Captain Campbell was Charles Ernest Fredrick Wittich Campbell, son of Charter Campbell of Morgan Co. The latter ran the Planter’s Hotel in Madison. In a “Georgia Journal” ad for the hotel in 1827, Charter proposed: “..continuing the Stage…from Powelton to Madison on to… Newton Co..(as the road).. to Covington is well adapted to the running of wheels.” The stagecoach stopped at his hotel! I found a Charles Campbell listed in Morgan Co. on militia rolls regarding earlier Indian Wars, so he likely had some experience. In March of 1838, shortly before the Cherokee campaign, Charles had lost both his wife, 22 year old Mary Ann to “pulmonary consumption”, and just a week later, in Madison, GA, his father Charter-age 52, to “apoplexy”. Charles had graduated as a medical doctor from the College of Charleston in 1833. He had married Mary Ann in Newton Co. c. 1836, and in 1839 remarried; Elvira W. Gay in Newton Co. It appears that he lived in Jasper Co. after his 2nd marriage, perhaps near Newton Factory.
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Information provided by Beth Ivie-Allen
Captain Campbell was Charles Ernest Fredrick Wittich Campbell, son of Charter Campbell of Morgan Co. The latter ran the Planter’s Hotel in Madison. In a “Georgia Journal” ad for the hotel in 1827, Charter proposed: “..continuing the Stage…from Powelton to Madison on to… Newton Co..(as the road).. to Covington is well adapted to the running of wheels.” The stagecoach stopped at his hotel! I found a Charles Campbell listed in Morgan Co. on militia rolls regarding earlier Indian Wars, so he likely had some experience. In March of 1838, shortly before the Cherokee campaign, Charles had lost both his wife, 22 year old Mary Ann to “pulmonary consumption”, and just a week later, in Madison, GA, his father Charter-age 52, to “apoplexy”. Charles had graduated as a medical doctor from the College of Charleston in 1833. He had married Mary Ann in Newton Co. c. 1836, and in 1839 remarried; Elvira W. Gay in Newton Co. It appears that he lived in Jasper Co. after his 2nd marriage, perhaps near Newton Factory.
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