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502 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:
SPRING CREEK TOWNSHIP.JOSEPH CAMPBELL, farmer; P.O. Piqua; was born in Virginia Jan. 19, 1811, and is a grandson of Andrew and Elizabeth (Karr) Campbell, who came to Shelby Co., Ohio, in 1835; he died about 1837 and she in 1840; they were both interred in the Sidney Cemetery; Joseph C. Campbell is a son of William and Jane (Wynkoop) Campbell, he being born in Virginia, where he died in 1813, at the age of 26 years; she was also a native of Virginia, born about 1800, and died in 1862; the fruits of this union were four children, of whom one (our subject) is the only one who came to Miami Co.; came here in 1835, and Dec. 6, 1837, mar- SPRING CREEK TOWNSHIP. 503 ried Sarah J. Garhard, a native of Miami Co.; she died Dec. 15, 1876; they were the parents of three children, Mary E. (born Sept. 18, 1839, and died March 29, 1857), Laura E. (born Oct. 22, 1848, became Mrs. Coffing, and died Nov. 30, 1878), Eliza C., born April 13, 1840, and still remains with her father, who owns 95� acres of good land in Sec. 21.
Source: The History of Miami County, Ohio: Containing a History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest Territory, History of Ohio, Map of Miami County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc., etc., Chicago, W.H. Beers & Co., 1880, pp. 502-503.
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