Dear Sylvia,
Thanks for a delightful family story. You write well. I'm left to imagine
which part of the world it is in, but by the names of your Campbells I think
it must be in the USA, and by your talking about the co-worker of yours
retiring 'up there' I figure you are in a hilly area. By the period of time
I think you are in one of the eastern States, maybe in or near the
Appalachian mountains. I didn't read Report 39 in full, so I am having fun
guessing - but if it is a report from Lilly then you must be telling about
Augusta County in Virginia.
I wish you could write up something like this on your family and send it to
the Clan Campbell Society (North America) quarterly 'Journal'. It is partly
made up of family stories like yours with a bit of family history. The
editor doesn't expect much - I mean home-grown articles are welcomed. His
name is Scott Campbell and his e-mail address is ccsreg1(a)comcast.net and the
magazine comes out next in July,for which articles could reach Scott in May.
Thanks, Diarmid
(Campbell, Argyll in Scotland)
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From: SylviaCamdenRay(a)aol.com [mailto:SylviaCamdenRay@aol.com]
Sent: 16 April 2005 18:54
To: CAMPBELL-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [CAMPBELL] Edmund Joshua William Campbell b. 1822, report #39
This is my family! I am descended from EJ and Matilda's son Ellis Henry
Campbell who married Mary Jane Crist. Their daughter,Mary Kate Campbell
(who
married William Overton "Buck" Kirby) was my grandmother.
When we were children my grandmother would tell us stories that her Grandpa
EJ told about the civil war. She also spoke of several of her aunts and
uncles, especially her Uncle Alex and Aunt Tildy Grant and Uncle EJ
Campbell. She
also spoke of her uncle James Forrest Campbell who was deaf and dumb (which
runs in this Campbell family).
They lived on Campbell Mountain Road on land that was in the family for over
200 years. Unfortunately the old homeplace was destroyed when Hurricane
Camille came through in 1969 and almost everything was lost. For several
months
after the flood my Uncle Frank combed through the rubble and found a few
things
but so many pictures and things were gone forever. He was able to grab
pictures of Grandpa Ellis and Grandma Mary Jane and carry them to safety.
He sold
the land in the 1970's to a man that I worked with and after he retired he
moved up there and still lives there to this day!
One of my favorite stories told by my grandmother was about her first love.
When she was a teenager she fell in love with her cousin Otie Bine Campbell.
He asked her to marry him and she said that although she loved him she was
afraid to marry him because of the close kin and worried about them having
children! He told her to think about it for several days and on a certain
day he
would walk by her house and wait at the end of the property. If she came to
meet him they would be married and if she didn't he would understand. She
said
that it broke her heart to see him walk past the house and wait for her.
She
did not go to meet him and they never spoke of it again.
Sylvia
Interesting note. Although census records indicate that EJ and Matilda
Campbell had 11 children, in the 1900 census where women listed the number
of
children that they had and the number still surviving, Matilda Campbell
stated that
she had 9 children and 7 were still living.
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