This is the family history of my mother and her four siblings
-- Rosabelle CAMPBELL McCartney [1894-1950],
-- Edward Jameson (Jamie) CAMPBELL [1898-1946],
-- Georgia May CAMPBELL Lollis [1901-1991],
-- Robert Alexander (Bob) CAMPBELL [1904-1987], and
-- Mary Evalyn CAMPBELL Auer Wulff [1912-1999].

The family was created 20 Dec 1892 by the wedding of their parents
-- George Alexander CAMPBELL [1869-1943] and
-- Luna May (May) JAMESON [1869-1940] in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA.

The Campbell half of the family is entirely from Scotland -- via Ontario and Manitoba. The Jameson half of the family is essentially Midwestern. But George and May both grew up as members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and this similarity formed a strong part of their relationship.

This webpage contains their four-generation pedigree followed by hot links to many documents written by or about family members and their ancestors named Campbell, Smith, McLarty, Thompson (ex-McTavish), Jameson, Murphy, Ingels, Carver, etc.

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CAMPBELL  SMITH      McLARTY   THOMPSON   JAMESON   MURPHY     INGELS    CARVER
Malcolm   Isabel     Archibald Isabel     Max.Har.  Sarah      James     Mary
b.1787 Sc b.1784 Sc  b.1795 Sc b.1796 Sc  b.1815 KY b.1818 KY  b.1821 IN b.1831 IN
d.1862 ON d.1841 ON  d.1884 ON d.1867 ON  d.1884 IL d.1894 IL  d.1883 FL d.1907 IL
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 CAMPBELL             McLARTY              JAMESON              INGELS
 Peter                Isabel               Robert Bruce         Rosa Melinda
 b.1819 Scotland      b.1824 Scotland      b.1841 KY BowlingGr  b.1849 IN Wabash
 d.1915 MB PortageLP  d.1917 MB PortageLP  d.1900 IA DesMoines  d.1908 IA DesMoines
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  CAMPBELL                                  JAMESON
  George Alexander                          Luna May (May)
  b.1869 ON Kent County Morpeth farm        b.1869 IL Henry County Galva farm
  d.1943 MI Oceana County Pentwater cottage d.1940 MO St.Louis hospital
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   CAMPBELL       CAMPBELL        CAMPBELL       CAMPBELL        CAMPBELL
   Rosabelle      Edward Jameson  Georgia May    RobertAlexander Mary Evalyn
   b.1894 Kansas  b.1898 Chicago  b.1901 Chicago b.1904 Chicago  b.1912 Hannibal
   d.1950 Arizona d.1946 St.Louis d.1991 Indiana d.1987 Illinois d.1999 Miami
   m.McCARTNEY CE m.WHALEY Mary A m.LOLLIS Edw W m.DAVIS RachelC m1.AUER m2.WULFF

• 1789 - Malcolm CAMPBELL [1787-1862] is born in Auchindrain, Argylleshire, Scotland. He will marry Isabel SMITH [1784-1841] in South Knapdale, Scotland, in 1808.

 
• 1792 - Two Betsys fight off Indians just after their husbands (brothers Hosea and Jesse COOK) are killed at Innis Settlement in Franklin County, Kentucky (near Frankfort).  The brothers' sister Rhoda COOK is wife of John JAMESON and mother of Robert JAMESON [1785-1840].

 
• 1801 (August) - Camp meeting at Cane Ridge in Bourbon County, Kentucky (near Paris), attracts as many as 20,000 people. Led by Barton Warren Stone [1772-1844], this meeting is the climax of the Great Western Revival (also known as the Second Great Awakening) and leads to the "Stone-Campbell Movement" (also known as the Restoration Movement) including the creation of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

 
• c1803 - Our Smith ancestors leave Scotland and settle in Town of Russia, Herkimer County, New York, along with one or more Scottish families named Blue.

