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Page 61 This daughter of the Campbell family was named for her mother and her aunt, Frances Graham Campbell Young.

Sarah Frances Campbell became the wife of Robert Lozier and had one son, Mirick Lozier, who was born at Carrollton, November 14, 1881.

This aunt, Sally Campbell Lozier, died in 1892 in Carrollton and is buried in the family lot in Oak Hill Cemetary. Following her death, the husband and son evi- dently went to Oklahoma because the first memory I have of her husband was when he returned to Carrollton for a visit from that state. He was highly intoxicated and gave me a dollar bill that made me feel as though I was a millionaire. In later years, he became very prominent in Tulsa, Oklahoma, politics and married the second time about 1910. I met his second wife and her daughters when I was in Oklahoma in 1920 and was never able to fully understand the status of these people.

The son, Mirick, died in Oklahoma, November 25, 1913 and was brought back to Carrollton for burial. He was married, but had no children. As these members of the family had left Carrollton long before my time, it was not possible for me to know them, but I have the opinion they dropped far below the level of life maintained by the mother and her Campbell family.

HARRIET GRAHAM CAMPBELL 1862-1952 For six years the stork avoided the John Campbell home and did not make another visit there until May 6, 1962 (s/b 1862, gem). This time it was a daughter at the Campbell home in Carrollton on north Folger Street. To her they gave the name of Harriet Graham, being named for her grandmother, Harriet Froman Graham.

With her parents she lived in Brunswick, Missouri, for a short time during the later years of the Civil War and then moved with them to Mandeville in 1866 and to Millville, Missouri, from about 1868 to 1872. Her introduction to schooling was while the parents resided at Millville, Missouri. When she was in the fourth grade of public schools, her family moved back to Carrollton, Missouri, which was about 1872.

Her schooling was completed in the Carrollton public schools and she grew to womanhood in that city. The family lived most of that time in the Campbell home on north Folger Street, except for the forty years of residence in the county jail building when her father was sheriff of Carroll County.

It was by this member of the Campbell family that I was reared and she is the only mother I ever knew. I may frankly state no man ever knew a better one and my own mother, Reed Campbell McAtee must have anticipated that fact when she named me for her brother-in-law Frank Tull. and gave me to her sister, Harriet Graham Campbell who was then the wife of Frank Tull of Carrollton.

I have often heard her jokingly remark "born and bred" in the Civil War and she attributed this fact to be the cause of her dislike for men. I assume it was brought about by the fear of roving bands of men who harassed the families of southern extraction during the war and the activities of the men who were known as guerillas after the war. By 1887, this feeling toward men must have been overcome because in that year she became the bride of J. Frank Tull of Carrollton. He was the son of James F. Tull and Salli Willis Cosby Tull of Carrollton. He was born October 4, 1858 and died at Carrollton, Missouri, on July 29. 1935.

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The wedding of Harriet Graham Campbell and J. Frank Tull was performed at the Campbell home on north Folger Street on February 28, 1887 and it was such a warm day that my parents have always remarked about the windows of the house being open. That is most unusual for February as anyone living in that state will well recognize. They were married by Rev. Hatcher of the Baptist Church who in 1922 was a resident of Columbia, Missouri, and one of the finest ministers of the Gospel ever known by me.

Following their wedding, they went to St. Joseph, Missouri, to live and were living there at the time of the birth of their first daughter, Mary Reed Tull, who however was born at the Mirick, home in Carrollton. The second daughter was born while the Tull family resided in St. Joseph, Missouri, and she was born in that city. She was named Sarah Graham Tull. The daughter, Mary Reed, was born January 8, 1888 and Sarah Graham Tull was born June 27, 1890. Harriet Graham Campbell and husband, J. Frank Tull, were the parents of a son born June 10, 1898 but this child did not live. He was named James Gideon Tull.

Not born of Harriet Graham Campbell Tull but, under her guiding influence from the first day of life, was none other than the writer. I was born of her sister, Jennie Reed Campbell McAtee, on February 20, 1902 and was taken to the Tull home following the death of my mother on February 21, 1902. Naturally my associa- tion with this family causes me to feel I am a member of it as I was reared with their two daughters in the Frank Tull home and always felt I was accepted in the home of the Tull grandparents, although I was no relation whatever to them. For over twenty years, I was in the Tull home and if ever any partiality was displayed in there, it was to me instead of their own daughters. A child could hold no more admiration for a man than I did for the one for whom I was named and by whom I was reared and later adopted. My mother, Reed Campbell McAtee. was unquestionably a good woman, but it would have been impossible for her to have been a better mother to me than her sister, Harriet Graham Campbell Tull has been for forty years.

