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Would you please do a cemetery look up and furnish the name and location of the cemetery and the information on the gravestone? Could you also do a look up in court records for me? If you aren't able to do a courthouse search, could you please provide the name of a contact (email address or phone number)?
I need information on James CAMPBELL, whom I believe died in 1836, probably in the spring or summer. He was the husband of Ruth (ANDERSON) CAMPBELL. James was born about 1796, in North or South Carolina. (His wife was born in 1803 in North Carolina, and died in Kansas in 1877.) James moved from the Carolina's through Tennessee, arriving in Missouri around the early 1820's.
I believe my ggg grandfather James CAMPBELL died intestate in 1836, and his administrator would have published records in the newspaper and provided the court with an accounting and distribution of assets information for at least a year or two. (There may have been another James CAMPBELL who died later, possibly in the 1840's.) I believe my James CAMPBELL died before 1840 because his wife, Ruth CAMPBELL, is listed as head of the house, not James, on the 1840 census, and information about his youngest son, Allen Green CAMPBELL stated his father died in 1836, when Allen was about 18 months old. (1840 census, Pulaski County, Missouri, page stamped 211. Line 19.)
I have seen information posted on this website that says the courthouse burned in 1903, but I've seen information in secondary sources showing research done in the 1980's and 1990's of some court records dating from the early 1830's. Maybe administrator's and probate records were stored outside the courthouse at the time of the fire and might still be stored away from the courthouse today. They may also have been microfilmed prior to 1903.
Sources I have suggest my James CAMPBELL was a "sheriff" in Crawford County and that his term began in 1831. Pulaski County was created in 1833 from Crawford County so he may also have been sheriff for a short time in Pulaski county. James was also a blacksmith and his religion was Methodist. He had a brother named Moses CAMPBELL. Moses married Nancy HILLHOUSE and he was said to have been a preacher for a short time.
I have the following information from some books by author Don VINCENT, "800 Missouri Families" and "Missouri Heartlands Family Records," printed in about 1998 through about 1994:
1) a James CAMPBELL died in Pulaski County intestate, bond 1836 (B49). There was another bond for a James CAMPBELL, who died intestate, bond 1842 (B146). I believe he first James CAMPBELL is mine.
2) Andrew STEEL, Admr of estate of James CAMPBELL who died Pulaski intestate. "pre-1842".
Research Note: There was an Andrew STEELE who married my James's daughter, Mary "Polly" Caroline.
3) "Pulaski Co Mo Letters of Administration, 1833-1852". The source listed a film #5548, but I don't know if this was a couthouse film number or one from another repository. The following was listed in this source: "Regarding Estates of" James CAMPBELL, 1836, Ref: 49/146-6-7; Regarding Estates of John CAMPBELL, 1836, Ref: 49-50.
(Research Note: I don't know how or if John CAMPBELL is related to my James CAMPBELL.)
Book: "Annals of Methodism in Missouri" by W. S. Woodard, 1893, says James and Ruth CAMPBELL lived on the Osage Fork of the Gasconade River, a few miles "from where Lebanon now stands" near families of ANDERSON and HILLHOUSE.
Known children of James and Ruth CAMPBELL, all born in Missouri:
Mary "Polly" Caroline born about 1821-22 (married Andrew STEELE 1839); Luvicia Melinda; James Anderson (drowned at the age of 11 in the Osage Fork of the Gasconade River); Sarah "Sally" Ann born about 1828 (married Henry STANLEY about 1846); John Henry born about 1832 (married Sarah V. WILLIAMS about 1861); Allen Green born abt Oct. 1834 (married, first, Florence Oursler about 1868).
(Research Note: The book "Kansas Pioneers" by the Topeka Genealogical Society, 1976, was the source for the information of James Anderson CAMPBELL's death. The information was furnished by Mrs. Ruth CAMPBELL, through her granddaughter Laura Ellen (STANLEY) HART.)
Please contact me as to if you could find this information for me. Also please let me know of any fees you would charge.
Thank you.
Jan Fenter
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