SIMPSON "SIMP" CAMPBELL is the son of Louis Campbell and Mariah Campbell.
Some of his siblings are Rinda, Mary, Louisa "Lou", Liza and Flint.
First wife - Lutecia "Tissure" Tanglin {married March 10, 1883}
Second wife - Frances "Frannie" Cato {married May 26, 1898}
From his marriage with Lutecia, four children were born including Mary, Andy, Henry and Willie Sr.
Upon his death, he was laid to rest on March 25, 1939 on the grounds of New Zion Cemetery.
Both of his wives preceded him in death.
His son, Andy Campbell, was the informant on the death certificate.
S.S. Hayward was the undertaker who managed the burial arrangements.
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Additional Research provided by David R. Chittenden (Contributor #48919571):
SIMPSON "SIMP" CAMPBELL was born a slave and was owned by W.L. Sloan who he stayed with until 1883, when he got married and moved to Marshall, Texas. Simp and his wife lived in the Gregg Addition in Marshall and he worked as a porter for a loan company. Later, Mr. Simpson was interviewed about his life.
From a late 1930's interview from the Federal Writers' Project with Simpson Campbell :
"My name is Simpson Campbell, but everybody, white and black, calls me Simp. I's born right here in Harrison County, on Bill Sloan's place, nine miles northwest of Marshall. I got in on the last five years of slavery. Pappy was Lewis Campbell, and he was sold by the Florida Campbells to Marse Sloan and fotched to Texas, but he allus kep' the Campbell name. Mammy was Mariah and the Sloans brung her out of South Carolina. She raised a passel of chillen. Besides me there was Flint, Albert and Clinton of the boys, and let me count Dinah, Clandy, Mary, Lula, Liza, Hannah, Matilda and Millie of the girls. The Sloans lived in a big house, but it wasn't no shanty. They was fixed 'bout as good as anybody in the county and driv as good hosses and rigs as anybody. They wasn't a mean streak in the whole Sloan family. The slave quarters sot in rows right down in the field from the big house. They had beds made to the wall, and all the cookin' was on the fireplace. We raised all our meat and corn and garden truck right there on the place and Marse Sloan brung wheat and other rations from Shreveport. The nigger women spinned all the cloth and pappy made shoes by hand, when they kilt a beef. The beef was dried and jetted and hung in the smokehouse. Marse's place civered a thousand acres and he had over a hunderd slaves, with a overseer, Johnson, and a nigger driver. Us niggers was treated well but the overseer had order to whip us for fightin'. If the nigger driver hit too many licks, the overseer sold him off the place. We worked from four till six and done a task after that, and sot round and talked till nine and then had to go to bed. On Saturday night you'd hear them fiddles and banjoes playin' and the niggers singin'. All them music gadgets was homemade. The banjoes was made of round pieces of wood, civered with sheepskin and strung with catgut strings. They wasn't no school but Marse Bill larnt some his niggers readin' and writin' so we could use them bookin' cotton in the field and sich like. They was a church on the Sloan place and white preachers done most the 'xhorting. Mammy allus say the cullud preachers had to preach what they's told obey you master and missus. I seed Yankee sojers and wagons comin' home from Mansfield. Marse Tom sot us free right after surrender, but my folks stayed on with him till he died, in 1906. I lef when I's twenty-three and marries and made a livin' from public work in Marshall all my life. I worked as day laborer and raised two boys and two girls and the boys is farmin' right here in the county and doin' well. When I's eighteen they got up a 'mendment to the Constitution and got out a "People's Party Ticket." It was a Democratic ticket and control by Southerners. They told us niggers if we'd vote that ticket we'd be rec'nized as white folks, but I didn't 'lieve a word of it. Old Man Sloan told all his niggers that and they all voted that ticket but two that was Charley Tang and Simp Campbell. I 'lieve the young race of our people is progressin' fine. If they had priv'lege to use they educations, they'd make more progress, but the color line holds them back."
Sources ~ Texas Death Certificate 13573; Texas County Marriage Ledgers & Indexes; and the 1880-1940 census records of Harrison County, Texas; along with interview transcribed from 'Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938'
Some of his siblings are Rinda, Mary, Louisa "Lou", Liza and Flint.
