John Archibald Campbell (1872 - 1916)

Born Sep 1872 in Alafia, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Clara Blanche (Meares) Campbell — married 26 Jun 1901 in M. E. Church, Anona, Hillsborough County, Florida

Descendants

Died 28 Sep 1916 at about age 44 in Seminole, Pinellas County, Florida, USA

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Biography

This profile is part of the Campbell Name Study.

John Archibald Campbell^[1] was born in 20 September 1872^[2] in Alafia,^[3] Florida, USA, son of Benjamin F Campbell^[4] and Margaret Ann Taylor.

In the 1880 census John (age 8), At Home, was the son of Benj. F. Campbell (37) in Election Precinct 2 Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida, United States. Also in the household were Benj's wife Margaretta Campbell 30, son Leonard F. Campbell 11, son William E.k. Campbell 5, daughter M.anna Campbell 3, and son Francis L. Campbell 0.^[5]

In the 1885 census Johnnie (age 14y) was the son of B. F. Campbell in Hillsborough County, Florida. Also in the household were B. F.'s wife Maggie Campbell 34y, son Leonard Campbell 16y, son Eugene Campbell 12y, daughter Annie Campbell 10y, son Leon Campbell 7y, daughter Clara Campbell 4y, and daughter Katie Campbell 1y.^[6]

Sometime before 1900, the Campbell family moved to the peninsula side of Tampa Bay. In 1900, John (age 28) was the single son of Benjamin F Campbell in Clearwater, Hillsborough, Florida, United States. They were sharing the home with Benjamin's wife Margret A Campbell 50, son William E Campbell 25, daughter Margret A Campbell 23, daughter Francis L Campbell 20, daughter Marry C Campbell 19, daughter Emm?la K Campbell 17, son Horace S Campbell 14, and daughter Marrietta P Campbell 11. Also in the household was a boarder, Archie C Spence 25.^[4]

John (28) and Clara Blanche Meares (24) were married on 26 June 1901 in M. E. Church, Anona, Hillsborough County.^[7][8][9] Their known children were:^[10]

• Leonard Campbell (13 July 1902 – 16 July 1902)
• Doris Kathryn Campbell (30 November 1903 – 9 June 1972)
• Sarah Marjorie Campbell (20 August 1905 – 19 May 1999)
• John Alton Campbell (29 September 1908 – 2 March 1945)
• Lois Blanche Campbell (7 October 1911 – 20 November 1999)

In 1910, John (age 37) was the married head of household in Largo, Hillsborough, Florida, United States. With him were wife Clara D Campbell 33, daughter Dorris C Campbell 6, daughter Sarah M Campbell 4, son John A Campbele Jr. 1.^[11]

John died from typhoid on 28 September 1916 in Seminole, Pinellas County, Florida, aged 44. He was buried in Seminole Cemetery, Seminole, Florida.^[2]His obituary was published in the St Petersburg newspaper, the Evening Independent, on 28 September 1916.^[12] His estate was probated between 4 October 1916 and 29 July 1929 in Clearwater, Pinellas County, Florida.^[13]

In 1920, Clara (age 43), Owner, was the widowed head of household in Anona, Pinellas, Florida. Living with her were their children: daughter Doris K Campbell 16, daughter Majorie S Campbell 14, son John A Campbell 11, daughter Lois B Campbell 8.^[14]

