Campbell, Compton, Heuer, Pierce, Stalker, Todd and others

Mamoo often talked about her "Todd" cousins, and I now have a photo that was hers, of her four Todd cousins, of an age with herself, they were all beautiful girls.  It was descendants of these Todds, Don & Carol Heuer,  who furnished me with much of the original Compton information, and I owe them many thanks, because I was really stuck for some time.  A sister of great-grandmother Dora Annas [Mary Ellen] married Henry Calvin Todd, and that is who they are descended from.  Very nice people.

We are also indebted to cousin Diana Hudspeth, for providing some invaluable further information, and for others I recently connected with on the internet, due to Diana's new information for me.

Thanks to Jim Lawler for allowing us to use his ancestral data for the Compton family.  I don't have this online yet, but will be working on it very soon.  This research takes the family back to England and is quite impressive.

Notes for James Franklin Compton: 

James Franklin Compton family information was obtained from census records, family members, and other researchers.  Some birth dates are approximate.  He served in the war with Mexico in 1848,  and was living in Crawford County, Missouri, when the 1850 census was taken, with his young wife and his first son, Silas.  For the 1860 census he was still in the same county, but his family had grown to include another son and a daughter. By the time the 1870 census was taken his first wife had died, he had remarried, moved to Washington County, Missouri, had volunteered and fought for the Union in the Civil War (1861-1865).  He fought in battles at Wilson Creek, Missouri, and Pea Ridge, Arkansas.  His family had grown to include a total of three sons and four daughters, and one daughter, born in 1852, was no longer mentioned, so she either married, or died prior to this census.  By the 1880 census, his two oldest sons had married and had set up their own households, but he still had eight children at home, for a total of ten children.

The 1890 census records were lost in a fire in Washington, D.C., so we lose track of the Compton family until the 1900 census.  In that census, the only record we have at present is of his son, William B. Compton and his family, who have moved from Crawford County (where they were in 1880), to Washington County where James Franklin Compton lived.  Could it be that William moved his family to his father's home to work the family farm?  It is likely, as James Franklin Compton was 72 years old in 1900, and his wife was 68.  Farming at that age would have been difficult alone, and their children were all grown.  Their youngest son (James Emory) had died at thirteen, and the next youngest (Henry F.), whom records are very scarce of, would have been 26 years old.  William Compton, himself, was now 45 years old with two children, a son, Manvil C.D., who was 24, and a daughter, Iola, who was 20.  No records are found yet for Silas' family for that census, but we think he lived in Missouri at about that time, as Olan Campbell, living in Birch Tree remembers seeing them at that time. 

Generations One - Two

 James Franklin Compton, b. 8 Jun 1825, Botetourt Co., VA – d. 7 Apr 1920 in Mtn. View, Howell Co. MO; m. (1) Elizabeth A. (Betty) Farrar, b. 1830, d. abt. 1862-1864; m. 9 Aug 1849 by James R. Braley, minister in Crawford Co. MO; (2) Mary Ann Dollarhide, b. VA 8 Aug 1832, d. 28 Aug 1903; m. in Mar 1864, MO.

James and Betty Compton had the following children: 
+2i. Silas Ezekial b. 15 Apr 1850 Crawford Co. MO
  2ii. Sarah Jane b. 1852 Crawford Co. MO – d. unknown
+2iii. William Burton (Burt) b. Jan 1853 Crawford Co. MO – d. unknown
+2iv. Mary Ellen b. 18 May 1862 Washington Co. MO

James and Mary Compton had the following children:
  2v. John T. b. 1865 Potosi, Washington Co. MO
  2vi. Laura A. b. 1868 Potosi, Washington Co. MO
  2vii. Ida May b. 15 Dec 1864 Potosi, Washington Co. MO – d. 15 Dec 1883
  2viii. Dora Annas b. 26 Sep 1871 Potosi, Washington Co. MO (my great-grandmother)
  2ix. Henry F. b. 1874 Potosi, Washington Co. MO
  2x. James Emory b. 9 Jul 1877 Potosi, Washington Co. MO – d. 25 Jan 1890

Photo: Dora Annas [Compton] Campbell and her
youngest son Harold.

 Generation Three

 2i. Silas Ezekiel b. 15 Apr 1850 Crawford Co. MO – d. 6 Feb 1928; m. (1) Frances Colpe b. 1858 – d. 1924) (2) Sarah Josephine Crites b. 1852 – d. 1892
Silas and Sarah Compton had the following children:
 
  3i. Mattie E. b. 1875
  3ii. Hattie Mary b. 1876
  3iii. James B. b. 1879
  3iv. Ruth Josephine b. 1885
  3v. Silas Spurgeon b. 1887
  3vi. Henry Randolph b. 1889
  3vii. Roy Hamdlin b. 1891 

Written on the front of this photo in pencil was "Roy Todd and Friend." I don't know which is Roy, but it's a cute photo.  You can still see traces of handwriting, as I did.

Silas and Frances Compton had the following children:
 3viii. Ezekiel b. 1894
 3ix. Reubert b. 1895
 3x. Denice Franklin b. 1897
 3xi. Stanley Gentry b. 1899

2iii. William Burton (Burt) b. Jan 1853 Crawford Co. MO – d. unknown

2iv. Mary Ellen, b. 18 May 1862 Washington Co. MO – d. 27 Jan 1920; m. Henry Calvin Todd 17 Dec 1885

Photo: These are the five daughters of Mary Ellen and Henry Todd: Ruth, Maggie, Emily, Mary Edith, and Alma Todd.  These were favorite cousins of my grandmother, Lola Campbell.

