He was listed in his parents, Cornelius Campbell and Emily Dulaney, household in the 1850 census on November 16, 1850 in Caroline County, VA along with older brothers William S. Campbell, Joseph W. Campbell, and Cornelius R. D. Campbell. As mentioned, Robert was listed as 2 years old and born in Virginia. By the time of this census, his oldest brother, French D. Campbell, had moved to a nearby farm in Caroline County.
He was listed in his parents, Cornelius Campbell and Emily Dulaney, household in the 1860 census on September 28, 1860 in Sparta, Caroline County, VA along with older brothers Cornelius R. D. Campbell, William S. Campbell, and Joseph W. Campbell, and younger sister Emma B. Campbell. Robert was 12 years old and had attended school prior to the census date.
Robert joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War. I haven’t yet found any information about when he enlisted, but he was probably around 15 or 16 years old when he did. According to the Confederate Widow's Pension Application his widow Fannie filed in 1923, Robert was a Private in Company F of the 24th Virginia Cavalry and was a prisoner of war when the war ended. He signed a Parole of Honor on May 2, 1865 in Bowling Green, VA not to take part in any hostilities against the Government of the United States. After he signed the parole, he was allowed to return to his home. I have a typewritten version of the parole statement that was attached to Fannie’s pension application. It confirms Robert was a Private in Co. F, 24th Virginia Cavalry and a prisoner of war. The Union officer granting the parole was M. A. Prugn, Captain and Provost Marshall. The final sentence in the parole says "The Bearer, Robert L. Campbell, having taken the oath of parole, has permission to go to his home in Caroline County, Va." Robert would have been about 17 years old at this time.
Compiled service records for Robert in the Confederate soldiers from Virginia confirm that he was a Private in Company F of the 24th Virginia Cavalry and he showed up on a list of paroled prisoners at the Provost Marshall's Office in Bowling Green, VA.. There is no enlistment record for Robert. According to Wikipedia, the "24th Virginia Cavalry Regiment was organized in June 1864, by consolidating eight companies of the 42nd Battalion Virginia Cavalry and two companies of Dearing's Confederate Cavalry. This unit served in General Gary's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, and fought in various conflicts around Richmond. Later it was involved in the Appomattox Campaign and surrendered with 19 officers and 144 men. Its commanders were Colonel William T. Robins, Lieutenant Colonel Theophilus G. Barham, and Major John R. Robertson." Also in the 24th were Robert's brothers French and William.
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| Card from Robert's compiled service record stating he was a paroled prisoner |
Robert’s father, Cornelius Campbell, passed away in 1868 and Robert received land from the probate of Cornelius’ will on August 10, 1868 in Caroline County, VA. At the time of his death, Cornelius owned at least three properties, comprising over 1500 acres of land, which he divided equally among his heirs. Robert received Lot 2, Plot A (170-3/4 acres), Lot 3, Plot B (125 acres), and Lot 5, Plot C (100 acres). I haven’t researched where Plots A, B and C were located in Caroline County.
Robert bought the 29-acre tract of land containing the old Lewis mill for $800 in Caroline County, VA on January 17, 1870 from his older brothers (French, Joseph, William and Cornelius) and their wives. The land was part of what was described as Plot C of the Millwood Farm. The $800 included the mill, which had suffered extensive damage during the Civil War from Union troops passing through Caroline County.
He was listed in the household of his mother, Emily Dulaney Campbell, in the 1870 census on June 11, 1870 in Bowling Green, Caroline County, VA along with younger sister Emma B. Campbell, domestic servant Rosana Epps, and farm laborer Woodson Puller. Robert was 22 years old and a farmer with real estate valued at $8510 and a personal estate worth $330.
Robert Lee Campbell and Fanny S. Mills were married on May 19, 1875 in Frederick Hall, Louisa County, VA. They were married by Reverend Scott.
