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Mayfield, LadyTexian@tcainternet.com  TX Tombstone Project Manager Submitted by Linda Sykes new * I would be glad to answer queries about people buried in the Campbell Cemetery ************************************************************************** Campbell Family Cemetery, Palestine, Anderson Co. TX ANDERSON COUNTY TEXAS---CAMPBELL FAMILY CEMETERY, located about 5 1/2 miles south of Palestine, just off of Highway 19. Sign on highway. I. There is a Texas Historical Marker on the cemetery. There were errors in the information given on the historical marker. Corrections follow. It reads: "Campbell Cemetery-- "Typical of a number of small family cemeteries located throughout the state of Texas, this graveyard was established by the Campbell family, who moved to the Mound Prairie Community in this area in 1844. Albert Gallatin Campbell (1808-1876), his wife Jenny Elvira, and their children, John Bartlett, Isadore, and James, established a farm. Soon the family grew with the addition of another daughter, Jettie, and another son, Alexander. John Bartlett Campbell (1834-1915) returned home after service in the Civil War and worked in a hardware store to earn money to purchase his own farm. He eventually purchased 270 acres and built a large home where he and his wife, Mary Elizabeth (1853-1927) reared their twelve children. John Bartlett Campbell set aside one acre of land on his farm for a family burial ground and in 1876 his father, Albert Gallatin Campbell, became the first person buried here. Albert's was the only burial in the graveyard for twenty-four years, until his grandson, 23 year-old John Bartlett Campbell, Jr., died in 1900 of Scarlet Fever. The cemetery is still in use by Campbell family descendants." --1994 Corrections in data: Albert G Campbell may have been born as early as 1804 in South Carolina. Albert G. Campbell's wife was Sarah Pierce. They were married in Davidson Co., Tennessee, 22 February 1834. John Bartlett, their first son was born January 6, 1835 in Davidson Co. TN; Elizabeth, their second child was born 1837 also in TN. Albert G. Campbell stated he had been in Texas since 1 March 1838 when he applied (1839) for a Texas land grant in San Augustine Co. He and Sarah had eight more children (Margaret, Sarah, James, William, Cintha, Washington, Alexander and Mary) in Nacogdoches Co. before coming to Anderson Co. about 1855. (Albert Campbell was elected Constable of Beat "D" in Nacogdoches Co. in 1850, and they were included in the 1850 Federal Census of that county.) There were twelve children in all, Martha and Albert being born in Anderson Co. before 1860. Three of Albert's sons served in Civil War cavalry units from Anderson Co.: John, Jim, and William. Isadore Campbell was A.G. Campbell's grand-daughter, the daughter of his son, James I. Campbell. Alexander Campbell married Jenny Elvira Sartain, and Jettie (Woodard) Walker was a second cousin of John Campbell's wife, Mary Elizabeth Black, and called "Aunt Jettie" by family members. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Cemetery Listing for Campbell Family Cemetery Albert Gallatin Campbell (1808-1876), b SC [Sarah Pierce Campbell (1817-18 VA to aft 1885?),[she went back to TN to visit family, was in a carriage accident, died & was buried in Tennessee by family, no death record found]] John B Campbell (6 Jan 1877-1900) s/o John B. and Mary E Campbell John Bartlett Campbell (6 Jan 1835-30 Sep 1915) h/o Mary Eliz. Black Mary Elizabeth Black Campbell (18 Dec 1853-Jan 1927) w/o John B. Sarah Ida Campbell Lively (12 Nov 1875-2 Jun 1970)w/o Wm. Walter Lively Letha Ann Campbell (5 Nov 1878-1925) d/o John & ME, never married Eliza Adeline Campbell (24 Dec 1882-1957) d/o John & ME, never married Daisy Dean Campbell Ray (9 Sep 1886-May 1966) w/o A. Douthit, T. Shaver & Geo. W. Ray, d/o John and M.E. Campbell Alonzo Douthit (Jun 1881-1907) h/o Daisy D. Campbell Alonzo Douthit, Jr. (1907-1925) s/o Alonzo and Daisy Douthit Della Dean Douthit (1904-1917) d/o Alonzo and Daisy Douthit Nettie May Campbell Gonsolus (Aug 1892-1924) w/o Joseph Gonsolus Mary Elizabeth Campbell Lively (17 Aug 1888-30 Sep 1963) w/o Fred Lively and Geo. Frank Lively, d/o John and M.E. Campbell Fred Lee Lively (21 Mar 1886-8 Jul 1929) h/o M.E. Campbell Barbara Allen Campbell Camp (30 Aug 1890-28 Jun 1968) w/o Ira Camp George W. "Watt" Campbell (Jan 1885-2 Apr 1963)s/o John and ME Campbell Ora Bynum Campbell (19 Aug 1898-1 Jan 1993) w/o Watt Campbell William Roland Campbell (21 May 1895-5 Jul 1960) s/o John and M.E. Sylvia Marie Ladd Campbell (27 Dec 1897-6 May 1973) w/o W. R. Campbell Wynona Jane Lively (5 Dec 1925-30 Jun 1993),d/o F.L.Lively& ME Campbell John Wesley Higgins b 10 Nov 1912 Naples TX, d 8 Oct 2002 Bryan TX --h/o Mary Louise McFarlane Higgins* Mary Louise McFarlane Higgins (26 Jun 1914-6 Nov 1995) d/o Amanda B Campbell & Albert Jackson McFarlane; w/o John W Higgins. There is an old gravestone for A.J. McFarlane, husband of Amanda B Campbell in this cemetery, but he is buried in Chambers Cemetery (new gravestone) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- updated with JW Higgins and new email address 2/8/03 by Gina Heffernan as per Linda Sykes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ updated 10/6/04 per e-mail from Linda Sykes: George Joseph Gunsolus born Kalamazoo Michigan 1855-56 died 1928 Anderson Co. TX, husband of Nettie Campbell Gunsolus.