The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1899-01-28
DEATH OF W. H. HAMPTON

DEATH OF W. H. HAMPTON.
William Henry Lamp,on, the
Oldest native resident of Win
chester, lied at his home in this
city Monday night of grippe,
aged eighty-six years.
He was the son of Squire
James Hampton. who was one OF
a family of .seyenteen sons and
seven daughters, and who more
than a-hundred years ago was an
inmate of the fort at Bryan Sta
tion. His mother was Susan Rion
a member OF the large family OF
that name who formerly resided
in this county. Squire Hampton
and wife raised three sons, John,
Robert and William, and two
daughters, Anne and Polly, the
latter was the wife Of Jesse Riley,
who formerly was in business in
this city, and Anne married Mr..
Womack, of Carter county, and
died several years ago. His
brothers, John and Robert. were
better known in this section than
himself.
About 1926 Squire hampton
and family moved from this city
to Carter county and before Lhe
attained his majority, w. H.
hampton entered the iron busi-
ness at the old Hopewell Fur
mace, on Little Sandy river. Al
the age of twenty-four he went
to Union Furnace in Lawrence
county, Ohio, with David Sinton
Of Cincinnati, and Thomas Means
1f Hanging Rock. The firm OF
Sinton, Means & Hampton was
long one of the most prominent
in the iron business in the Ohio
valley. Sinton is still living,
nearly ninety years old at Gin
cinnati, and is worth several mill
lien dollars. Means died several
years ago and left an estate OF
several millions.
For about twenty years Mr..
hampton remained as partner
and manager with this firm, but
in 1856 he returned to Kentucky,
where he took charge of the f.
nancial management of Star Fur.
mace in Carter county. About
this time he built at Cattlettsburg
the finest home in Eastern Ken
lucky. His health failed shortly
after and he went to the country
and purchased an interest in
Pennsylvania Furnace in Green
up county. Here he remained
until the close of the war, when
he organized the first ssboom" in
mineral lands in Kentucky or
the South, and sold out to an
Eastern syndicate.
He then removed TO Portsmouth
Ohio, and engaged in the bank
ing business, but became in
yolyed in the affairs Of Star Fur
mace and returned to Kentucky.
In 1873 he sold out to the Norton
Iron Works at Ashland and re-
tired permanently from the iron
business.
For q while he was in the
newspaper business and conduct
ed the Ashland Review, a weekly
paper started by his son, w. j..
Hampton.
He soon removed to Steuben-
vile, Ohio, where he remained
for several years and then re-
turned to Winchester, the place
of his birth, after an absence OF
more than sixty years.
In 1845 he married Miss Ellinor
Fairfax Miller, daughter OF Col.
Isaac Miller, of Cynthiana, whom
he first met here during a visit
she made to her cousin, Wash
ington Miller, father OF DIR. Wash.
Miller. She lived to be eighty
years old and for more than half
a century was indeed a helpmeet
and companion to Mr. hampton.
She died three years ago in this
city. She was the last of her
family and he was the last of his.
The Hampton family is an old
English one, and it is said that
Joha George hampton, the pres-
ent Earl of Durham, is Of the
same stock.
Three children live TO mourn
the meath of their father, Mrs. A.
HI. SIMPSON and Miss Nellie
amnfou of rhss CITY and w Il