When Gerna Campbell was born on 28 August 1915, in Blackey, Letcher, Kentucky, United States, his father, John M Campbell, was 29 and his mother, Arminta Dixon, was 19. He married Cora Lee Dixon on 4 December 1937, in Whitesburg, Letcher, Kentucky, United States. He lived in Letcher, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Carcassonne, Letcher, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 25 September 1997, in Loyall, Harlan, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Resthaven Cemetery, Keith, Harlan, Kentucky, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1920: Harlan, Kentucky, United States
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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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