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@prodigy.net