Mary Ellen and Henry Todd had the following children:
  3xii. Vincent, b. 11 Sep 1886, Crawford Co. MO – d. 19 Jan 1968, Sheldon, Vernon Co. MO; m. Mary Alwilda Wilbanks
  3xiii. William Frank, b. 3 Jan 1888 Crawford Co. MO – d. 23 Jan 1971 Mtn. View, Howell Co. MO; m. Lucy Miller.
  3xiv. Ruth Boyde, b. 5 Jul 1889 Crawford Co. MO – d. 21 May 1976 Thayer MO; m. Ervin Bruce Hunt 7 Nov 1915.
 3xv. Spurgeon Calvin, b. 8 Jan 1891 Crawford Co. MO – d. 11 Aug 1943; m. Lillian Heffner.
 3xvi. Maggie Alice, b. 24 Feb. 1893 Shannon Co. MO – d. 16 Jan 1980, Fulton KY; m. Jack Sylvester Bay 19 Jun 1913.
  3xvii. Emily Jane, b. 28 Dec 1895 Shannon Co. MO – d.12 Dec 1967; m. Edward F. Pierce 7 Nov 1914.
  3xviii. Clifford Ray b. 17 Oct 1897 Howell Co. MO – d. 10 May 1951 Nagadoches (sp?), TX; m. Myrtle Vincent.
  3xix. Mary Edith, b. 25 Aug 1899, Howell Co. MO – d. 11 Oct 1967 Batesville, AR; m. Albert Antum Heuer Dec 1917.
 3xx. Alma Cora, b. 24 Aug 1901, Howell Co. MO – d. 1979 Batesville, AR; m. John McClain Stalker 22 Aug 1923.
  3xxi. Silas Glenn, b. 11 Jul 1904 Mtn. View, Howell Co. MO – d. 24 Aug 1943, Memphis MO; m. Mable Knott.
 
2vi. Laura A. b. 1868 Potosi, Washington Co. MO; m. Mac Smith, was in Oklahoma Yuba, I.T. [Indian Territory] by 1900 (this is not confirmed, but is family tradition), still there in 1903, confirmed with letter to sister Dora.

2viii. Dora Annas b. 26 Sep 1871 Potosi, Washington Co. MO – d. 26 Oct 1950; m. John Wesley Campbell 1891 in Mtn. View, Howell Co. MO.

Dora and John Campbell had the following children:
  3xxii. Alva Emory (Pete), b. 29 May 1892, Tulsa OK – d. Oct 1971.
  3xxiii. Lola May, b. 1 Feb 1894, Mtn. View MO- d 10 Feb 1991 Riverside, CA. (my grandmother)
  3xxiv. Oscar Leland, b. 1 Oct 1896, Mtn. View MO – d. 18 Aug 1959
  3xxv. Frank Leslie, b. 14 Sept 1898 – d. 1948.
  3xxvi. Virgil Wayne, b. 1899 – d. 1900 at 18 mos. of age
  3xxvii. Delphia Marie, b. 6 Sept 1901 in Indian Territory (OK)  – d. 8 Aug 1997, b. Livingston, TX.
  3xxviii. Hazel Leone, b. 18 Aug 1903 Mtn. View MO – d. 21 May 1986, b. Kansas City, KS.
  3xxix.  Olan Lester, b. 31 Jul 1906 – d. ???
  3xxx.  Howard Joe, b. 31 Jan 1910 – d. 23 May 1982
  3xxxi. Harold Kenneth, b. 22 Feb 1915 – d. ???

Generation Four

3xix. Mary Edith, b. 25 Aug 1899, Howell Co. MO – d. 11 Oct 1967 Batesville, AR; m. Albert Antum Heuer Dec 1917.

Mary Edith and Albert Heuer had the following children:
  4i. Ava Lee, b. 26 Jan 1919 Thayer MO – d. 1923 Thayer MO.
  4ii. Don Albert, b. 4 Nov 1924 Thayer MO; m. Etta Carol Thomas 20 Jul 1947 Batesville, Independence Co. AR

3xx. Alma Cora, b. 24 Aug 1901, Howell Co. MO – d. 1979 Batesville, AR; m. John McClain Stalker (b. 26 Nov 1901, Bedford, Lawrence Co. IN – d. 9 Dec 1967 Little Rock AR, buried Batesville AR), m.  22 Aug 1923.
Alma and John Stalker had the following child:
  4iii. James McLain, M.D., b. 28 Apr 1929 Bedford, Lawrence Co. IN; m. Nancy June Cook 1 Apr 1961 Little Rock Pulaski Co. AR.

  3xxii. For a continuation of all Campbell children of Dora Annas Compton see Our Campbell Family

Generations Five – Six - Seven

 Since most all family members from this point forward are presumed living, we will end our descent at this point.

I would like to call your attention to the graphics on this page.  I have done the title, but the graphics themselves have been done by a very talented lady by the name of Ellen Lebsock.  I encourage you to visit her website, where she has much to offer.  Besides graphics she has watercolor art and children's books.  Here's a link:

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