As a very young man, Neely worked for Walton Construction Company. In 1900, he was a tractman, laying and repairing railroad tracks, for the Buckeye Coal and Coke Company in Bramwell, West Virginia. By 1903, he was a contractor and shipper of mining timber. This may have been "Belcher and Compton."
After meeting the handsome Ora Kathrine Johnson, they courted, then married in the parlor of the Jeffersonville Hotel (Tazewell) by John Newton Harman, Sr., minister of the Christian Church and author of "Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia." They spent their honeymoon in Jamestown, Virginia.
He decided to venture into less labor-intensive work and enrolled in a local business school to study bookkeeping. The Pocahontas Coal Company hired him to manage their store in Pocahontas, Virginia. Other company stores followed, and their expanding family moved around - Eckman, Tams, Devils Fork (now Stephenson), and Rhodell, WV. In Roanoke, Virginia, he had his own store as a confectioner. The family moved to Ghent, then East Beckley where Neely sold shoes door-to-door and also Rawleigh products.
Neely was very religious and fastidiously clean about his person. He always wore long white shirts, except when working in the family garden, his only hobby other than reading the newspaper and the Bible.
He was active in church circles, serving as superintendent for the Methodist Church Sunday School classes. He was a member of the Oddfellows, president of the Rhodell PTA, and a staunch "New Dealer" Democrat. He ran for the House of Delegates but lost.
Cornelius loved his wife, was a dedicated family man, and cared deeply that his children should grow up to be good men and women.
Cornelius "Neely" was the son of Hiram Alonzo Compton and Nancy Jane Belcher. He married Ora Kathrine Johnson.
COMPTON
Compton, Cornelius Moses, age 71 years, of Chester, Pennsylvania [residing at his daughter Eva Houchin's home], died Sunday, June 12th, at 3 p.m. at his residence. The body will remain at the Calfee Funeral Home [Beckley, WV] until 12 noon Wednesday, June 15th, when it will be taken to the Methodist Temple and will lie in state until the funeral hour. Funeral services will be conducted there Wednesday, June 15th at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Glen W. Stewart, pastor of Bland Street Methodist Church of Bluefield, West Virginia, officiating and assisted by the Rev. W. P. Eastwood, Beckley. Interment will follow in the Sunset Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be John E. Bennett, Jr., Dr. Harwood James, John Mann, George W. Bright, L.F. Cooper, and C.J. Kinzer. Honorary pallbearers will be the Men's Bible Class of Methodist Temple.
After meeting the handsome Ora Kathrine Johnson, they courted, then married in the parlor of the Jeffersonville Hotel (Tazewell) by John Newton Harman, Sr., minister of the Christian Church and author of "Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia." They spent their honeymoon in Jamestown, Virginia.
He decided to venture into less labor-intensive work and enrolled in a local business school to study bookkeeping. The Pocahontas Coal Company hired him to manage their store in Pocahontas, Virginia. Other company stores followed, and their expanding family moved around - Eckman, Tams, Devils Fork (now Stephenson), and Rhodell, WV. In Roanoke, Virginia, he had his own store as a confectioner. The family moved to Ghent, then East Beckley where Neely sold shoes door-to-door and also Rawleigh products.
Neely was very religious and fastidiously clean about his person. He always wore long white shirts, except when working in the family garden, his only hobby other than reading the newspaper and the Bible.
He was active in church circles, serving as superintendent for the Methodist Church Sunday School classes. He was a member of the Oddfellows, president of the Rhodell PTA, and a staunch "New Dealer" Democrat. He ran for the House of Delegates but lost.
Cornelius loved his wife, was a dedicated family man, and cared deeply that his children should grow up to be good men and women.
Cornelius "Neely" was the son of Hiram Alonzo Compton and Nancy Jane Belcher. He married Ora Kathrine Johnson.
COMPTON
Compton, Cornelius Moses, age 71 years, of Chester, Pennsylvania [residing at his daughter Eva Houchin's home], died Sunday, June 12th, at 3 p.m. at his residence. The body will remain at the Calfee Funeral Home [Beckley, WV] until 12 noon Wednesday, June 15th, when it will be taken to the Methodist Temple and will lie in state until the funeral hour. Funeral services will be conducted there Wednesday, June 15th at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Glen W. Stewart, pastor of Bland Street Methodist Church of Bluefield, West Virginia, officiating and assisted by the Rev. W. P. Eastwood, Beckley. Interment will follow in the Sunset Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be John E. Bennett, Jr., Dr. Harwood James, John Mann, George W. Bright, L.F. Cooper, and C.J. Kinzer. Honorary pallbearers will be the Men's Bible Class of Methodist Temple.
