When William H Campbell was born in 1811, in Virginia, United States, his father, George Jesse Campbell, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Dobkins, was 35. He married Matilda Bird on 5 August 1835, in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Kanawha, Virginia, United States for about 10 years and West Virginia, United States in 1870. He died in 1870, in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 59.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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).
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