Compton, Elizabeth^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]}

1840 - 1912  (72 years)

• Name	Compton, Elizabeth
  Born	9 Oct 1840	Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, USA
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1846/1849	Blockhouse Branch, Pottawattamie, Iowa, USA   [8]
  Died	1 Dec 1912	Farmington, Davis, Utah, USA
  Person ID	I20857	Early Latter-day Saints
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2009

  
  

  Father	Compton, Allen,   b. 10 Jan 1809, , Wilson, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 17 Aug 1854, Kanesville (Council Bluffs), Pottawattamie, Iowa, USA  (Age 45 years)
  Mother	Bettis, Mary,   b. Abt 1813
  Married	13 Jan 1832	, Wilson, Tennessee, USA
  Notes	Comments: Compton, Allen (Male) Allen was a private in Company "D". Allen was a memeber of the Mormon Battalion. On May 2, 1846, a mob numbering eighteen persons rode up to the door, called the father out and told him to get his family out of the house immediately. As soon as they were out, the mob fired the house; the Compton family were not allowed to take anything with them. They took passage on the steamer "St. Croix" and started to follow the saints who had preceded them in the great exodus. They arrived at Council Bluffs on the 3rd of July. Colonel Allen had come into the camp the day before to enlist five hundred men to go to Mexico, and Bro Compton became one of the number. He left his family camped in the corner of a worn fence with nothing to protect them from the scorching sun during the day, or the heavy dews at night, but a piece of wagon cover stretched on the fence. Two of his children were sick with argue. The Battalion marched from Fort Leavenworth, leaving the sick detachment-among whom was Bro. Compton -- to winter at pueblo. In the spring of 1847 Captain Higgins' Company was sent to Fort Laramie, Bro. Compton started back on August 24, arriving home on November 18th, 1847, and started back again for the Valley October 14, 1848, with the mail (that being the first mail that came to Utah), arriving in Salt Lake City November 30. The Indians were troublesome during the winter, and Bro. Compton was sent with Captain Scott to battle them near Provo. After the April conference Bro, Compton was asked to return to Council Bluffs, build some flat boats when he arrived there, and ferry the saints across the Missouri River, which he did, operating the Lone Tree Ferry in 1851-1852, the one known as Busha's Ferry in 1853. Then he moved up and ran the ferry at Winter Quarters.
  Family ID	F5615	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hinman, Henry Lyman,   b. 6 Mar 1837, West Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 27 Jan 1921  (Age 83 years)
  Married	17 Mar 1861	Farmington, Davis, Utah, USA
  Family ID	F12980	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  NAUVOO RECORDS: Members, LDS, 1830-1848, by Susan Easton Black, Vol 11, pp 252-254 HISTORY: "Writings" diskette code: HINME40B.N HINMAN, Elizabeth Harriet Chaney Compton. Biography (1840-1912). Typescript, MSS8, BYU.p.4. Available on computer diskette NAME VARIANT: Elizabeth Chauncey COMPTON Elizabeth Harriet CHANEY Name transcribed from the Iowa Branches Members Index 1839 - 1859, Volumes 1 & 2 by Ronald G. Watt. Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1991. Copyright by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6] LDS - Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:1830-1848, 50 vols., Black, Susan Easton, Compiler, (LDS Church, Salt Lake City, 1990), 1830-1848, by Susan Easton Black, Vol 11, pp 252-254. [S101] Database - Writings of Early Latter-day Saints and their Contemporaries, Backman, Milton V., Jr., Compiler, Biography by Chloe Hess. typescript, Brigham Young University [S12] Internet Link - BYU Winter Quarters Project - http://winterquarters.byu.edu. [S13] Internet Link - Pioneer Research Group Project - http://www.pioneerresearchgroup.org. [S15] USA - 1850 United States Census, US Census Bureau, Iowa, Pottawattamie. [S36] USA - 1860 United States Census, US Census Bureau, Utah, Davis, Farmington. [S21027] . [S3] LDS - Iowa Branches Members Index 1829 - 1859, Volumes I and II, Watt, Ronald G., (Historical Department Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1991,).