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Eleanor W. <I>Doak</I> Campbell

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Eleanor W. Doak Campbell

Birth
Greenville, Augusta County, Virginia, USA
Death
23 Apr 1862 (aged 81)
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
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Listed under the name John Campbell in burial records.


Daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Doak/e. Married John Wilson Campbell in Virginia around 1811. The couple removed to Ohio where Campbell embarked on a career in the law, first as a county prosecutor, then as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. He served in the US House of Representatives for 10 years (1817-1827) before being appointed to the federal judiciary by Andrew Jackson. It appears the couple had no natural children, but an adopted daughter who died of cholera a few weeks before Judge Campbell. Before his death, he asked that his wife, Eleanor, return his body to Columbus and bury it beside their daughter, Elizabeth Ann Bimpson (original burial: North Graveyard).


Elizabeth's will was signed on March 6, 1862 and proven on April 23, 1862; therefore her actual date of death was probably earlier than April 23.


Her will mentions nephew Mitchell C. Lilley (son of Eleanor's sister Elizabeth (Doak) Lilley), his wife Amanda and their children, nephew William C. Lilley and his children, and other members of the Lilley family who were direct descendants of her sister. She also bequeathed 100 copies of her self-published book of John Wilson Campbell's compiled writing, Biographical Sketches: With Other Literary Remains of the Late John W. Campbell, Scott & Gallagher, Columbus, OH, 1838, to each The American Colonization Society and the boards of Foreign and of Domestic Missions of the Presbyterian Church.


Originally interred in the North Graveyard. Removed to Green Lawn Cemetery, Section X or Section B, on an unspecified date. Not in card file. Date of birth was taken from cemetery records, which are listed under her late husband's name.

Listed under the name John Campbell in burial records.


Daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Doak/e. Married John Wilson Campbell in Virginia around 1811. The couple removed to Ohio where Campbell embarked on a career in the law, first as a county prosecutor, then as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. He served in the US House of Representatives for 10 years (1817-1827) before being appointed to the federal judiciary by Andrew Jackson. It appears the couple had no natural children, but an adopted daughter who died of cholera a few weeks before Judge Campbell. Before his death, he asked that his wife, Eleanor, return his body to Columbus and bury it beside their daughter, Elizabeth Ann Bimpson (original burial: North Graveyard).


Elizabeth's will was signed on March 6, 1862 and proven on April 23, 1862; therefore her actual date of death was probably earlier than April 23.


Her will mentions nephew Mitchell C. Lilley (son of Eleanor's sister Elizabeth (Doak) Lilley), his wife Amanda and their children, nephew William C. Lilley and his children, and other members of the Lilley family who were direct descendants of her sister. She also bequeathed 100 copies of her self-published book of John Wilson Campbell's compiled writing, Biographical Sketches: With Other Literary Remains of the Late John W. Campbell, Scott & Gallagher, Columbus, OH, 1838, to each The American Colonization Society and the boards of Foreign and of Domestic Missions of the Presbyterian Church.


Originally interred in the North Graveyard. Removed to Green Lawn Cemetery, Section X or Section B, on an unspecified date. Not in card file. Date of birth was taken from cemetery records, which are listed under her late husband's name.



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