Hugh Compton and Martha Proudfit

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Husband Hugh Compton ¹

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           Born: 9 Dec 1795 - Delhi, Delaware Co, NY 2
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           Died: 8 Apr 1878 - Edinboro, Erie Co, PA 3
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         Father: James Compton (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Clarissa Cleveland (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 8 Dec 1842 2

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Wife Martha Proudfit ¹

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           Born: 9 May 1809 1
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           Died: 28 Jan 1890 - Edinboro, Erie Co, PA 3
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         Father: Alexander Proudfit (1763-1844) 4
         Mother: Martha McCleary (1774-1844) 1

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Children

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1 F Agnes Compton ²

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           Born: 26 Sep 1843 - Washington Twp, Erie Co, PA 2
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           Died: 30 Jan 1844 - Washington Twp, Erie Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Sophia Compton ²

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           Born: 13 Jan 1845 - Washington Twp, Erie Co, PA 2
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           Died: Aft 1911
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3 F Margaret Compton ²

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           Born: 29 Nov 1847 - Washington Twp, Erie Co, PA 2
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           Died: Aft 1911
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General Notes: Husband - Hugh Compton

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He was for three months, in his nineteenth year, a soldier in a New York regiment engaged in the War of 1812. After his marriage they lived for some time on a farm near McLane, Washington township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, whence they moved to Fairview, in the same county. In 1853 he sold his farm in Fairview, and in 1855 went west, settling in 1856 on a farm in Burritt, Winnebago County, Illinois. In 1863 he returned to Pennsylvania, and in 1864 bought the house in Edinboro, Erie County, in which he died.

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General Notes: Wife - Martha Proudfit

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When the Proudfit family moved to Erie County, Pennsylvania, in1833, Martha Proudfit had already had some experience as a district school teacher, a calling which she followed until her marriage. She taught in the schools of Livingston County, New York, and of Erie and Crawford Counties, Pennsylvania, and won a high reputation as a thorough instructor and wise disciplinarian. Her knowledge of the branches she taught was largely self-gained. Her delicate health and the distance of her father's home from a school house prevented her from attending school before the age of ten or during the winter after that age. But, owing perhaps to the character of her parents' training in the Scriptures and the Catechism, she acquired the habit of accuracy which was most conspicuous in all her work, mechanical as well as mental. A good-sized volume might be filled with the songs which she knew by heart, those of Burns being her favorites, and rarely, if ever, could her memory of a verse be found lacking in correctness. Her belief in the creed of her fathers never wavered, but she always treated with the greatest respect the religious convictions of others, however widely they differed from her own. She took a keen interest in current issues; was a "white-ribboner," and a sympathizer with the woman suffrage movement.
After being for several years an invalid, she died at her home in Edinboro.

1 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 17.

2 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 66.

3 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 67.

4 Margaret Compton, Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family (Meadville, PA: Privately published, 1911), Pg 15.