When Simon S Campbell was born on 29 November 1858, in Texas, United States, his father, George Washington Campbell, was 22 and his mother, Sarah Ann Turbeville, was 19. He married Jane Ann Jordan on 23 November 1883, in Shelby, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 5, Shelby, Texas, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 1, Shelby, Texas, United States for about 20 years. He died on 7 October 1922, in Center, Shelby, Texas, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Sandhill Cemetery, Center, Shelby, Texas, United States.
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On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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