Have searched for 15 years about the ancestry of one John J Campbell
of
Darlington, SC. He was born in SC according to all records in which I
find
him, 1845/9. His father was from NC or Ireland depending on census
records.
He lived his entire live in Darlington, except for a trip to VA to pick up
his son upon his discharge fom the Coastal Artillery Unit of the US Army
in
1910. Maybe this was why he was not on the 1910 census. He died in
Darlington on 20 Jun 1911 from injuries received in a fall from a ladder
while lighting a lamp over the dining room table. He married Cynthia Jane
Elmore. The first listing of John Campbell was when Cynthia joined the
Wesley Chapel Methodist Church in 1876 as Cynthia Campbell. His death
date
is confirmed in a Bible Record of the William Robert Hudson Bible, who
married Cynthia's sister Mary Elis Elmore. These two families were close.
However, all inquiries of this family have led to a ZERO.
No Deeds
No Tax Lists
Not in 1850, 1860 or 1870 census
Nothing on him listed in the Darlington Co Historical Society
No obit in Darlington
No Nothing.
Does anyone have any information on my gggrandfather? Does anyone have
any
other suggestions?
Cal Campbell