To Carrollton people, my mother has always been known as Hattie Tull with the exception of one Cousin Fanny Charles Minnis of that city who always called her and referred to her as Harriet. The first thing remembered by my mother was during the residence of the family in Brunswick, Missouri, about the time of the close of the Civil War. She was there with her mother, older sisters, Mary and Sally, and brother John. The father had gone to Louisville with the brother, James, to prevent roving bands of Union army men from killing him. The older Brother, Isaac, was in the Confederate Army with Jo Shelby and the brother, James, was reaching the age where he might run off to join the southern army. Knowing this fact, it was not uncommon for young boys to be killed by Union troops and the father of the family decided to take him to the home of his Cousin Alex Sproul in Louisville, Kentucky. Also with the grandmother and her children in Brunswick, was the negro slave, John Outcalt who also went by the name of John Campbell. He assisted the grandmother in caring for the tobacco crop and the oldest daughter, Mary William Campbell, taught school. I also believe old darkey "Aunt Martha" with her children, Joan, Eliza, and Harriet were with the family in Brunswick. My mother's earliest recollection was the slave, John Outcalt, carrying my mother to the field where they worked on the small tobacco crop that was being grown by my grandmother.

After the close of the Civil War, my grandparents returned to Mandeville, Missouri. This was in 1866 and before moving to Millville, Missouri, in

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about 1867, the Union Militia from Chillicothe came to the Campbell home to remove the negroes and take them to Chillicothe to free them. The darkies had not left the Campbell family and to this the Union people objected. For Martha and one child, my grandmother had paid $1400.00 in gold and that was no small loss to sustain when the country had been in such an abnormal condition for four years that no one could make a living. When the troops came to remove the slaves, it happened Harriet, the daughter of old Martha, was hired out or loaned to a Carrollton family and the troops did not get her. My mother thinks to this day that the James F. Tull family were the ones who had Harriet in Carrollton and that would be a coincidence that twenty years later she married a member of that same Tull family. Darkey Harriet remained with the family for several years after the war but she was, of course, paid for her services. You know the Campbell family must have been good to their slaves or they would not have remained with them even after the emancipation had been signed. Like thousands of other cases, you can imagine the sadness of both the white and colored folks when this separation was forced upon them.

In 1891 the Frank Tull family returned from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Carrollton. He had been associated with the Turner-Frazier Mercantile Company of St. Joseph, Missouri, and when he left, their employ to return to Carrollton, the employer of that firm gave to him a gold watch with his initials on it and the date of 1891. That watch is in my possession and used to this day. I was also given the L.C. Smith shotgun that was a prized possession of my father and I take great pride in the ownership of both of these articles.

The daughter, Mary Reed Tull married Charles B. Woodlan of Carrollton on April 25, 1911 and has since made her home in that city. They became the parents of one son, Charles S. Woodlan, Jr. on August 13, 1916. The coldest August day I ever saw in Missouri, The son, Charles B. Woodlan, was educated in Carrollton and married Mildred Alnut of Richmond, Missouri. They now reside in Blackwell, Oklahoma, where Charles is employed by a transportation company. Thus far, Charles, Jr. is without children.

The second daughter, Sarah Graham Tull, has been known to the family as Sade. She married J. Lewis Burruss of the Burruss family, then located at Miami Station, Missouri, on the 4th of June 1912. The wedding was at the Tull home at 705 North Main and I think they were married by Rev. G. L. Bush. Although I was living at the Tull home at the time, I did not see the ceremony. I was out south of the house under a big maple tree with a "teary" eye because Sade was leaving home.

Sade Tull Burruss is the mother of one child, Sarah Frances Burruss, who was born at the Tull home in Carrollton on April 8, 1913. Well, do I know where I was on that occasion. The day before I had come home from school at noon with a high fever. My mother called Dr. Harry Tull who diagnosed it measles from the far away bedroom door and announced to my mother, "Hatti, get that boy out of here". The next morning, Sarah Frances was a new member of the family and I was at Grandmother Tull’s house down the street two blocks from home. The daughter, Sarah Frances Burruss, was educated in public schools of various cities where her parents resided during the time she was the age of attending school and she was then allowed to complete her education at Christian College in Columbia, Missouri.

