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Frank Tull Manuscripts: 51 - 60
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My first memory of this part of our Graham family was when they resided at Triplett, Missouri. That was after 1906 and I believe they remained there until Uncle Bauf retired and moved to California in 1918. Only a few months after changing their residence, Uncle Bauf died on October 10, 1918. Aunt Norse lived until March 10, 1925 and it was my privilege to enjoy a visit with her at the home of Ely and Aunt Betty Graham). in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, in 1920. At that time, I endeavored to learn what she could inform me about our ancestors. She would inform me she knew nothing about them that I had not learned from my aunt, Mary William Campbell Mirick.
The daughter, Frances Elizabeth Magill married William K. Carruthers, September 17, 1901. She became the mother of a daughter, Ruth, on November 17. 1902. I am not positive, but I assume the Carruthers' family resided in Kansas City at that time, for when I was old enough to remember this family, they were residents of that city. William K. Carruthers died January 9, 1917 and his family were making California their home when her parents had moved to that state. Mrs. Frances E. Magill Carruthers is now a resident of Westfield, New Jersey, 209Tuttle Parkway. She is with her daughter, Ruth Carruthers, who married Earle Phillips Merritt on June 30, 1923. I assume the daughter, Ruth Carruthers, married in California, but of this fact I am not certain.
Ruth Carruthers and her husband, Earle Merritt. became the parents of William Lewis Merritt, born April 11, 1925; Earle Phillips Merritt, Jr. born August 31, 1927; and Paul Carruthers Merritt, born September 28, 1930. These young parents suffered the loss of their first child on April 4, 1926 and are now living at 209 Tuttle Parkway, Westfield, New Jersey, with their sons Earl and Paul. I am not certain but I believe at least two of the Merritt children were born in California but it is possible the baby of the family was born after they changed residence from that state to New Jersey. It has not been my pleasure to meet Cousin Fan or her daughter, Ruth Carruthers Merritt since about 1926, but for these relatives my family have always had a great deal of love. When in New York in 1940, I did not know the address of the Carruthers-Merritt, family and missed the opportunity of seeing all of them and the two young members of the Merritt family who I have never met.
Of the grandchildren of William and Harriet Froman Graham, there are very few living in 1942. Among them are Cousin Fan Magill Carruthers, the daughter of Narciss Graham Magill; my mother Harriet Graham Campbell Tull the daughter of Sarah Jane Graham Campbell; possibly two children of the Harvey Graham family in Texas who’s names are Charles Fletcher and Jessie Graham of Denton, Texas; and the three children of Uncle Fletcher Graham's family, who are Ely and Mary- William in New Orleans and their brother Fowler in McCallester, Oklahoma. With the exception of my mother, who is a resident of Carrollton, all of the other grand- children are far from the original home of the Graham grandparents who founded this family in the State of Missouri. In years gone by, it was not unusual for an entire family to remain in one place for two or more generations, but the mode of living and transportation in this century makes that habit a thing of the past.
By virtue of this fact, I regret to say I have not met the Graham cousin, Ruth Carruthers Merritt;. but very few times in my life and my grown children are strangers to her the same as her family would be to me. This fact is mentioned simply because we are the same age to the year, in fact only a few months difference in our ages and under different circumstances of living, we may have been closer in friendship as well as relation.
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The exact dates of births, marriages and deaths of this branch of the family has been obtained from Cousin Fan Magill Carruthers, in a recent letter and for them I am very grateful. It enabled me to carry this line down to the present date of 1942 and should help any of the descendants in the future if they are interested in the genealogy of their family.
The oldest daughter and third child of the William Graham family was my grand- mother, Sarah Jane Graham. She was born near Lebanon, Kentucky, when they immi- grated from Kentucky in 1839. For whom this grandmother was named is very obvious. Her paternal grandmother was Jane Jackson and her maternal grandmother was Sarah Harrison. Thus her name served for both of her grandparents.
