Please note, this is a work in progress. I chose to use the password options 
and living person's names are no longer "hidden" so that their info can be 
checked for accuracy by those persons. If you share a surname, please check 
back for additions and corrections as I will keep adding and editing to make 
this as accurate as possible. I am working to provide sources and will add 
them as I find them. A lot of my source material has been handed down from 
family genealogist to family genealogist. I remember as a child my Mother 
working on the Family Tree and the large sheets of paper with names spread out 
over the table, buffet... But along with the names there were the stories ... 
the railway workers that were killed by trains, the Bull that survived the war 
only to be killed the first week of work in a factory leaving a young wife and 
small child  ... these stories intrigued me. I would appreciate any additions, 
corrections or suggestions. If you think you may connect to any of these 
lines, I would love to exchange information with you. Thanks!

I have to give a big Thank you to Jim Compton for all his support and 
information. :)

Grandma Jo wrote this down as this was what was passed down to her - James and 
Julie Ann Compton were married in Kentucky, started their lives 
together on a huge plantation that was left to them by Julie's parents who had 
settled there in the early nineteenth century. They were planters and had come 
to America from England. 6 children were born to the Compton's while living 
here. They had a successful plantation that yielded acres of mostly tobacco, 
but also cotton and sugar cane. 
Then came the Civil War. James Compton was blessed with enough cash on hand to 
make a fast trip to the north with his family. They arrived in a small town 
called Marceline Missouri. A small hotel was their home for a while, and Julie 
was expecting her seventh child. James built another home for his family east 
of town. 
... James himself was found with his body draped over a rail fence, 
with his throat cut from ear to ear. 
Andrew Hawkinson can be traced to coming over from Sweden in 1898 ... He came 
over and saved money to bring his family over - went into town to send the 
money - and on the way he was robbed. He went back to work and saved again and 
this time he spent the night in a cemetary just outside town ...
Carl E Johnson came over from Sweden - possibly as an indentured servant - but 
the papers are in Swedish and need translating - His son (Fenton A) started a 
stamp business at approximately 12 years of age and that was his livlihood - 
he had a brilliant mind.

So many stories - 

What I have online is a working copy - some of the information I am still 
trying to find the paperwork to back it up, but maybe someone will come across 
this who has what I need to prove/disprove something included here. So please 
don't be afraid to contact me if you have something that supports what I have 
or disproves something I have here. If you contact me, please put "Tribal 
Pages Family Tree" or something similar in the subject line as I don't 
normally open email from people I don't know.