Sarah Frances Burruss married Ben Herndon of Fulton, Missouri, at California, Missouri, on March 7, 1935 but did not announce the marriage for a short while after that time. For a short while after this marriage, they lived in Carrollton

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and Fulton, Missouri, before the husband accepted employment in Kansas City in a government office. Less than two years ago they moved to Washington D.C. when Ben was transferred there by his employer. They now reside at 1340 Nicholson, N.W. Washington D. C.

Sarah Frances Burruss Herndon became the mother of a daughter in Fulton, Missouri, on May 19, 1938. This child is the only great grandchild of my mother's and was given the name of Sally Herndon. While the Herndon family was living at the Tull home in Carrollton or visiting there with their young daughter, there were four generations of the family in the house. Harriet G. Campbell Tull, Sade Graham Tull Burcuss, Sarah Frances Burruss Hendon and Sally Herndon constituted the four generations. Sarah Frances Burruss later had Harriet and Mary Susan Herndon in Alexandria, Virginia.

J. Frank Tull the husband of Harriett Graham Campbell, was born in Carrollton on October 4, 1858. His full name was John Franklin Tull but he was never known by any name other than Frank Tull. His parents were James F. and Sallie Willie Cosby Tull of Carrollton. His grandfather, John Tull and wife, Eliza Victor Tull, came to Carrollton from Nicholas County, Kentucky, about 1832. Frank Tull was at one time County Treasurer of Carroll County, was for many years in the probate court office and an employee of the First National Bank. His later years were spent in the fuel business in Carrollton, but he was bed fast for five years prior to his death at the Tull home on July 29, 1935. For this uncle I was named by my mother before her death in 1902 and as before stated, my life was spent in the Tull home until coming to Columbia, Missouri in 1923. By Frank Tull and his wife, Harriet G. Campbell Tull, I was adopted on April 16, 1923 as recorded by Juvenile Book 1, page 19, of Carroll County, Missouri. No living man was ever better to a child than he was to me and for him I named my only son, Frank Tull III.

For fifty years, my mother, Harriett. Campbell Tull, has made her home at 705 North Main Street in Carrollton. Prior to the death of her husband in 1935, her daughter, Sade. and family have resided with her and since that time they have continued to live there. On May 8, 1942, my mother celebrated her eightieth birthday and for such a celebration on one day ever equal the fits and various forms of remembrances she received. Her birthday being in the middle of the week, necessitated the family gathering on the following Sunday, May 10th, which happened to be Mother's Day. Her age has never deterred her interest of every activity of the day. Her company is enjoyed by those from eight to eighty. With the social groups of her daughters friends she is a welcomed guest, anytime and needless to say she is free of selfishness and enjoys the friendship of many.

Never about her could it be said her friends were more comfortable when she was not present. To future generations her name may just be that of an ancestor, but I challenge any of them to live a more useful life of upward of eighty years and do the good for the world that has been done by this person. I may add, to be related to her you must be a Methodist and a Democrat by political faith.

During the last few years, she has not always enjoyed the best of health but she maintains her interest in politics, admires President Roosevelt, enjoys her club associations and wants to live from one New Year's eve to the next one so she may celebrate the occasion with her many friends. Yes, she is tolerant of the faults of mankind but she always does her best to view the better side of those she knows. By forced conversation, she will relate accounts of the past, but her life looks to the future and she enjoys every minute of it. She lives

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the life in 1942 and looks forward to 1943, not backwards. It may be she never saw a baseball game, but to the World Series she will listen on her radio and follow the game as you and I. With her daily newspapers and her radio, she follows the vast armies that are now fighting over the entire world in this World War II and knows all that any of us know from such sources. Every relative with whom I correspond always mentions the fact that "Hattie" is a remarkable woman, but remarkable is not a fair description.

For protection of her health, the family encourages her to not be so active or endeavor to do the daily housework she insists upon doing, but her reply is that she will do what she wants to do and when she is beyond that stage of physical endurance, she is ready to die. A better woman will never live, but I must add she has reared two daughters to emulate her to the best of their ability.

Harriet Graham Campbell Tull died on October 25, 1952 in Carrollton, Missouri, at 705 N. Main street.

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JENNIE REED CAMPBELL 1866-1902

The youngest child of the John and Sarah Campbell family was their daughter, Jennie Reed Campbell. To all of the family, this member was known as Reed and I do not suppose anyone other than close relatives know she was given the name of Jennie. This name originated from Cousin Jennie Sproul of Kentucky who was a favorite Campbell cousin. The name of Reed was for Jack Reed Graham, the brother of Sarah Jane Graham Campbell.