When sixteen years of age, she became the bride of John Campbell, of Carroll County, Missouri, on April 4, 1843. He was the son of Rodger and Mary Ashenhurst Campbell and was sixteen years her senior. It is assumed the Campbell family had their first home on the farm owned by John Campbell about three miles northwest of Carrollton, for it was there they had the first child Mary William Campbell, born February 21, 1844, and I must add, the year of the flood. That expression was always added by our family when the date of birth of this favorite aunt was mentioned. 1844 was the year of the great Missouri River flood when the land was covered from bluff to bluff through the Missouri Valley.
Sarah Jane Graham and her husband evidently took up their residence in Carrollton shortly after this date because old Mrs. Victoria Standley of Carrollton has often informed me she remembered the day Molly Campbell Mirick first came to school. That was in Carrollton and to all of the older Carrolltonians, this Aunt Mary William Campbell was "Molly". Grandfather John Campbell was a merchant in Carroll- ton and the family home north of the Christian Church. So far as my mother knew, this was the home of the family when the three brothers. Isaac, James and John were born. They were probably living there when the daughter, Sally, was born in 1856.
It was in this home that Harriet Graham Campbell was born in 1862 but evidently the family moved to the farm owned by my grandfather north of Manderville because they were residing there in 1863. The Carroll County history of 1881 mentions the fact John L. Mirick slipped through the Union Army lines into Carroll County and remained at the home of John Campbell while he recruited men to the Confederate Army. Shortly after this, the Campbell family moved to Brunswick, Missouri, to remain until after the close of the Civil War. The grandfather took his son James to Louisville, Kentucky, for his safety. The oldest son Isaac, had joined Shelby in his Confederate Calvary, so the grandmother, Campbell, was left in Brunswick with her youngest son, John, and daughters. Mary, William, Sally and baby Harriet. Also she had the negro slaves there to help maintain the crops and the home.
Following the Civil War, we find this family in Mandeville, Missouri. In a little house a short distance west of Vandeville stores, on the south side of the road, was born the youngest child of this family on December 23, 1866. In 1870, the Campbell family had moved to Millville in Ray County. Their residence in that community stand today on the very top of the steep hill just east of the few store buildings in this rural community. They were living there when the oldest daughter, Mary William, married John L. Mirick in 1869.
In 1873, the Campbell family moved to Carrollton, where the oldest daughter, Mary William, had made her home. John Campbell was for a term or two, a deputy sheriff
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in Carroll County and was elected to the office of sheriff in 1878. They had resided in the home on North Folger Street up to the time of his being elected sheriff and then the family resided in the county jail while the grandfather was sheriff. During this time, the sons had remained on the farm in Northwest Carroll County and operated it for their livelihood.
When Grandfather Campbell's term as sheriff of the county was completed, the family returned to the Folger Street home January 1, 1883 and just a week later, Grandfather Campbell, died with typhoid pheumonia. After the marriage of all of her children, Grandmother Campbell then moved to the home of her daughter Mary William Campbell Mirick and made that her home until her death in July of 1888.
In connection with this grandmother, there is one story I must not fail to mention. It seems as a young girl, she was courted by an Irish man named Kelly. A proposal of marriage was expected from this man and my grandmother had made up her mind she would refuse his request because she did not want any "read headed" Irish kids. Fate was a little unkind to her because after her marriage to Scotchman John Campbell, she became the mother of seven children and I believe three or four of them had read hair. They were Mary William Campbell Mirick and Harriet. G. Campbell Tull.
As a young boy in the Tull home at Carrollton, I recall seeing the picture of this grandmother. My description of this ancestor would be a slender, rather long face, pointed nose that was slightly prominent and rather deep set eyes. A narrow forehead was displayed by the hair being pulled back with a part in the center and the usual black bonnet worn at that time was worn. The picture would give the impression she was a very stern individual, but that was probably caused by the photographer and the equipment used at that time. I am of the opinion she was a very witty person and she could have been nothing other than a good woman to have reared the best family of women I ever knew in my life. She had four daughters and two of these I was associated with during my childhood life, so I know how outstanding they were and many Carrollton people have often made so many complimentary remarks about my Aunt Sally Campbell Lozier and my own mother, Reed Campbell McAtee, that I feel sure they were equal to the daughters, Mary William and Harriet, who were known to me. Unfortunately, the picture was destroyed because my mother thought no one would want it and so far as I know there are no others.
