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Surname: COMPTON
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James M. (Milburn, Milton) Compton, subject of ancestral search, married
Nancy Poole in 1833, both born 1810, first enumerated on Laurens Co., SC
1840 census in Scuffletown (Ora) Township. Nancy was the daughter of William
Poole and Elizabeth Terry also of Laurens County.

Their issue, all born in or around Laurens County are as follows:

	
Andrew Poindexter	b. 1834	d. 1834 in Laurens Co., SC
Robert James(CSA)	b. 1837	d. 1883 in Laurens Co., SC
Thomas Henry (CSA)	b. 1838	d. 1862 Winder Hospital

Richmond, VA
Cornelia E. (Templeton)	b. 1842	d. 1922 in Ashville, NC
William Berry(CSA)	b. 1846	d. 1913 in Greenwood, SC
Eliza Jane (Goodwin)	b. 1849	d. 1933 in Bingen, AR
Marcus Milton		b. 1852	d. 1923 in DeQueen, AR
Charles Orr		b. 1854	d. 1932 in Binger, OK

This family is continuously enumerated in the Laurens censuses of 1840
through 1880 as a farmer, not owning slaves. James's land dealings were
apparently small and confined within his family as there is no record of
rapid or large land sales or purchases. Thomas Henry died of war related
problems in 1862, Richmond, VA. Cornelia married W. C. Templeton about
1869 and moved to Ashville, NC. William Berry married Alice O'Neal Day
in 1873 and moved to Greenwood Co., SC. Robert James died in 1883. James's
youngest sons, Charles Orr and Marcus Milton, moved to Hempstead Co., Arkansas,
between 1886 and 1889. (Perhaps to join some cousins already established
there). In 1889, William Whiteford Goodwin (Eliza Jane's husband) died,
then Nancy died one month later in 1890. After these events, James, Eliza
Jane and her seven children moved to Arkansas to join Charles Orr and Marcus
Milton. James died in Arkansas in 1896.

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