Ella CUMPSTON

  General Notes:

Photo: The only daughter of Osa Jane "Jennie" and Benjamin Cumpston, Ella did not marry. She is buried at Graceland Cemetery, Indian Grove Township, Livingston County, Illinois.

Photo taken for ALLUM in February, 2006



1872 BIRTH of Ella Cumpston

1877 DEATH of paternal grandmother, Esther Cumpston

1880 CENSUS, Illinois, Livingston County, Indian Grove Township (June 2) ("Ella," age 7, is with her parents) ("Compston" on census page)

1881 DEATH of paternal grandfather, John Cumpston

1882 DEATH of maternal grandfather, Solomon Cumpston

1900 CENSUS, Illinois, Livingston County, Indian Grove Township (June 22) ("Ella," age 26, born "October, 1873 in Illinois," is with her parents) (cemetery records, 1873, but Ella's gravestone, 1872) (transcribed "Curmpston")

1910 CENSUS, Illinois, Livingston County, Indian Grove Township, Fairbury (April 28) ("Ella," age 37, is with her parents) ("Cumpston" on census page)

1916 DEATH of father, Benjamin Cumpston

1920 CENSUS, Illinois, Livingston County, Indian Grove Township (January 29) ("Ella," age 47, and her widowed mother "Jennie," age 72, are in the household of Ella's brother "Edward," age 44, "Farmer") ("Cumpston" on census page)

1930 DEATH of mother, Osee Jane "Jennie" (Cumpston) Cumpston (in January)

1930 CENSUS, Illinois, Livingston County, Indian Grove Township (April 14) ("Ella," age 57, and her brother "Edward," age 54, "Farmer," are in the same household and are next door to their elder brother Jesse and Jesse's wife) ("Cumpston" on census page)

1953 DEATH, Ella Cumpston, at approximately 81 years


Ella did not marry.