CAMPBELL: Of Spencer.
John Chambers Campbell, Sr., and his wife, Anna, natives of Franklin County, Virginia, with their family of three sens and three daughters, were the first of this name resident of Spencer. John C. Campbell and his wife were married and lived for a time in Franklin County, Virginia. We infer from a statement of a grandson, Mr. Cork, that Rebecca, his mother, a daughter of John C. Campbell, was born in that county.
They, John C. and wife, came to Clarksburg, West Virginia, where they resided for a time, from there to Glenville, West Virginia, thence to Spencer, shortly after the "Civil War"-about the year 1868. This date we infer from a marriage record, a daughter, Annie B. to Henry Depue. John C. Campbell was a lawyer, but in failing strength of limbs, he acquired the large old frame hotel situate on the corner of Main and Market Streets, the principal hostelry of the town then, conveyed to the wife and family by John G. Duval and others, 2nd April, 1869, and carried it on for some years; was elected and served a term or two as a justice of the peace. They educated one son as a physician and one as a lawyer. They were Presbyterians in religious sentiments. As the name indicates, they were of Scotch descent; the men all blonds.
The names of the children of John C. Campbell, Sr., and his wife are as follows:
Mary Louise. wife of Milton Norris, Glenville.
Anna Belle, married Henry Depue of Spring Creek, September 26, 1872. See name Depue, Chapter VI, this work.
Rebecca Lupton, married James Cork in Clarksburg. See name Cork. After his death, she married Capt. M. W. Kidd.
William C., physician, married Miss Prudentia Lewis (See name, Lewis), January 10, 1882; they made their home on Long Ridge beyond Walton; reared several children.
John C., Jr., married Miss America Simmons, December 30, 1872.
Benjamin W. We have nothing of his career.
Augustus M., as a gay young lawyer, was Roane's first resident prosecuting attorney; married first, Miss Annie Wilson, 1882, he about twenty years of age then; he made a second marriage here, and was parent of some children; on expiration of his office he went to California.
Of the children of John C. and America (Simmons) Campbell, we recall the following: Mary, who married J. Claud Bartlett (widower, age 44) on September 4, 1898; her age then 24 years. They made their home in Spencer several years and to them were born one son and one daughter.
Ashby, wedded somewhere in the State of Ohio, a Miss of Swedish extraction; he acquired the John C., jr. and America's home farm and live here yet, 1926.
Rebecca, daughter of John C. Jr., and America, his wife, wedded Willam Wyley Schwender, at her hQme, on November 2, 1904; her age then given as 24, his 25; they resided here some years then moved to Ripley. They have several children.
Source: History of Roane County, West Virginia, 1774-1927 William H. Bishop, Esq. p 468-469
Submitter: Sandy Spradling, November 28, 1999
