Go west young man

Tracing my wife’s father turned up a lot of mysteries.

He was born in 1882 in Kentucky, near the Land Between the Lakes.

His name was James Oscar Compton.

When he was 16, he left home after some disagreement with his father and headed west.

Next, I picked up that he settled in Missouri for a time, long enough to get married and have two children, Richard and Clara.

Upon the death of his wife, he h...