My mother often mentioned the fact she considered her mother quite an old lady at the time of her death, but she was only sixty one. Heart trouble caused her death and she died while making her home with her daughter, Mary William Mirick. Undertakers at that time had no means of protecting the corpse and I have heard the story told of the weird vigil maintained by the family when the ice used for the purpose of preservation would melt and drip into a container throughout the long hours of the night. This was often told to me when I would remark about our old darkey Minnie informing me she had seen the body of General James, Shields in the courthouse at Carrollton and it was encased in ice to preserve the body until time for the funeral.
This grandmother was a very devout Methodist and took to her church the younger children of the family. The older ones went to the Christian Church with their father. Likewise, this grandmother was a very strong "rebel" or for justice to her, I must say Confederate sympathizer. With the wives of other Confederate families, she would visit by the hours in the Campbell home and repeat the atrocities of the Civil War while my mother would sit in her small chair before the fireplace and listen to the. stories told by the old folks. No doubt it was from this experience that my mother has been as good a Democrat politically as she has
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been a Methodist for her religion.
Grandmother Sarah Jane Graham Campbell and her husband, John Campbell, were the parents of seven children and from the Campbell family bible in the possession of my mother in Carrollton, Missouri, I have copied the following births and dates and names:
Mary William Campbell, Born Feb 21, 1844 Isaac Rodger Campbell, Born Jan. 10, 1846 James Harvey Campbell, Born Apr. 22, 1848 John Fletcher Campbell, Born Aug. 3, 1850 Harriet Graham Campbell, Born May 6, 1863 Sarah Frances Campbell, Born Jun. 2, 1856 Jennie Reed Campbell, Born Dec. 23, 1866
Of these seven children, I only knew the oldest daughter, Mary William, and Harriet Graham-Campbell Tull by whom I was reared and by whom I was adopted. Isaac Rodger Campbell and John Fletcher both died when I was rather young and neither visited Carrollton after I was born. James Campbell and Sarah Frances died several years before I was born and my own mother, Jennie Reed Campbell died at the time of my birth.
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CHILDREN OF JOHN AND SARAH JANE GRAHAM CAMPBELL
The oldest daughter, Mary William Campbell was born in 1844, the year of the flood, and was to live one of the most useful lives of any person I ever knew or heard of in my life. She was born on the Campbell farm about three miles northwest of Carrollton that is now known as the old Hatcher place. The family moved to Carrollton when the started her schooling in that town and here her young girlhood was spent. With her parents, she moved to Brunswick, Missouri, during the Civil War and taught school there while living with her mother and younger brother and sisters. With her family, she lived in Mendeville after the close of the Civil War and while residing in Millville with the Campbell family in 1869, she became the bride of John L. Mirick of Carrollton, an attorney of that city and moved there to make Carrollton her home for the remainder of her life.
I have never heard any member of the family say when or where she met her husband, but I have often wondered if it was when John L. Mirick came to the Campbell home to recruit men for the Confederate Army in Mandeville in 1863. It was a courtship of several years because I know when this beloved aunt died, the daughter brought from a little cardboard box, a package of letters tied in a silk ribbon that were letters written to their mother by their father before they were married. This package of letters was placed in the casket when their mother died and buried with her. The daughters Nelle and Bess each took one letter from the package, but its contents are secrets.
