I just had to put my two-bits worth in as regards "Little
Compton". I'm sure that there are a lot of people who
know more about this than I, but here are a few things:
I started school, first grade, at the Compton one-room
country school in the fall of 1939. Miss Janice Patton
was our teacher. We lived about two miles from the
school and what remained of the little town. There were
perhaps a dozen students covering most if not all eight
elementary grades. Once a day, we all went with a
bucket to a well about a quarter of a mile away to get
drinking water.
There wasn't much of a town left, just one "general-store"
run by a gentleman named Walter Hymer. There were
a couple of families still living on the town site. My
sister-in-law's family, the Frocks, and the Hymers I
believe were the only residents at that time.
Some of that area was purchased by the Missouri State
Government and exists as something of a park/wildlife
preserve.
I have a bit of information around about the old town and
if I can find it, and if anyone is interested, I'll post it.
Cal Phillips
phillipscalvin(a)prodigy.net