Sources

1. ↑ U. S. Social Security Act Application for Account Number - Brown, Lois Campbell, Record Number: 264-44-9320, 20 April 1950; Social Security Administration, Baltimore, Maryland; Campbell Family Files. Privately held by Debi McGee Hoag, Leesburg, Florida.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Butts, Lesleigh Laite. Seminole Cemetery, Pg ?. Pinellas Genealogy Society, Inc. (Largo, Florida). 2000. 24, [33] page 10
3. ↑ "Sketches of the Campbell History as found in a notebook belonging to Jessie Irene (Campbell) Nichols (abt.1912-2002)", No one knows who the author was. A transcription was provided to Debi Hoag via email by Jessie's daughter. She found the original in an old notebook belonging to her mother "soon after they moved on to Alafia, located on the Alafia River near Tampa. John Archibald was born here in 1872" This note is important because it establishes that John was born on the mainland side of Tampa Bay.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "United States Census, 1900," database with images, (FamilySearch Record: M369-N4Q : accessed 20 September 2023) FamilySearch Image: S3HY-DC19-HCJ, John A Campbell (28), single son, in household of Benjamin F Campbell (57) in Clearwater, Hillsborough, Florida, United States. Born in Florida; citing Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Affiliate Publication Number: T623; Line: 31; Digital film/folder number: 004120045; FHL microfilm: 1240170; Image number: 73; Sheet number: 35; Sheet letter: A; Packet letter: A; Indexing batch: N00863-4.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, (FamilySearch Record: MNZ3-7N9 : accessed 20 September 2023) FamilySearch Image: 33S7-9YBS-4YP, John A Campbell (8), single son, At Home, in household of Benj.f. Campbell (37) in Election Precinct 2 Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida, United States. Born in Florida, United States; citing Volume: 1; Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Affiliate Publication Number: T9; Affiliate Line Number: 00034; Digital film/folder number: 005157349; FHL microfilm: 1254128; Image number: 351; Sheet number: 392; Sheet letter: A; Packet letter: A.
6. ↑ "Florida State Census, 1885," database with images, (FamilySearch Record: MNJQ-YRB : accessed 20 September 2023) FamilySearch Image: S3HY-63NQ-5L2, Johnnie Campbell (14y) son in household of Campbell (39y) in , Hillsborough, Florida; citing Page: 41; Line: 2; Digital film/folder number: 004280068; FHL microfilm: 888965; Image number: 612; Sheet number: <Blank>; Sheet letter: A; Packet letter: A; Indexing batch: N01566-7.
7. ↑ Miller, Marian Eileen Turner (1932-2014), email, Transcriptions of Sarah Meares' Diary, 7 files, Yahoo Groups: Meares Researchers, 2001;Privately held by Debi McGee Hoag, Leesburg, Florida. For quotes, See Also: Sarah Meares' Diary.
8. ↑ "Florida, County Marriages, 1830-1957," database with images, (FamilySearch Record: Q244-Q9M6 : accessed 20 September 2023) FamilySearch Image: 3QSQ-G9KN-BS7P, J A Campbell marriage to Clara Meares Or Mears on 19 Jun 1901 in , Hillsborough, Florida, United States; citing Digital film/folder number: 007621814; FHL microfilm: 000979064; Image number: 565; Packet letter: C; Indexing batch: M03969-6.
9. ↑ The marriage was recorded in Sept 1901 in Hillsborough County Marriage Book Q, page 34. The marriage date is recorded as 19 June 1901 which is consistent with when they acquired the marriage license. However, Clara's mother made numerous entries in her diary regarding Clara's marriage, always using the date 26 Jun 1901 (one month after her son Irvin's marriage). It is my current thought that the minister found the certificate in September, remembered that he had married them on a Wednesday, and recorded the ceremony as performed on the Wednesday closest to the date of the license. Debi Hoag 20 September 2023.
10. ↑ There was most likely one more child because his mother-in-law said in her diary at the time of his death in 1916 "And now they have laid him to rest in the Cemetery with two of his darling Babies"
11. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, (FamilySearch Record: MVKW-MC1 : accessed 20 September 2023) FamilySearch Image: 33SQ-GRVZ-H6X, John A Campbelle[sic] (37), married head of household in Largo, Hillsborough, Florida, United States. Born in Florida; citing Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Affiliate Publication Number: T624; Digital film/folder number: 004970343; FHL microfilm: 1374174; Image number: 589; Sheet number: 20; Sheet letter: A; Packet letter: A; Indexing batch: N03336-4.
12. ↑ "Death Summons John Campbell - Prominent Citizen of Seminole Dies After Short Illness," Evening Independent (The; St Petersburg, Florida, USA), 28 Sep 1916, p. 8, col. 6, obituary; 1999 transcription by McGee-1611 from copy in Campbell Family scrapbook; verified via digital images, GoogleNews.com, Archive Search (https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gXQLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=81MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5555%2C1191491 : accessed 27 Sep 2016)
13. ↑ National Society of the Daughters of the Revolution, Second Three Hundred Wills and Guardianships of Pinellas County Court House, Clearwater, Florida, abstracted by members of various DAR chapters (NSDAR, Autumn 1975 - Autumn 1976), Page 196; John A Campbell, Will; transcribed by Lois Robinson, 19 October 1976, Boca Ciega Chapter NSDAR and Page 205; John A Campbell, Guardianship; transcribed by Leslia LThompson, 18 November 1976, Pinellas Chapter NSDAR; Orlando Public Library (Orlando, Florida) RG 975.963. [Note: Volume 1, Page 277; See also continuing references in volumes 2-5 involving land sales arising from this estate.]
14. ↑ "1920 United States Federal Census," database with images, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 6061 #4055248 : accessed 20 September 2023), Clara B Campbell (43), widowed, Owner, head of household in Anona, Pinellas, Florida. Born in Florida; citing Year 1920, Census Place Anona, Pinellas, Florida, Roll T625_229, Page 3A, Enumeration District 143.

