U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Campbell, George (b. 1855) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 362 George Campbell, M. D., born 1855 in Barbour, son of George G. and Elizabeth A. (Bryan) Campbell, was married July 26, 1882, to Burnettie daughter of James and Hannah (Skidmore) Nestor. Children, George Howard and Delores Elizabeth. In politics he is a Democrat; by profession a physician and farmer, living at Danville, where he owns 125 acres, principally cleared. He devotes much of his attention to stock-raising. He was educated at the University of Mainland, and takes a deep interest in schools. His father, George G. Campbell, was born in 1824 in Baltimore, and was a son of George Campbell, of whom Judge Samuel Woods said: "He was the most remarkable man I ever knew." Geo. G. Campbell in 1845 came to the farm on which he now lives, and engaged in the mercantile business with his half brother, George W. Bedford, until the beginning of the war. He married Elizabeth A., daughter of William and Barbara (Swisher) Bryan, February 8, 1854. Children, George, Bedford, Mary William, Albert, Florence B., Leander, Littlewood and Rosa Alice. He owns 700 acres. Among his possessions is a writing desk which his father carried across the Atlantic Ocean nineteen times, and the papers left in it at his father's death 1866, are still in it. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH-CERTIFICATE, Preston County WV, #933 Full-name: Bernetia Nestor Campbell Birth: Aug 1, 1858 in W.Va. Death: Jan 10, 1949 in Preston County, WV Marital-status: Widowed Father: James Nestor Mother: Hannah Skidmore Informant: Mrs. A. R. Bolyard Burial: Campbell Cemetery I couldn't find a death-record for George Campbell, but he was alive during the 1910 census enumeration, and his wife, Bernetta is listed as a "Widow" in the 1920 census. 1910 Census, Barbour County, WV Cove Magisterial District, ED:3, Sheet 10A Lines 44-46; Enum-Dwelling #192, Enum-Family #198 CAMPBELL, George (head) age-55, m1-27yrs, WV-Md-WV, Farmer ", Burnette (wife) age-52, 1-child/1-living, WV-WV-WV ", George Howard (son) age-26, single, WV-WV-WV, Farmer 1920 Census, Barbour County, WV Cove District, ED:3, Sheet 3A Lines 19-23, Enum-Dwelling #53, Enum-Family #53 CAMPBELL, George H. (head) age 36, WV-WV-WV, Farm Laborer ", Dottie (wife) age-31, WV-WV-WV ", Angeline (dau) age 4-9/12, WV-WV-WV ", John H. (son) age 1-9/12, WV-WV-WV ", Burnetta (mother) age 61, widow, WV-WV-WV ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------