Jack County, TX - Obituaries - Alonzo Compton ************************************************************************************* This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************************* The Jacksboro Gazette Thursday, July 7, 1910 Vineyard, July 3 Ð Alonzo Compton, 16, was killed in a baseball game here 2 July 1910. The Vineyard and Sebree teams were playing and in the fifth inning young Compton went to bat. He struck a foul and the ball, glancing, struck him on the temple. The blow was not severe to know him down, although Compton quit the game and sat down and watched until it was finished. He then started to his home, about two and a half miles distant, in company with three or four of his companions. On his way he was seized with nausea and gradually lapsed into unconsciousness, from which a physician who was hastily called could not arouse him. Within an hour, he was seized. He was the son of Mr. And Mrs. E.B.Compton, old settlers