Ella Calvert Campbell

b. 1 October 1864, d. 10 November 1943
  • Ella Calvert Campbell was born on 1 October 1864 in Charleston, South Carolina.
  • John Archibald Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Other members of the household included Ella Calvert Campbell, Duncan Green Campbell, Ella S. Calvert, Charlotte Campbell, John Archibald Campbell and Anna Goldthwaite Campbell. Also in the household were four domestic servants, three female and one male. John A. Campbell also is enumerated in Baltimore with his wife and others of his family in 1870.
  • Duncan Green Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Vansville, Prince George's County, Maryland. Other members of the household included Ella Calvert Campbell, Charlotte Campbell, John Archibald Campbell and Anna Goldthwaite Campbell.
  • Ella S. Calvert appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Washington, District of Columbia, at 1712 N Street. Other members of the household included Ella Calvert Campbell, Charlotte Campbell. Also in the household were two female domestic servants.
  • The following appeared on 20 February 1902 in The Sun: (Washington, Feb. 19) Mrs. Ella Calvert Campbell, widow of Duncan G. Campbell and daughter of the late Mr. Charles Benedict Calvert, of Riverdale, Prince George's county, who died at her residence in Washington Monday morning, was buried this afternoon from Epiphany Church, Washington. She was born and reared at the historic old Calvert mansion, at Riverdale, and lived for a number of years at College Park, Md., on a large estate inherited by her from her father and afterward purchased and subdivided by Mr. John O. Johnson, of Washington. Since then she had resided in Washington. Mrs. Campbell was the sister of George W. Calvert, Sr., of College Park, and of Mr. Charles Baltimore Calvert, of MacAlpine. She leaves four children, as follows: Misses Ella and Lola Campbell, Mrs. Charles W. McPhee, of Georgetown, Del., and Mr. John A. Campbell.
  • She married James Adger Smyth on 17 November 1903 in Washington, District of Columbia.
  • James Adger Smyth and Ella Calvert Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Charleston, South Caolina, at 14 Legare Street. Also in the household was James' daughter Sarah (age 35) from his earlier marriage, as well as one female domestic servant.
  • The following appeared on 19 September 1915 in The Washington Post: The premises, 1712 N street northwest, was sold by the owners, Mrs. Charlotte C. Nelson and Mrs. Ella C. Smyth, to James D. Maher, clerk to the United State Supreme Court. It is of three stories and contains ten rooms and two baths. Improvements are now being made. The price, it was said, was $12,000.
  • James Adger Smyth and Ella Calvert Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Charleston, South Carolina, at 14 Legare Street. Also in the household was James' daughter Sarah (age 56) from his earlier marriage, as well as a cook and a yard man.
  • Ella Calvert Campbell became a widow at the 25 April 1920 death of her husband James Adger Smyth.
  • Ella Calvert Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Charleston, South Caolina, at 53 Church Street enumerated with her late husband's daughter Sarah Smyth (age 60) as roomers in the household of Elizabeth Adger (60), likely a niece of her late husband James Adger Smyth.
  • Ella Calvert Campbell died on 10 November 1943 at age 79 in Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina.
  • She was interred at Second Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charleston, South Caolina.
  • Memorial engraved stone at Washington National Cathedral: "In Memory of Three Daughters of Maryland / Anna Campbell Ellicott / Charlotte Campbell Nelson / Ell Campbell Smyth / Sisters and Companions Through Life."
  • Last Edited: 20 Nov 2015

Family: James Adger Smyth b. 8 June 1837, d. 25 April 1920