Compton Family Record - Sophia Compton

Person Chart

Additional Names

Additional Names	Name
Other Name	Sophia Densmore
Other Name	Sophia S Densmore

Parents

Father	Date of Birth	Mother	Date of Birth
James Compton		Clarissa Cleveland	1770

Partners

Partner	Date of Birth	Children
Joel Densmore	21 SEP 1794

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place	Description
Birth	5 JUN 1799	Delaware, New York, USA
Marriage	7 MAR 1819	Leicester, Livingston, New York, USA
Place of Residence	1860	Woodcock, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA	Age: 61
Place of Residence	7 MAR 1869	Erie, Pennsylvania, USA	Celebrated golden anniversary
Place of Residence	1870	Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA	Age: 71; Census Post Office: Erie
Race			W
Death	2 JAN 1877	Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial		Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

Notes


Sophia Compton 3, m Sun. Mar. 7, 1819, at Moscow, N. Y., Joel Densmore, son of Zebediah Densmore and Elizabeth (Todd) Densmore of Pittsfield, Vt. In Mar. 1869 they celebrated their golden wedding at Erie, Pa. She died at Meadville, Pa. Tues. Jan. 2, 1877. Joel Densmore was born at Alstead, N. H. Sun. Sept. 21, 1794. His father (Zebediah) served as a soldier in the Revolutionarv war, also in the war of 1812, and in the latter, Joel Densmore, on his eighteenth birthday, enlisted as a drummer. In 1813 his regiment was sent to Sacketts Harbor, and in the fall of that year they were ordered down the St. Lawrence river to French Mills, their knapsacks having been transported by boat to that point, and here he found that his was missing. Unable to procure additional clothing, without leave, he started for Pittsfield, where his mother lived, crossing Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains enroute. It required three months time for his sister to weave and make his clothing, and he then returned to his regiment, where he was court martialed and sentenced to be shot for desertion. The same court recommended mercy, and his sentence was commuted to three months additional service. In the winter of 1818 he chopped wood on the present site of Rochester N. Y. He went to Moscow N. Y. and married Sophia Compton in the spriruz of 1819 and that same spring she tapped the trees and made 100 pounds of maple sugar. They removed to Cathridge Falls N. Y. in 1822 and to Rochester in 1823. and to Good Hope Can. in 1826 where he was engaged to build a pail factory, the first one in Canada for making wooden pails by machinery. Late in the fall of the same year they returned to Rochester where they remained until 1834. While in Rochester, on general training days, he and his son James were in demand as snare drummers, he was paid $4 and James, then twelve years of age, was paid $2 per day. In the spring of 1834 they moved to Moscow and in the fall of 1835 to Washington Tp. Erie Co. Pa., to the farm where Putnam Jeffords now lives, and to Blooming Valley, Crawford Co. Pa. Jan. 1, 1836. Joel Densmore was a mechanic, inventor and millwright of more than ordinary ability. A lathe for turning wooden bowls is of his invention and is in use' at the present day. It was never patented. He attended school but six weeks in childhood, was therefore self educated and was so pr.oficient in mathematics after attaining manhood that he could calculate an eclipse. He had an unusually sweet, musical voice in singing and often sung beautiful melodies in his sleep, some of these songs he was unable to repeat when awake. He d at Erie, Pa. Wed. Sept. 8, 1875.

Sophia Compton 3, m Sun. Mar. 7, 1819, at Moscow, N. Y., Joel Densmore, son of Zebediah Densmore and Elizabeth (Todd) Densmore of Pittsfield, Vt. In Mar. 1869 they celebrated their golden wedding at Erie, Pa. She died at Meadville, Pa. Tues. Jan. 2, 1877.

Joel Densmore was born at Alstead, N. H. Sun. Sept. 21, 1794. His father (Zebediah) served as a soldier in the Revolutionarv war, also in the war of 1812, and in the latter, Joel Densmore, on his eighteenth birthday, enlisted as a drummer. In 1813 his regiment was sent to Sacketts Harbor, and in the fall of that year they were ordered down the St. Lawrence river to French Mills, their knapsacks having been transported by boat to that point, and here he found that his was missing. Unable to procure additional clothing, without leave, he started for Pittsfield, where his mother lived, crossing Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains enroute. It required three months time for his sister to weave and make his clothing, and he then returned to his regiment, where he was court martialed and sentenced to be shot for desertion. The same court recommended mercy, and his sentence was commuted to three months additional service.

In the winter of 1818 he chopped wood on the present site of Rochester N. Y. He went to Moscow N. Y. and married Sophia Compton in the spriruz of 1819 and that same spring she tapped the trees and made 100 pounds of maple sugar. They removed to Cathridge Falls N. Y. in 1822 and to Rochester in 1823. and to Good Hope Can. in 1826 where he was engaged to build a pail factory, the first one in Canada for making wooden pails by machinery. Late in the fall of the same year they returned to Rochester where they remained until 1834. While in Rochester, on general training days, he and his son James were in demand as snare drummers, he was paid $4 and James, then twelve years of age, was paid $2 per day. In the spring of 1834 they moved to Moscow and in the fall of 1835 to Washington Tp. Erie Co. Pa., to the farm where Putnam Jeffords now lives, and to Blooming Valley, Crawford Co. Pa. Jan. 1, 1836.

Joel Densmore was a mechanic, inventor and millwright of more than ordinary ability. A lathe for turning wooden bowls is of his invention and is in use' at the present day. It was never patented. He attended school but six weeks in childhood, was therefore self educated and was so pr.oficient in mathematics after attaining manhood that he could calculate an eclipse. He had an unusually sweet, musical voice in singing and often sung beautiful melodies in his sleep, some of these songs he was unable to repeat when awake. He d at Erie, Pa. Wed. Sept. 8, 1875.

Sources

Description	Page	Quality	Information	Evidence
1860 United States Federal Census	Year: 1860; Census Place: Woodcock, Crawford, Pennsylvania; Roll: M653_1100; Page: 1242; Image: 621; Family History Library Film: 805100	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
1870 United States Federal Census	Year: 1870; Census Place: Erie Ward 6, Erie, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_1340; Page: 80A; Image: 475; Family History Library Film: 552839	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
Family Record of James Compton and Clarissa Cleveland-Compton	p. 28	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
Family Record of James Compton and Clarissa Cleveland-Compton	p. 3	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000	Book Title: The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families. An attempt to trace, in both the male and female lines, the posterity of Moses Cleveland ... [and] of Alexander Cleveland ... with numerous biographical sketches; and containing ancestries of ma...	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000	Book Title: Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR Vol 028	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000	Book Title: The genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland families. An attempt to trace, in both the male and female lines, the posterity of Moses Cleveland ... [and] of Alexander Cleveland ... with numerous biographical sketches; and containing ancestries of ma...	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
RootsWeb	Parren Family 0914, (Leonard Parren, compiler, (lparren@stny.rr.com), Parren Family 0914 ahnentafel, RootsWeb's World Connect Project, (www.rootswb.com)), Ahnentafel submitted September 14, 2002.	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
Supplemental Compton Family Record	p. 11	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current		Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current		Don't know	Don't know	Don't know

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