The children of Mary William Campbell Mirick and husband John Mirick, were listed as follows in the Campbell family bible:
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Graham Mirick, born Jan. 18, 1870 (died as infant) Johnie Mirick, born Mar. 24, 1871 Campbell Mirick, born Aug. 7, 1872 Nelle B. Mirick, born Apr. 3, 1874 Jo Shelby Mirick, born Jul. 1, 1876 Sadie Mirick, born Apr. 11, 1879 (died as infant) Bess Mirick, born Oct. 28, 1880 Price (Prince?) Mirick, born Feb. 3, 1885
All of the children were born in Carrollton where the family home stands today, three blocks southwest of the public square. The father. John L. Mirick, was a prominent attorney of Carrollton and had seen service throughout the entire Civil War in the Confederate Army. He was a Captain with Jo Shelby and later promoted to a Major. He was with Shelby and men after the close of the war when the "Stars and Bars" was lowered in the middle of the Rio Grande River at midnight when the army crossed into old Mexico and started its way to Mexico City. After some time in Mexico, he returned to Missouri and married in 1869. He spent his life in Carrollton and died there November 15, 1892.
About John L. Mirick, a book could be written and his wife, Mary William Campbell Mirick, was such an outstanding character that volumes could be written on her interesting span of years from 1844 to 1928. This aunt is one of the two members of the family of John and Sarah Jane Campbell personally known by me and a better woman no one will ever know. For many years, her home was "head- quarters" for all of the family of brothers and sisters and their families. This aunt was never known to any of her sisters, brothers, in-laws, nephews or nieces by any name except "sister". Likewise, to refer to her husband by any name other than "brother John" was entirely foreign to all of us. The name of sister for this aunt had its origin in the fact the oldest child of families of Lutheran extraction were given that title and she was never known to any of my family by any other name. Had anyone inquired of me concerning my Aunt Mary William, I would have to think about whom they were speaking. The older women of Carrollton who were young girls in Carrollton at the same time she was, nearly all referred to her as Molly Mirick. Had we been a gypsy family, here would have been the "Queen" of the tribe, for it was to her that all went for advice. It was to her home the younger sisters went to have their babies and because she was so much older than the youngest daughters of the Campbell family, it was only natural she more or less became a mother to all of them.
As a child I spent many happy days under her guiding influence when I would go to the Mirick home to spend the day. I could never live long enough to forget this most "unforgettable character". From her I heard many stories of the ancestors and stories of the days of the Civil War that may have been the cause of my interest in genealogical and historical matters.
At that time of her husband's death, she was left to provide a home and rear a large family of children on his estate and that she did. None could have done better than she and down through this family comes several outstanding women. Unfortunately, the men of our entire family seem to be unable to accomplish so much in the world as do the feminine members of the Graham-Campbell line. However, that may be a biased opinion I have because of my admiration for the excellent women folks of our family.
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Only two of the Mirick children married and left descendants. The second child, Johnie, was a daughter known to the family as "Johnie". She became the wife of Robert Simmons of Missouri City, Missouri, and they were the parents of one son, Robert L. Simmons, who was born October 22, 1895. He has never married and now resides in Milford, Connecticut. His aunt, Nelle Mirick, makes her home with him. The daughter, "Jonce" Mirick Simmons died at the Mirick home in Carrollton, Missouri, on March 9, 1909 and is buried on the family lot in Oak Hill Cemetery in that city.
Campbell Mirick (b 1872) was the only son of this family to marry and have children. He married Myrtle Lightfoot of Carrollton and moved to Fort Worth, Texas, prior to the time I can remember this family in Carrollton. He became the father of two daughters, Mary Ann and Margaret Mirick of Fort Worth, Texas. These daughters were born between 1905 and 1910 but exact dates are not available in my papers. In 1936, I visited Ft. Worth, Texas, and met these daughters who I had not seen since they were small children in Carrollton visiting their grandmother. A few years before 1936, this cousin, Campbell Mirick had died in Ft. Worth, but his widow and daughter, Margaret, was married with two or more children at the time I was there. I did not meet Margaret but was informed of her family status by her sister, Mary Ann.
The fourth child of this family is the only member of the Mirick family of her generation who is living at this time. As before stated, she makes her home with her nephew in Millford, Connecticut. With she and her sister Bess. I have been more closely associated than any other members of the Mirick family and for them I have a great deal of admiration.
