Ella Marie Compton

Brief Life History of Ella Marie

When Ella Marie Compton was born on 22 October 1918, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Robert Compton, was 35 and her mother, Maude Frances Crank, was 29. She lived in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1935 and Magisterial District 8, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 11 November 2003, in Largo, Pinellas, Florida, United States, at the age of 85.

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Family Time Line

Charles Richard Penington
1915–1980
Ella Marie Compton
1918–2003

Sources (7)

  • Marie Compton in household of John Compton, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Marie Pennington in entry for William Ashley Compton, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
  • Elta M Compton in household of John R Compton, "United States Census, 1930"

World Events (8)

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1926 · Mammoth Cave is Discovered

In 1926, in central Kentucky, Mammoth Cave was discovered. It dates back to Mississippian times and consists of over four hundred miles of passageway. On July 1, 1941, the cave was made a National Park.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

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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