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- JAMES CAMPBELL, born 1756; died, June 10th, 1781.
Married: probably 1779, Margaret McMichael; died Sept. 7th, 1825, buried at Carlisle, Pa.
After James Campbell's death his widow married 1st, Aug. 19th, 1782, Lambert VanDyke, son of Henry and Elizabeth (Davis) VanDyke of Buffalo Valley. The service was performed by Rev. John Elder of Paxtang Church. By her second husband Margaret (McMichael) Campbell had six sons all of whom married and whose progeny are scattered well over the United States. Dr. Henry VanDyke is perhaps the most widely known of her descendants. In the genealogy of George Douglas VanDyke of Milwaukee. Wis., Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. 1, p. 256, mention of Margaret McMichael's first marriage to James Campbell is omitted by mistake. The present writer called Mr. George VanDyke's attention to the fact and in his letter of reply he expressed his regret and stated that he would have the error rectified in any future edition of the work.
After the death of Lambert VanDyke, his widow married a third husband in 1795, Benjamin Thompson of Carlisle, Pa.
James Campbell was a soldier of the Revolution and died at the early age of twenty-five, from wounds received in battle. Family tradition says that he was an officer. A James Campbell was ensign in the Officers Seventh Battalion, Col. John Boyd, 1777. The name appears many times on Pennsylvania Revolutionary rolls with no means of identification beyond the counties from which the men enlisted.
After having searched printed records in vain for a notice of James Campbell's death, the writer made a trip to Derry graveyard and discovered that several mistakes had been made in copying the inscriptions for publication. Three inscriptions of different James Campbells were found to be incorrect in Mr. Egle's compilation of them. In one case he has the date of death as Aug. 20th, 1734, and the age as 78, whereas on the tombstone it is May 20th, and the age 75 years. I found a small stone inscribed “In memory of James Campbell, who departed this life June 10th, 1781, aged twenty-five years.” Egle had given the date as June 10th, 1783, ten months after James Campbell's widow had married her second husband. As his parents were married in 1755, and we from the statement of his daughter that he did not die until she was about a year old, this date on the tombstone fits in exactly with facts we know, and beyond question the grave of our James.
Children:
Eleanor, born June 26th, 1780.
source: Douglas, Bessie P. The Families of Joshua Williams of Chester County, PA, and John McKeehan of Cumberland County, PA, with Some Allied Families. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Press, 1928.
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