Horace Campbell was born to James P. (b.1821 Pennsylvania) and Elizabeth Yeager Campbell (b.1828 Indiana). Elizabeth was the daughter of John and Margaret Prettyman Beauchamp Yeager. He had two sisters; Mary "Ella" Ellen, (b. 1850, Indiana) died young. His older sister, Frances (Fanny), married Gideon Bodah and moved to Wisconsin. The family story is that the mother left and the father parted them out early on to his sisters and went for the Civil War. Through court records, the parents did have a bitter divorce and the father retained custody of the children. There were also legal battles over monies between the two families. They lived in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
Horace considered himself an orphan at a young age. He remained in Indiana until he was 19 years old (with the Jesse and Eliza Marvin family, Fountain County), then spent one year in Kentucky and Tennessee on a farm. He crossed the plains in 1868 with a six mule team, and settled in Colorado in 1869. He engaged in freighting from the railroad to different points in the state until 1873 when he settled in Saguache County and did stock raising and agricultural pursuits.
At age 33, in 1880, he married his neighbor, Mary Alice Curtis, age 16. He was also county treasurer in 1891 and again in 1893.
The family moved to Roseburg, Oregon in 1898. They had a home on West Harvard Avenue and a 1,500-acre cattle ranch at Rice Hill, north of Roseburg. They had 7 children: James Perry, Myrtle (Neuner), Frances Ellen (Noland), Cora Alice (Duncan), Paula Mary (Strong), Harry Lora and Helen Curtis (Leake, Glenn). Two of the children, "Ped" and "Fanny", returned to Saguache, Colorado to live.
Source: written by great granddaughter Nancy Hagood per family documents.
Horace considered himself an orphan at a young age. He remained in Indiana until he was 19 years old (with the Jesse and Eliza Marvin family, Fountain County), then spent one year in Kentucky and Tennessee on a farm. He crossed the plains in 1868 with a six mule team, and settled in Colorado in 1869. He engaged in freighting from the railroad to different points in the state until 1873 when he settled in Saguache County and did stock raising and agricultural pursuits.
At age 33, in 1880, he married his neighbor, Mary Alice Curtis, age 16. He was also county treasurer in 1891 and again in 1893.
The family moved to Roseburg, Oregon in 1898. They had a home on West Harvard Avenue and a 1,500-acre cattle ranch at Rice Hill, north of Roseburg. They had 7 children: James Perry, Myrtle (Neuner), Frances Ellen (Noland), Cora Alice (Duncan), Paula Mary (Strong), Harry Lora and Helen Curtis (Leake, Glenn). Two of the children, "Ped" and "Fanny", returned to Saguache, Colorado to live.
Source: written by great granddaughter Nancy Hagood per family documents.
Horace Campbell was born to James P. (b.1821 Pennsylvania) and Elizabeth Yeager Campbell (b.1828 Indiana). Elizabeth was the daughter of John and Margaret Prettyman Beauchamp Yeager. He had two sisters; Mary "Ella" Ellen, (b. 1850, Indiana) died young. His older sister, Frances (Fanny), married Gideon Bodah and moved to Wisconsin. The family story is that the mother left and the father parted them out early on to his sisters and went for the Civil War. Through court records, the parents did have a bitter divorce and the father retained custody of the children. There were also legal battles over monies between the two families. They lived in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
Horace considered himself an orphan at a young age. He remained in Indiana until he was 19 years old (with the Jesse and Eliza Marvin family, Fountain County), then spent one year in Kentucky and Tennessee on a farm. He crossed the plains in 1868 with a six mule team, and settled in Colorado in 1869. He engaged in freighting from the railroad to different points in the state until 1873 when he settled in Saguache County and did stock raising and agricultural pursuits.
At age 33, in 1880, he married his neighbor, Mary Alice Curtis, age 16. He was also county treasurer in 1891 and again in 1893.
The family moved to Roseburg, Oregon in 1898. They had a home on West Harvard Avenue and a 1,500-acre cattle ranch at Rice Hill, north of Roseburg. They had 7 children: James Perry, Myrtle (Neuner), Frances Ellen (Noland), Cora Alice (Duncan), Paula Mary (Strong), Harry Lora and Helen Curtis (Leake, Glenn). Two of the children, "Ped" and "Fanny", returned to Saguache, Colorado to live.
Source: written by great granddaughter Nancy Hagood per family documents.
Horace considered himself an orphan at a young age. He remained in Indiana until he was 19 years old (with the Jesse and Eliza Marvin family, Fountain County), then spent one year in Kentucky and Tennessee on a farm. He crossed the plains in 1868 with a six mule team, and settled in Colorado in 1869. He engaged in freighting from the railroad to different points in the state until 1873 when he settled in Saguache County and did stock raising and agricultural pursuits.
At age 33, in 1880, he married his neighbor, Mary Alice Curtis, age 16. He was also county treasurer in 1891 and again in 1893.
The family moved to Roseburg, Oregon in 1898. They had a home on West Harvard Avenue and a 1,500-acre cattle ranch at Rice Hill, north of Roseburg. They had 7 children: James Perry, Myrtle (Neuner), Frances Ellen (Noland), Cora Alice (Duncan), Paula Mary (Strong), Harry Lora and Helen Curtis (Leake, Glenn). Two of the children, "Ped" and "Fanny", returned to Saguache, Colorado to live.
Source: written by great granddaughter Nancy Hagood per family documents.
Gravesite Details
The headstone includes his wife, Mary Curtis Campbell.
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