Added: 4/13/22 Sarah J. Campbell’s 1894 Letter 4/10/22 News clip about Rev. E. C. Essex’ 1947 visit Updated: 4/15/22 Family History Menu 4/14/22 Cemetery List PA Counties B – J 4/14/22 Menu of Reunion Documents
Continue ReadingWilliam Thompson
Bill is past-president of the Campbell of Nelson Reunion Association and created and maintains our website.
Joseph Campbell (Ann Clinch’s husband)’s Visit to Pittsburgh
Leafing through a notebook of minutes of early Campbell Reunions I came upon what at first glance was just a routine “letter of regret” in response to an invitation to attend the 1894 Campbell Reunion.
Continue Reading2022 Campbells of Nelson Reunion — & Luggs & Blackwells
Please mark Aug. 6, 2022 on your calendars and join us via ZOOM. http://www.campbellluggblackwell.com/ReunionNext.html
Continue Reading1947 News Clip About the Rev. Canon E. C. Essex and My Mother
I think many of you will find this clipping (and my reflections on it and our Clinch cousins in England, of interest; Even if you’re not a descendant of Joseph & Ann Clinch Campbell Click
Continue ReadingJoseph W. Buck’s 1937 Letter to Mabel SHIPMAN Shaw About Rev. Canon Edward Claude Essex
As I mentioned recently, I plan to add a bunch of web pages about Cousin Claude, not only because of their contents, but also in hope of reconnecting with that branch of the family and
Continue ReadingUnidentified Man – Photographed in Elmira, NY
This photo was sent to me by Cousin Roger R. Hughey, who is a descendant of https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Campbell-31865 Can anyone identify him? In the Civil War, most Union soldiers were volunteers and each regiment was free
Continue ReadingReunion Planning
I’m “Back in the Saddle Again” after bouts with what apparently was Omicron followed by “long COVID.” It hasn’t disappeared, but I’m now functional. And high on my list of priorities are planning and preparations
Continue ReadingCotswolds Part 6 [Originally published Aug. 16, 2021]
Sarah Lugg’s 1st husband was Thomas Clinch, b. 1778, presumably in Avening, Gloucestershire (he was baptized there). He and Sarah were married there in 1803. He died shortly after arriving in America n 1805. By
Continue ReadingCotswolds (Part 5) [Originally published Aug. 15, 2021]
OUR LUGGS’ ANCESTORS WERE ROBERT & ANN ELY LUGG, OF BISLEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND. OF THEIR 8 CHILDREN, TWO CAME TO AMERICA: THEIR ELDEST, SARAH (LUGG) CLINCH BLACKWELL CAMPBELL IN 1805 & THEIR YOUNGEST SON, CHARLES
Continue ReadingHappy 90th Birthday to Jiri “George” Heinrich
His late wife was Frances L. Skaggs, who was a granddaughter of Rosa Belle Stark, who was a granddaughter of Sarah A. Hazlett, daughter of John and Mary Campbell Hazlett (who was a sister of
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