First wife - Lutecia "Tissure" Tanglin {married March 10, 1883}
Second wife - Frances "Frannie" Cato {married May 26, 1898}
From his marriage with Lutecia, four children were born including Mary, Andy, Henry and Willie Sr.
Upon his death, he was laid to rest on March 25, 1939 on the grounds of New Zion Cemetery.
Both of his wives preceded him in death.
His son, Andy Campbell, was the informant on the death certificate.
S.S. Hayward was the undertaker who managed the burial arrangements.
Respectfully, this memorial and its biography is submitted with care courtesy of FindingOurLott, Contributor #48513572.
Additional Research provided by David R. Chittenden (Contributor #48919571):
SIMPSON "SIMP" CAMPBELL was born a slave and was owned by W.L. Sloan who he stayed with until 1883, when he got married and moved to Marshall, Texas. Simp and his wife lived in the Gregg Addition in Marshall and he worked as a porter for a loan company. Later, Mr. Simpson was interviewed about his life.
From a late 1930's interview from the Federal Writers' Project with Simpson Campbell :
"My name is Simpson Campbell, but everybody, white and black, calls me Simp. I's born right here in Harrison County, on Bill Sloan's place, nine miles northwest of Marshall. I got in on the last five years of slavery. Pappy was Lewis Campbell, and he was sold by the Florida Campbells to Marse Sloan and fotched to Texas, but he allus kep' the Campbell name. Mammy was Mariah and the Sloans brung her out of South Carolina. She raised a passel of chillen. Besides me there was Flint, Albert and Clinton of the boys, and let me count Dinah, Clandy, Mary, Lula, Liza, Hannah, Matilda and Millie of the girls. The Sloans lived in a big house, but it wasn't no shanty. They was fixed 'bout as good as anybody in the county and driv as good hosses and rigs as anybody. They wasn't a mean streak in the whole Sloan family. The slave quarters sot in rows right down in the field from the big house. They had beds made to the wall, and all the cookin' was on the fireplace. We raised all our meat and corn and garden truck right there on the place and Marse Sloan brung wheat and other rations from Shreveport. The nigger women spinned all the cloth and pappy made shoes by hand, when they kilt a beef. The beef was dried and jetted and hung in the smokehouse. Marse's place civered a thousand acres and he had over a hunderd slaves, with a overseer, Johnson, and a nigger driver. Us niggers was treated well but the overseer had order to whip us for fightin'. If the nigger driver hit too many licks, the overseer sold him off the place. We worked from four till six and done a task after that, and sot round and talked till nine and then had to go to bed. On Saturday night you'd hear them fiddles and banjoes playin' and the niggers singin'. All them music gadgets was homemade. The banjoes was made of round pieces of wood, civered with sheepskin and strung with catgut strings. They wasn't no school but Marse Bill larnt some his niggers readin' and writin' so we could use them bookin' cotton in the field and sich like. They was a church on the Sloan place and white preachers done most the 'xhorting. Mammy allus say the cullud preachers had to preach what they's told obey you master and missus. I seed Yankee sojers and wagons comin' home from Mansfield. Marse Tom sot us free right after surrender, but my folks stayed on with him till he died, in 1906. I lef when I's twenty-three and marries and made a livin' from public work in Marshall all my life. I worked as day laborer and raised two boys and two girls and the boys is farmin' right here in the county and doin' well. When I's eighteen they got up a 'mendment to the Constitution and got out a "People's Party Ticket." It was a Democratic ticket and control by Southerners. They told us niggers if we'd vote that ticket we'd be rec'nized as white folks, but I didn't 'lieve a word of it. Old Man Sloan told all his niggers that and they all voted that ticket but two that was Charley Tang and Simp Campbell. I 'lieve the young race of our people is progressin' fine. If they had priv'lege to use they educations, they'd make more progress, but the color line holds them back."
Sources ~ Texas Death Certificate 13573; Texas County Marriage Ledgers & Indexes; and the 1880-1940 census records of Harrison County, Texas; along with interview transcribed from 'Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938'
SIMPSON "SIMP" CAMPBELL is the son of Louis Campbell and Mariah Campbell.