Just an hour before midnight on December 33, 1866, this daughter was born in the little home of the Campbell family at Mandeville, Missouri. This home was located a short distance west of the community stores in Mandeville and on the south side of the road. It has been torn down within the past few years but I have seen it in years gone by. This child was always referred to by me Grandmother Campbell as her Christmas eve baby because she missed that eventful day by only one hour. Also, I have often heard it said the head of this child was so small it would have been possible to cover it with a tea cup.

This youngest child must have been only a year or two old when the family went to Millville in Ray County, Missouri. She was just past the age of walking when she ran away from the little home on top of the hill in Millville and went calling on relatives in the small business district of Millville without any clothing other than a short petticoat. From Millville she moved with her parents to Carrollton in 1872 and grew to womanhood in that town. She was educated in the public schools of Carrollton and there she met Edward McAtee, who had come from Marshall, Missouri, or Shelbina, Missouri to accept employment with a local monument company. A courtship followed that resulted in the marriage of this couple in the Campbell home on North Folder Street on December 30, 1885, at 1:30 PM by Father Hurley of the Catholic Church. The bridegroom was a member of that church and had to be married by the priest, but his wife was a Methodist.

This wedding was the only one of the children of Sarah Jane Graham Campbell that she witnessed. At the others, she remained in another part of the house to cry away her sorrows, but the curiosity of what the Catholic service would be, forced her to witness this wedding of her baby daughter.

Following their marriage, Edward L. and Reed Campbell McAtee spent the first few years of married life in Carrollton. He was in the monument business and had done quite well until the money for the large Wilcoxson Monument was stolen from the company safe by a partner of the monument business and that forced the husband to seek other employment. He took employment with the U.S. Postal Service as a railway clerk and this necessitated the moving of this family to Kansas City. While residents of Kansas City, they became the parents of a son, John Reed McAtee, who was born at the Mirick home in Carrollton on October 15, 1890

Their second child, Edward L. McAtee, Jr. was born at the Mirick home in Carroll- ton on January 24, 1894, and I believe the family was still living in Kansas City at that time. However, when the third child was born February 20, 1902, this family had purchased a home in Carrollton at 803 Park Avenue and it was there I was born and my mother died February 21, 1902. It was her death that placed my destiny in the Tull home and there I spent the first twenty one years of my life. It will always be "home" to me.

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Some three years after the death of my mother. Reed Campbell McAtee, Edward L McAtee married the second time. His wife was Lucy Guitar of Carrollton who died in 1905 following the birth of a daughter. The child-died a few months or possibly only weeks following the death of its mother.

After this, my father moved to Moberly, Missouri, with his two sons, John Reed and Edward L. McAtee, Jr. and there these children grew to manhood. Some years after moving to Moberly, Edward L McAtee, Sr. married the third time a Mrs. Mary Powers of Centralia, Missouri. This was about 1912 and she survived his death in 1929. He is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery with his father, Henry W. McAtee, and my mother, Jennie Reed Campbell McAtee. In the past few years, Mrs. Mary Powers McAtee had died and is buried at Centralia, Missouri. There were no children by the last marriage.

The oldest son of Reed and Edward L. McAtee, John Reed McAtee, married Kathryn Carter of Moberly, Missouri on November 28, 1912. They became the parents of: Four sons: John Carter McAtee, born May 5, 1914 Robert McAtee, born Aug. 12, 1916 Ray McAtee and twin Raymond McAtee, born Sep. 18, 1922

John Carter McAtee married a girl in Moberly whose name was Virginia Crutchfull. They were married _____ and resided in Moberly for some three years before moving to Terra Haute, Indiana, where John Carter was employed by the Telephone Company. After several years of married life, they became the parents of a daughter in December, 1942 to whom they have given the name of Kathryn. Also a son John L., born 1949.

Robert McAtee, the son of John Reed and Kathryn Carter McAtee was born, reared and educated in Moberly, Missouri. Some three years ago, he married Melba Clark of that city and they had twin sons born in Moberly in March or April of 1942. This family now resides in Moberly where Robert is employed in the train service of the Wabash Railroad. In December of 1942, Robert and his wife took the twin sons to Carrollton for a day's visit and my mother enjoyed their visit very much. The twin sons are named Robert and Ronale. Lost daughter February 20 1948 and have daughter born 1950.

Ray McAtee lives with his father in Moberly and the son, Raymond, is now in the U.S. Marines at Camp Pendleton, California. The last letter from him infers his outfit is being prepared to move overseas. He is doing his part in world War II to free the world of dictators. Ray was injured in a car accident some years ago and will not be able to serve in the armed forces.

