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Belle Plaine Union; Feb. 18, 1926
OBITUARY OF I. N. COMPTON
Isaac Newton Compton
Isaac Newton Compton was born at Belle Plaine, Iowa, January 24, 1863, and died February 2nd, 1926 at Valley Falls, Kansas. He grew to manhood on his father’s farm near Belle Plaine. In 1899 he was married to Miss Julia Keeler of Chelsea. To this union was born one son, Sidney, ln 1904 death called the mother home. On December 16, 1906 he was united in marriage with Miss Lydia Marcellus of Belle Plaine. One daughter, Marbella, came to bless this union. He leaves to mourn his going, his companion of nineteen years; one son Sidney, one daughter Marcella, one grand son Wallace Edward Compton, all of Valley Falls, Kansas and two sisters, Mrs. W. H. Kollman and Mrs. W. H LeaVelle of this city.
After leaving the farm in early manhood, Mr. Compton was successfully engaged in the stock business for a period of fifteen years.
After his second marriage he removed to Holly, Colorado, where he had land interests; thence moving to Colorado Springs, Colo., where he was engaged in the real estate business. He came to Valley Falls, Kansas in December 1909, where he was engaged in the real estate business at the time of his death. Other work connected with the real estate business depleted his vitality, so that he was unable to withstand the ravages of disease, and he passed away after an illness of only five days — death being due to pneumonia. He was laid to rest in Farrar cemetery at Valley Falls, Kansas February 4, 1926.
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