When Joel B Campbell was born on 13 December 1827, in Indian Creek, Knox, Kentucky, United States, his father, Levi Campbell Sr, was 34 and his mother, Frances Fanny Engle, was 29. He married Malinda J Thompson on 24 December 1861, in Knox, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He died on 30 April 1900, in Knox, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Indian Creek Cemetery, Barbourville, Knox, Kentucky, United States.
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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.
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
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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