See also:

• Rasmussen, Ron & Sherry (Pinellas Park, Florida), Directory of the 65th Campbell Family Reunion - Honoring the 27 First Cousins (Grandchildren of Margaret Ann Taylor and Benjamin Franklin Campbell), Reunion Booklet, page vi; Campbell Family Files. Privately held by Debi McGee Hoag, Leesburg, Florida.
• Brusch, John L. "Typhoid Fever Clinical Presentation." Edited by Michael Stuart Bronze. Medscape.com > Drugs & Diseases > Infectious Diseases, August 19, 2019.
• Marian Turner Miller, Transcriptions of Sarah Roberts Meares diary, 7 files, Yahoo Groups: Meares Researchers, 2001. Provenance and compiled diary file in Meares Used Files. Privately held by Debi McGee Hoag, Leesburg, Florida.
  • 18 June 1901 - "Miss Meachem is with us this week. All are busy again preparing for another wedding. Can it be that Clara is going from me? I would that it was a good while but 2 in one month is too much ..."
  • 26 June 1901 - "Well this is the Wedding Day. I will be brave for I want God's blessings to follow them but it is so hard to see them leave the old home."
  • 26 July 1901 - "Clara has been married one month today, Irvin 2 months."
  • 26 August 1901 - "Irvin will be married 3 months, Clara 2 months"
  • 26 October 1901 - "Irvin has been married 5 months today, Clara 4. [...]"
  • Sept 1916:
    • "Monday 25th Took Mary Parker and her Friend home. Now down to Clara's. John is very sick."
    • "Thursday (Seminole). At Clara's and now John, her husband, has passed away."
    • "Friday And now they have laid him to rest in the Cemetery with two of his darling Babies to sleep until Jesus comes."

• "Florida Marriages, 1837-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW3B-M43 : 12 December 2014), J. A. Campbell and Clara Meares Or Mears, 19 Jun 1901; Hillsborough County, Marriage License, J. A. Campbell and Clara Meares, 15 Jun 1901; image 565 of 1348, "Marriage licenses, 1853-1927, 1940-1956, GS Film #979064, Marriage licenses 1901," FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9KN-BS7P : accessed 26 Sep 2016).
• "Florida Marriages, 1837-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW7H-NP8 : 12 Dec 2014), J.A. Campbell and Clara Meares, 19 Jun 1901; citing Hillsborough, Florida; FHL microfilm 979,418, image 51 of 531 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9KJ-38YP : accessed 25 Sep 2016)