The son, Joe Shelby Mirick, was born in 1878 and had chosen dentistry for his profession. He never married and about the time he began his practice, he was stricken with tuberculosis and died at the Mirick home in Carrollton about 1906 or 07. The earliest impression or memory of the Mirick family was when I attended this funeral with my parents, but I seem to recall this cousin as being a man small of stature, rather slender and very pleasing to all relatives. As he did not marry, there were no heirs from this source.
Bess Helden Mirick was the youngest daughter of the John L. and Mary William Campbell Mirick Family. She was born in 1880 and was one of the finest women I ever knew in my life. For several years she taught in the public schools of Carrollton and then accepted a position with the Missouri State School for the Blind in St. Louis, Missouri. For many years prior to her death in Carrollton in 1937, she was principal of the school. This cousin was a very attractive individual and had a pleasing smile for everyone. Being so attractive always caused me to wonder how she escaped matrimony, but I could only conclude she simply did not care of the opposite sex. An unconquerable disease caused her death June 2, 1937 and thus ended the life of one of the finest women I ever knew. With her parents she is buried on the Mirick family lot in Oak Hill Cemetery at Carrollton.
The youngest child, Prince Mirick, was born in 1885 and was only seven years of age when the family sustained the loss of the husband and father. This left Prince without the needed paternal influence and he elected to spend his life roaming the world. He died in Carrollton a year or two following the death of his sister, Bess, and is buried on the family lot in Oak Hill. He left no heirs.
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ISAAC RODGER CAMPBELL. SON OF JOHN AND SARAH JANE GRAHAM
The second child of John and Sarah Jane Graham Campbell was a son named Isaac Rodger Campbell. He was born January 19, 1846 and was named for his two grand- fathers or possibly the uncle, Isaac Graham, who was killed in the Mexican War. The name Rodger of course, was for his grandfather, Rodger Campbell, of Scotland. This Uncle Rodger Campbell or Isaac Rodger, I should say, was born in Missouri and spent his life on the farm belonging to his family until the Civil War found him following Jo Shelby in his cavalry of Missouri men in the Confederate Army. He was a man with great love for horses and in years gone by I have seen a letter to my mother that gave the exact company he served with during the war, but that letter has been lost from the family bible and I cannot insert that information in my sketch.
This uncle was known to my family as Uncle Isaac, but as he resided near Farmington, Missouri, it was not my pleasure to know him. He married Molly Evans of Ray County, Missouri, October 14, 1875 and I believe spent some years in western Kansas with his brother, John Campbell and his well known cousins, the Beatty boys of Lakin, Kansas. In later years, this family moved to near Farmington, Missouri, and were residing there when Isaac Rodger died.
The family bible lists the births of the children of Isaac and Molly Evans Campbell as follows: Ernest R. Campbell, born Aug. 10, 1876 Otey Campbell, Jan. 17, 1878 Ira Campbell, . 23, 1880 (died about 1910) Hattie Campbell, Sep Apr. 12, 1882 Hugh Graham Campbell, Mar. 12, 1885 Arthur Lee Campbell, Feb. 21, 1886 (died Jun. 21, 1929) John William Campbell, Feb. 23, 1889 (died in infancy Edgar E. Campbell, Nov. 10, 1890 (died in infancy)
From Mrs. Billie Campbell, wife of Hugh Graham Campbell of 1454 Greg Street, St. Louis, Missouri, I have received the following records of dates of births and marriages of this branch of the Campbell family and am obligated to her for this assistance.
From the Isaac Campbell family bible, she furnished the dates of births of the children as I have shown above that were copied from the old family bible of Carrollton. In the list supplied by Mrs. Billie Campbell is the date of birth of the wife, Mollie Evans Campbell that is not in our bible at Carrollton. She was born October 1, 1847.
