When Brady Farrell Compton was born on 12 December 1872, in Smartsville, Yuba, California, United States, his father, Charles Leake Compton, was 44 and his mother, Annette Herberson Dougherty, was 26. He married Mary Jane Byrne on 10 December 1895, in Smartsville, Yuba, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Marysville, Yuba, California, United States in 1930 and Marysville Judicial Township, Yuba, California, United States in 1940. He died on 22 October 1940, in Contra Costa, California, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Smartsville, Yuba, California, United States.
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’.
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