Matilda (Nicholson) DeVault Compston (1931)
COMPSTON, CROUSE, DEVAULT, NICHOLSON
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:56
The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, July 30, 1931
Page 1, Column 4MRS.COMPSTON DIES – SERVICES MONDAY
Had Lived Near Pitzer Over Forty-two Years. Burial At Winterset
Mrs. A. R. Compston, 75, died Saturday at the Winterset hospital where she had been a patient several weeks. Services were Monday afternoon at the Methodist church conducted by the pastor, the Rev. A. P. Keast; burial was in the Winterset Cemetery.
Mrs. Compston was Matilda Nicholson, daughter of Henry and Maria Nicholson, one of a family of eleven children. She was born near Solon, Iowa, September 14, 1855. Her marriage to Joseph Jerome DeVault took place October 24, 1879 at Lisbon.
For over forty-two years they made their home on a farm near Pitzer. Mr. DeVault died in 1922; a son George, died in infancy and another son, Ralph, died at the age of thirty-eight.
Mrs. DeVault was married September 8, 1924 to A. R. Compston. After living five years at Longton, Kansas, they moved to the Pitzer farm.
She is survived by her husband, a son, Grover DeVault of Chicago; a daughter, Mrs. Ralph C. Crouse of Winterset; and five grandchildren.
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