Duncan G. Campbell

b. circa 1829, d. 1867
  • Duncan G. Campbell was born circa 1829 in Alabama.
  • William Archibald Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1840 in Montgomery County, Alabama, with one male each 30-39, 10-14 and 5-9, which accounts for him and his two sons, and also in the household one female each 15-19 and 10-14, who have not been identified. It is possible that the younger was a daughter who did not survive to adulthood and the elder a caregiver of the children. Twenty-two slaves were enumerated, five under the age of ten, and two age 55 and older.. Other (counted but unnamed) members of the household apparently included Duncan G. Campbell, William L. Barnes Campbell.
  • Eddie Eliza Campbell wrote to Evelina Barnes Wood on 10 February 1850, "I hope Duncan
    has settled now enough to Mr Wood to profit by his methodical and steady manner of doing business, and that he will profit by it. I promised to let you hear about the result of his business, I have enquired dilligently but no one would tell me, I only know that Dr Bolling bought Abby and all the children accept Tait, Col Carter bought him. Harry sold for only $150 that I felt very sorry for, and I know Duncan will be greatly disappointed. Mr Norton bought him. While I am upon Duncan’s affairs I cannot help alluding to his other affair, (as little as I feel like it). Betty Powell called upon Mr Farly for his picture, and he told her I had it. Sally came for it the next day she told us that her Mother and Father never said one word to her about discarding Duncan, so far from it they wished it to take place, and that what she done was before she knew the property was involved. And that she found her Sister loved him better than she did. (This accounts for her sisters unhappiness all last summer.) As for herself her feelings for him had never changed she loved him and should never engage herself to any one else. She said she could not understand how her Sister could engage herself to every one that that courted her. She trembled like an aspin leaf while she was talking and I could not help feeling very sorry for her. Sally’s conversation is confidential, I told her I had written to Duncan, I was not willing for him to marry Betty because she was engaged to so many. She said she sometimes thought Duncan loved her best. You can judge that he is in a dilema, and I see nothing for him to do but to get off with all of them. Sally evidently has sacrificed her feelings to her Sister. Mike is here. I have not seen him. . . . And give my love to. . . . Duncan & Willie though last not least, my prayers and best wishes will follow them were ever they go, tell them to be good industrious and persevering, in all they undertake."
  • Eddie Eliza Campbell wrote to Evelina Barnes Wood on 25 February 1850, "Mike Powell did not call to see us. I supposeSally told him what I had said, but I cant help it, if all concerned cut me, I must expect my disapprobation, and condemn Sallys romance which she must have read in some antiquated novel, that it was beautiful to make a sacrafice of her own affections and those of the man she professed to love, to a sister who can fall in love with every new face she meets with. I told Sally I was not willing for Duncan to marry Betty since I knew her own feelings had not changed. They are all in a dilema that I think they had better sett to work to get out off. Sally thinks Duncan loves her best, and fears that Betty loves him better than she is capable of doing. . . . Much love to Duncan and Willie, I hope to hear from them."
  • Duncan G. Campbell and William L. Barnes Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas, enumerated next to the penitentiary where Joseph Harrison was enumerated as a sergeant.. Sixteen-year-old Wm Campbell was identified as a student, likely at the Huntsville Male and Female Academy.
  • On Sunday, 30 June 1850, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Green M. Wood & wife & children & Willis B. Wood wife children & Duncan G. Campbell all Dined with us to day at the new place."
  • He was a lawyer, according to the 1850 census.
  • He married Eliza Yoakum, daughter of Henderson King Yoakum and Eveline Cannon, on 8 July 1852 in Walker County, Texas, with F. A. McShan, MG, officiating.
  • Green Wood recorded in his book of Misc. Financial & Slave Records, the account of Duncan G. Campbell, for October 1857 through 8 October 1858, for hides and a mule.
  • Duncan G. Campbell and Eliza Yoakum appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Henderson Yoakum Campbell.
  • Duncan G. Campbell died in 1867 of yellow fever.
  • His wife Eliza Yoakum became a widow at his death.
  • Last Edited: 8 Apr 2013

Family: Eliza Yoakum b. circa 1835