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Descendants of James CAMPBELL

8. Hugh² CAMPBELL (James¹) was born Abt. 1795 in Kentucky\VA, and died 07 Mar 1867 in Wilson County, TN. He married Sarah HEARN 24 May 1816 in Wilson County, TN, daughter of George HEARN and Tabitha SKEEN. She was born Abt. 1796 in North Carolina, and died 1870 in Wilson Co., TN.

Notes for Hugh CAMPBELL:
HUGH CAMPBELL was born ca 1796 in Kentucky, four years after statehood was gained from Virginia. Thus far, we know very little of his early life in Wilson & Smith County, Tennessee except that in 1816 he married Sarah Hearn, daughter of George & Tabitha Skeen Hearn. He was a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, near the present day community of Watertown, on the banks of Round Lick Creek. His family lived previously or had lands nearby in Smith County, possibly near Hickman Creek or Smith's Fork, which he sold to his two oldest sons, George and James when, in 1847 he decided to move further west in Wilson county, just south of the county seat of Lebanon. He supported his family here, farming on 317 acres for eight years, then, between 1850 - 1855, sold his lands, (at a very good profit), and moved to the westernmost reaches of the county, to a community on Suggs Creek, at the time called, Rural Hill, (later also known as 'Dodoburg'). Here he purchased 345 acres and was quite prosperous, raising a large family, growing crops, and making shoes until the Civil War and Union armies ravaged his land and livelyhood. He died on the 7th of March 1867 and is remembered still to this day. -sjc 1996

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Book F2 Page 456
Wilson County Court
Lebanon, Tennessee

DIVISION OF LAND - HUGH CAMPBELL HEIRS 1867 WILSON COUNTY, TN

We the undersigned Freeholders & Citizens of Wilson County have been called upon by the heirs & widow of Hugh Campbell dec'd to lay off a small portion of the real estate of said Campbell ----- to his widow for her dower in which we will hereafter describe & which amount is as much as the heirs & to partition the balance among the heirs of said Campbell, have met on the premises in the 25th district of Wilson County & provided to discharge the duty assigned us by first having the entire tract surveyed , we then laid off to the widow the amount she deserved for dower 36A 3R & 36 poles which is bounded as follows to wit Beginning at a large cedar, thence South 165 poles 16 links to a stake in Wrights line, thence South 87 [degrees] East 55 poles & 8 links, thence north 166 poles 21 links to a stake, thence north 85 1\4 [degrees] West 35 poles & 21 links to the beginning. We then proceeded to partition the remainder of the said real estate of said Hugh Campbell deceased among his six surviving children namely George H. Campbell, Elizabeth Hughley, James S. Campbell, Mary Bostick, Thomas M. Campbell, + Edy Adelaid Dobson, in the following manner, to wit fourteen lots or parcels, six being lots of wild uncultivated land covered with cedar forest. George H. Campbell drew lots No. 3, 7, + 9 composing 50A 0R & 29 square poles with one cribb & stables attached. James S. Campbell drew lots No. 6 & 13 with shoe shop + wood shop attached. Mrs Elizabeth Hughley drew lots No. 4 & 14 comprising 55A 3R 39SP. Then Mary Bostick drew lots No. 6 & 10 comprising 50A 11R 20SP with negro kitchen attached. Thomas M. Campbell drew lots No. 5 & 11 comprising 47A 3R + 38SP and Mrs Edy Adelaide Dobson drew lots No. 2 & 12 comprising 46A 2R + 12SP. The following is a synopses of the six lots in order of the drawing, George H. Campbell Lots No. 3, 7 + 9 comprising 50A 0R 29SP. James S. Campbell Lots 6 + 13 comprising 57A 3R 36SP. Elizabeth Hughley No. 4 + 14 55A 3R 39SP. Mary Bostick 6 + 10 50A 11R 20SP. Thomas M. Campbell No. 5, 8 + 11 - 47A 3R 38SP. Edy Adelaide Dobson No. 2 + 12, 46A 2R 12SP. Widows Dower 36A 3R 36SP. Common Aggregate 345A. 0R. 10SP.

G.T. Gleaves
John Crudup
John R. Cawthon

Now be it renumerated that on the 31st day of July AD 1867 we George H. Campbell, James S. Campbell, Elizabeth Hughley, Mary Bostick, Thomas M. Campbell + Edy Adelaide Dobson being of lawful age + heirs of Hugh Campbell deceased having chosen John Crudup, [Gregg] Gleaves + John Cawthon Freeholders and Citizens of Wilson County Civil District No. 25 Commissioned to divide land for us, all now [cordially] accept the division set forth by said commissioners + drawn by us [this] [the] foregoing synopses of said division drawing [will show]. Now all are mutually agree to + with each other to relinquish all the right [title claims] + interest that we in common as children of said Hugh Campbell deceased held in + to his real + undivided estate + [especially] in + to the several lots drawn by each other + by this relinquishment it is been [intention] made by to invest in each one of them all the rights, title, claim + interest that they held in common to the lots that we individually have drawn. In testimony of which mutual [relinquishment] we have here unto set our hands + affixed our seal this 31st July AD 1867.

