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William Kovenhoven Campbell

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William Kovenhoven Campbell

Birth
Penns Neck, Mercer County, New Jersey, USA
Death
27 Mar 1894 (aged 69)
Pawnee, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Divernon, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 4
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William was a son of Charles Muir Campbell and Agnes Schenck. He came with his parents as a teenager to Jersey County, Illinois, where he married (1) Abbie A. Miner October 31, 1843. Abbie died of childbirth complications, leaving William with an infant, Agness (1847), who died two years later.

William married (2) Mary E. Noble January 31, 1849 in Jersey County, Illinois, and he went to acquiring real estate while she went to raising a family. About 1853 they relocated to Sangamon County, where Mary died in 1859. They had five children:

Julia P. (1849)
Charles Albert (1853)
William Henry (1855)
John Schenk (1857)
Agnes K. (1859)

William married (3) Clara E. Gale July 20, 1860 in Sangamon County. She had been a school teacher in Montgomery County. William raised crops, and she raised children, eight altogether:

Archibald Alexander (1861)
Mary Sophronia (1863)
Gardner Gale (1865)
Gardner Wallace (1867)
Walter Edgar (1869)
Phillip Weber (1871)
Clara Lorena (1873)
Gale [Gail on gravestone] (1876)
William was a son of Charles Muir Campbell and Agnes Schenck. He came with his parents as a teenager to Jersey County, Illinois, where he married (1) Abbie A. Miner October 31, 1843. Abbie died of childbirth complications, leaving William with an infant, Agness (1847), who died two years later.

William married (2) Mary E. Noble January 31, 1849 in Jersey County, Illinois, and he went to acquiring real estate while she went to raising a family. About 1853 they relocated to Sangamon County, where Mary died in 1859. They had five children:

Julia P. (1849)
Charles Albert (1853)
William Henry (1855)
John Schenk (1857)
Agnes K. (1859)

William married (3) Clara E. Gale July 20, 1860 in Sangamon County. She had been a school teacher in Montgomery County. William raised crops, and she raised children, eight altogether:

Archibald Alexander (1861)
Mary Sophronia (1863)
Gardner Gale (1865)
Gardner Wallace (1867)
Walter Edgar (1869)
Phillip Weber (1871)
Clara Lorena (1873)
Gale [Gail on gravestone] (1876)

Gravesite Details

Shares gravestone with Clara E. & Gail Campbell



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