 
• 1812 (June 16) - "We are at liberty [and] are our own men as yet" - Duncan SMITH in Town of Russia, Herkimer County, New York, writes to another Malcolm CAMPBELL in Scotland.

 
• 1812 (June 18) - War of 1812 is declared, interupting travel and mail between the US and Britain including Scotland. Duncan SMITH's letter is not posted and remains in Herkimer County to this day.

 
• 1815 (August 5) - "It is my will and desire that...my black people...be divided amongst my children by families." Henry HALEY provides for his wife and adult children in Virginia and Kentucky in a last will and testament signed 05 August 1815 in Barren County, Kentucky. Henry gives "a negro woman named Anica and her future increase" to his daughter Elizabeth (Betsey) HALEY [1786-1859], wife of Robert JAMESON [1785-1840]. Betsey gives birth the same year to Maximillian Harrison JAMESON [1815-1884]. See him on the above pedigree.

 
• 1818 (November 12) - Wedding of John INGELS [1793-1859] and Rosa (Rosey) GAAR [1803-1877] in or near Richmond, Indiana.  Her brother Jonas GAAR [1793-1875] will found Gaar, Scott, & Co. ("the leading manufacturer of threshing machines and steam engines") in 1842.  Her nephew Abram GAAR [1819-1894] will build the Gaar Mansion and Farm (now open to the public) in 1876.  Their son James INGELS [1821-1883] will move from Indiana to LaFayette, Illinois, in 1854. Their 2x great grandson Gaar Austin INGELS [born near LaFayette in 1922] has a personal website today in Beaverton, Oregon.  My parents took me to visit James' and Rosey's graves just south of Bentonville, Indiana, in 1947.

 
• 1821 - Malcolm CAMPBELL & Isabel SMITH leave Scotland and settle in Town of Russia, Herkimer County, New York,  joining Smith and Blue families who moved there before the War of 1812.

 
• 1830 - Malcolm Campbell, Isabel SMITH, & others move from the US to Canada, i.e. from Town of Russia, Herkimer County, NY, to Morpeth, Howard Township, Kent County, Ontario, via the Eire Canal (which opened in 1825). Click here for excerpts from published histories of Morpeth and Howard Township mentioning the Campbells and and neighboring "Scotch" families.

 
• 1831 - Our McLarty ancestors leave Lochgilphead and sail from Port of Crinan, Scotland, to Ontario, Canada. They belong to a group of Scottish Baptists led by Dugald SINCLAIR. Elder Sinclair will remain their spiritual leader in the New World (see 1850 below)..

 
• 1832-33 - Cholera Epidemic in Europe and America interupts transAtlantic travel and emigration to the US and Canada.

 
• 1834 (January 17) - "All our intention is to venture there." - Donald LEITCH in Scotland writes to his daughter Isabell & son-in-law Duncan SMITH in Town of Russia, Herkimer County, New York.

 
• 1835 (August 18) - "There was twelve schooners under full sail [on Lake Erie]." - Newlyweds Neil CAMPBELL and Flora JOHNSON try to decide whether to farm in Howard Township, Kent County, Ontario (where his family has moved), or in Town of Russia, Herkimer County, New York (where her family remains).

 
• 1847 (January) - "Geting home aftr we left you...was not very good" - Allan SMITH in Town of Russia, Herkimer County, New York, writes to his cousins in Kent County, Ontario.

 
• 1849 (December 29) - "We live about 11 miles from Utica" - Scottish immigrant Alexander BLUE in North Gage, Town of Deerfield, Oneida County, New York, writes to his uncle Daniel BLUE in North Carolina.

 
• 1850 - "To call the brethren by the name of 'Disciples of Christ'" Baptist elders Dugald SINCLAIR of Lobo and Edmund SHEPPARD of Dorchester enter into an agreement at South Dorchester, thus allying the Scottish Baptists of Southern Ontario to the "Stone-Campbell Movement" (also known as the Restoration Movement). The movement's leader, Alexander Campbell of Bethany, Virginia, will visit Ontario in 1855.