Kathryn Carter McAtee died in 1932 or 1933 in Moberly, Missouri, and John R. McAtee married the second time to Marie Heifner of Moberly, Missouri. There are no children by this second marriage.

The second son of Edward L. and Reed Campbell McAtee was Edward L. McAtee, Jr. who grew to manhood in Moberly, Missouri. He married Dorothy Doyle of Moberly at Columbia, Missouri on September 14, 1914. They spent a few years in Moberly before moving to Ennis, Montana, where a McAtee uncle was operating a large sheep ranch. By hard work and displaying thrift, this family established

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themselves in Montana and reside in the Madison Valley of Montana at the post office of Cameron, Montana. I visited them in 1938 for the first time and met the entire family of this brother in that state.

After living in Montana for several years, they had a family of the following children:

Edward Leonard McAtee, born in Montana, Oct. 18, 1917 Alice Reed McAtee, born in Montana, Mar. 15, 1919 Mary McAtee, born in Montana, Sep. 26, 1920 James McAtee, born in Montana, May 26, 1922 Tom Call McAtee, born in Montana, Dec. 2, 1925 Dorothy Marjean McAtee, born in Montana, Jun. 21, 1935

Four of the children of Edward and Dorothy Doyle McAtee are now married and have families. I met these children on my visit to Montana and have written my brother to furnish me the exact dates of births and marriages of his entire family. The proper dates will be inserted at a later date.

Edward Leonard, is known to the family at Leonard. He assists his parents in the operation of the store they own in Cameron, Montana. His wife was from West Yellowstone Park and they are the parents of two children. Leonard married __________ on ____________

Alice Reed, married Joe Gecho. in Montana and they reside on the ranch owned by her father, Edward McAtee. They married_______ and are the parents of two children named___________ and __________, born __________&_________.

Mary McAtee married Burly Covey in Montana, September 26, 1937, in Madison County and she was expecting her first child when I was in Montana in 1938. Their first child was a daughter named Jessie who was born in Montana on October 29, 1938. I believe they have since become parents of three other children.

The son, James McAtee, has married since 1938. His wife was Evelyn McLees of Montana and I believe they have one child. (Killed on Rhine River in World War II.)

Tom Call McAtee resides with his parents and the youngest child, Marjean, is now living with them and attending school in Ennis, Montana.

The third and last child of the Edward L. and Reed Campbell McAtee family, was the writer of this article. Born in Carrollton and reared there by the Tull family. Attended Carrollton schools and came to Columbia, Missouri in 1933 in the employment of the Wabash Railroad. Attended the University of Missouri and was a member of Sigma chi Fraternity. While attending the University, I met and married Sabra Miedermeyer. the daughter of F. W. and Sabra Pierce Hiedermeyer of Columbia. We were married at the Episcopal Church at 8:30 PM, Wednesday, October 21, 1925 and made our home in Kansas City, Missouri, where I had accepted employment with a commercial banking firm. Our church wedding was attended by my mother, and my sister, Mary Reed, who played the organ. Our first home in Kansas City was an apartment located at 205 Brush Creek and from there we moved across the street to a larger apartment before taking up residence at 1412 West 48th Street. It was while living in this home that our first child was born at Research Hospital on May 5, 1927 at the early

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hour of 4:35. A few months later we moved to 5632 Kenwood in Kansas City and were residing there when our second child was born in St. Luke's Hospital on April 13, 1929. It was Saturday and not Friday the 13th. I recall while enroute to the hospital on that eventful day, my wife inquired if it was Friday the 13th. To this son we gave the name of Frank Tull III after the name was suggested by my sister, Mary Reed Tull Woodlan. At the time of birth of both children, the well known Doctor Herbert VanOrden officiated.

In 1930, we moved to Columbia, Missouri, from Kansas City and after a short residence here, I accepted employment with the Universal Credit Company in St. Louis, but was transferred to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1931. My family was moved to Des Moines and we spent two years in that city. On October 15, 1933 we moved back to Columbia from Des Moines and I started my real estate experience with my father-in-law, F. W. Niedermeyer of Columbia. He was then Postmaster of Columbia and died on October 29, 1934 while holding that office.

Since that time, I have operated the real estate owned by the F. W. Niedermeyer estate and in later years, those properties inherited by my wife and her sister from the original Niedermeyer holdings.

