Mcintosh-Muscogee County GaArchives Biographies.....Campbell, Dr. Jesse H. 1807 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Donna Eldridge DonnaEldrid@aol.com June 20, 2004, 12:36 pm Author: A. L. Miller Moderator Bethel Association JESSE H. CAMPBELL Dr. J. H. Campbell was born February 10, 1807 in McIntosh County, Georgia. His father, Jesse Campbell , belonged by descent to the Scottish clan of that name. His mother was the daughter of John Dunham, who with his wife, Sara Clancy, came to this country as an emigrant in the same ship with General Oglethorpe. Mr. Campbell was fortunate in being educated until his eighteenth year chiefly at Sundury, Liberty County, and for a few months attended school at Athens. His attendance was cut short by the death of his father in 1825, which necessitated his return to the old homestead on the coast for the protection and support of his three orphan sisters, he being the only surviving son. Though but eighteen years of age, he administered his father's estate, and occupied for three years the position of head of the family. He was converted when sixteen years of age and baptized at Sunbury, Liberty County, November 1822 by Rev. C. O. Screven. Prior to his conversion he was wild and in the habit of using profane language but immediately discontinued all bad habits and began to conduct family worship and before he reached his seventeenth year he began to exhort and pray in public and in this way became known as "The Boy Preacher" in the coast counties of Georgia. He was ordained at Sunbury in 1830 and became pastor of the church at Macon in 1831 for one year. He then went to Clinton, Jones County and preached in the village and the surrounding country. Under his preaching many were converted. He finally entered the work for an evangelist for the state at large and was eminently successful in this labor. At the beginning of the civil war in 1861 he promptly relinquished his work and entered the army as a volunteer Evangelist, in which capacity he served until the war closed. The five or six years which succeeded the war he spent at Quitman and Thomasville preaching the Gospel. He then took charge of the church at Perry, Houston County, but in 1876 moved to Columbus where he resided with his son, Rev. A. B. Campbell. He was on the first Board of Trustees of Mercer University, and continued on that Board for more than thirty years. He removed to Lumpkin and while residing there originated the Masonic Female College in that place, and the Baptist Female College at Cuthbert. He is the author of the only published history of our denomination in the State up to that time. His influence has been widely felt in the territory composing the Bethel Association. He was a devout preacher and did much towards the upbuilding of the Baptist faith in this state. The writer is unable to give the place and date of his death. (page 273-274) "History of Bethel Association - Including Centennial Meeting" Centennial meeting held with Baptist church at Edison, Georgia, October 25, 26, 27, 1932 A. L. Miller, Edison, Ga., Moderator. W. H. Joyner, Coleman, Ga., Clerk Complied and Edited by Alexander Lee Miller Moderator of Association 1909 -- 1934 Additional Comments: 1880 Federal Census Muscogee Co. Ga ed92 sht 32 Jesse H Campbell Self Male W 73 GA GA GA Minister Gospel Emily wife Female W 63 GA GA GA Abner B. Son Male W 40 GA GA GA Minister Gospel Sarah D-I-L Female W 38 FL GA FL M. Bennet GSon Male W 12 GA GA FL Frances GDau Female W 10 GA GA FL Homer GSon Male W 1 GA GA FL Hennietta Woods Other Female B 38 GA GA GA Domestic Servant 1870 Thomas Co. GA Thomasville pg 65 Jessee H. Campbell 63 Ga Minister of Baptist Church Frances 64 Ga Cooper 32 Ga Civil Engineer Joseph Tooke 38 Va Coach Maker Mariah Qualls 18 Ga School Teaching Nancy 16 GA Black 1860 Spalding Co. GA Griffin page 201 Jesse H. Campbell 53 Ga Preacher Baptist Francis J. 58?Ga Sherwood S. 24 GA Cooper C. 22 Ga Abner B. 20 Ga Chas D. 18 Ga 1850 Stewart Co. GA Lumpkin Jesse H. Campbell 43 GA Frances 49 Ga Martha 18 Ga Jesse 16 Ga Sherwood 14 GA Cooper 12 Ga Abner 10 Ga Charles 8 Ga Campbell, Jesse H. married Stanley, Frances Jun 24, 1830 Putnam County Georgia The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume II CAMPBELL, Jesse H., clergyman, was born in McIntosh county, Ga., Feb. 10, 1807, son of Jesse H. Campbell. He was educated at Sunbury under a private tutor, and at the University of Georgia. He began to preach at the age of seventeen, and was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1830. He preached at Macon, Ga., and later at various places throughout the south. For five years he was the agent for foreign missions in Georgia, and afterwards became an evangelist for the state at large. During the civil war he was a voluntary missionary in the army. He was a member of the board of trustees of Mercer university, and was instrumental in establishing colleges for women at Lumpkin and Cuthbert, and the Georgia deaf and dumb institution at Cave Spring. He is the author of Georgia Baptists: Historical and Biographical. He died at Columbus, Ga., April 16, 1888. Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists. Two volumes. Nashville, TN: Name: Campbell, Jesse Harrison Birth - Death: 1807-1888 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/mcintosh/bios/gbs21campbell.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 6.1 Kb