 
• 1865 (December 6) - Slavery is abolished in Kentucky and other border states by ratification of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution.

 
• 1872-74 - "James Campbell and Uncle Allen went to Doug Campbells. John Campbell and Alex went to Pa's." - Motherless teenager John Peter SMITH in Town of Russia, Herkimer County, New York, fills his diary with the comings and goings of Scottish friends, including Blues from North Gage, Town of Deerfield, Oneida County, and Campbells from Kent County, Ontario.

 
• 1876 (November 1) - "How the [Canadian] Lion threw the [American] Eagle on the wet grass" - Toronto law student Isaac CAMPBELL writes to his father's first cousin Allan SMITH in Town of Russia, Herkimer County, New York.

 
• 1882 (June 13) - Campbell Males of Canada and their address to the Marquess of Lorne, at the Citadel in Quebec. Our ancestors in Ontario join other Campbells in saluting the Governor General of Canada -- who is also heir to the Duke of Argyll, the future Chief of the Clan Campbell, and the son-in-law of Queen Victoria.

 
• 1882 (December 15) - "Going with full speed from our old home to the westward" - Retiring farmer Peter CAMPBELL writes on arriving in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, to his nephew Malcolm CAMPBELL in Kent County, Ontario.

 
• 1883 - Gunshot death of James INGELS while hunting deer in Fayette County, Florida. Ingels' son-in-law Robert Bruce JAMESON travels from LaFayette, Illinois, to retrieve the body. (Text of Jameson's account will be posted some time in the furture.)

 
• 1884 - "We have a very hard proprietor here." Cousin Dugald CAMPBELL in Kenmore, Scotland, comments on Auchindrain, the Duke of Argyle, and family matters to our great grandfather and great uncle in Portage-La-Prairie, Manitoba. Here are two of the letters exchanged in 1884 which "bridged" the 104-year gap between 1821 (when our Campbell ancestors left Scotland) and 1925 (when our grandparents became the first descendants to "return" to Scotland -- and visit Auchindrain).

 
• 1887 (August 10-11) - The Chatsworth Wreck of the Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railroad involves Luna May JAMESON (age 18) and other family members (none fatally) near Chatsworth, Illinois, at Midnight. The train was carrying about 500 holiday-makers from Peoria, Illinois, to Niagara Falls when it hit a burning culvert, killing 81 passengers and injuring 372. The wreck was immortalized by a famous ballad.

 
• 1889 (June 20) - "President Harrison had been shot by a negro." Luna May JAMESON (age 20) in Des Moines, Iowa, begins four summers' correspondence with George Alexander CAMPBELL (age 20) in Manitoba by reporting a false rumor "probably started by foreigners who saw all the flags at half mast...on the fifteenth of June -- the centennial of the great American Flag." (This is the first letter transcribed and published by Robert Alexander CAMPBELL in "Letters of Two in Love: June 20, 1889 - August 30, 1892.")

 
• 1889 (September 17) - "Self contained character and a stern adherence to justice and truth" - Winnipeg lawyer Isaac CAMPBELL writes to his father's cousin Allan SMITH in Town of Russia, New York. This 11-page letter bridges our family's history from upstate New York, to Ontario, to Western Canada, and to the Midwest. I think it's probably the most interesting single document which has survived from our ancestors.

 
• 1892/1893/1896 - Weddings to the KKK.  Three sisters -- Luna May JAMESON, Eva Lena JAMESON, and Golda Gertrude JAMESON (each age 23 when they marry) -- successively wed three young men from Drake University (each born in 1869) whom friends jokingly call the "KKK" (Klu Klux Klan) -- George Alexander CAMPBELL, Charles Otis CARTER, and Charles Noyes KINNEY.  (May and George will move to other states to follow his career as a minister, and Eva and Otis will do likewise to work at various newspapers and hotels.  But Golda and Charles will remain in Des Moines, Iowa.  See 1911, 1918, and 1942 for documents about the careers of the three husbands.)

