DEATH OF CIVIL WAR VETERAN
James C. Campbell of Merideth Heights, uncle of Mrs. W. F. Kemper of the East Hill, died Wednesday afternoon of last week, August 24, 1916, of an illness of short duration.
Interment of the body was made in the Kent Cemetery last Friday.
Mr. Campbell was almost eighty-one years of age at the time of his death. He was born in Pennsylvania, where his boyhood was spent on a farm. Early in the year 1861, he enlisted as a volunteer in the Union Army, where he served for three years as a member of the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
After the Civil War, he moved with his family to Iowa, where he conducted a very successful farm.
In 1879 he returned to Pennsylvania, and there resided until 1888 when he came west and settled at Christopher, where he has since resided.
He is a member of Col. Hiram Burnham Post of
the G. A. R. at Kent, and a member of the Odd Fellow's Lodge at Floris, Iowa.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. C. F. Allan of Tacoma, and four sons, E. W. Campbell, cashier of the National Bank of Seattle; Frank W. Campbell of Foster; Clayton and Clyde Campbell of Christopher.
The Kent Journal Thur., August 31, 1916
James C. Campbell of Merideth Heights, uncle of Mrs. W. F. Kemper of the East Hill, died Wednesday afternoon of last week, August 24, 1916, of an illness of short duration.
Interment of the body was made in the Kent Cemetery last Friday.
Mr. Campbell was almost eighty-one years of age at the time of his death. He was born in Pennsylvania, where his boyhood was spent on a farm. Early in the year 1861, he enlisted as a volunteer in the Union Army, where he served for three years as a member of the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
After the Civil War, he moved with his family to Iowa, where he conducted a very successful farm.
In 1879 he returned to Pennsylvania, and there resided until 1888 when he came west and settled at Christopher, where he has since resided.
He is a member of Col. Hiram Burnham Post of
the G. A. R. at Kent, and a member of the Odd Fellow's Lodge at Floris, Iowa.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. C. F. Allan of Tacoma, and four sons, E. W. Campbell, cashier of the National Bank of Seattle; Frank W. Campbell of Foster; Clayton and Clyde Campbell of Christopher.
The Kent Journal Thur., August 31, 1916
DEATH OF CIVIL WAR VETERAN
James C. Campbell of Merideth Heights, uncle of Mrs. W. F. Kemper of the East Hill, died Wednesday afternoon of last week, August 24, 1916, of an illness of short duration.
Interment of the body was made in the Kent Cemetery last Friday.
Mr. Campbell was almost eighty-one years of age at the time of his death. He was born in Pennsylvania, where his boyhood was spent on a farm. Early in the year 1861, he enlisted as a volunteer in the Union Army, where he served for three years as a member of the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
After the Civil War, he moved with his family to Iowa, where he conducted a very successful farm.
In 1879 he returned to Pennsylvania, and there resided until 1888 when he came west and settled at Christopher, where he has since resided.
He is a member of Col. Hiram Burnham Post of
the G. A. R. at Kent, and a member of the Odd Fellow's Lodge at Floris, Iowa.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. C. F. Allan of Tacoma, and four sons, E. W. Campbell, cashier of the National Bank of Seattle; Frank W. Campbell of Foster; Clayton and Clyde Campbell of Christopher.
The Kent Journal Thur., August 31, 1916
James C. Campbell of Merideth Heights, uncle of Mrs. W. F. Kemper of the East Hill, died Wednesday afternoon of last week, August 24, 1916, of an illness of short duration.
Interment of the body was made in the Kent Cemetery last Friday.
Mr. Campbell was almost eighty-one years of age at the time of his death. He was born in Pennsylvania, where his boyhood was spent on a farm. Early in the year 1861, he enlisted as a volunteer in the Union Army, where he served for three years as a member of the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteers.
After the Civil War, he moved with his family to Iowa, where he conducted a very successful farm.
In 1879 he returned to Pennsylvania, and there resided until 1888 when he came west and settled at Christopher, where he has since resided.
He is a member of Col. Hiram Burnham Post of
the G. A. R. at Kent, and a member of the Odd Fellow's Lodge at Floris, Iowa.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. C. F. Allan of Tacoma, and four sons, E. W. Campbell, cashier of the National Bank of Seattle; Frank W. Campbell of Foster; Clayton and Clyde Campbell of Christopher.
The Kent Journal Thur., August 31, 1916
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