Hopkins Co., TX - Biography - Crockett H. Campbell

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BIOGRAPHY OF CROCKETT CAMPBELL

Crockett H. Campbell was born in 1816, and is eighty-six years of age. He came
to Hopkins County in the year 1841. There was not a single cabin on the south
side of North Sulphur Creek at that time. Buffalo herds were roaming all over
the country. He has shot and killed a number of buffalo as well as all kinds
of animals and wild beasts. Indians were to be seen and heard in many places,
and a few people who were living in tents were in constant and perpetual dread
of them. Many emigrants who came into the new country, became dissatisfied,
alarmed and returned to their old homes in the States. In the year 1843 he
married Elizabeth Collins. By this union eight children were born, four of
whom are living. He had the misfortune to lose his wife, and subsequently
married Miss Mary Couch. They were the parents of eight children, six boys and
two girls. Four of these children are dead, the others live near their
parents, and are good, worthy citizens of Hopkins County. Crockett has farmed
and raised stock all of his life. He is a man of noble qualities. His example
has been good. He is beloved by all who know him. He is old now, and suffering
from the weakness of age; therefore his memory is impaired and his body is
feeble. Since this writing he has passed away.

SOURCE: Early History of Hopkins County Texas - E. B. Fleming, Publisher 1902
P. 166 - 167

Transcribed by Pat Howard