 
• 1893 (May 1-October 31) - Columbian Exposition (World's Fair) records 27 million paid admissions and brings untold attention to the booming city of Chicago. Newlyweds George Alexander Campbell and Luna May Jameson will remain in Hiawatha, Kansas, until they move to Chicago in 1896.

 
• 1898-1911 - "Austin Church refuses to accept Rev. G.A. Campbell's resignation by 67 to 35, and twelve deacons quit." - Disciples minister George Alexander CAMPBELL is the first minister of Austin Boulevard Christian Church, a small church in suburban Chicago, Illinois, 1898-1911. (Extract from the church history, including newspaper accounts, will be posted sometime in the future.)

 
• 1900 - Editor George Alexander Campbell chooses "The Christian Century" as the new name of "The Christian Oracle" (a Disciples weekly established in 1884) in recognition of the turn of the 20th century.

 
• 1901 - Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Our family members are attracted to "The Pan" both from the East (Herkimer County, NY) and the West of Buffalo (Kent County, Ontario). (Text of a letter from John Campbell in St. Thomas, Onatario, mentioning the fair will be posted here some time in the future.)

 
• 1903 - George Alexander CAMPBELL [1869-1943] makes his first visit to Pentwater, Michigan, with Zachary Taylor Sweeney [1849-1926], Disciples minister of Columbus, Indiana. Newly elected as President of the American Christian Missionary Society, Rev. Sweeney is trying to establish a memorial for his late son, Joseph Irwin Sweeney, and is considering the purchase of the White Elephant. The two ministers meet with village leaders, walk around Pentwater Lake, and also visit the future site of Campbell Park, "a 33-acre tract of woods north of the pier...that Dr. [Edward Scribner] Ames had first discovered."

 
• 1907 (July 15) - "Under the pines, on the singing sands, by the cool waters." "The Campbell Park has been purchased by a group of Disciples mostly from Chicago" (including George Alexander CAMPBELL) in Pentwater, Michigan. Click here for a lengthy chrolology of Campbell Park, Pentwater, & Vicinity.

 
• 1911 - "An expert whose name is known throughout the country." - A contemporary biography of Charles Noyes KINNEY [1869-1963], husband of Golda Gertrude JAMESON [1873-1958], written at age 42 -- 15 years after he became Professor of Chemistry at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and 38 years before he publishes "Nutrition" in 1949.  They will reside at 1318 West 27th Street until their deaths in 1958 and 1963.

 
• 1912 (December 31) - "Accumulated a considerable fortune and...actively associated with many important industrial and financial enterprises." - Death of Toronto mill-owner and politician Senator Archibald CAMPBELL [1843-1912]. Archie is a grandson of Malcolm CAMPBELL [1787-1862] and Isabel SMITH [1784-1841], son of Neil CAMPBELL and Flora JOHNSON, first cousin of George Alexander CAMPBELL, brother of St. Thomas mill-owner John CAMPBELL [1847-1914], and grandfather of eighteen, including Douglas Argyle CAMPBELL of Hollywood, California.

 
• 1914 - "The attic was a furnace of fire and smoke" Lowell Jameson CARTER (19-year old nephew of Luna May JAMESON) writes about a fire at the home of chemistry professor Charles Noyes KINNEY and Golda Gertrude JAMESON at 1318 West 27th Street, Des Moines, Iowa. The Kinneys' son Corliss Robert KINNEY and daughter-in-law Edith Alberta WALLIS will occupy the same house until their deaths in 1996 and April 2000.  The house will be acquired by Drake in 2001, stripped, and then resold to Larry and Jennifer James, moved five blocks away, restored, and reoccupied in February 2002.)

 
• 1918 - "An exceptionally fine preacher" - A contemporary biography of George Alexander CAMPBELL [1869-1943] written at age 49 just as he started a 20-year ministry at Union Avenue Christian Church in St. Louis, Missouri. This biography has been put on-line by the Rev. James L. McMillan who is researching the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement at the University of Illinois.

