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Rev Mungo McCampell “Cam, McCamel” Maples

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Rev Mungo McCampell “Cam, McCamel” Maples

Birth
Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
Death
11 Jun 1905 (aged 87)
Little River, Bell County, Texas, USA
Burial
Little River, Bell County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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McCampbell was the youngest child born to Sgt. William Cordra and Nancy Long Maples. William Cordra Maples is documented as a 15-year-old member of the Guard on the Dan River in George Washington's Army. His obituary reads as follows: Sgt. Maples "was a native of Virginia and was one of the Guard, at the age of fifteen years, on Dan River, when the battle was fought at Guilford Court House. He emigrated to East Tennessee in the year 1796, and served as a volunteer in the war of 1812; and emigrated to Alabama in the year 1833." He was 81 at his death and died at Alabama at the home of his son(s). The story appeared in Huntsville, Alabama Demorat on November 17, 1847, with the follwing note: "The Athens, Tenn., and Lynchburg, Va., papers are requested to copy."

William Cordra and Nancy Long Maples's children were Canaea; Eda Jane; Mary; Rutha or Ritha; William Cordra, Jr.; John Henry (3rd great grandfather of Karen Neal Morey, creator of this memorial); Wilson; Edward Noah; Isaac; Moses; Peter; George L.; Jonah; Nancy and McCampbell.

McCampbell married Elizabeth Wilder in Jackson County, Alabama on February 9, 1837. They lived in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, and Elizabeth is buried there.
Their children were Sarah Jane (m. DeWitt C. Porter, my g-g grandparents, through their only child Lucy Elizabeth Porter Cooper Waldroup/Waldrop and her child, my grandmother Willie McGuire Waldroup); William Edward; Sampson Wilder; Elizabeth Sophronia; Nancy Catharine; Mary Frances; "Dock" Alford Maples; John Egbert; Jacob Thompson; and Willie McCampbell Maples.
McCampbell was the youngest child born to Sgt. William Cordra and Nancy Long Maples. William Cordra Maples is documented as a 15-year-old member of the Guard on the Dan River in George Washington's Army. His obituary reads as follows: Sgt. Maples "was a native of Virginia and was one of the Guard, at the age of fifteen years, on Dan River, when the battle was fought at Guilford Court House. He emigrated to East Tennessee in the year 1796, and served as a volunteer in the war of 1812; and emigrated to Alabama in the year 1833." He was 81 at his death and died at Alabama at the home of his son(s). The story appeared in Huntsville, Alabama Demorat on November 17, 1847, with the follwing note: "The Athens, Tenn., and Lynchburg, Va., papers are requested to copy."

William Cordra and Nancy Long Maples's children were Canaea; Eda Jane; Mary; Rutha or Ritha; William Cordra, Jr.; John Henry (3rd great grandfather of Karen Neal Morey, creator of this memorial); Wilson; Edward Noah; Isaac; Moses; Peter; George L.; Jonah; Nancy and McCampbell.

McCampbell married Elizabeth Wilder in Jackson County, Alabama on February 9, 1837. They lived in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, and Elizabeth is buried there.
Their children were Sarah Jane (m. DeWitt C. Porter, my g-g grandparents, through their only child Lucy Elizabeth Porter Cooper Waldroup/Waldrop and her child, my grandmother Willie McGuire Waldroup); William Edward; Sampson Wilder; Elizabeth Sophronia; Nancy Catharine; Mary Frances; "Dock" Alford Maples; John Egbert; Jacob Thompson; and Willie McCampbell Maples.


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