Charlie H. Campbell, 85, of Colchester died this morning at the Newland Nursing Home in Blandinsville.

Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Jones' Mortuary.  The Rev. Bernard Wahl will officiate and burial will be in Majorville Cemetery.

Mr. Campbell was born May 14, 1876, in Hancock County, a son of John and Agnes Mort Campbell.  He resided in the Majorville community before moving to Colchester in 1940.  He was a retired farmer and real estate broker.  He was first married to Mabel Day, deceased, and later married Edna Moon.  Mr. Campbell was a member of the Majorville Church.

Surviving are the widow; one daughter, Mrs. Alta Frances Woods of Quincy; one step-son, George Moon of Chicago; one sister, Mrs. Erma Goff of Colchester; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.  A son, Day Campbell; 12 brothers and sisters, Mrs. Ida Conn, Thurman Campbell, Mrs. Agnes White, Mrs. Fannie Shifley, Alta Campbell, Mrs. Belle Gordon, Tom Campbell, Grover Campbell, Will Campbell, Mollie Campbell, Frankie Campbell and Mrs. Nina McNeeley [Neal], are all deceased.

Friends may call at the chapel after 5 p.m. this evening.  The family will meet with friends Saturday evening.

Charlie Campbell was elected Secretary of the Majorville Cemetery Association, sometime after February 1927.  Click here to read E. W. Huston's letter to The News about the association.

*According to his nephews, Delbert and Gerald Campbell, Charlie taught school for a time at Walnut School.  He played the violin, which was the source of his nickname, Fidler.

See also:

John Campbell & Agnes Mort (parents) Charles Day Campbell (son) Alta Frances Campbell (daughter)

[incomplete] . . .Campbell.  She had for some time been afflicted with high blood pressure and its complications, and an acute heart attack was the cause of death.

Mabelle Pearl Day, the oldest child of J. W. and Ella (Yetter) Day, was born near Fountain Green on March 22, 1881, and spent most of her life on a farm in this community. She was educated in the Fountain Green and Walnut public schools and later attended the Macomb Normal conducted by Professor I. F. Meyers. Some time of her early married life was spent near Blandinsville and a few of these later years in Macomb, Ill., while her children were in school there. Otherwise she has lived near Majorville and her deep interest and affection for her home church and community never failed. She was converted many years ago during the revival of Rev. Henry Bloomer and has long held membership with Majorville church and taken an active and leading part in the affairs of her church and the Majorville Social Circle.

She was married August 28, 1902 to Charlie Campbell.  Two children Charles Day and Alta Frances were born to this union.  The husband and children survive to mourn this kind and faithful wife and wise and loving mother.

The burden of grief is closely shared by members of her own family of whom remain the aged father, a sister, Mrs. Ruby Hobart, and brothers, James and Laurence, of near here and a brother, Charles of Arnold, Kansas.

While to the members of her husband's family she was held equally dear.  Several nieces and nephews also mourn.  Her mother passed away Nov. 22, 1934.

Several years ago she shared her home for some time with two nephews, Fay and Clarence Day, after their mother's death, and always she has wisely and lovingly assisted in the affairs of this family of four children.

. . . .by those who knew her.  She had a charming personality and a rich gift for friendship; all who came into her house sensed the true hospitality there, and one of her outstanding characteristics was the ability to see good in everyone.

Her life was marked by loyalty and duty and her days filled with helpful service to family, church, and friends.  Truly we know that no one can ever take Mabelle's place.

Funeral services were held at Majorville Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock conducted by Rev. Henry Bloomer of Abington, Ill., assisted by Rev. W. H. Gillis of Colchester.

D. Era Neece and Mrs. Bess Dickerson of Colchester sang very beautifully "In the Garden" and "Whispering Hope."  The casket bearers were : Guy Garrison, Laurence Willis, Orville White, John Rings, Frank Peck and Harley Parker.  Burial was in Majorville cemetery.

Fountain Green, Ill.--Mrs. Chas. H. Campbell, 58, passed away last Wednesday, June 6, at her home in Fountain Green and her funeral was held Friday morning at the Majorville Methodist church in charge of Rev. H. M. Bloomer of Abingdon, assisted by Rev. W. H. Gillis of Colchester with interment in the Majorville cemetery.  Mrs. Campbell had been ill for a year, and died from an acute attack of heart trouble.

Mabel Day was born in the Majorville neighborhood, March 22, 1881, a daughter of William and Ella F. (Yetter) Day and spent all her life in the Majorville vicinity, except four years at Macomb while her children were in the State Teachers college, and following that the past two years in Fountain Green, her home at the time of her death.

On August 28, 1902, she was married to Charles H. Campbell, and the husband and two children survive her; a son, Day Campbell, of Macomb, and a daughter, Alta Francis Campbell, at home. She is also survived by a sister, Mrs. Ruby Hobart of Carthage, and three brothers, Laurence Day of Colchester, James Day of Tennessee, and Charles Day of Arnold, Kansas.  Her mother, Mrs. Ella F. (Yetter) Day passed away November 22, 1934, but her father, William Day, is living at Fountain Green.

Mrs. Campbell was a member of the Majorville Methodist church.

See also:

John W. Day & Ella F. Yetter (parents)

The obituary (undated, unknown original source) for Charlie Campbell is from the collection of Ina White Westfall.

The first obituary for Mabelle Day Campbell is from an undated news clipping, unknown original news source, from the Mae Peck Conn scrapbook donated to the Hancock County Historical Society by Marilyn Shelley.  The clipping is incomplete.  Mrs. Charlie Campbell is handwritten at the top.

The second obituary, also undated and from an unknown original news source, comes from the collection of Okle Campbell Browning.  According to the obituary of her father, John William Day, and also State of Illinois death records, Mabelle Day Campbell died on Wednesday, June 7, 1939.

All texts are verbatim transcriptions.