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Silas Shields Compton (1974)

COMPTON, ELLSBURY, SHELDON, SHIFFLETT

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 8/29/2006 at 17:13:55

Earlham Library Obituary Collection
February 1974

SILAS SHIELDS COMPTON

Silas Shields Compton, son of Sylvanus and Sarah Compton, was born March 26, 1888 on a farm near Madison county, and passed away February 10, 1974.

Services were held at Fisher Funeral Home in Van Meter on February 13 with the Rev. Donald F. Taylor, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Earlham, officiating.

He received his education in the Earlham Academy, and was united in marriage to Lillie Ellsbury. To this union two daughters were born. He spent most of his life in Earlham, except for a few years spent in Texas.

He was preceded in death by his wife, and daughter Rose. Surviving is one daughter, Mrs. Don Sheldon (Thelma) of Hobbs, New Mexico; a sister, Mrs. Mary Shifflett of Atlantic, nieces and nephews, and a host of friends.

(Burial was made in the Earlham cemetery)


 

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