Campbell Family Cemetery - Covington Co., AL ******************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. File Manager - Lygia D. Cutts JUNE 1999 Campbell Family Cemetery Covington County, Alabama Directions: North of Highway 29 between Rome and Andalusia There is an intersection between County Highway 14 (running North-South) and State Highway 29 (running roughly East-West). 14 South takes you to the Pleasant Home Church and School. 14 North takes you to the Campbell Family Cemetery. Go North about 3.9 miles Turn off of the road onto a hunting / logging road. There will be an immediate "Y." Take the left fork of this "Y." Go 0.6 miles and take the first left. Go 0.1 miles and take the first right. The cemetery is on the right at the top of the hill, a total of about 4.7 miles from leaving the road. Mr. Johnny Fuqua was very helpful in providing directions and unlocking the gate across the hunting / logging road. His phone number is (334) 222 8639 (home) or (334) 301 8143 (mobile). I have typed in the data from the tombstones. Clarifying information from other sources is added in parentheses. Numbers beside the names indicate the position in the cemetery as per the diagram at the end of these notes. Parents: 4. Wm G(ranville) Campbell Born Oct 2 1799 Aged 65 years (Died: Oct 11, 1864) 5. Elizabeth (Mason Campbell) Wife of WG Campbell Dec 20, 1806 March 1871 Children: 12. Mary (Campbell) Daughter of WG and Elizabeth Campbell Apr 15 1829 March 7, 1900 1. William P(eter) Campbell (son of WG and Elizabeth Campbell) Co E 15 Confed Cav CSA (1830 - 1904) 10. Charles Campbell (son of WG and Elizabeth Campbell) Jan 13, 1835 Died a Confederate Soldier 1862 11. George Campbell (son of WG and Elizabeth Campbell) Dec 17, 1837 Died A Confederate Soldier 1862 6. Davis Campbell (son of WG and Elizabeth Campbell) March 19, 1846 July 19, 1928 8. Nancy Jane (McGowin Campbell) wife of Davis Campbell (Born July 22, 1859) Died July, 1878 Aged about 28 years Grandchildren: 2. Para Lee Campbell (daughter of Davis and Nancy Jane Campbell) March 12, 1870 Date lost (Died 1910) 7. (Charl)es M. (Campbell) Son of Davis and Nancy Jane Born (April 23) 1871 - (October 17) 1879 13. Georgia Campbell (daughter of Nancy Campbell and Kimp Cotton) Wife of Frank Thompson Feb 24, 1872 Dec 8, 1936 9. Lulie E(llen Campbell) Daughter of D. and NJ Campbell Oct 22, 1875 - (October 14) 1879 3. Addie Florence Campbell (daughter of Davis and Nancy Jane Campbell) May 18, 1877 Date lost (Died 1898) according to other sources these people are also buried in this cemetery, but there are no markers presently: Elizabeth Campbell (daughter of Wm G and Elizabeth Campbell) June 2, 1832 - April 20, 1835 Marda Campbell (daughter of Wm G and Elizabeth Campbell) Aug 3, 1843 - died as a child Nancy Campbell (daughter of Wm G and Elizabeth Campbell) Feb 10, 1848 - 1912 (she was the mother of Georgia Campbell Thompson listed above.) William Henry Campbell (son of Wm G and Elizabeth Campbell) May 25, 1850 - 1850 The individuals above are given numbers to indicate their position in the cemetery according to this diagram: 1 x Entrance 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Note: "x" indicates a marker without names / dates. (Notes to webmaster: on the diagram above, the 1, 5, and 10 should align vertically.) end of notes from Campbell Family Cemetery