Mrs. Billie Campbell was Willie Lee Godat before her marriage to Hugh Graham Campbell, the son of Isaac and Mollie Campbell, on November 1, 1918. This family are without children and reside at the St. Louis, Missouri, address that was given above. For many years, Hugh G. Campbell was employed by the Federal Lead Company, but has been employed by the Missouri Pacific Railroad since 1923 in St. Louis, Missouri.
The oldest son, Ernest Rodger Campbell, was born in 1876 at Carrollton, Missouri, and married Gertie Ann Smith at Farmington. Missouri, on August 8, 1900. They are the parents of two sons:
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Marvin Ernest Campbell, born October 23, 1901, married Audrey Fern Bequette of Flat River, Missouri, at Greenville, Illinois, November 19, 1923. This couple have had three sons, Marvin Lee, born April 18, 1925, died same date, Cantwell, Missouri. Second son, Forrest Ray, born October 11, 1926 at Desloge, Missouri. The third child is Donald Glenwood Campbell, born December 18, 1928 at Washville, Illinois.
The second son of Ernest Rodger Campbell and Gertie Ann Smith Campbell of Cant- well, Missouri, was named Rolla Glenwood Campbell. He was born at Cantwell, Missouri, November 9, 1911 and married Mildred Borchelt of Nashville, Illinois, on December 18, 1938 at Salem, Illinois. They are the parents of one son. Roger Lee, who was born August 29, 1929. (They spell the name Roger, but if it is for the Rodger name in the Campbell family it should be spelled Rodger.) This was the name of the original Campbell of our family to come from Scotland.
Otey Campbell, the second son of Isaac and Mollie Evans Campbell, was born in 1878 and was named for the well known Otey family of Carrollton who were personal friends of Uncle Isaac when he was a boy in that county. Otey married Zora Bone on October 8, 1904. She was born September 9, 1885 and Otey died at Doe Run, Missouri, on February 26, 1933. Oley and wife, Zora Campbell, were the parents of:
1. Bessie Campbell, born June 23, 1905, married Arthur Rhodes in 1925. They are the parents of: Doris Rhodes, born Jan. 24, 1926 Mary Ruth Rhodes, born Jun. 24, 1927 Helen B. Rhodes, born Oct. 16, 1935 Naomie Ann Rhodes, born Oct. 1937
2. Allean Campbell, born August 18, 1908, married Lamar Barton in December, 1928. they are the parents of: Norma June Barton, born Sep. 7, 1931 Byron Barton, born Aug. 1933
3. Opal Campbell, born October 13, 1910, married Paul Turnbul on January 29, 1928. They are the parents of: Jackie, born Apr. 10, 1932
4. Leota Campbell, born November 6, 1912, married Lezter Greer. on April 4, 1930. They are the parents of: Edward Greer, born Aug. 15, 1932 Donald Greer, born, Nov. 6, 1931
5. Otis Reed Campbell, born May 31, 1915, married Laura Henderson on January 3, 1935. They are the parents of: Wayne Reed Campbell, born Feb. 8, 1937
6. Edgar Campbell, born August 18, 1917. 7. Raymond Campbell, born September 1, 1932. 8. Thelma Jean Campbell, born July 23, 1926.
I am sorry to say I have never met any member of this Campbell family and the information I have does not inform me where they reside, but I assume it is not
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far from Farmington, Missouri. The sixth child of Isaac and Mollie Campbell who was born in 1886 (the date may be corrected to 1887 because that is the date furnished by the Campbell family of near Farmington) married Ethel Arenz, born February 20, 1892, on October 2, 1911. Arthur Lee Campbell died at Nashville, Illinois, June 21, 1929.
