Submitted by Brenda Gravatt

Elizabeth M. Carroll b. 31 Mar 1827 in Haywood County, NC to John and Jane Carroll, married James Madison Campbell of Haywood County, NC 01 Dec 1843 in Haywood County, NC.

Sometime in the 1870's they moved to Douglas County, MO where JMC aquired land thru a land grant by Benjamin Harrison.

This is an awesome story by Elizabeth's oldest son, Lafayette Carroll Campbell's descendant : (Keep in mind that they were living in Haywood County during the Civil War.)

" I have one wonderful story about Elizabeth. It was during the War Between the States and she was home alone with her daughters and smaller boys as James & older boys were off serving the Confederacy. I actually have a tape of Aunt Reedie telling this when she was quite old. According to Reedie, Elizabeth, "Planted some flax, she tended the flax weeding and cultivating it, and when it was ready she harvested it then retted it, then took the fibers and spun them into yarn which she weaved into cloth. She took this cloth, dyed it then carefully cut & sewed her daughters coats for the approaching winter. All was well until a few weeks after she finished the coats when a Union detail came scavaging and stole everything. Elizabeth stood in the yard with her weeping daughters around her and watched the looting without saying a word. That was until she spied a thief toting the coats she worked so hard to provide. At that she flew at the Cpt. in charge and shamed him into forcing the worthless man to return her children's coats. 'Surly things aren't so bad for the Union that they have to steal children's clothing?' Aunt Reedie then digresses into a rant about Sherman and his evil march to the sea." --- Debra

These are their children:
Lafayette Carroll Campbell M 21 Jan 1845 in Jackson County, NC
Nancy Elvira Campbell F 20 Nov 1846 in Sampson, NC
William Albert "Judd" Campbell M 11 Dec 1848 in NC
Christine Campbell F 19 Mar 1851 in Haywood County, NC
Tryphena Campbell F 19 Mar 1851 in NC
Andrew Jackson "Jack" Campbell M 1856 in NC
Sarah J Campbell F abt 1859 in NC
John H. Campbell M 21 Jun 1860 in NC
James Holland Campbell M Mar 1861 in NC
Temperance E. "Tempie" Campbell F 20 June 1865 in Cherokee County, NC
Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Campbell M 3 Dec 1867 in NC
Elijah "Lige" M. Campbell M 25 Aug 1874 in Talequah, (OK) Indian Terrritory

Elizabeth died in 1886 in Dora, MO and is buried in the Campbell Cemetery in Douglas County, MO.

(Elizabeth Carroll was the sister of Martha Carroll who married John Stewart Gibson. Martha and John moved their family to Macon County, NC from Haywood County, NC in the early 1850's and have many descendents here today.)