My children are attending the Columbia public schools and we make our home at 408 Hitt Street, Columbia, Missouri. My membership in the Methodist Church has been transferred from Carrollton to Columbia and I am now serving term on the City Council of Columbia.

In four ways I have been most fortunate. First, having a good mother; second, having a good wife, and last two refer to my two good children.

Sabra Reed Tull, born May 5, 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri, has graduated from the University of Missouri on June 7, 1949 and became the bride of James Edward Meyer, of Glasgow, Missouri, on June 11, 1949 at the Episcopal Church of Columbia, where her parents had been married twenty-four years before. They are now the parents of a son, James Lewis Meyer, who was born in the Boone County Hospital of Columbia, Missouri, on August 27, 1950. James. E. Meyer is now in the U.S. Army at Camp Carson, Colorado, February 20, 1951. He is a Veteran of World War II and saw several months of front line combat duty in Germany in that service. Frank Tull III, now a senior in the University of Missouri, is a resident of Columbia, Missouri, President of his Phi Delta Iheta Fraternity and will enter the Medical School of the University of Missouri in September, 1951.

Grandmother of the bride, Harriett Graham Campbell Tull, attended this wedding when she was 87 years of age. The wedding march was played by the bride's aunt, Mary Reed Tull Woodlan of Carrollton, who played the same march twenty-four years before, for the bride's parents in this same church of Columbia, Missouri.

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JOHN CAMPBELL AND RELATED FAMILIES. 1811-1883. HUSBAND OF SARAH JANE GRAHAM CAMPBELL CARROLL COUNTY, MISSOURI

Thus far, the material presented has been on the Hite, Froman and Graham families, but for the benefit of the descendants of Sarah Jane Graham Campbell, we must not overlook the lineage of her husband, John Campbell.

John Campbell was born in Franklin County, Virginia, on August 20, 1811. His parents were Rodger and Mary Ashenhurst Campbell of Tyrone County, Ireland. With his parents, John Campbell moved to Clinton County, Kentucky, when he was quite small and from this point, the Campbell family immigrated to Howard County, Missouri, about one year before going to Carroll County, Missouri, to take up lands. The first of the Campbell family to go to Carroll County, Missouri was the oldest brother of John Campbell who was James. In 1833 he entered his lands in Carroll County during the month of February and that October, we find John Campbell took up an adjoining claim in Carroll County for himself and his aged parents.

This land is now known as the Hatcher farm and is located due north of the Uncle Billie Minnis farm about three miles northwest of the town of Carrollton. On this farm is located the Campbell family cemetery.

For many years, I did not know Rodger and Mary Ashenhurst Campbell had settled in Carroll County with their sons, James and John and the remainder of the family, but I had searched for years in Kentucky records to obtain some trace of them because I had always been told they remained in that state. It was while checking 1840 U.S. Census reports of Carroll County, Missouri, in 1938, that I found Rodger and wife, Mary, were residents of Missouri. Rodger died in 1840 and his estate was settled in that county in October of that year.

Of Rodger and Mary Ashenhurst Campbell we do not know half so much as we would like to know. Only such information is available as has been obtained from census reports, wills and the traditional stories handed down through various branches of the family.

Rodger Campbell was a member of the Scotch clan, Campbell, of Scotland, and our older relatives claim relationship to the Duke of Argyle. At least this infers we are descended from the Argyle branch of the Clan Campbell. By the 1840 Census, we know he was born between 1770 and 1780 because he was listed in the age bracket of that census as being 60-70 years of age. The original home of Rodger must have been on an island between Scotland and Ireland, because my mother was always told the Campbell family could see the clothes hanging on the wash lines in both Ireland and Scotland when it was a clear day. He evidently had moved to Tyrone County, Ireland, because it was there he married his wife, Mary Ashenhurst, and their honeymoon was their trip to the United States. All branches of the family have handed down the story of this bride and groom being on a boat that was lost for fourteen weeks and they all suffered terribly for want of water.

The fact the oldest son of Roger and Mary Ashenhurst Campbell was born in Mary- land in 1798, would indicate they arrived about 1791 and were not residents of Virginia when they first landed as had been assumed by a good many Campbell descendants. The oldest son and first child, James Campbell, was born in Maryland in 1792 according to later census reports of Ca rroll County, Missouri.

 

Table of Contents:

Index	Pages 31 - 40
Preface	Pages 41 - 50
Pages 1 - 10	Pages 51 - 60
Pages 11 - 20	Pages 61 - 70
Pages 21 - 30	Pages 71 - 81

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