA)"
Bluestone was a settlement on the Bluestone River between Springville and Bluefield, Virginia, along the old Fincastle-Cumberland Gap Turnpike, now designated Route 460. William and his family lived between Charles Tiffany and Major George.
The following was written by grandson Thomas Jefferson Compton:
"I quite well remember my first visit to my grandfather's place on Bluestone and the old mill and mill dam nearby..."
William died at his home on the Bluestone after August 1870.
"William Compton was a farmer and stockman, and in early times kept a tavern for the mule drivers going between Kentucky and Baltimore. William Compton acquired a considerable estate... He was one of the active leaders in the Methodist Church, and his home was the rendevous of the preachers visiting and laboring in that country. He was thoroughly Southern, and one [two] of his sons was a soldier in the Confederate Army (Col. John Richard Compton and William Egan Compton)."
William had a mill called "Compton's Mill" and was a large landowner and planter in Bluestone, Clear Fork and Mud Fork Valleys. (From "History of Bland county (VA)"
Bluestone was a settlement on the Bluestone River between Springville and Bluefield, Virginia, along the old Fincastle-Cumberland Gap Turnpike, now designated Route 460. William and his family lived between Charles Tiffany and Major George.
The following was written by grandson Thomas Jefferson Compton:
"I quite well remember my first visit to my grandfather's place on Bluestone and the old mill and mill dam nearby..."
William died at his home on the Bluestone after August 1870.
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