G.H. Campbell @
W.J. Dobson @
her
Elizabeth X Hughley @
mark
J.S. Campbell @
[Martha] J. Bostick @
John Bostick @
E.A. Dobson @
T.M. Campbell @

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Notes for Sarah HEARN:
SARAH HEARN is the daughter of George and Tabitha Skeen Hearn. Her father is a desendent of an London merchant who came to the Maryland Colony of America in the late 1600s.
Her mother has an interesting and historic ancestry back beyond Robert I Bruce, King of Scotland.
..........to be continued

- sjc 1997

"...THOMAS HEARNE, third son of Thomas and Sally (Wingate) Hearne, was born 1720, died 1800, in North Carolina. By will his father left him executor of his estate when he died Jan., 1762. He married Nancy Wilson, who was born on the eastern shore of Maryland, as was he himself. They emigrated to North Carolina, Onslow Co., where their son Thomas was born Jan., 1768. In a few years he moved to Montgomery Co. and settled a few miles from the mouth of the Yadkin River. He was possessed of good property at the outbreak of the war of the Revolution, and having taken the oath of allegiance to the king, he would not espouse the cause of the Colonists, but he refused to bear arms against them. Hence he fared badly at the hands of both parties and between the two, lost most of his property. He died 1800." pp 467-8

".....My grandfather, George Hearne, married Tabitha Skein; my great-grandfather was Thomas Hearne, who married Nancy Wilson. My grandfather, George Hearne, removed from North Carolina 1804, and located on Spring Creek, and, after living there one year, removed to a farm two miles east of Watertown, Tenn., and lived there till his death, July 9, 1850, aged seventy-six years; his wife, Tabitha (Skein) Hearne, died Mar. 6, 1856, aged eighty-two years...." p 484

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COAT OF ARMS OF FAMILY OF HEARNE, FROM OFFICIAL
RECORDS IN LONDON, ENGLAND

JARRETT’S HERALDIC OFFICES,
NOS. 37 POULTRY CITY AND 66 REGENT STREET, LONDON.

One of the family was Sheriff of London in 1618, another in 1674,
and another in 1797

Arms: SABLE, A CHEVRON BETWEEN THREE HERONS ARGENT
Crest: A HERON’S HEAD DUCALLY GORGED PROPER.
Motto: "LEGES JURAGUE SERV AT."

It is known that two officers in Oliver Cromwell’s Army were named Hearne, and a number of his chaplains were ministers in the Baptist Church. One of these officers was William Hearne of Anglo-Norman descent, born in London, 1627, and was a wealthy merchant, he served as Captain with Cromwell, in all his famous battles, and after the restoration, found it not wholesome or safe to remain in London, hence with his wife, Mary--whom he married in London, a lady of culture and highly educated--he left London and went, in 1660, to St. Christopher’s, in the West India Islands, and opened a large trade in general merchandise from London to these islands, and the colonies on the coast of Maryland and Delaware. On his return trips to London he took large cargoes of Muscovada sugar, as his old ledgers show. In 1681 two of his brothers, Derby and Ebenezer, came with him, and settled in the then Province of Maryland, near what is now the Maryland and Delaware line, but on the Delaware side. Derby settled where what is known now as Theodore Brewington’s Mill, and Ebenezer at the Line Meeting House, The merchant, William, was called by many of the colonists “The Blanket Merchant,” because of the large quantities of blankets he handled in his trade, which he continued back and forth between London, the islands and colonies until the spring of 1688, when he settled near his brothers, but on the Maryland side of the line, near the present town of Delmar, in Somerset County, where he built a residence that he occupied till his death.

Children of Hugh CAMPBELL and Sarah HEARN are:

+	21	i.	George Hearn³ CAMPBELL, born 17 Apr 1817 in Tennessee; died 09 Feb 1910 in Wilson County, TN.
+	22	ii.	James Skene CAMPBELL, born 20 Feb 1819 in Smith County, Tennessee; died 07 Jul 1886 in Smith County, Tennessee.
+	23	iii.	Elizabeth CAMPBELL, born Abt. 1821 in Wilson or Smith Co.,Tennessee.
	24	iv.	Martha CAMPBELL, born Abt. 1822 in Tennessee.
	25	v.	Liza CAMPBELL, born Abt. 1823 in Tennessee.
+	26	vi.	Mary Ann CAMPBELL, born 17 Feb 1832 in Tennessee; died 19 Feb 1904 in Lebanon, Tennessee.
+	27	vii.	Thomas M. CAMPBELL, born 18 May 1837 in Smith County, Tennessee; died 22 Jun 1916 in Nashville, Tennessee.
+	28	viii.	Eadie Adalaide CAMPBELL, born Abt. 1841 in Tennessee; died Abt. 1924 in Tennessee?.

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