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Charles Cromartie Compton - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Vicksburg Evening Post, April 5, 1944

Final Rites For Miss Compton In Vicksburg Today

Natchez Resident Will be Buried Here At 2:45 P.M.

Miss Charles Cromartie Compton, a daughter of the late Anna Nicols Compton Willson, died in Natchez

Tuesday morning about 11 o'clock. Funeral services will be held there at noon today, with lnterment at

Vicksburg during the afternoon. (Miss Compton was born on 21 Nov 1876 on Young's Point Plantation,

Madison Parish, LA.)

Miss Compton lived in Natchez most of her 68 years, possessed a lovable character and had many devoted friends.

As a girl she was a frequent visitor in Vicksburg and is remembered by her many friends for her beauty and charm.

Miss Compton is survived by a sister, Mrs. Edward T. Newell, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; by two nieces. Mrs. Mastin Gilkeson

and Mrs. Wesley Taylor, both of Staunton, Va.; by two nephews, J.B. Patterson of Staunton and Brown Patterson of

Charlotte, N.C.; also by numerous cousins, among them members of the Wilbur Compton family of Vicksburg.

Funeral Services will be conducted noon today in the Episcopal church at Natchez by the rector. Interment will be

in the Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, at 2:45 o'clock this afternoon, with the committal service in charge to the Rev.

Robert M. Allen, rector of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.

The pallbearers in Vicksburg will be: Wilson Carroll, Jack Walker, David Taylor, Dr. J.B. Askey, Joe Garrell, John Raworth.

Funeral services in Vicksburg will be in charge of the Fisher Funeral Home.