• Born: 7 January 1849, Union Township, Clinton County, Ohio, USA
• Marriage (1): Benjamin H. COMPTON on 22 August 1867 in Clinton County, Ohio, USA
• Died: 11 April 1931, Union, Union County, Oregon, USA at age 82
• Buried: 1931, Haines, Baker County, Oregon, USA

   Other names for Margaret were Margarett COMPTON and Margaret WALTHELL.

  Burial Notes

Haines Cemetery

  Recorded Events in Her Life

• Parents: Thomas and Elizabeth Walthell.

• She appeared on the 1850 US Federal Census in 1850 in Union Township, Clinton County, Ohio, USA.

• She appeared on the 1900 US Federal Census on 14 June 1900 in Harrison Township, Hall County, Nebraska, USA.

• Her obituary was published in the North Powder News ­- Oregon Trail Weekly on 17 April 1931 in North Powder, Union County, Oregon, USA.
  
  Margaret W. Compton, aged 82, of Muddy Creek, died at 7 o'clock Saturday morning at the home of her daughter, Mary Elizabeth Castor, at Union, following a brief illness.
  
  Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Haines Tuesday at 2 o'clock, with Rev. R. C. Lee of Union officiating.
  
  Margaret Walthal Compton was born Jan. 7, 1849 at Wilmington, Ohio.
  
  She died Apr. 11, 1931, at Union, Oregon. Margaret Walthal was married to Benjamin Compton Aug. 22, 1867, in Clinton County, Ohio, the husband preceding her in death: Dec. 6, 1919, as did one daughter, Sarah Ethel Compton, Dec. 8, 1920, at Haines, Oregon.
  
  She leaves to mourn her demise, four sons and one daughter: A.M. Compton, Bigfork, Mont.; T.W. Compton, Whittier, Calif.; Seth Compton, Benkelman, Nebr.; W.T. Compton, Haines, Ore.; Mrs. Mary E. Castor, Union, Ore.; and one sister, Mrs. Eliza Hare, Jacksonville, Florida; fourteen grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.
  
  "Our memories of mother are sweet to us but never as sweet as mother."
  
  She was a birthright member of the Society of Friends, which faith she professed to the end.
  
  A. M. Compton, the eldest son, was unable to attend the funeral.

Margaret married Benjamin H. COMPTON on 22 August 1867 in Clinton County, Ohio, USA. (Benjamin H. COMPTON was born on 11 July 1848 in Clinton County, Ohio, USA, died on 6 December 1919 in Baker County, Oregon, USA and was buried in 1919 in Haines, Baker County, Oregon, USA.)