From the MEADVILLE REPUBLICAN
The funeral of Mr. William Compton yesterday brought to my remembrance some incidents of his life. I first knew him a boy of twelve years, in the academy under the tuition of Rev. Joseph Stockton, in the winter of 1805-06. His father was then an inn keeper in what is now the Barr House. Then the sign was "General Washington."
In 1812, he was a volunteer soldier in Captain Withrow's company of Meadville infantry, attached to the brigade commanded by General Adam Tennehill, and which formed part of General Smythe's command destined for the invasion of Canada.
When sickness and desertion had reduced the brigade to a Major's command under Major James Harriot, Mr. Compton was one of the few on the shores of Niagra, at Black Rock, ready to step into the boats awaiting to transport the small invading army to the opposite shore, when General Smythe, deeming his force inadequate to meet the enemy, gathered on the Canada side, ordered a retreat to their encampment, and a discharge was soon granted to the Pennsylvania volunteers.
While yet a young man, Mr. Compton married a daughter of Alex. Buchanan, Esq., deceased, and settled on a pleasant farm near Meadville, where he lived, esteemed by his neighbors and respected by all who knew him. for his probity and kindness; but above all religion was, in his estimation, "the one thing needful," and about forty years ago, he united with the Presbyterian Church, then under the ministry of Rev. Wells Bushnell, and thirty-six years preceeding the day of his interment, he was ordained a ruling elder in said church, in which position he continued until April, 1869, when he removed to Lanark, Illinois, with his youngest son and daughter, Mary, his wife having preceded him several years to the heavenly rest, where also several of their beloved children had gone before. heir beloved children had gone before. His ties to earth thus successively weakened, and his faith in the unseen strengthened, and he was mercifully released, with a short and not very painful illness of an apoplectic type which deprived him of consciousness in his last hours.
J. REYNOLDS
Titusville Herald, 31 Oct 1870, p.2, Titusville, Pa.
79 yrs,
The funeral of Mr. William Compton yesterday brought to my remembrance some incidents of his life. I first knew him a boy of twelve years, in the academy under the tuition of Rev. Joseph Stockton, in the winter of 1805-06. His father was then an inn keeper in what is now the Barr House. Then the sign was "General Washington."
In 1812, he was a volunteer soldier in Captain Withrow's company of Meadville infantry, attached to the brigade commanded by General Adam Tennehill, and which formed part of General Smythe's command destined for the invasion of Canada.
When sickness and desertion had reduced the brigade to a Major's command under Major James Harriot, Mr. Compton was one of the few on the shores of Niagra, at Black Rock, ready to step into the boats awaiting to transport the small invading army to the opposite shore, when General Smythe, deeming his force inadequate to meet the enemy, gathered on the Canada side, ordered a retreat to their encampment, and a discharge was soon granted to the Pennsylvania volunteers.
While yet a young man, Mr. Compton married a daughter of Alex. Buchanan, Esq., deceased, and settled on a pleasant farm near Meadville, where he lived, esteemed by his neighbors and respected by all who knew him. for his probity and kindness; but above all religion was, in his estimation, "the one thing needful," and about forty years ago, he united with the Presbyterian Church, then under the ministry of Rev. Wells Bushnell, and thirty-six years preceeding the day of his interment, he was ordained a ruling elder in said church, in which position he continued until April, 1869, when he removed to Lanark, Illinois, with his youngest son and daughter, Mary, his wife having preceded him several years to the heavenly rest, where also several of their beloved children had gone before. heir beloved children had gone before. His ties to earth thus successively weakened, and his faith in the unseen strengthened, and he was mercifully released, with a short and not very painful illness of an apoplectic type which deprived him of consciousness in his last hours.
J. REYNOLDS
Titusville Herald, 31 Oct 1870, p.2, Titusville, Pa.
79 yrs,
From the MEADVILLE REPUBLICAN
The funeral of Mr. William Compton yesterday brought to my remembrance some incidents of his life. I first knew him a boy of twelve years, in the academy under the tuition of Rev. Joseph Stockton, in the winter of 1805-06. His father was then an inn keeper in what is now the Barr House. Then the sign was "General Washington."
In 1812, he was a volunteer soldier in Captain Withrow's company of Meadville infantry, attached to the brigade commanded by General Adam Tennehill, and which formed part of General Smythe's command destined for the invasion of Canada.
When sickness and desertion had reduced the brigade to a Major's command under Major James Harriot, Mr. Compton was one of the few on the shores of Niagra, at Black Rock, ready to step into the boats awaiting to transport the small invading army to the opposite shore, when General Smythe, deeming his force inadequate to meet the enemy, gathered on the Canada side, ordered a retreat to their encampment, and a discharge was soon granted to the Pennsylvania volunteers.
While yet a young man, Mr. Compton married a daughter of Alex. Buchanan, Esq., deceased, and settled on a pleasant farm near Meadville, where he lived, esteemed by his neighbors and respected by all who knew him. for his probity and kindness; but above all religion was, in his estimation, "the one thing needful," and about forty years ago, he united with the Presbyterian Church, then under the ministry of Rev. Wells Bushnell, and thirty-six years preceeding the day of his interment, he was ordained a ruling elder in said church, in which position he continued until April, 1869, when he removed to Lanark, Illinois, with his youngest son and daughter, Mary, his wife having preceded him several years to the heavenly rest, where also several of their beloved children had gone before. heir beloved children had gone before. His ties to earth thus successively weakened, and his faith in the unseen strengthened, and he was mercifully released, with a short and not very painful illness of an apoplectic type which deprived him of consciousness in his last hours.
J. REYNOLDS
Titusville Herald, 31 Oct 1870, p.2, Titusville, Pa.
79 yrs,
The funeral of Mr. William Compton yesterday brought to my remembrance some incidents of his life. I first knew him a boy of twelve years, in the academy under the tuition of Rev. Joseph Stockton, in the winter of 1805-06. His father was then an inn keeper in what is now the Barr House. Then the sign was "General Washington."
In 1812, he was a volunteer soldier in Captain Withrow's company of Meadville infantry, attached to the brigade commanded by General Adam Tennehill, and which formed part of General Smythe's command destined for the invasion of Canada.
When sickness and desertion had reduced the brigade to a Major's command under Major James Harriot, Mr. Compton was one of the few on the shores of Niagra, at Black Rock, ready to step into the boats awaiting to transport the small invading army to the opposite shore, when General Smythe, deeming his force inadequate to meet the enemy, gathered on the Canada side, ordered a retreat to their encampment, and a discharge was soon granted to the Pennsylvania volunteers.
While yet a young man, Mr. Compton married a daughter of Alex. Buchanan, Esq., deceased, and settled on a pleasant farm near Meadville, where he lived, esteemed by his neighbors and respected by all who knew him. for his probity and kindness; but above all religion was, in his estimation, "the one thing needful," and about forty years ago, he united with the Presbyterian Church, then under the ministry of Rev. Wells Bushnell, and thirty-six years preceeding the day of his interment, he was ordained a ruling elder in said church, in which position he continued until April, 1869, when he removed to Lanark, Illinois, with his youngest son and daughter, Mary, his wife having preceded him several years to the heavenly rest, where also several of their beloved children had gone before. heir beloved children had gone before. His ties to earth thus successively weakened, and his faith in the unseen strengthened, and he was mercifully released, with a short and not very painful illness of an apoplectic type which deprived him of consciousness in his last hours.
J. REYNOLDS
Titusville Herald, 31 Oct 1870, p.2, Titusville, Pa.
79 yrs,
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