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From: "F Mitchell" <>
Subject: Sloan/Campbells of Blount Co. Tn.
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 98 11:20:50 EST

I thought I would pass along a transcribtion of old Sloan related letter in
order for it to be archived at the Rootsweb.

Frank Mitchell
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Letter written by William Sloan Campbell
July 1880

My mother had three brothers and two sisters: Archibald, Alexander and
Robert, Nancy and Sarah. Nancy married Joel Campbell, my father's brother;
Sarah was never married. They all died in East Tennessee.
I was born in Blount Co., East Tennessee. My father moved to Monroe
Co. when I was about eight on nine years old. There I remained until 1841
when I removed to Iowa Territory, having married Miss Sonna Taylor Hendrix in
the fall of 1839. I attended school when a boy at Big Creek Baptist Church;
went to school after I was seventeen at Bolivar Academy at Madisonville,
Tenn., first Rev. Eaglton and then Rev. Colwell, both Presbyterians. I
afterwards studied Latin and Philosophy for some time privately under Hilany
Patrick, also a Presbyterian minister, and after the death of my first wife, I
attended school two years at Cherry Grove Seminary, Knox Co. Ill. being there
from the spring of 1844 till spring of 1846. My mother died in 1848 in
Tennessee. My father came to this state (Illinois) with my two brothers,
Alexander and James and two sisters, Margaret Ann McTeer and Nancy Caroline in
January 1852 and went with James to Texas in 1859 and died near Sherman during
the "Civil War". I had three sisters Elizabeth Tomson and Margaret Ann McTeer
Pearson. They are both dead and Nancy Caroline Clark, now in NE Iowa (Now in
1894 in Kalespell, Montana) and by brothers are both in Iown (in 1904
Alexander is in Blain, Oklahoma) James died at Storm Lake, Iowa in May 1889.
My father's and Mother's peoples were all Presbyterians and members of the
Bakers Creek Church. James Campbell had one sister married to William Bonng.
They had 4 sons, 11 daughters. They lived in North Carolina.
My great grandfather Campbell was of Scotch-Irish descent. Came to
America in an early day and settled in Mickleinburg County (now Caberris Co.)
North Carolina. He had two sons, Thomas and James. Thomas was never married.
James, my grandfather, married Elizabeth Bolch. Her father died when she was
an infant. Her mother afterwards married _____ Miller by whom she had at
least two sons, Samuel and Colinas, and two daughters, Esther, who married
Joseph Rogers and _____, who married Alexander Sloan. James and Elizabeth
Campbell had eight sons and five daughters:
Thomas married first Francis McHenry
James died in infancy (drowned)
William married Margaret Sloan
Edwin, who died in Tennessee or Kentucky
Joel died in Tennessee. He married Nancy Sloan
Silas married Matilda Todd
Polly married Joseph Morrison
Matilda married John T. Morrison } brothers
Elizabeth married Dennis Hawkins, C.P. minister
Sidney married Esther Hanah ( or Hana)
Anna married Donny Malone
Martha who was killed by a fall from a horse
Samuel married _____
William, my father, married Margaret Sloan, daughter of William Sloan,
whose wife was Margaret McTeer. He lived and died on Six Mile Creek, Blount
Co., Tennessee. Two of his sisters married my grandmother Campbell's
halfbrothers, Samuel and Colinas Miller; and Alexander Sloan, my grandfather's
brother married my grandmother Campbell's half sister. Alexander Sloan and
Samuel Miller lived some time in Kentucky near to Finis Ewing and went with
him to Missouri, or moved neat the same time. Colinas Miller and Joseph
Rogers lived in East Tennessee.
Alexander E. Campbell born Feb. 12th 1826 in Blount Co. East Tennessee
James A. Campbell born may 1828 in Monroe Co. East Tennessee

Written July 1880 by W. S. Campbell
coppied by W. M. Campbell Feb. 28. 1902
coppied by M. M. Martin March 20, 1904

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Scanned copy of letter provided by Larry G. Berry. 28 Jun 1998
Transcribed by Frank Mitchell, 29 Jun 1998. comments: suspect items in ( )
were added by either W.M. Campbell or M.M. Martin in 1902-04. my additional
comments:
William Sloan Campbell's father, William Campbell, was b. 12 April 1774
William Sloan Campbell's grandmother, Margaret McTeer/Mateer's family came
from the Cumberland Co. PA. area
William Sloan Campbell's great grandfather was Archibald Sloan that d. abt
1800 in Blount Co. Tn.

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