Westmoreland County PA Archives Obituaries.....Campbell, Sarah Barr  February 12, 1909
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The Indiana Weekly Messenger Wed, Feb 17, 1909
Mrs. Sarah Barr Campbell died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Nettie C.
Bennett, at Hillside, Pa., February 12, 1909. The remains were brought to
Indiana on Sabbath and buried from the Presbyterian church. A brief service was
conducted by her pastor, Dr. Crawford, assisted by Dr. Brownlee, of the First
United Presbyterian church, and interment followed in Greenwood cemetery. Rev.
Raber, of the Derry Presbyterian church, held a very impressive service at the
Bennett home the evening previous. Rev. Haber had visited her during her illness
and bore testimony to her happy christian life and her triumphant death. Mrs.
Campbell was born February 26, 1819, on the Ross farm, adjoining Homer City. She
was a daughter of Robert A. Hamilton and Sarah Allison. Robert Hamilton was an
active church worker. He was one of the first elders in the Presbyterian church
at Indiana and led the singing for years. Mrs. Campbell lived her entire life as
a member of the Indiana Presbyterian church. She was baptized by Rev. John Reed
and at the age of 14 she applied to be taken into full membership but Rev. Reed
regarded that age as too young and bade her wait. Two years later she was
received by the same pastor. She united faith and works and was never tired
telling the old, old story every opportunity. For years she worked in the
Twolick Hill Sabbath school, with the late A. W. Wilson, taking a lunch along to
church and stopping off to teach a group of boys or girls. Mrs. Campbell liked
to relate early church history, when they met in the woods or tents and, later,
in the old Court House, till a permanent church building was erected. The
Hamilton’s can trace their direct ancestors back to a Scotch settlement at Haw
mill town, in Scotland. Their coat of arms was a saw mill. James Hamilton came
to America about 1750. His wife was a Miss Laughlin. His sons were Hugh, James
and William. Those three sons served in the Revolutionary war, under Washington.
At its close, they came to Westmoreland county. Hugh married a daughter of Judge
Moorhead, of Greensburg, and went to Mercer county. James never married. His
remains are buried in the St. Clair cemetery, at Greensburg. William married
Jane Allison and settled on the farm now owned by Archie Nichol, of White
township. Here Robert Hamilton, Mrs. Campbell's father, was born. Those were
trying times to the early settlers. The Indians made a raid on the settlement
when Robert was only two days old. The mother and infant were taken on horseback
to the McConnaughey fort at Homer City. Later, Mr. Hamilton bought the farm now
owned by W. B. George, in Center township. He had five sons: James, Robert,
Hugh, Charles and John; and four daughters, Rebecca, Margaret, Nancy and Mary.
Robert Hamilton married Sarah Allison, whose father, Andrew Allison, was .also a
soldier in the Revolutionary war. They had eight children—Andrew, Hugh, James,
Stinson, Watson, Sara, Jane and Netttie and one daughter, dying in infancy. Jane
married John Amsbaugh and died in Illinois. Stinson died in early youth. The
others are living in Illinois, except Andrew, a physician, who moved to South
Dakota when it came into statehood. Mrs. Campbell's husband, James Morrow
Campbell, died in 1895, at the advanced age of 94 years. They are survived by
four children—Nettie, wife of W. E. Bennett, of Hillside; Flora, a teacher in
Allegheny county; John H., living east of town on the old homestead, and Annie,
wife of Plymouth Hamill, of near town.

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