Compton Family Cemetery |
This family burial plot has not yet been located.
Town of Danby, Tompkins County, NY.
Cemetery is inactive.
This record is as complete as possible at this time.
The headstones & bodies may have been moved to
Danby Rural Cemetery
In Danby Rural (also known as Curtis Cemetery) there is a row of Compton headstones.
See photo - The headstone inscriptions are the same as the headstones that were recorded in Compton Cemetery at an earlier date.
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(Photo by Cathy Knauff - April 29th 2003)
(larger photo) |
Please use Notes as a guide only! |
| Surname |
Given Name(s)/Relationship |
Date of Death/Age |
Notes |
| Compton | Silas | August 23, 1895
ae 97y 4m 22d |
Same inscription in Danby Rural Cemetery.
View obituary |
| Compton | Mary, w/o Silas | June 1, 1865
ae 59y 10m | Same inscription in Danby Rural Cemetery.
Believe to be Mary Bacon
Information given by Ella Foster |
| Compton | William | May 18, 1848
ae 12y 5m | Same inscription in Danby Rural Cemetery
Possibly s/o Silas & Mary? |
| Compton | Richard, s/o Silas & Mary | January 27, 1851
ae 26y 5m | Same inscription in Danby Rural Cemetery |
| Compton | Charles, s/o Silas & Mary | March 27, 1861
ae 33y 5m | Same inscription in Danby Rural Cemetery |
Danby Rural Cemetery has the following headstones for this Compton Family. See photo for pictures of these headstones. |
| Compton | Silas | August 23, 1895
ae 97y 4m 22d | Same inscription in Compton Family Cemetery |
| Compton | Mary, w/o Silas | June 1, 1865
ae 59y 10m | Same inscription in Compton Family Cemetery. |
| Compton | William | May 18, 1848
ae 12y 5m | Same inscription in Compton Family Cemetery |
| Compton | Richard, s/o Silas & Mary | January 27, 1851
ae 26y 5m | Same inscription in Compton Family Cemetery |
| Compton | Charles, s/o Silas & Mary | March 27, 1861
ae 33y 5m | Same inscription in Compton Family Cemetery |
| Compton | Mary J. | April 1867
ae 2y 4m | Not listed in Compton Family Cemetery |
| Compton | Theodore D. | 1859 - 1926 | Not listed in Compton Family Cemetery |
The 1825 New York State Census, Town of Danby, lists Silas Compton as well as a John Compton. Both men are between 18 and 45 years of age.
There is a John Compton buried in the Danby Presbyterian Cemetery who died on May 18, 1860, 70y 11m 21d of age. Using a birth date calculator, John
Compton would have been born about May 28, 1789, and Silas Compton would have been born about April 1, 1798. Perhaps
Silas and John were brothers and came together to New York to settle in Danby.
Silas Compton also appears in the 1830 and 1840 US Federal Census, Town of Danby. In the 1850 US Federal Census, Town of Danby the following
information on Silas and his family is found:
Silas Compton, 50, b. New Jersey
Mary Compton, 48, b. Vermont
Charles Compton, 23
Amos Compton, 20
Betsy Compton, 16
Lewis Compton, 12
Leonard Compton, 4
Richard Compton, 25
Jerusha Compton, 19 (Richard's wife?)
Fanny Pitts, 6.
A search of the LDS records revealed a Silas Compton, b. March 31, 1798 in Wantage, Sussex, New Jersey to John and Abigail Hanes Compton. This Silas
Compton was baptized in 1799 at the Clove Valley Dutch Reformed Church, Wantage, Sussex, New Jersey. Perhaps these are the records for the Silas Compton who
is buried in Danby; the age and the state of birth seem to fit.
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Thank you Janet M. Nash for transcribing the original records into digital format (1998).
Thank you Janet M. Nash & Cheryl Hall for updating this record (Dec. 2003).
Thursday, 04-Jul-2019 12:39:44 PDT