Robert and Fanny appeared in the 1880 census on June 4, 1880 in District 29, Caroline County, Virginia along with their daughter Emma D. Campbell and sons Jeter Dallas Campbell, Robert L. Campbell Jr. and William Floyd Campbell. Robert was 32 years old, married to Fannie and a farmer. Both he and his parents were born in Virginia. Fannie was 30 years old and keeping house. She and her parents were born in Virginia. Their son, William, my great-grandfather, was 4 years old. Robert, Jr. was 2 years old, Emily was 1 year old and Jeter was 3 months old, born in February 1880. All of their children were born in Virginia. They also had a couple of servants living with them. James Holmes was black, 16 years old and was born in Virginia as were his parents (former slaves?), worked on the farm and had attended school. The other household member listed was Lucy Shepherd, who was white, 13 years old and born in Virginia as were her parents, worked as a domestic servant and had also attended school.
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| Robert Campbell's household in the 1880 census |
Robert died of obstruction of the bowels on January 15, 1886 at the age of 38 in Caroline County, VA. He was sick for less than 24 hours according to the doctor who attended him, C.S. Webb. This information came from Confederate Widow's War Pension application that his wife, Fanny, filed in 1923. Family folklore was that his appendix burst while he was soaking in a hogshead barrel filled with brine water, which was a common folk treatment for appendicitis in those days. I heard this story many times from my grandfather, Thomas Floyd Campbell, who was Robert’s grandson.
Robert was buried in Caroline County, VA. The location of his grave is unknown.
Fanny S. Mills, Robert’s wife and daughter of Andrew L. Mills and Susanna D. Boxley, was born on July 20, 1850 in Louisa County, VA.
She was listed in the household of Susanna D. Boxley in the 1860 census on June 23, 1860 in Northern District, Louisa County, VA along with older siblings Patrick B. Mills, Andrew L. Mills, Edmund Mills, and younger siblings Estell Mills, Joseph Mills and Tamasia Mills. By this time, Susanna had been separated from her husband, Andrew Mills, for several years. Fanny was 9 years old and born in Louisa County, Virginia.
It seems Fanny was enumerated twice in the 1870 census. On July 12, 1870 in Bowling Green, Caroline County, VA she was a member of the George Washington Broaddus and Elizabeth Mills household at a farm in Bowling Green, Caroline County, VA along with James I. Broaddus, Odessa C. "Dessie" Broaddus, Ophelia Broaddus, and Susan I. "Susie" Broaddus. Fannie was listed as 20 years old and born in Virginia. She had no occupation. This is the only Fanny Mills listed in Caroline County, VA in this census, and her age matches with her birth date. However, there is another Fannie Mills listed with the Susanna Mills family in Frederick Hall, Louisa County, VA, 18 years old, that I believe to also be the correct Fannie Mills also, since her mother's name matches and she later married Robert L. Campbell at Frederick Hall, Louisa County, VA in 1875. She was listed in the household of Susanna D. Boxley in the on August 1, 1870 in Northern District, Louisa County, VA along with siblings Andrew L. Mills, Edmund Mills, Joseph Mills, Tamasia Mills, and Patrick B. Mills.
Fannie appeared in the census on June 13, 1900 at a farm in Bowling Green District, Caroline County, VA as the head of the household. She was 49 years old, widowed, with 7 children born and 6 children still living. Her occupation was farming, and she owned her farm without a mortgage. Listed in her household were her daughters Emma and Susie, and her sons Jeter and Talmage, who was born after his father, Robert, died.
Fanny was listed again as head of household in the 1910 census on May 11, 1910 in Bowling Green, Caroline County, VA along with son Dewitte Talmage Campbell and daughter Suzanne F. "Susie" Campbell. Dewitte (listed as David in the census) and Susie were 24 and 26 years old, respectively, and both were single. At this time, Fannie was 59 years old, widowed, with 7 children born and 6 children still living (as in the 1900 census). Her occupation was still farming, however her farm now was mortgaged.
