TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - VITALS - Marriage, R.B. Compton to Lelia McDowell ----¤¤¤---- "Clinch Valley News: Tazewell, Tazewell Co., VA Friday January 3, 1941 Reprinted article from January 5, 1906 MISS LELIA MC DOWELL, of Tip Top, and MR. R. B. COMPTON were married in Bristol on December 22. [I do not know if the marriage took place in Bristol, Sullivan Co TN., or Bristol, Washington Co., VA. This MIGHT be Russell Bascom Compton, s/o Flemmmin/Flemming W. Compton & Frances Fannie’ Compton. Bascom Compton and his mother, Fannie, were killed in Aug of 1907 near Johnson City TN- see "Clinch Valley News" article of August 23, 1907 submitted from Tip Top. I BELIEVE Lelia McDowell to be the d/o Charles & Mary Mc Dowell] ADDED DATA: 1860 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS # 134 COMPTON, WILLIAM age 70 farmer .....Jane age 68 .....Ellen age 35 .....Flemmess W. (sic), age 15 1880 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS # 305. CLEAR FORK, SAMUEL H.LAIRD, ENUMERATOR FLEMING W. COMPTON, 34, farmer, b. VA(all in home b. VA) .....Fannie, 34, wife, k-house .....Elizabeth, 10, dau .....Charles H. 9, son .....Mary M., 8, dau .....Sebustain A., (sic) 5, son .....Millard W., 3, son .....Russell B., 1, son ELLEN COMPTON 58, MOTHER 1900 TAZEWELL CO VA CENSUS # 70, Clear Fork Dist CHARLES MC DOWELL, 37, b. Jan 1868 in VA (all in home b. VA), farmer .....Mary, 32, b. Jan 1868, wife had had 5 children with 3 alive in 1900 .....Lelia, 12, b. july 1887, dau .....Bert, 5, b. June 1894, son .....Trula, 3/12, b. Feby 1900, dau [I am trying to find the husband of Ellen. The Tazewell Co VA., transcribed Death Records are "off line/don’t match" in the book and it MIGHT be a L. G. S. Compton, but I am not certain]. 1920 TAZEWELL CO VA # 76, Wright’s Valley, Clearfork Dist CHAS MC DOWELL, 56 .....Mary M., 53, wife ....Trula, 19, dau .....C. R., 17, son Karen EAGLE Moman arizonaeagle@qwest.net July 11, 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Karen EAGLE Moman arizonaeagle@qwest.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------------