Display Patriot - P-139898 - John COMPHER Sr

John COMPHER Sr

SAR Patriot #: P-139898

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service

Birth: 16 Oct 1740 / / PA
Death: 26 Mar 1815 / Loudoun / VA

Qualifying Service Description:

Paid supply tax in 1783 in Loudoun County, Virginia


Additional References:

Binns Genealogy, 1783 Personal Property and land Tax Lists for Virginia cities and counties, Loudoun County Personal Property Tax 1783A image 5, pg 4


Spouse: Maria Cathem
Children: John; Anna Maria Magdalena; Peter;
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Burial:
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Cemetery (C-0069606)
Location:
Lovettsville / Loudoun / VA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
151099
Grave Plot #:
Row HH, Lot 4.
Grave GPS Coordinates:
39.257030 / -77.638695
Find A Grave Memorial #:
42883386
Marker Type:
SAR
SAR Grave Dedication Date:
10 Apr 2022

Comments:
  • Photo is displayed courtesy of Wm Forrest Crain, VA SAR
  • photo used with permission of Edward W. Spannaus, MDSSAR


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: COL William Forrest Crain Ph.D.

John Compher Sr (1740-1815) by Edward Spannaus

John Compher Sr was born on 16 October 1740 and died on 26 March 1815.  He is buried in New Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery, Row HH, Lot 4.  His inscription reads:

IN MEMORY OF JOHN COMPHER SENR WHO WAS BORN OCTOBER THE 16TH  1740 AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH THE 26TH 1815 AGED 75 YEARS 5 MONTHS AND 10 DAYS.[1]

John was born in Pennsylvania, according to FamilySearch.org.  His wife Maria Catarina (Cathren) Wielandt was born in Atolhoe, Pennsylvania on 4 February 1755, and was baptized on 9 March 1755.[2]   

John provided patriotic service by paying supply taxes in Loudoun County, Virginia in 1783.[3]

John is buried right next to his wife, Maria Cathren, who died 12 days before him.  She is buried in Row HH, Site 5.  The inscription on her headstone states that she is the “wife of John Compher Sr.”, and that she was born on February 4, 1755, and died 14 March 1815.[4]

They had at least three children: 

  • John (1773-1846, also known as John Compher Sr);
  • Anna Maria Magdalena (1775-1859, married to John C. Mann); and
  • Peter (1776-1858). 

All three are buried in New Jerusalem.

His son Peter Compher was born 24 Aug. 1776 in Loudoun County and died 5 Nov. 1858 at age 82. His parents are listed as John and Maria C. Compher.[5] Peter is buried right next to his parents, in Row HH, Lot 6.  Peter’s wife Susanna Stoneburner Compher is buried in Lot 7.

[1] Note: spelling as in original. The calculated age from the birth and death dates is 74 years, 5 months, and 10 days, although on the headstone it seems clearly to say “79 years.”  We have not been able to determine what the “L.C.V.” at the top of the headstone stands for.

[2] Early Lutheran Baptisms and Marriages in Southeastern Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1896), as reported on Ancestry.com.

[3] Binns Genealogy, 1783 Personal Property and land Tax Lists for Virginia cities and counties, Loudoun County Personal Property Tax 1783A image 5, p. 4.

[4] The entry in the church’s burial register is dated March 16 – which indicates that she was buried two days after she died.

[5] Library of Virginia, Death Records, Loudoun County, 1854-1896.  Accessed through "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHN-R3YR-S61D?cc=4231103 : 30 March 2022), > image 1 of 1.


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