Over the next 10 years or so, Fannie moved around quite a bit. According to her grandson Robert Campbell, sometime after 1910 Fannie, her son Talmadge and her daughter Suzanne moved to Richmond, VA to live with Jeter and Robert. At that time, Jeter was working for the VA Electric Power Company. In October 1916, Fannie, Talmadge, Suzanne, Jeter and Robert moved to a farm inherited by Jeter and Robert from Jeter's wife in King William County, VA called Rumford Academy. In 1918, Fannie, Talmadge and Suzanne moved back to the old Campbell home place in Caroline County, VA. A few years later, Fannie, Talmadge and Suzanne moved to a farm in Stafford County near Heflin, VA. Fannie’s son, Robert, came to live with them at this farm and remained there until he died.
In the 1920 census, Fannie was a family member in the household of her son, Dewitte Campbell, as enumerated on January 5, 1920 in Bowling Green, Caroline County, VA. Still living in the household was her daughter, Susie Campbell, similar to the 1910 census except Dewitte was now listed as the head of household. Fannie was now 69 years old, widowed and with no occupation.
Fanny applied for a Confederate Veteran/Widow pension on April 21, 1923 in Heflin, Stafford County, VA based on her being Robert’s widow. This pension application was known as Form No. 5, "Application of a widow of a Soldier, Sailor, or Marine of the Late Confederacy Under Act Approved February 28, 1918, as amended by act approved, March 11, 1922". Fannie provided the following information on the pension application: her name was Fannie S. Campbell; she was 73 years old; she was born in Louisa County, VA; she had lived in Virginia all 73 years and had lived at her current location in Heflin, Stafford County, VA for about 3 years; she was living with her son; her husband's full name was Robert Lee Campbell; they were married on May 19, 1975 near Frederick Hall in Louisa County, VA by Rev. D. Scott; her husband Robert passed away in Caroline County, VA; his cause of death was obstruction of the bowels; the physician who attended Robert was C. S. Webb, M.D.; she had not married since the death of her husband; and her husband had served with Company F of the 24th Virginia Cavalry. She also stated she had received no income, owned no property, her husband had previously been on a pension roll, she had never applied for a pension in Virginia before, and there was no camp of Confederate veterans in her county. A lot of the scanned pension application is unintelligible, including Fannie's signature on the first page. As best as I can make out, the witnesses were L. A. Skinner and C. M. Heflin, both of Stafford County. The "Affidavit of Comrades" part of the pension was left blank, but the "Affidavit of Witnesses, Not Comrades" part had Skinner and Heflin swearing that they personally knew Fannie, they had known her for about 4 years, she was the widow of Robert L. Campbell, and that he had died on January 15, 1886 (hard to read this date due to the quality of the scan - this is my best guess). The "Certificate of Physician" part signed by C. S. Webb, M.D. on Sept 5, 1923, stated the cause of death as obstruction of the bowels, and that Robert was sick less than 24 hours. The "Certificate of Commissioner of Revenue" part of the application signed by R.C.L. Moncure on March 24, 1925 stated that Fannie owed no money and had an estate (real, personal, or mixed) worth $1000. The Pension Board for Stafford County approved the pension application on March 31, 1925 and the pension was certified by the judge (name unintelligible) on April 14, 1925.
Fannie again appeared in her son Dewitte’s household in the 1930 census on April 10, 1930 at House No. 4-8 in Rock Hill District, Stafford County, Virginia. Fannie was 79 years old, still widowed and with no occupation. Also living in the household was her daughter (and Dewitte’s sister) Susie, who for some reason, was enumerated as “Fannie S. Campbell” also, even though her age identified her as Susie. By this time, Susie was nurse in a local hospital.
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| This could be a picture of Fannie Campbell...not sure |
The final census Fannie appeared in was the 1940 census, taken on May 22, 1940 at a rural address on State Road 612 in Heflin, Stafford County, Virginia. Her son, Dewitte, had passed away, so Fannie and her daughter Susie were living in the household. Fannie was the head of household, 89 years old and still widowed, with 2 years of high school education. She claimed to have lived in the same house in 1935. She had no occupation, no salary in 1939 and no other income.
