Susan Campbell Rowland

b. 3 September 1839, d. 8 September 1927
  • Susan Campbell Rowland was born on 3 September 1839 in Georgia.
  • Isaac B. Rowland appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Montgomery, Alabama. Other members of the household included Susan Campbell Rowland, Isaac Bloom Rowland, Edwin Campbell Rowland, Alexander McKenzie Rowland and Flora McQueen Campbell.
  • Flora McQueen Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. Other members of the household included Susan Campbell Rowland, Alexander McKenzie Rowland, Edwin Campbell Rowland, William Butler Johnston, Anne Clark Tracy and Edward Tracy Johnston.
  • She married Lewis L. Abbott, son of Noah Abbott and Nancy Seago, on 6 October 1868 in Bibb County, Georgia.
  • Lewis L. Abbott and Susan Campbell Rowland appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. Also in the household was I. W. Rowland, age 6, whose origins are not yet known.
  • She was mentioned in the obituary of Flora McQueen Campbell that appeared on 11 January 1876 in the Georgia Weekly Telegraph: Death of Miss Flora M. Campbell. After a lingering illness of more than two years, this venerable and Christian woman expired at the residence of ner niece, Mrs. Lewis Abbott, in Atlanta, at nine o'clock on the morning of the seventh instant, in the seventy-fourth year of her age. /P/ Her ancestors came from Scotland and settled in the colony of North Carolina, before the struggle for independence. Her Grandfather, Col. Campbell, espoused the cause of the colonies, and has left his name as a brave and daring officer in the history of the seven years' war as leading his columns in many battles, on the grounds of the Old Dominion down to the single line. He was severely wounded at the battle of Cowpens. /P/ The Campbells removed to Georgia about the year 1806, and settled in Wilkes and other neighboring counties. The deceased was a sister of the late Hons. Duncan G. and John W. Campbell, whose names are worthily enrolled on the scroll of Georgia's distinguished sons. As early as 1826 she, with a large number of the family, settled in this place. In 1837, under the ministrations of that eminently pious and godly man, the Rev. Joseph Stiles, she made a profession of religion, and became a member of the Presbyterian Church. Her long life was one of self-sacrifice, devoted acts of charity and the education of orphan children left to her charge. Three of them have passed from earth, and the remaining one was her solace and comfort during her expiring years. She was a woman of extraordinary intelligence and mental culture. She bore her protracted sickness with Christian resignation and fortitude. . . /P/ Her remains were brought by the Atlanta train to Macon yesterday morning, and interred where three of her sisters sleep in the quiet shades of Rose Hill Cemetery.
  • Lewis L. Abbott and Susan Campbell Rowland appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in West End, Fulton County, Georgia, and nephew Julius N. Rowland, age 16, who has yet to be identified, and two female domestic servants.. Other members of the household included Flora Campbell Abbott, Frances B. Abbott, Lewis L. Abbott and Roland T. Abbott.
  • Lewis L. Abbott and Susan Campbell Rowland appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, at 113 Pryor Strtte. Other members of the household included Frances B. Abbott.
  • Susan Campbell Rowland became a widow at the 7 August 1903 death of her husband Lewis L. Abbott.
  • Susan Campbell Rowland died on 8 September 1927 at age 88 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.
  • She was interred at Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.
  • Last Edited: 26 Mar 2012

Family: Lewis L. Abbott b. circa 1835, d. 7 August 1903