"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 305-306.  
Used by permission.  [Webster]

THEODORE M. COMPTON, D.D.:  Theodore M. Compton was born in Hopkins 
County, Kentucky, on May 23, 1866, and died in Providence, Kentucky, 
on May 25, 1935, at the age of sixty-nine.  His parents were Samuel 
D. and Ellen Townsend Compton.  He professed faith in Christ at the 
age of ten and was baptized into the fellowship of the Corinth 
Baptist Church.  By this same Church he was licensed and ordained to 
preach at the age of seventeen and was so blessed of God that he was 
called into the pastorate of churches very soon.  His ordination took 
place in September, 1883.  From this time until he entered Bethel 
College in 1890 he pastored the Churches at Clay, Dixon, and 
Uniontown.  He constituted the First Church at Morganfield, Kentucky 
and served as its first pastor.  While attending Bethel College he 
pastored the Churches at Marion and Madisonville.  He received the 
B.A. Degree from Bethel College in 1892 and the M.A. Degree in 1895.  
In the meantime he served the Churches at Cadiz and Gracey, Kentucky, 
from 1893 to 1895.We next find him as pastor in Baton Rouge, 
Louisiana.  While there the Degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred 
upon him by Keachie College - this was in 1897.  Dr. Compton next went 
to Baltimore, Maryland, as pastor of the Fuller Memorial Church and 
from there to Lebanon, Tennessee.  In 1904 he became pastor of the 
First Baptist Church in Owensboro, Kentucky, where he did a splendid 
work.  After three years of service here he resigned and entered the 
evangelistic field and was blessed of the Lord in this work for more  
than twenty years.  For many years he made his home here in Owensboro 
serving many of the churches in the Association as interim pastor and 
holding evangelistic meetings in many cities both North and South.  
Though he held meetings in many of the larger churches he never 
declined an invitation to hold a meeting in the fourth-time country 
and village churches if he could possibly get to it.
     Dr. Compton was never married.  Out of a family of eight 
children, he was the last to depart to the life beyond.  He left 
several nieces and nephews at the time of his death.  His funeral was 
preached by Rev. E. B. English, assisted by Rev. H. S. Summers, in 
Providence, Kentucky, and his body was laid to rest in the cemetery 
there.
     He preached the Annual Sermon before the Association in 1905 at 
its meeting with the South Hampton Church.

Compton Townsend English Summers
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Hopkins LA MD TN Owensboro-Daviess

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