 
• 1918 - On the street where they lived - An outline of the Visitation Park Historic District in St. Louis, Missouri, where George Alexander CAMPBELL and Luna May JAMESON Campbell lived and worked from 1918 until he retired from Union Avenue Christian Church in 1938. Put on-line by the City of St. Louis. Two cautions: The photos of all 31 houses on Windermere Place take many minutes to load! #2 Windermere Place became the parsonage in the 1930's, but the house the on-line photo is a replacement -- NOT the house in which the Campbells lived and many family events took place.

 
• 1935 (August 16-September 2) - "We left St. Louis with all the luggage inside the car." - Highlights from an overland trip from St. Louis to Florida and Cuba by Edward Jameson CAMPBELL (1899-1946), Mary Anielka WHALEY Campbell (1899-1978), and their three children.

 
• 1938 (February 7) - "Father the Lemmons Mr Dulany and Roberts were here last night." - Mary Evalyn CAMPBELL Auer (age 26) in St. Louis writes her mother visiting in Indianapolis one week after George Alexander CAMPBELL (age 69) retires from Union Avenue Christian Church.

 
• 1938 (Summer) - "The children enjoyed...the bull-fight that we visited." - Highlights from an overland trip from St. Louis to Mexico City by Edward Jameson CAMPBELL [1898-1946], Mary Anielka WHALEY Campbell [1899-1978], and their three children. [coming soon]

 
• 1940 (March 10) - "She died into glory as the stars die into the sunrise." - The death of Luna May JAMESON Campbell [born near Ablingdon, Illinois, in 1869] in St. Louis, Missouri -- as described by her husband George Alexander CAMPBELL (1869-1943).

 
• 1942 (March 4) - "We are not making expenses at Carter Hall,... [and] I dread being totally dependant." - Letter from Charles Otis CARTER [1869-1943] written from Daytona Beach, Florida, a year before his death to the oldest of his three sons, Lowell Jameson CARTER [1895-1952].

 
• 1943 (August 17) - "He passed away this evening just as the sun set in a glorious glowing sky." -The death of George Alexander CAMPBELL [born in Morpeth, Ontario, in 1869] at his cottage in Campbell Park, Pentwater, Michigan -- as described by his friend Edward Scribner AMES.

 
• 1962 - Col. Merlin Ingels CARTER [1904-1963] of Eugene, Oregon, publishes the history of our Boone ancestors: "The Boone-Elledge Family."

 
• 1963 - Minnie Ethel BURLEY [1897-1978] of Burlington, Ontario, publishes the history of our McLarty ancestors: "Archibald McLarty of Argyll." Soon after this 245-page hardbound book is privately printed by Hanson & Edgar Ltd. in Kingston, Ontario, the plates are consumed by a fire, thus precluding reprints. Minnie is a daughter of Mary McLARTY [1862-1951] and a granddaughter of William McLARTY [1831-1911].

 
• 1970 - Emily Helen (Lee) CAMPBELL Price [1901-1982] of Vancouver, British Columbia, publishes the history of our Campbell ancestors: "The Campbells from Auchindrain" (TCFA).

 
• 1978 - Giving away the family farm. Nellie Pearl HARROLD [b.1897], childless widow of Lorne Wilfred CAMPBELL [b.1897] gives The Campbell Farm to the Presbytery of Central Washington for a small conference and retreat center. Lorne's father Peter Neil CAMPBELL [1859-1940] was one of three Campbell brothers who moved to the Yakima Valley of Washington from Portage-La-Prairie, Manitoba, in the mid-1890's.

 
• 1999 (July) - "Like the core of the family that held everything together." - Two of the oldest and most revered members of our Campbell family die eight days apart: Cleta Hope CAMPBELL Whitehead [born in Yakima, Washington, in 1893] and Mary Evalyn CAMPBELL Auer Wulff [born in Hannibal, Missouri, in 1912].