From Teague Chronicle in 1948.  
[This is Nancy Theodosia Jones born 27 Dec 1855 in Fayette County, Alabama who
married first John M. Strother in 28 Dec 1873 in Fayette County, Alabama (who
died of tuberculous in 22 May 1876) and second Dewitt Kimble Compton in 17 Dec
1879 in Freestone County, Texas.  She died 3 years later after this article in
1951 in Teague at the age of 96.]

Teague History Involved 
In Story of Progress
Told by Pioneer Woman

It was her 93rd birthday that petite Mrs. D. K. Compton celebrated quietly in
her son's home, 221 South Eighth, recently, but so far as the white-haired
Teague pioneer is concerned, it was but another day in her busy life that holds
forth many more years of placid enjoyment.

"I'll live to be at least 100," she says with a twinkle in her blue eye. She
lost her other eye at the age of four on the Alabama farm, where she was born
in 1855, when she was struck by a piece of tin her sister had tossed playfully
into the air.

Mrs. Compton recalls the chivalry, the gallantry of the colorful Old South, and
the day her father L. C. Jones marched off with the Confederate forces from
Fayettsville remains vividly stamped in her mind.

The Southern belle was 10 years old then, old enough to taste the bitter fruit
of Northern plunder, to anxiously await the return of her father, who was to
rebuild their home, which had been burned to the ground during his absence by
one of their Negro slaves.

It was 78 years ago that she came with her father to Teague, then known as
Brewer, to farm 100 acres of land where the railroad sections houses now stand.

"There were only a few families here then," she recalls. "I never realized that
there would be a community."

Mrs. Compton was a smiling girl of 18 when she married John Strother and went
with him to her home in her beloved Alabama. But four years later Strother died
of tuberculosis, and she heeded her father's pleas to return here.

She married D. K. Compton, a real estate man, when she was 23, and they became
the parents of five children, all of whom are still living.

They are Mrs. Ed. M. Watson, Streetman; L. B. Compton, Teague; Mrs. Betty
Starck, Burbank, Calif.; J. W. Compton, Palestine; and Mrs. Harry LeGro, Bath,
N.Y.

For a while, Mr. and Mrs. Compton lived in Dew. They returned here in 1906 when
the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railroad was put through Teague.

She opened a boarding house for the railroadmen, and continued to operate it
after the death of her husband in 1929.

In the early days, Mrs. Compton reminisces, Cotton Gin was the nearest
community to Brewer. It was there that she received her mail.

For four years she walked two and a half miles to go to school at Hopewell,
where she finished the fifth reader.

She remembers that Dr. W. P. Harrison became the railroad physician, and that
John Guggolz was the first automobile owner here.

Mrs. Compton expresses deep pride over her four grandsons who saw active duty
during World War II.

She's sentimental, but practical, too;---she's able to take into her stride the
marvels of modern times.

Mrs. Compton, who has been to New York twice---"I think it's nice"---attributes
her long life to wholesome living and plenty of "sound sleeping."