The Campbell Family Chapter 6

Campbell Family Reunions

• Reunions were remembered for years

• The younger ones enjoyed hearing stories about far off places their families had visited

• Locations include California, Texas, Oklahoma, Montana and Alabama

1956 Love of family • A trip to

Hollywood, CA allowed the Campbell family to enjoy one another’s company

• Anna Lou, Ida, Ollie, Bessie, Bill and Milford vacationed together in 1956

• This is the corner of Hollywood and Vine

• The family had gone to visit Aunt Sallie, Ollie, Anna Lou and Milford

• The travelers came home via the Grand Canyon and New Mexico

• Bill loved to tell about their trip and laugh • The relatives traveled in Bill’s new 1956

Oldsmobile with a 460 air conditioner • Translated that meant 4 windows down at 60

miles per hour

• Our relatives in their hats must have made an impression on all the locals

• Bessie and Ida are pictured

• Unique experiences were found on the ghost town express

• Ida Smith is looking through the telescope

Bill, Suzie, Clara, mother Lucinda (Cindy), and Ida on Union Street

Larry is the boy

Randlett, OK at the Campbell homeplace in 1995

• Reunions were held in various locations

• The cousins loved to reminisce

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Grandparents Arromanus and Lucinda Campbell’s former home in Randlett, OK

Cousins reunion in Randlett

In Oklahoma City

Reunion summary

Grandchildren play the Uno game at Robert and Mildred’s home

Bartlesville

The Tribbles not pictured is sister Pearl Irene Tribble Fabian or Sandra

Cousins

Aunt Ida with nieces

1989 in Ponca City Thomas Allen, ?, Robert and Carl Campbell

Manus and Robert Smith

Is something wrong here?

We had never met before but…

Siblings Tommy, Ida, Clara and Bill

Quality time

Three generations – Grandma Ida, Karen,

Mildred, Grandma Nellie Both Grandma’s instilled the love of family

history into their descendents Aunt Ollie Mae typed many of the family doucuments

Surprises happen at reunions

The July 4th celebration at the Smith family reunion of Marsh and Ida’s family 2009

• These guys are in Texas and ready for a wedding in Jep’s family

• If these men can share with the younger generation the enjoyment of family…We all will have done well!

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What a sofa full…Robert, Jim and Jep

Montana was the destination of many reunions

• Jim and Robert along with Roger Kaye the last winter of Robert’s life

Reunions to Alabama were numerous Visiting kept family bonds strong….

The end of chapter 6

Useful websites and books mostly relating to Marsh Smith’s lineage

• A Jeffreys Family 1765-1984 by Allen Ray Jeffreys, 1984

• 1818 History and Families 1993 Whitley County, Kentucky, Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, KY 1994

• Booklet –Prepared for the 250 year of deed conveying land for the Church at Maidenhead, 1948, Hannah Smith, mother of patriot Elijah Smith is buried in their cemetery http://www.pclawrenceville.org/

• Sons of the American Revolution, Jacksonville, IL http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iljaghs/sar_dar.htm

• Whitley County Historical and Genealogical Society and Museum, http://www.wchgs.org/

• Whitley County Public Library, Williamsburg, KY contact Pat Jones, http://www.wchgs.org/

• Kentucky Genealogical Society, Inc., Frankfort, KY http://www.kygs.org/

• Online pension records are available at most public libraries free of charge Go to www.heritagequestonline.com Click search Persi Click Rev. War link, Type in Smith Elijah All

All Click search Select the one from NJ and VA The 26 pages of pension papers will be shown Series: M805 Roll: 747 Image: 255 File: W10501/BLWT101700-160-55 Page: 1 of 26 pages

• legacyhistorycollections.com contact khunter54@gmail.com

• Oklahoma Historical Society http://www.okhistory.org/research/index.html

• http://www.uky.edu/KentuckyAtlas/

• http://www.seminoleoklahoma.com/ use the Historical Photos from Seminole County link

• University of Oklahoma Western History Collections, Monnet Hall, Norman, OK http://libraries.ou.edu/

• The Whitley Republican, Thursday, Aug 28,1896 article Then Came the Great Depression

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• If any errors occur in the content, please email documentation to khunter54@gmail.com The Campbell story will never be told completely but it has been a pleasure to relive the

history contained therein. May future generations have the moral fiber of the Campbell family. May our relatives have the spiritual character shown by the ancestors and their connections with the Church. Many thanks to all who contributed to this work. It is a cumulative family project.