Agnes Campbell was the wife and widow of Major Daniel Carmichael. The estimated year of her birth is from census records, the year of her death is approximate. Agnes and Daniel share a gravestone that appears to have been added to the graveyard some years after their deaths, no doubt by a child or grandchild. Agnes and Major Daniel were married in 1827, according to Lucille Utley in a miscellaneous note regarding a Marion County Judgment Roll which she did not cite. Agnes' mother was Catherine Campbell, who is also buried here. Her father is not known, though there are clues to her family (see below).

Catherine also had a son, Joseph Campbell, as shown in many Marion County records. These are Catherine's only two known children.

William Campbell, who resided in the area near Major Daniel and Agnes, had a 1795 land grant near this cemetery. Deeds and other records indicate this William Campbell was in all likelihood Catherine's husband (though perhaps father/father-in-law, or brother/brother-in-law), as Catherine and her son Joseph later owned part of William Campbell's 1795 grant. Lydia Campbell, too, was a likely close relative, as Lydia also appears to have owned equal parts of the same lands, both women paying an identical amount of tax. See martygrant.com for more on Catherine and her possible sister, daughter, or step-daughter?), Lydia Campbell. Lydia was born about 1785, and thus could have been a daughter of William Campbell and an earlier wife, or perhaps even of Catherine. Lydia's spon, William S. Campbell, married Nancy Carmichael, sister of Major Daniel Carmichael; her daughter Rebecca married Sheriff Willam P. Campbell, a son of Peter Campbell of Campbell's Bridge.

Several Marion County deeds and a court case show that William Campbell had a proven daughter, Elizabeth Campbell (b. 1784-1794) who married Ambrose Cook and moved to Leon County Florida between 1810 and 1820, after selling their lands (which deeds prove she was a daughter of William Campbell). Again, Elizabeth could have been daughter of an earlier wife of William Campbell, or daughter of Catherine if Catherine was a very, very young mother. Two surviving daughters and a widow would mean William's estate would have been divided into three equal portions; 1 part for the widow, remaining 2 parts to two daughters. This would still account for identical taxes for Catherine and Lydia, if Catherine was William's widow. Ditto if all three women were sisters. None of which actually proves the relationship of Catherine, Elizabeth, and Lydia to each other or to William Campbell.

It is important to understand that the entire last two paragraphs are speculative theorizing on possibilities, based on a few sparse clues, and until such time as some definitive proof of the relationship of these people to Agnes (Campbell) Carmichael is found these should not be cited as fact, but as proof of some close connection among these three older women - Catherine b. c1771, Elizabeth b. c1784-1794, and Lydia b. c1785.

However, it may fairly be stated that a previous reference was found and earlier posted to Agnes' memorial that stated Agnes was "Daughter of John and Catherine Louise Rowe Campbell, wife of Daniel Carmichael". And Catherine's memorial page states she was born in New Jersey. This all seems highly unlikely, as it flies in the face of what is known about migration patterns into this little corner of what is now Dillon County, SC; the name Rowe is not known or found among the people who settled in that neighborhood, or indeed in Dillon County; no John Campbell has been found in that area, only the John Campbell near Mullins who married Nancy Cribb - but nar William only Peter, and Malcolm Campbell, who all three took up large land grants relatively near each other about the same time, and who all appear to have come from North Carolina (Malcolm soon moved back to Cumberland County, NC where he died in 1815, and his widow gave her power of attorney to Peter Campbell of Marion re Malcom's estate); also no known records exist that tend in the slightest to connect any local people to New Jersey or to the Rowe family anywhere; and finally, neither the New Jersey place/date of birth nor the "parents" reference were cited as to any source. Hours of googling the internet has turned up no couple such as this, let alone one who had a daughter Agnes and son Joseph. If anyone has information regarding this couple - John and Catherine Rowe Campbell - please make the specific source available so it can be analyzed as to whether it is the same Catherine.

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Posted to Findagrave by Jo Church Dickerson, August 2018. With many thanks to Robin Moore for her work on the Carmichael family memorials, and for the transfer of Agnes and Major Daniel.