Isabella ORR was born in 1819 in Aghadowey Parish, near Coleraine, Londonderry, died in 1864 in Mt. Vernon, Lawrence County, Missouri, at the home of her brother George. She is the daughter of Paul Orr and Isabella Boyd. Isabella married Ephraim Campbell (born 1807 near Coleraine, Londonderry, and died about 1863, at sea). The Campbell blacksmith shop was at Ballytaggert, in the Parish of Macosquin. This area is 4.5 miles north of Coleraine, which is also 4.5 miles northwest of Balleymoney on the River Bann, 7 miles from Kilrea. The Campbells stayed in Ireland almost 30 years longer than Isabella's brothers William and James – Isabella would have been about 13 when William left. Her brother George stayed in Ireland until about 1860, so it was with him that Isabelle and Ephraim planned their trip to America.

Ephraim and Isabella had ten children, and immigrated to America when the youngest (twin girls Mary and Margaret) were age 7. Ephraim Campbell's widow and children arrived at New York Harbor in 1863. (Immigrants then were channeled through the old Castle Harbor, as this was prior to Ellis Island.) While Ephraim's death was a tragedy, the family could have faced a bigger one. They arrived at the port in Ireland only to find the steamer on which they had booked left an hour earlier; they had not received word of the time change. Within a few days they were booked on a sailing ship (the Constellation) for a much slower (six-week) journey. They arrived 31 Dec 1863 at Castle Garden. The steamer they were supposed to be on did not arrive in the U.S. – it was never heard from again.

A bag of gold the family had to buy land in the new world was either lost or stolen on shipboard. Isabelle and her children reached America without resources and her brother, George Orr, looked after his sister and her young family. He brought them to Mount Vernon, MO, and Isabelle died in his home. One of her daughters was ill, so Isabelle's body was taken out through a window so the daughter did not have to see her dead mother. Fortunately, the daughter survived. Isabelle's her youngest daughters would have been approximately 8 years old. Census records show they were age 16 in 1870. The older children established a home and looked after the younger ones. Six of the children are shown living together in 1870, and the two oldest boys in the household (James and Ephraim) were blacksmiths, as their father had been.

Many of Isabelle and Ephraim's children went to Jasper County, MO, where descendants remain today. Some married into families that had strong Jasper County roots, such as the Wilsons and Stemmons. Daughter Isabella married John Adams (nephew of William Orr's wife Jennie), and the "Adams Mill" was well known. A number of Adams men operated grist mills, and they worked with members of the Likins family – Charles Likins married Mary E. Campbell, Ephraim and Isabelle's daughter.

Because the Campells came to America later, their ties to Ireland were even stronger than those of the William and James Orr families. It seems that the first trip back to the homeland was in 1932 – one of the granddaugthers went and took photos of the old family home and met with some of the family members who stayed in Ireland. There are several letters describing these visits or other family history, a lovely legacy.