Col. Arthur Campbell

1743 - 1811  (67 years)

• Name	Col. Arthur Campbell  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Birth	3 Nov 1743	Augusta, Virginia, USA   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	8 Aug 1811	Middlesboro, Bell, Kentucky, USA   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I11664	Campbell Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 Mar 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)
  Marriage	16 Jan 1735	Augusta, Virginia, USA   [1, 3, 8]
  Family ID	F1051	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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

  
  

• 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

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