Compton, Mrs. Amelia B., Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Chere Lee
Date: April 26, 2016

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Rapides Parish Louisiana Archives Obituaries
Mrs. Amelia B. Compton
Wednesday, July 13, 1859

The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, LA) July 13, 1859
Died - At her Summer residence in Rapides, Louisiana, on the 
morning of the 8th July, 1859, Mrs. Amelia B. Compton, relict of 
the late John Compton, Sr., to whom, during the long period of 
their union, she had ever proved a loving wife, and most 
efficient help-mate. She survived her husband not quite four 
years. The deceased was in her sixty-first year, born February 
23d, 1799. She was a daughter of Pierre Baillio, who was a 
native of Natchitoches, La., and one of the pioneers to whom the 
present generation, who enjoy the fruits of their labors, owe so 
much for their enterprize and energy, in reclaiming from the 
wilderness this fertile portion of the valley of Red River. She 
belonged to a numerous family, generally agriculturists, which 
has counted among its members some of our worthiest and most 
highly esteemed citizens. She herself leaves and extended circle
of children, and grand children, to whom the good name of both 
their honored parents, is a more precious heritage than the very 
ample estate they have left to be shared by their descendants,
for truly, "the good man leaveth an inheitance to his 
children's children!"

Mrs. Compton was a woman of excellent sense and discretion, as 
was abundantly evidenced by her admirable management of her 
household, over which she presided with a degree of judgement
and firmness which always commanded the ready obedience of her 
dependants and servitors, while she was loved by them 
universally for her gentleness of manner, and her goodness of 
heart. Not the domestics of her household only, and those 
attached to her immediate personal service, but her slaves 
employed in the labors of the field, several hundred in number, 
gave, in their irrepressible grief, as the grave closed over 
their beloved mistress, protector, and friend, loud and 
affecting proof of the strong hold she had upon their 
affections. She was by nature, and the daily practice of her 
life, kind and sincere, generous, hospitable, and charitable.
Although from ill-health, and her devotion to her family, for 
which she was remarkable, she had not, of late years, gone much 
into general society, few ladies have had, as none better 
deserved to have, more warm friends than Mrs. Compton, and their 
grief is none the less, because her death was not unexpected, 
her illness having been of long duration.

She partook of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper about forty-
eight hours before her decease. Receiving and enjoying the 
consolations and promises, of the Roman Catholic Church, to 
whose communion she was attached, she calmly took leave of her 
weeping children, and full of Christion hope and resignation, 
passed peacefully to her last earthly rest. Well assured are we,
also, that her blameless life here has been exchanged for a 
blessed immortality in the land of the hereafter!

"Earth to earth-and dust to dust,"
Thus the solemn priest hath said-
So we lay the turf above thee now,
And seal they narrow bed;
But thy spirit, Mother, soars away
Among the faithful blest,
Where the wicked cease from troubling,
And the weary are at rest!