Col. Arthur Campbell

Col. Arthur Campbell

Male 1743 - 1811  (67 years)

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  • Name Col. Arthur Campbell  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Born 3 Nov 1743  Augusta, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 5
    Gender Male 
    Died 8 Aug 1811  Middlesboro, Bell, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 5
    Person ID I11664  Campbell Genealogy
    Last Modified 30 Mar 2024 

    Father David Campbell,   b. 8 Mar 1706, Drumboden, Kilmachrenan, Donegal, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Oct 1790, Holston, Washington, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Mother Mary Hamilton,   b. Abt. 1719, Londonderry, Ulster, Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1801, Smyth, Marion, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years) 
    Married 16 Jan 1735  Augusta, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 8
    Family ID F1051  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret Campbell,   b. Abt. 1760, Staunton, Augusta, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. About 25 Dec 1813, Knox, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Married 12 May 1773 
    Children 
     1. William Campbell  [natural]
     2. Col. James Campbell,   d. 1812-1814, Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Col. John B. Campbell,   d. 5 Jul 1814, Battle of Chippewa, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 28 Mar 2024 
    Family ID F4360  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Colonel Arthur, born in 1742; hero of Indian wars; married a sister of General William Campbell; removed in 1804 to Yellow Creek, Knox County, Kentucky, where he died in 1815. He had two sons, who died in the war of 1812 – Colonel James Campbell, at Mobile, and Colonel John B. Campbell, who fell at Chippewa, where he commanded the right wing of the army under General Winfield Scott.

      source: Brock, Robert Alonzo and Virgil A. Lewis. Virginia and Virginians: Eminent Virginians, Executives of the Colony of Virginia from Sir Thomas Smyth to Lord Dunmore. Executives of the State of Virginia from Patrick Henry to Fitzhugh Lee. Sketches of Gens. Ambrose Powell Hill, Robert E. Lee, Thos. Jonathan Jackson, Commodore Maury; History of Virginia, from Settlement of Jamestown to Close of the Civil War. Richmond, VA: H. H. Hardesty, 1888.

    • Arthur Campbell, second son of David, died about 1811, in his sixty-ninth year.

      source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902.

  • Sources 
    1. [S5968] History of Augusta County, Virginia, John Lewis Peyton, (Staunton, VA: Samuel M. Yost & Son, 1882).

    2. [S5974] Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition, Joseph Addison Waddell, (Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902).

    3. [S5986] "Campbells in Ireland and Virginia," Journal of the Clan Campbell Society, Vol. 24, No. 2, Linda Hart, (Clan Campbell Society of North America, 1997).

    4. [S5988] "An Ancient Document Examined," Journal of the Clan Campbell Society, Vol. 28, No. 4, Ruby G. Campbell, (Journal of the Clan Campbell Society of North America, 2001).

    5. [S5971] Virginia and Virginians: Eminent Virginians; Executives of the Colony of Virginia from Sir Thomas Smyth to Lord Dunmore; Executives of the State of Virginia from Patrick Henry to Fitzhugh Lee; Sketches of Gens. Ambrose Powel Hill, Robert E. Lee, Thos. Jonathan Jackson; Commodore Maury, Virgil Anson Lewis, (Richmond, VA: H. H. Hardesty, 1888).

    6. [S13] The Descendants of Capt. Thomas Carter of "Barford", Lancaster County, Virginia, 1652-1912, with Genealogical Notes of Many of the Allied Families, Joseph Lyon Miller, (Thomas, WV: Joseph Lyon Miller, 1912).

    7. [S7] “Sketch of Captain David Campbell.” The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 2, Margaret Campbell Pilcher, (Nashville, TN: Goodpasture Book Company, 1903).

    8. [S12] The Families of Joshua Williams of Chester County, PA, and John McKeehan of Cumberland County, PA, with Some Allied Families, Bessie P. Douglas, (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Press, 1928).