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James M. Compton (Hopkins County justice of the peace and circuit court clerk)

b. 1811-01-12 d. 1877-01-14

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk, and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Mary C. Compton. Father of Willis M. Compton and Martha C. Compton. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Justice of the peace in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Clerk of the Hopkins Circuit Court in Hopkins County from 1863 to 1867.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 134A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 2, p. 728.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 836.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Madisonville, p. 221B.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50.

"James M. Compton (1811-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial #59861063, accessed March 20, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59861063.

Citation

Compton, James M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211908 (November 12, 2026).

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