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Hamilton Herald November 1933 -Mrs. Janie Collett Campbell, Last of Old Family, Dead
The death on Tuesday morning, November 7, at 3:15 o'clock of Mrs. Janie Collett Campbell, eighty-six years of age, marked the passing of the last member of a noted pioneer family, that of Esq. James Hamilton Collett, who came to Hamilton county in the early days and reared his children in the Pottsville community. Mr. Collett was a member of a prominent family in North Carolina, where Janie Collett was born in a town named Collettsville. Dissolution occurred at the home of Mrs. Campbell's daughter, Mrs. Charley Anderson, in the Lamkin-Gentrys Mill section. The sweet and devout "Mother in Israel" was not a sufferer from any affliction, but the temple of her beautiful soul gave way under the burden of years and she is at rest in the promise of the Father.
The body was laid to rest in the Gentry's Mill cemetery on Tuesday afternoon with impressive services conducted by Rev. Dailey, pastor of the Methodist church at Lamkin. A number of relatives, among whom was Mrs. Campbell's niece, Mrs. Edwin R. Misener and husband of Dallas, were present to pay a last tribute of love and respect to one whom they had loved and honored in life for her noble traits of character, her unfailing and tactful kindness and her universal motherhood.

Janie Collett was born June 29, 1847. When she was eighteen years of age her father, James Hamilton Collett, moved with his family to Texas, and first settled near Dallas, coming to Hamilton county a little later on he elected to make his home for the balance of his life in the Pottsville community. Mrs. James Hamilton Collett lived to the great age of one hundred years, Mrs. Misener adding the amazing information that her grandmother assisted in cooking the birthday dinner for the celebration of the passing of the century mark in her life. Janie Collett was married to John Campbell on November 6, 1884. Mr. Campbell was a stockman, and heard the call of the Golden West, moving out to Monument, New Mexico, where the family resided for a number of years and where Mr. Campbell died. Mrs. Campbell and members of her family later came to Comanche county to make their home. She was the mother of a son and a daughter, Luke Campbell, who resides in New Mexico, and Mrs. Charley Anderson, of the Lamkin section, whose home was blessed with the presence of the mother in her last days.
She is also survived by five stepchildren, Mark, Mack and Charley Campbell of New Mexico; Mrs. Terry Brandt of Lamkin, and Mrs. Walter Wooley of Gustine. These men and women were small children at the time the stepmother came into the home, and it is a tribute to her noble nature and motherliness that they love her devotedly and have of her the tenderest of memories. Luke Campbell had visited his mother only a short while back and was unable to return for the funeral. Mrs. Campbell was not only influential in her home life, but her Christian life had been such that all those who came into contact with her in the outside world were constrained to accept the rule by which her days had been made so beautiful and useful. She had been a member of the Methodist church for many years.

She has found that rest for which she yearned, and her soul is at perfect peace in the mansion of the Master, Whom she so faithfully and loyally
served.

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