Margaret Campbell

1748 - 1799  (51 years)

• Name	Margaret Campbell  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Born	31 Mar 1748	Augusta, Virginia, USA   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1774	Royal Oak, Washington, Virginia, USA   [4]
  Residence	1774–1781	Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, USA   [4]
  Religion	1782–1785	Greene, Tennessee, USA   [4]
  Residence	Abt. 1785	Grassy Valley, Knox, Tennessee, USA   [4]
  Residence	7 Mar 1787	Campbell Station, Knox, Tennessee, USA   [4]
  Died	29 Jul 1799	Campbell Station, Knox, Tennessee, USA   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I1989	Campbell Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	David Campbell,   b. 8 Mar 1706, Drumboden, Kilmachrenan, Donegal, Ireland ,   d. 17 Oct 1790, Holston, Washington, Virginia, USA  (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Mary Hamilton,   b. Abt. 1719, Londonderry, Ulster, Northern Ireland ,   d. 1801, Smyth, Marion, Virginia, USA  (Age ~ 82 years)
  Married	16 Jan 1735	Augusta, Virginia, USA   [5, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F1051	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Capt. David Campbell,   b. Abt. 2 Aug 1753, Augusta, Virginia, USA ,   d. 18 Aug 1832, Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, USA  (Age ~ 79 years)
  Married	1774	Washington, Virginia, USA   [4]
  Children	1. Jane Campbell,   b. Abt. 1778, Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, USA ,   d. Abt. 1879  (Age ~ 101 years)   2. Lt. Col. John Campbell,   b. Abt. 1780, Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, USA ,   d. 1859, Arkansas, USA  (Age ~ 79 years)   3. David Campbell,   b. 4 Mar 1781, Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, USA ,   d. 18 Jun 1841, Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, USA  (Age 60 years)   4. Mary Hamilton Campbell,   b. 22 Feb 1783, Greene, Tennessee, USA ,   d. 6 Oct 1859, Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, USA  (Age 76 years)
  Last Modified	30 Mar 2024
  Family ID	F1049	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Margaret married the David Campbell who erected a blockhouse in Tennessee, widely known as “Campbell's Station.” She was conspicuous for many excellent traits of character. Her death occurred in 1799, at the age of fifty-one. source: Waddell, Joseph Addison. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition. Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902. David, the subject of this sketch, was the youngest child. He was born in Augusta County, Virginia, August, 1753. Three months previous to his birth his father died, and his mother died when he was but six years of age. His brother William, being the eldest, according to the old English common law which was in force at that time, inherited the whole of his father's property, which consisted entirely of landed estates and slaves, so young David was forced to depend upon his own resources very early in life, and bravely he solved the problem of making his living. He had accumulated some means by the time he was twenty years of age, which he invested in a small farm in Washington County, Virginia, to which he moved. This was near Abingdon. Soon after settling on his farm he met his cousin, Margaret Campbell (daughter of his mother's half sister, Mary Hamilton, and David Campbell, a distant relation). They became attached to one another and were married in 1774, she being about 21 years of age at the time of her marriage. Her father, David Campbell, was an officer in the Virginia army in 1759, when his young son, Arthur, was taken prisoner by the Indians and escaped after three years captivity in Canada. (See old family manuscripts and also Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. VII, No. 2, October, 1899.) She had several brothers who were distinguished in the war of 1776, Margaret Campbell was keeping house at the “Royal Oak,” the family seat of her two brothers, Colonel John and Colonel Arthur Campbell, at the time of her marriage. source: Pilcher, Margaret Campbell. “Sketch of Captain David Campbell.” The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 2. Nashville, TN: Goodpasture Book Company, 1903.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5968] History of Augusta County, Virginia, John Lewis Peyton, (Staunton, VA: Samuel M. Yost & Son, 1882). [S5974] Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871, 2nd Edition, Joseph Addison Waddell, (Staunton, VA: C. Russell Caldwell, 1902). [S5] Historic Sumner County, Tennessee with Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Cage and Douglass Families, and Genealogical Notes of Other Sumner County Families, Jay Guy Cisco, (Nashville, TN: Polk-Keelin Printing Company, 1909). [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). [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). [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). [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).