Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 30-32.  Christian Co.

ALEXANDER CAMPBELL

     Alexander Campbell, city tax collector of Hopkinsville, Kentucky,
has been a resident of this place for more than three decades and is
well known here.  Mr. Campbell was born in Mercer county, Kentucky,
April 15, 1834, son of James and Catherine (Bradshaw) Campbell.  James
Campbell was a native of Virginia, born in 1775; came from his native
state to Kentucky in 1800 and took up his abode in Mercer county,
where he worked at his trade, that of carpenter, and also engaged in
farming.  He was a devoted member of the Baptist church, in which for
more than half a century he filled the office of deacon.  By his first
wife, who was a Miss Lewis and a native of Kentucky, he had two
children, and by his second wife, who was Catherine Bradshaw, a native
of Virginia, he had five sons and six daughters.  He died in 1863, at
an advanced age, and after his death the home farm went into the hands
of his son Benjamin.
     Alexander at the age of fifteen left home and went to
Independence, Missouri, where he was living at the time the war of the
rebellion came on.  He enlisted in the First Missouri Volunteer
Cavalry, was made captain of his company, and shared its fortunes
until 1865.  He was in the battles of Lexington and Pea Ridge.  The
most of his soldier life, however, was spent in scouting expeditions.
Returning to Kentucky at the close of the war, Mr. Campbell located in
Jessamine county, but went back to Missouri in 1869 and settled in
Lafayette county.  In 1871 he again returned to Kentucky, this time to
settle in Christian county, and here he has since remained.  In 1855
Mr. Campbell married Miss Ardenia Hockensmith, daughter of Dr. Newton
Hockensmith, of Independence, Missouri.  She died in the fall of 1866,
leaving two children, namely:  Lee W., now living in Kansas City,
Missouri, and James, who died aged six years.
     Mr. Campbell was married in Jessamine county, Kentucky, in 1867,
to Miss Sally Hill, a native of Kentucky, who died four years later,
leaving him with a little son and daughter, Katy, who died aged four
years, and Thomas C., who now lives in Chillicothe, Missouri.  In 1871
Mr. Campbell wedded Miss Elizabeth Graeme McCarroll, also a native of
Kentucky, she being a daughter of Dr. John McCarroll, a promiment
physician of Hopkinsville, now deceased.  And the fruits of this
marriage are two children, Alexander and Graeme.
     Mr. Campbell affiliates with the Democratic party and is a worthy
member of the Presybterian church.  Mr. Campbell is city tax collector
and has held many other offices, including that of magistrate and
commissioner of the Western Kentucky Asylum for the Insane.

Campbell Bradshaw Lewis Hockensmith Hill McCarroll
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Mercer-KY VA Jackson-MO Lafayette-MO Jessamine-KY Livingston-MO

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