Some of his siblings are Rinda, Mary, Louisa "Lou", Liza and Flint.
First wife - Lutecia "Tissure" Tanglin {married March 10, 1883}
Second wife - Frances "Frannie" Cato {married May 26, 1898}
From his marriage with Lutecia, four children were born including Mary, Andy, Henry and Willie Sr.
Upon his death, he was laid to rest on March 25, 1939 on the grounds of New Zion Cemetery.
Both of his wives preceded him in death.
His son, Andy Campbell, was the informant on the death certificate.
S.S. Hayward was the undertaker who managed the burial arrangements.
Respectfully, this memorial and its biography is submitted with care courtesy of FindingOurLott, Contributor #48513572.
Additional Research provided by David R. Chittenden (Contributor #48919571):
SIMPSON "SIMP" CAMPBELL was born a slave and was owned by W.L. Sloan who he stayed with until 1883, when he got married and moved to Marshall, Texas. Simp and his wife lived in the Gregg Addition in Marshall and he worked as a porter for a loan company. Later, Mr. Simpson was interviewed about his life.
From a late 1930's interview from the Federal Writers' Project with Simpson Campbell :
"My name is Simpson Campbell, but everybody, white and black, calls me Simp. I's born right here in Harrison County, on Bill Sloan's place, nine miles northwest of Marshall. I got in on the last five years of slavery. Pappy was Lewis Campbell, and he was sold by the Florida Campbells to Marse Sloan and fotched to Texas, but he allus kep' the Campbell name. Mammy was Mariah and the Sloans brung her out of South Carolina. She raised a passel of chillen. Besides me there was Flint, Albert and Clinton of the boys, and let me count Dinah, Clandy, Mary, Lula, Liza, Hannah, Matilda and Millie of the girls. The Sloans lived in a big house, but it wasn't no shanty. They was fixed 'bout as good as anybody in the county and driv as good hosses and rigs as anybody. They wasn't a mean streak in the whole Sloan family. The slave quarters sot in rows right down in the field from the big house. They had beds made to the wall, and all the cookin' was on the fireplace. We raised all our meat and corn and garden truck right there on the place and Marse Sloan brung wheat and other rations from Shreveport. The nigger women spinned all the cloth and pappy made shoes by hand, when they kilt a beef. The beef was dried and jetted and hung in the smokehouse. Marse's place civered a thousand acres and he had over a hunderd slaves, with a overseer, Johnson, and a nigger driver. Us niggers was treated well but the overseer had order to whip us for fightin'. If the nigger driver hit too many licks, the overseer sold him off the place. We worked from four till six and done a task after that, and sot round and talked till nine and then had to go to bed. On Saturday night you'd hear them fiddles and banjoes playin' and the niggers singin'. All them music gadgets was homemade. The banjoes was made of round pieces of wood, civered with sheepskin and strung with catgut strings. They wasn't no school but Marse Bill larnt some his niggers readin' and writin' so we could use them bookin' cotton in the field and sich like. They was a church on the Sloan place and white preachers done most the 'xhorting. Mammy allus say the cullud preachers had to preach what they's told obey you master and missus. I seed Yankee sojers and wagons comin' home from Mansfield. Marse Tom sot us free right after surrender, but my folks stayed on with him till he died, in 1906. I lef when I's twenty-three and marries and made a livin' from public work in Marshall all my life. I worked as day laborer and raised two boys and two girls and the boys is farmin' right here in the county and doin' well. When I's eighteen they got up a 'mendment to the Constitution and got out a "People's Party Ticket." It was a Democratic ticket and control by Southerners. They told us niggers if we'd vote that ticket we'd be rec'nized as white folks, but I didn't 'lieve a word of it. Old Man Sloan told all his niggers that and they all voted that ticket but two that was Charley Tang and Simp Campbell. I 'lieve the young race of our people is progressin' fine. If they had priv'lege to use they educations, they'd make more progress, but the color line holds them back."
Sources ~ Texas Death Certificate 13573; Texas County Marriage Ledgers & Indexes; and the 1880-1940 census records of Harrison County, Texas; along with interview transcribed from 'Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938'
Some of his siblings are Rinda, Mary, Louisa "Lou", Liza and Flint.
