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George Colin Campbell

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George Colin Campbell

Birth
Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Death
2 Jan 1936 (aged 87)
Sarcoxie, Jasper County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Dade County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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George's handwritten notes say he was born in 1848, and he would likely have been born in the family home on Curragh Hill, nesr Coleraine, County Derry. He was said to be "adverse to manual labor" and was thus the son intended for the ministry, as was a Campbell family tradition. He attended Milton National School for boys at Bally Money on the River Bann, where 90 boys attended. Family history says one day the boys were at the bridge that spanned the river and one of the Roman Catholic boys shouted "Down with the Orangemen." One of the Protestants yelled, "To hell with the Pope," and rocks began flying. The family decided to go to the U.S. and arrived in Mount Vernon, MO (approximately 1862). They went to Mt. Vernon because his mother's brothers, George and William Orr, lived there. In the 1870 census, George is shown as age 22, and a farmer. In 1900, he and Ruthand the five surviving children are in McDonald Twp, Jasper County, MO.

George married Ruth Lamira Wilson and they had six children, including two sets of twins. He is noted as living in Avilla, MO in 1929 (per reference as a survivor in his sister Mary Campbell Likins, obit). At one point, he lived in the White Oak Community in Lawrence County.

In 1910 census, George and Ruth are in McDonald Twp, Jasper County, and he farms. He is 62, they have been married 28 years. With them are sons Walter and George (age 28), Harold 22 and Warren 18. George is age 71 on the 1920 Census for McDonald Township in Jasper County, with wife Ruth. He was still farming.
George's handwritten notes say he was born in 1848, and he would likely have been born in the family home on Curragh Hill, nesr Coleraine, County Derry. He was said to be "adverse to manual labor" and was thus the son intended for the ministry, as was a Campbell family tradition. He attended Milton National School for boys at Bally Money on the River Bann, where 90 boys attended. Family history says one day the boys were at the bridge that spanned the river and one of the Roman Catholic boys shouted "Down with the Orangemen." One of the Protestants yelled, "To hell with the Pope," and rocks began flying. The family decided to go to the U.S. and arrived in Mount Vernon, MO (approximately 1862). They went to Mt. Vernon because his mother's brothers, George and William Orr, lived there. In the 1870 census, George is shown as age 22, and a farmer. In 1900, he and Ruthand the five surviving children are in McDonald Twp, Jasper County, MO.

George married Ruth Lamira Wilson and they had six children, including two sets of twins. He is noted as living in Avilla, MO in 1929 (per reference as a survivor in his sister Mary Campbell Likins, obit). At one point, he lived in the White Oak Community in Lawrence County.

In 1910 census, George and Ruth are in McDonald Twp, Jasper County, and he farms. He is 62, they have been married 28 years. With them are sons Walter and George (age 28), Harold 22 and Warren 18. George is age 71 on the 1920 Census for McDonald Township in Jasper County, with wife Ruth. He was still farming.

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