Brief Life History of Joshua Powell
When Joshua Powell Compton was born on 28 June 1848, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States, his father, John Allen Compton, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Johnson, was 30. He married Sarah Ann Rebecca Hunt on 14 November 1871, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Halifax, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Staunton River Magisterial District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States for about 40 years. He died on 12 May 1929, in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Banister, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States.
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- Joshua P Compton in household of William D Compton, "United States Census, 1920"
- Joshua P, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
- John P Compton, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England (but especially in the southwest) named Compton, from Old English cumb ‘short, straight valley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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