First wife - Lutecia "Tissure" Tanglin {married March 10, 1883}
Second wife - Frances "Frannie" Cato {married May 26, 1898}
From his marriage with Lutecia, four children were born including Mary, Andy, Henry and Willie Sr.
Upon his death, he was laid to rest on March 25, 1939 on the grounds of New Zion Cemetery.
Both of his wives preceded him in death.
His son, Andy Campbell, was the informant on the death certificate.
S.S. Hayward was the undertaker who managed the burial arrangements.
Respectfully, this memorial and its biography is submitted with care courtesy of FindingOurLott, Contributor #48513572.
Additional Research provided by David R. Chittenden (Contributor #48919571):
SIMPSON "SIMP" CAMPBELL was born a slave and was owned by W.L. Sloan who he stayed with until 1883, when he got married and moved to Marshall, Texas. Simp and his wife lived in the Gregg Addition in Marshall and he worked as a porter for a loan company. Later, Mr. Simpson was interviewed about his life.
From a late 1930's interview from the Federal Writers' Project with Simpson Campbell :
"My name is Simpson Campbell, but everybody, white and black, calls me Simp. I's born right here in Harrison County, on Bill Sloan's place, nine miles northwest of Marshall. I got in on the last five years of slavery. Pappy was Lewis Campbell, and he was sold by the Florida Campbells to Marse Sloan and fotched to Texas, but he allus kep' the Campbell name. Mammy was Mariah and the Sloans brung her out of South Carolina. She raised a passel of chillen. Besides me there was Flint, Albert and Clinton of the boys, and let me count Dinah, Clandy, Mary, Lula, Liza, Hannah, Matilda and Millie of the girls. The Sloans lived in a big house, but it wasn't no shanty. They was fixed 'bout as good as anybody in the county and driv as good hosses and rigs as anybody. They wasn't a mean streak in the whole Sloan family. The slave quarters sot in rows right down in the field from the big house. They had beds made to the wall, and all the cookin' was on the fireplace. We raised all our meat and corn and garden truck right there on the place and Marse Sloan brung wheat and other rations from Shreveport. The nigger women spinned all the cloth and pappy made shoes by hand, when they kilt a beef. The beef was dried and jetted and hung in the smokehouse. Marse's place civered a thousand acres and he had over a hunderd slaves, with a overseer, Johnson, and a nigger driver. Us niggers was treated well but the overseer had order to whip us for fightin'. If the nigger driver hit too many licks, the overseer sold him off the place. We worked from four till six and done a task after that, and sot round and talked till nine and then had to go to bed. On Saturday night you'd hear them fiddles and banjoes playin' and the niggers singin'. All them music gadgets was homemade. The banjoes was made of round pieces of wood, civered with sheepskin and strung with catgut strings. They wasn't no school but Marse Bill larnt some his niggers readin' and writin' so we could use them bookin' cotton in the field and sich like. They was a church on the Sloan place and white preachers done most the 'xhorting. Mammy allus say the cullud preachers had to preach what they's told obey you master and missus. I seed Yankee sojers and wagons comin' home from Mansfield. Marse Tom sot us free right after surrender, but my folks stayed on with him till he died, in 1906. I lef when I's twenty-three and marries and made a livin' from public work in Marshall all my life. I worked as day laborer and raised two boys and two girls and the boys is farmin' right here in the county and doin' well. When I's eighteen they got up a 'mendment to the Constitution and got out a "People's Party Ticket." It was a Democratic ticket and control by Southerners. They told us niggers if we'd vote that ticket we'd be rec'nized as white folks, but I didn't 'lieve a word of it. Old Man Sloan told all his niggers that and they all voted that ticket but two that was Charley Tang and Simp Campbell. I 'lieve the young race of our people is progressin' fine. If they had priv'lege to use they educations, they'd make more progress, but the color line holds them back."
Sources ~ Texas Death Certificate 13573; Texas County Marriage Ledgers & Indexes; and the 1880-1940 census records of Harrison County, Texas; along with interview transcribed from 'Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938'
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