Fanny died from myocarditis complicated by arteriosclerosis on July 21, 1946 at the age of 96 in Stafford County, Virginia. At the time of her death, Fannie lived in Stafford County, Virginia. On her death certificate, Fannie's date of birth was given by the informant, Susie Campbell (Fannie's daughter) as July 20, 1850. She was listed as the widow of Robert L. Campbell. Susie did not provide the names of Fannie's parents or their birthplaces on the certificate. The doctor, Lloyd Busch, MD of Fredericksburg, VA attended Fannie from July 20 until July 21, when death occurred at 9 pm. By the time she passed away, all of Fannie’s sons had already died.
Her obituary appeared on July 22, 1946 in the Free Lance-Star newspaper in Fredericksburg, VA. The obituary said: “Mrs. Campbell, 96, Dies At Her Home. Mrs. Fannie S. Campbell, 96, widow of the late Robert L. Campbell, died at her home at Cropp last night. She is survived by two daughters, Miss Susie Campbell of Cropp; Mrs. Emma Young of Rockville, Md.; seven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren. The body will remain at Elkins Funeral Home until 1 pm Tuesday when it will be removed to Grace Methodist Church, Fauquier County, for services to be conducted at 2 pm by the Reverend Lloyd Boutyard. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Serving as pallbearers will be Morris Heflin, L. H. Dodd, Thomas Stevens, Lester Heflin, and William and Arthur Grove.
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| Fannie Campbell's Obituary, 1946 |
Fannie was buried on July 23, 1946 at Grace United Methodist Church Cemetery in Somerville, Fauquier County, VA. The funeral director was Elkins Funeral Home in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Robert Lee Campbell and Fanny S. Mills had the following children:
1) William Floyd Campbell (my great-grandfather) was born on February 22, 1876 in Caroline County, VA, married Elizabeth S. Carneal on August 8, 1900 in Caroline County, VA, and died July 30, 1941 in Caroline County, VA.
2) Robert L. Campbell was born on July 7, 1877 in Caroline County, VA and died on January 19, 1935 at the age of 57 in Rock Hill District, Stafford County, Virginia. Robert’s death certificate said he committed suicide by shooting "his face and forehead entirely off with a shotgun". It went on to say the contributing cause was "not feeling well and not sleeping for several months". Robert was single when he died and I have found no evidence he was ever married. He was buried on February 3, 1935 in Fauquier County, VA.
3) Emma D. Campbell was born on January 15, 1879 in Caroline County, VA, married John William Young on May 10, 1910 in Loudoun County, Virginia, and died on March 14, 1971 in Rockville, Montgomery County, MD.
4) Jeter Dallas Campbell was born on February 7, 1880 in Caroline County, VA, married Virginia Byrd Abraham on October 14, 1908 in Washington, DC, after Virginia died, married Olive O. Pugh on December 28, 1915 in Washington, DC and divorced her shortly thereafter, and died on February 27, 1939 in Acquintan District, King William County, Virginia.
5) Suzanne F. "Susie" Campbell was born on July 24, 1882 in Bowling Green, Caroline County, VA and died on August 20, 1959 at the age of 77 in Rockville, Montgomery County, MD. In the Rockville Cemetery, her tombstone has "Fannie S. Campbell" on it; she applied for her Social Security number in 1951 using the name Fannie - I think she started using that after her mother, Fannie, died. She was buried at Rockville Cemetery in Rockville, Montgomery County, MD. As far as I can tell, Susie was never married – like her brothers Robert and Dewitte.
6) Dewitte Talmage Campbell was born on April 27, 1886 (about 3 months after his father died) in Caroline County, VA and died on April 28, 1940 at the age of 54 at Western State Hospital in Staunton, Rockingham County, VA. According to his nephew, Robert Campbell of King William County, VA, Talmadge was in a mental institution at Staunton, VA when he died. This was confirmed by the death certificate. He had been confined to the institution, the Western State Hospital, for 3 months and 25 days. He died from bronchopneumonia 9 days after contracting it. The doctor confirmed the diagnosis by physical exam and an autopsy was performed. Dewitte was buried on April 30, 1940 in Staunton, Rockingham County, VA and may have been buried on the grounds of the Western State Hospital in Staunton, VA where he had been confined when he died.
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