Matilda Warner Gillespie was the daughter of Lane County pioneer Rev. Jacob E. Gillespie whose Donation Land Claim the cemetery is located on. Her mother was Almira (Hanna) Gillespie, who died in Missouri in 1847. With her father, step-mother, Amelia (Wood) Martin Gillespie, and her five sisters and one brother, she crossed the plains in 1852.
Matilda Warner Gillespie married George Thomas Campbell on 15 Dec 1859 in Lane County, Oregon. They had 6 children: Jacob G., Charles E., William H., George W., Thomas Aaron and Nancy Wilder Campbell. She was the first of Rev. Gillespie's children to die, at age 34, in 1877. Her youngest child, Wilder Campbell, was just two years old.
Matilda Warner Gillespie married George Thomas Campbell on 15 Dec 1859 in Lane County, Oregon. They had 6 children: Jacob G., Charles E., William H., George W., Thomas Aaron and Nancy Wilder Campbell. She was the first of Rev. Gillespie's children to die, at age 34, in 1877. Her youngest child, Wilder Campbell, was just two years old.
Matilda Warner Gillespie was the daughter of Lane County pioneer Rev. Jacob E. Gillespie whose Donation Land Claim the cemetery is located on. Her mother was Almira (Hanna) Gillespie, who died in Missouri in 1847. With her father, step-mother, Amelia (Wood) Martin Gillespie, and her five sisters and one brother, she crossed the plains in 1852.
Matilda Warner Gillespie married George Thomas Campbell on 15 Dec 1859 in Lane County, Oregon. They had 6 children: Jacob G., Charles E., William H., George W., Thomas Aaron and Nancy Wilder Campbell. She was the first of Rev. Gillespie's children to die, at age 34, in 1877. Her youngest child, Wilder Campbell, was just two years old.
Matilda Warner Gillespie married George Thomas Campbell on 15 Dec 1859 in Lane County, Oregon. They had 6 children: Jacob G., Charles E., William H., George W., Thomas Aaron and Nancy Wilder Campbell. She was the first of Rev. Gillespie's children to die, at age 34, in 1877. Her youngest child, Wilder Campbell, was just two years old.
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