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Memorial written by an unnamed church member: (added here by Polk County Historian, Marian Bailey Presswood.)

Mrs. S. R. Cambelll, nee S. R. Douglass was born in Gordon County, Georgia and there was married to Newman Campbell, with whom she lived until is death. Ten children were born to them, and nine of them lived to morn her death. On the 29th day of August 1896 at her home in East Tennessee, she laid down her cross to take up her crown; for years she had carried the one that she might obtain the other.

The power of a good life is illustrated again in her. Not all of the heroes of this world are heralded by the multitude. They who quietly and faithfully do the duties which God and man places upon them are most to be praised and they are noble in the highest sense. Mrs. Campbell sought not the applause of the multitude, nor did she seek to perpetuate her name on brass or marble, but rather in the life of her children and the hearts of her neighbors; she rightly pledged that the highest honor that can be conferred upon woman was given by God - motherhood!

In the home life does the real character of wife and mother show itself. When husband leans upon her counsel and institution and children rise up and call her blessed, when through her devoted and christian life they are led to higher life, then has that wife and mother chosen that which is better than great riches. Such as the home life of Mrs. Campbell. The effect of her life upon the community in which she spent the last thirty years of her life shows the strength of her character and the quality of her religion, without neglecting her home duties, as numerous as they are in the life of a good wife, she revolutionized her community.

Moving after the war with her husband to East Tennessee, they settled in what was the wildest section of that wild and uneducated and unchristianized mountain region. She was not content that her children should grow up with those surroundings. So then she began the effort that never lessened to elevate and christianize her home surroundings; school houses with their helpful influences sprung up; preaching places with their power for good were opened; Sunday schools in which the children were taught were soon followed, and then the angel of death said "it is enough."

Her home was in a christian community and her children under christian influence. Such in brief was her life. She lived well and her neighbors mourn her whose voice was first and longest raised in their behalf. Her children cherish her memory; there amid scenes familiar and surrounded by those she loved and for whom she toiled, she awaits the general resurrection.

May the God she served so faithfully comfort her children and relatives.

Added note: Children of Mr. and Mrs Newman Campbell were Douglass, Rome, Gordon, Greenville, Granville, Byron, Ivan, Ollie Runyons, Lula Swan, and Leola Derryberry.