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Anna (Nicols) Compton Willson - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Natchez Democrat November 13, 1933

Anna (Nicols) Compton Willson, of Natchez. Vicksburg, Miss., Nov. 13 [1933]. Funeral services for the

late Mrs. Anna Nicols Willson, of Natchez, who died in the early morning on Nov. 10 [1933] at the residence

of her children, Dr. and Mrs. Edward L. Newell, of Chattanooga, were held from Fisher's funeral chapel

here the following morning at eleven o'clock.

Mrs. Willson was the daughter of the late Colonel George W. Nicols, of Maryland and of Madison Parish,

Louisiana. She first married Charles Shaw Compton, a Confederate veteran and a member of the family l

ong-known here, and secondly Clarence W. Willson, of Virginia and Natchez, also a soldier of the Confederacy.

Mrs. Willson was born in Natchez, April 3, 1852, and was in her eighty-first year when called by death. She is

survived by her three children, Mrs. J. Blackwood Patterson [Anna Compton II], of Augusta County, Va.; Miss

Charlie Compton, of Natchez; and Mrs Edward L. Newell (nee Willson) [Georgie Willson], of Chattanooga; eight

grandchildren, W. Brown Patterson, Charlotte, .C.; [Mrs.] G. M. Gilkeson [Helen Patterson], Mrs. Wesley Taylor

[Anna Compton, III, Patterson], and J. Blackwood Patterson, of Staunton, Va.; Edward Thomas Newell [II], of Johns

Hopkins, and Miss Georgie Newell, of Chattanooga.

Since the death of her husband [Clarence Willson] in 1924, she gradually failed in strength. She was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church in Natchez.