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Descendants of Martin Van Buren Campbell

Generation No. 1

1. MARTIN VAN BUREN¹ CAMPBELL was born April 11, 1837 in Vermont, and died March 31, 1902 in Salina, Saline County, Kansas. He married MARY AMANDA MITCHELL March 26, 1861 in Elgin, Kane County, Illinois, daughter of THOMAS MITCHELL and ANNA COLLINS. She was born October 07, 1842 in Elgin, Kane County, Illinois, and died March 19, 1890 in Frankfort,Clear Fork Township, Marshall County, Kansas.

Notes for MARTIN VAN BUREN CAMPBELL:
1850 Livingston Co. Caledonia, New York. in 1800 Livingston County is Ontario County and Genesee County.Caledonia is a Township or Other Information. Record Type: Federal Population Schedule; Database: NY 1850 Federal Census Index; ID#NYS6a464840

Parents came from Scotland about 1800. He drove mules to pull barges on the Erie Canal at age 12 years. Martin's occupation was a Reverend and a Farmer. He homesteaded in Marshall County, Kansas about 1870. Clear Fork Township, In Marshall County, Kansas.

Martin V. B. Campbell was a Free Methodist Preacher. He performed the marriage ceremony for his son Henry James and Marguerite Ellen Barnett. Mary Amanda Campbell his granddaughter was one of Martin V. B. Campbell's students in school. Mary Amanda Campbell later married Jacob Lester Wismer and they had five (5) daughters. Mary Amanda Mitchell married her teacher Martin V. B. Campbell on March 26, 1861.

The Marriage License of Mary Amanda Mitchell and Martin states Martin J. B. or perhaps it is Martin V. B. Campbell. I cannot decipher the handwriting on the marriage license as of June 2000. August 2001:
I received Martin Van Buren Campbell's obit copy from the Free Methodist, Chicago, Illinois dated May 27, 1902. Copy sent to me by James Campbell of Woodstock, Illinois on August 17, 2001.

Attended Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa.

A Nazarite - " no razor ever came on his head" - and a fiery preacher. from the Free Methodist, Chicago, Illinois, dated May 27, 1902.

MARTIN VAN BUREN CAMPBELL Obituary from "THE FREE METHODIST" Chicago, Illinois published May 27, 1902 :

Rev. Martin Campbell was born in VErmont, April 11, 1837 and died in Salina, Kansas, March 31, 1902. When he was 2 years old his parents moved to New York State and lived twelve miles from Rochester for thirteen years. In 1852 he moved to South Elgin, Illinois and in 1854 to Fayette County, Iowa. He remained there nearly three years and attended what is now the Northern Iowa University. While attending this school he was clearly converted. He returned to South Elgin in 1855? (3 years =1857), and taught school one mile southeast of town. During the winter a revival was held by Rev. C. E. Harroun, Sr., and Frank Sheperdson. Before this Brother Campbell had been seeking the fullness of the Holy Spirit for two or three months. The first meeting he attended he was convinced that what these brethren were preaching was what he was hungering and thirsting for. "But," said he, "oh what blunders I made in attempting to get it!" As it appeared to him there was no other way but to take the cross, which seemed to mean to be homeless and friendless, yet, as he took the cross, light love, and joy came to his believing heart, and he proved the taking up the cross to mean just the opposite of what it had appeared to mean, viz., many homes and many friends; also victory in life, triumph in death and a crown of righteousness in the world to come. He was among the first to unite with the Free Methodist Church in Illinois. He was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Mitchell, March 26, 1861, at Elgin Illinois. They came to Kansas and settled in Marshall county, near Barrett, in 1879, where his wife died March 19, 1890. Nine children were born to them, one dying when two years old, leaving five daughters and three sons to mourn his loss. He also leaves four brothers and one sister. Brother Campbell was a kind neighbor, a faithful and an affectionate father, a true Christian and a good preacher. One marked peculiarity of his life was that no razor ever came on his head, hence, he was a Nazarite all his days. He was received into the Kansas conference at Arkansas City, in 1899, and was sent to the following circuits: Alma, Topeka, and Iola. He had to leave his last charge on accout of poor health. He will be missed in the church and in the home, but we can remember, his smiling face and shouts of "Glory to God!" "Amen" "Hallelujah" In behalf of the bereaved ones we ask the prayers of the church that the God of the father and mother may be the children's God. Funeral services were held by the writer at Barrett, where a large number of friends and neighbors gathered to pay a tribute of love and respect to the departed. Text, 2 Tim. 4:6-8.

Obituary written by I. N. Watson..

More About MARTIN VAN BUREN CAMPBELL:
Burial: March 31, 1902, Frankfort, Marshall County Cemetery, Area #4, Kansas

Notes for MARY AMANDA MITCHELL:
Died giving birth to 9th child. Child also died on March 19, 1890.

More About MARY AMANDA MITCHELL:
Burial: March 19, 1890, Frankfort, Marshall County Cemetery, Area #4, Kansas

Children of MARTIN CAMPBELL and MARY MITCHELL are:

THOMAS WILLIAM² CAMPBELL, b. September 03, 1867, South Elgin, Kane County, Illinois; d. May 01, 1939, Elgin, Kane County, Illinois; m. WEALTHY MORGAN, April 16, 1890, Elgin, Kane County, Illinois.

More About THOMAS WILLIAM CAMPBELL:
Burial: May 04, 1939, Elgin, Kane County, Illinois

ii.

ANNA CAMPBELL, b. 1866, Elgin, Kane, Illinois; m. JAMES H. MCCONCHIE.

Notes for ANNA CAMPBELL:
DAR Vol. 149, p 54. DAR #148183

	iii.	JOSEPH E. CAMPBELL, b. 1862, Kane County, Illinois; m. MARY F. SMITH, February 19, 1882; b. Abt. 1864.
2.	iv.	EMMA I. CAMPBELL, b. 1864, Elgin, Kane County, Illinois.
3.	v.	HENRY JAMES CAMPBELL, b. July 16, 1871, DeKalb County, Illinois; d. December 28, 1920, Ottawa, Franklin Co., Kansas.
4.	vi.	MARY AMANDA CAMPBELL, b. 1873, DeKalb County, Illinois.
5.	vii.	JENNIE M. CAMPBELL, b. January 08, 1877, Dekalb County, Illinois; d. March 18, 1948, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas.
	viii.	CORA E. CAMPBELL, b. April 1881; m. FREY.
	ix.	FRANK CAMPBELL, b. 1870, Illinois; d. December 10, 1871, Clintonville, Illinois.

More About FRANK CAMPBELL:
Burial: December 13, 1871, Clintonville, Illinois

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