Robert Campbell Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB 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. ********************************************************************** Submmitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: Robert Campbell: The subject of this sketch was born in now Hancock County, West Virginia, January 12, 1806. He obtained a limited education in the common schools of his minority days. In 1828 he married Miss Ellen Young, of Irish descent. They settled on King's Creek, where they remained ten years, then removed into Clay District. After living there about eight years they moved to where James Y. Campbell now resides. They reared a family of seven children, viz: Eliza J., John H., Margaret A., William, Melissa, James Y., and Robert E. William's death occurred at Andersonville Prison. He was a member of Company I, Twelfth West Virginia Regiment. Our subject's wife died on the 22d of February, 1861. His second wife was Margaret Marshall, who was united to him by marriage in August, 1862. Engaged in farming. Died November 17, 1876.