As a very young man, Neely worked for Walton Construction Company. In 1900, he was a tractman, laying and repairing railroad tracks, for the Buckeye Coal and Coke Company in Bramwell, West Virginia. By 1903, he was a contractor and shipper of mining timber. This may have been "Belcher and Compton."
After meeting the handsome Ora Kathrine Johnson, they courted, then married in the parlor of the Jeffersonville Hotel (Tazewell) by John Newton Harman, Sr., minister of the Christian Church and author of "Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia." They spent their honeymoon in Jamestown, Virginia.
He decided to venture into less labor-intensive work and enrolled in a local business school to study bookkeeping. The Pocahontas Coal Company hired him to manage their store in Pocahontas, Virginia. Other company stores followed, and their expanding family moved around - Eckman, Tams, Devils Fork (now Stephenson), and Rhodell, WV. In Roanoke, Virginia, he had his own store as a confectioner. The family moved to Ghent, then East Beckley where Neely sold shoes door-to-door and also Rawleigh products.
Neely was very religious and fastidiously clean about his person. He always wore long white shirts, except when working in the family garden, his only hobby other than reading the newspaper and the Bible.
He was active in church circles, serving as superintendent for the Methodist Church Sunday School classes. He was a member of the Oddfellows, president of the Rhodell PTA, and a staunch "New Dealer" Democrat. He ran for the House of Delegates but lost.
Cornelius loved his wife, was a dedicated family man, and cared deeply that his children should grow up to be good men and women.
Cornelius "Neely" was the son of Hiram Alonzo Compton and Nancy Jane Belcher. He married Ora Kathrine Johnson.
COMPTON
Compton, Cornelius Moses, age 71 years, of Chester, Pennsylvania [residing at his daughter Eva Houchin's home], died Sunday, June 12th, at 3 p.m. at his residence. The body will remain at the Calfee Funeral Home [Beckley, WV] until 12 noon Wednesday, June 15th, when it will be taken to the Methodist Temple and will lie in state until the funeral hour. Funeral services will be conducted there Wednesday, June 15th at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Glen W. Stewart, pastor of Bland Street Methodist Church of Bluefield, West Virginia, officiating and assisted by the Rev. W. P. Eastwood, Beckley. Interment will follow in the Sunset Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be John E. Bennett, Jr., Dr. Harwood James, John Mann, George W. Bright, L.F. Cooper, and C.J. Kinzer. Honorary pallbearers will be the Men's Bible Class of Methodist Temple.
After meeting the handsome Ora Kathrine Johnson, they courted, then married in the parlor of the Jeffersonville Hotel (Tazewell) by John Newton Harman, Sr., minister of the Christian Church and author of "Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia." They spent their honeymoon in Jamestown, Virginia.
He decided to venture into less labor-intensive work and enrolled in a local business school to study bookkeeping. The Pocahontas Coal Company hired him to manage their store in Pocahontas, Virginia. Other company stores followed, and their expanding family moved around - Eckman, Tams, Devils Fork (now Stephenson), and Rhodell, WV. In Roanoke, Virginia, he had his own store as a confectioner. The family moved to Ghent, then East Beckley where Neely sold shoes door-to-door and also Rawleigh products.
Neely was very religious and fastidiously clean about his person. He always wore long white shirts, except when working in the family garden, his only hobby other than reading the newspaper and the Bible.
He was active in church circles, serving as superintendent for the Methodist Church Sunday School classes. He was a member of the Oddfellows, president of the Rhodell PTA, and a staunch "New Dealer" Democrat. He ran for the House of Delegates but lost.
Cornelius loved his wife, was a dedicated family man, and cared deeply that his children should grow up to be good men and women.
Cornelius "Neely" was the son of Hiram Alonzo Compton and Nancy Jane Belcher. He married Ora Kathrine Johnson.
COMPTON
Compton, Cornelius Moses, age 71 years, of Chester, Pennsylvania [residing at his daughter Eva Houchin's home], died Sunday, June 12th, at 3 p.m. at his residence. The body will remain at the Calfee Funeral Home [Beckley, WV] until 12 noon Wednesday, June 15th, when it will be taken to the Methodist Temple and will lie in state until the funeral hour. Funeral services will be conducted there Wednesday, June 15th at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Glen W. Stewart, pastor of Bland Street Methodist Church of Bluefield, West Virginia, officiating and assisted by the Rev. W. P. Eastwood, Beckley. Interment will follow in the Sunset Memorial Park. Active pallbearers will be John E. Bennett, Jr., Dr. Harwood James, John Mann, George W. Bright, L.F. Cooper, and C.J. Kinzer. Honorary pallbearers will be the Men's Bible Class of Methodist Temple.
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