The children of Arthur Lee, and Ethel Campbell were: 1. Geraldine, married Elmer Buxton in 1931 and are the parents of: Larry Buxton, born Jan. 10, 1935 Glenwood Buxton, born Jan. 10. 1935
2. Almenia Campbell, born September 11, 1914, married Vernon Degrant on June 6, 1937
3. Ira Maurice, born August 28, 1916, married Lee Hilgedick on June 24, 1937. They are the parents of: Audrey Hilgedick Oct. 5, 1937
4. Irma Lee Campbell, born August 6, 1918, married William H. Burgess on May 15, 1935. They are the parents of: Darrel Burgess, born Aug. 19, 1935 Eddie Lee Burgess, born May 29, 1937
5. Blanch Campbell, born March 1, 1921.
6. Hattie Marie Campbell, born September 23, 1923.
7. Dora Lucy Campbell, born February 8, 1926, died May 8.
8. Edward Arthur Campbell, born April 19, 1927.
9. Bobby Dean Campbell, born December 8, 1929.
The present residence of the Arthur Lee Campbell family is not known, but I assume they live in Illinois Because the father of this family died in Nashville, Illinois, in 1929. From the Ernest Campbell of Hugh Campbell 's family, it would be possible to learn the exact address of the children of Arthur Lee Campbell.
Of the children of my uncle, Isaac Rodger Campbell, I have only met the oldest son, Ernest L Campbell, and his wife of Cantwell, Missouri, and their two sons. That was in 1931 when I was traveling that section of Missouri for a finance company. In later years, I had the pleasure of meeting Hugh Graham Campbell and his wife here in Columbia when they came from St. Louis for a short visit. It was from Billie Campbell (Mrs. Hugh G. Campbell of St. Louis) that I obtained all of the needed names and dates of the Isaac Rodger and Molly Evans Campbell heirs of eastern Missouri and Illinois. Following the present World War II, I hope the occasion will present itself for me to meet and know all of these Campbell cousins.
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JAMES HARVEY CAMPBELL 1848-1897
The third child of John and Sarah Jane Campbell (Graham) family was James Harvey Graham. He was born January 10, 1848 and was named for his father's oldest brother, James Campbell. and his mother's oldest brother, Harvey Graham. This uncle spent his life in Carroll County and the town of Carrollton until his death at the Tull home in November, 1897. He never married and his accomplishments in life were very limited.
JOHN FLETCHER CAMPBELL 1850-19??
The fourth child and third son of the John and Sarah Campbell family was John Fletcher Campbell who was born in Carroll ton or Carroll County on August 3, 1850. This uncle was named for his father and his uncle Fletcher Graham of Richmond.
Until about 1880, this son of the Campbells resided in Carrollton and on the Campbell farm that was owned in the Mandeville neighborhood. He married Alice Harmon and became the parents of the one daughter and one son. This branch of the family was located in western Kansas, not far from Lakin on the Colorado line and none of them were known by me. This Uncle John had gone to Kansas with his Beatty cousins who were four in number and all became very well to do and influ- ential men of Kansas and eastern Colorado. There are many Beatty descendants in those western states now.
It is not known by me if the wife, Alice Harmon Campbell, was a native of Missouri or Kansas, but I am inclined to believe he married after leaving Missouri. The above mentioned daughter of this family was named Hattie for her aunt, Harriet Graham Campbell Tull of Carrollton, and she is now the wife of a railroad official in Colorado. She is a woman about fifty years of age and her married name is Saunders. The son of this Uncle John Campbell was named Johnnie Beatty Campbell. He was born about 1900 and died in a flu epidemic in California or some western state about 1930. He left no heirs.
Within the past two years, my mother had had a letter from the widow of John Campbell. She has remarried and resides in an eastern Colorado town. It seems to me the correspondence was in regard to proof of age or her marriage for the purpose of obtaining some form of government compensation so it may be she was a Carroll County woman and married John Campbell in that county. This reference is made to Mrs. Alice Harmon Campbell.
No further information is available concerning this branch of the Campbell family.
SARAH FRANCES CAMPBELL 1856-1892
Sarah Frances Campbell was born in Carrollton, Missouri, on June 2, 1856 and spent her life in that town with exception of the period of time her parents were in Mandeville, Brunswick and Millville during and after the Civil War. To our family, she was known as Aunt Sally, and by many Carrollton people who knew her, I have been informed she was a very beautiful woman and evidently had many friends in the community where the greater part of her life was spent.
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