YELL COUNTY, AR - ROBERT T. COMPTON - Bio

SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas. 
Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

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Robert T. Compton. Among the native residents of the State of Georgia
was one John Compton, who married Elizabeth Allen, also of Georgia, 
and who became the mother of six children, of [p.136] whom Robert T.
(subject of our sketch) was the youngest, being born in Hall County,
Ga., September 13, 1853, and being left an orphan at the age of nine,
made his home with his brother-in-law, L. J. Pugh, and came with him, 
in 1868, to Yell County, remaining with them till he was nineteen 
years old, when he hired to a farmer, and followed this occupation 
till 1874, when, on October 4, of this same year, he married Frances 
H. Buford, who was born September 13, 1855, and is the daughter of 
Rev. W. L. Buford, of South Carolinian nativity, being born in that 
State September 5, 1808, and died in Yell County, September 16, 1884, 
her mother having died in 1864. 

To the marriage of Robert Compton and wife were born four boys and 
four girls: Nancy E. (born October 3, 1875, and died December 13, 
1876), Lucy L. (born March 16, 1877, died March 28, 1879), Mary Bell
(born January 18, 1879), Robert S. (born April 15, 1881), William G.
(born July 8, 1883, died November 15, 1889), Lucinda R. (born April 
20, 1885, died September 7, 1889), Reuben Anderson (born May 2, 1887), 
and Buford (born September 10, 1889). 

At the time of this worthy couple's marriage they did not possess a 
dollar's worth of this world's goods, but by determination, industry 
and economy, they have accumulated a farm of 3371/2 acres in Fourche 
La Fave Valley, 175 of which he has thoroughly improved, and are now 
residents of Rover Township. 

In politics he is an enthusiastic Democrat, and has served as justice 
of the peace for eight years on the local ticket. Himself and wife are 
consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and is a 
citizen deeply interested in the upbuilding of schools and churches, 
always liberally contributing to these and all things for the benefit 
of his community's good.