Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Metcalfe County.

JOHN W. COMPTON was born in Edmonton, Metcalfe Co., Ky., June 17, 1839, 
and is the eldest of seven children - three sons and four daughters - 
born to Joseph R. and Martha N. (Hatchett) Compton, the former a native 
of Barren County, Ky., and the later of Pittsylvania County, Va. They 
were of Irish and English descent, and were born March 2, 1815, and 
December 29, 1817, respectively.  Joseph R. Compton in early life 
learned the blacksmith's trade at Glasgow, which he continued to follow, 
in connection with farming, until his death, which occurred January 30, 
1860. For many years he was a captain in old State militia.  His father, 
John Compton, was a native of Virginia, but immigrated to Barren County, 
Ky., in a very early day.  Mrs. Martha N. Compton is yet living.  From 
her girlhood she has ben a devoted member of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
Church.  Her father, Archibald Hatchett, was also a native of Virginia, 
and served at Norfolk during the war of 1812. He, in about 1827, 
immigrated to southwestern Kentucky.  Her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Hatchett, is living, in her eighty-seventh year, and receives a pension 
for her husband's services.  John W. Compton received a good English 
education in youth, at the common and select schools of the county, and 
has also very materially added to his early training by his own 
exertions, and is a man of wide and varied general information, having 
been a close and careful reader all his life.  After his father's death 
he followed the blacksmith's trade for about one year, and during that 
time commenced the study of law, often working with his book open on the 
forge.  At the breaking out of the late civil war he took a very active 
and determined stand for the Union side, and in December, 1861, went to 
Columbia, with the intention of enlisting in the Third Kentucky 
Volunteer Infantry (Federal service), but when at the picket line a 
fight ensued between the Federal troops and a detachment of Texas 
Rangers, in which he was severely wounded, from the effects of which he 
has never fully recovered. In July 1865, he was admitted to the bar, and 
has ever since practiced law with most abundant success in Metcalfe and 
adjoining counties.  In 1866 he was elected county attorney, and 
resigned that position in 1867 to run for the Legislature on the Union 
Democratic ticket, but was defeated by forty votes.  In 1871 he was 
appointed school commissioner for Metcalfe County, and was elected to 
the same office in 1873, serving four years in all.  He married, March 
21, 1872, Carrie Glazebrook, a native of Glasgow, Barren Co., Ky., born 
November 27, 1841.  She is a daughter of Joseph and Lucinda (Pace) 
Glazebrook. Two sons and one daughter have blessed their union, viz.: 
Ada, deceased, William G. and Charles S.  Mr. Compton and wife are 
consistent members of the church, he of the Cumberland Presbyterian and 
she of the Christian Church.  He has been a ruling elder in his church 
for the past twenty years, and is also a member of the Masonic 
fraternity.  In politics he is a Democrat, and is one of the energetic 
and successful lawyers and prominent citizens of the county.

Compton Glazebrook Hatchett Pace 
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Columbia-Adair Glasgow-Barren Norfolk-VA Pittsylvania-VA TX

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