Charles Henry CUMPSTON

  General Notes:

Photo: Taken by Bob and Nancy Cannon for the Find A Grave web site, this is the impressive stone for Charles Henry Cumpston and his wife "Della" at Wiley Cemetery in McLean County, Illinois.

Credit: Bob and Nancy Cannon


1877 BIRTH of Charles Henry Cumpston

1880 CENSUS, Illinois, Livingston County, Indian Grove Township ("Charles H.," age 3, with parents) ("Compston" in census)

1882 DEATH of grandfather, Solomon Cumpston

1898 MARRIAGE of Charles Henry Cumpston to first wife, Emma Della Ward

1900 CENSUS, Illinois, McLean County, Cropsey Township ("Charles H.," age 22, "Farmer") (wife "Emma D.," age 20) (Ella is documnted as the mother of 1 child, 1 child living in the year 1900; Ella and Charles had been married for 1 year) ("Crumpston" in some census indexes)

1907 DEATH of first wife, Emma Della (Ward) Cumpston, at approximately 28 years

1908 MARRIAGE (approximate) of Charles Henry Cumpston to second wife, Lillian Violet (maiden name unknown)

1910 CENSUS, Illinois, McLean County, Cropsey Township, village of Cropsey ("Charles H.," age 32, "Farmer") (wife "Lillian V.," age 20) (Lillian was the mother of 1 child, 0 children living in the year 1910, but in the Cumpston household are Charles' three children with his deceased wife Ella--Clarence, Virgil and Delpha) ("Cumpton" in census)

1918 DRAFT Registration, Illinois, McLean County, Cropsey ("Charles Henry Cumpston," age 41, born June 27, 1877, "Farming, self-employed," in Cropsey, McLean County, Illinois; wife, "Lillian Violet Cumpston")

DEATH of mother, Martha J. Cumpston

1920 CENSUS, Illinois, McLean County, Cropsey Township ("Chas. H.," age 41, "Farmer") (wife "Lillian," age 30) (along with children of Charles and Lillian, in the household is Charles' father "I. Clinton," age 70, widower)

1930 CENSUS, Illinois, McLean County, Cropsey Township ("Charles H.," age 51, "Farmer") (wife "Lillian V.,"age 40) (daughter Delpha and Charles' father "Isaac C.," age 80, widower, are also in the household)

1939 DEATH of father, Isaac Clinton Cumpston



DESCRIPTION (Charles): "Medium height, medium build, blue eyes, auburn hair" (World War I Draft Registration)

Charles married Emma Della WARD, daughter of John F. WARD and Hannah Eliza WHITENER, on December 14, 1898 in McLean County, Illinois. (Emma Della WARD was born in August 1879 in McLean County, Illinois, died in 1907 and was buried in Wiley Cemetery, Colfax, Mclean County, Illinois.)

Charles next married Lillian Violet CUMPSTON about 1908 in Illinois. (Lillian Violet CUMPSTON was born on June 26, 1889 in Illinois and died in December 1971 in Livingston County, Illinois.)