The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-02-18
ANDREW JACKSON
CAMPBELL,
Major of the Forty. Eighth Ten
nessee Volunteers, G. s. A.
A Dutiful Son, Kind Master, a
Brave Soldier, He Sleeps in
an HOnOred Grave.
An Interesting Sketch of His Life, and
Testimonials from Those Who
Knew Him and Fought by
His Side in Defense of
Their Homes.

Among the Scotch Irish immi-
grants that were seeking religious
and political freedom in America
during the first quarter of the eigh-
teenth century, there landed at
Philadelphia, from County Down,
Ireland, in l725, the family of Rob
ert Campbell, the father himself
having died at sea on his way to
America. The youngest son of this
family, who was also named Robert,
made his home for a time in Vir-
ginia and died at eighty years of
age, 1898, at Carriers Valley, East
Tennessee. His wife was Miss
Crockett, perhaps a relative of pavy
Crockett. One of their sons was
Alexander Campbell, grandfather of
the subject of this sketch.
The father of Maj. Campbell was
Jno. Campbell, born in Hawkins
County, East Tennessee, 1880.
When mere boy he, with his
brothers, ran away from home to
escape the tyranny of disslpated
stepfather, and came to Middle
Tennessee at a time when the whole
country was covered with cane
brakes. Near Lynnville, Tennessee,
he was married in 1918, to Sarah
Kimbrough, of Stokes county, N.
@. To these parents there was born
at Fountain Greek, Tennessee, Feb.
IA, 1884, their fifth son. The victor
at New Orleans, the popular hero
and idol of the South and West, had
lust entered upon his second term
as President, and nothing was more
natural than to cbristen this son
Andrew Jackson.
II was the custom of the family
, that all the children start to schoO
t at five years OF age. Accordingly
: Jack Gas he was known in the fami
lv and to his friends, ana is still
} called in fond familiarity by hi
war comrades), as soon as he haC
reached that age, was sent to schoo
8 at what IS now known to the peopl
Y of Culleoka and vicinity as 1.-THE Oh
\ Academy The building is still
standing, near the home of M. B
!, Tomlinson, about two miles west o
i Culleoka. 1t was erected about 1873
It or '35 and is of style quite pOpula
for school buildings at that date: !
rectangular brick of two stories
,, Among his teachers here may b
d mentioned the late Judge w.
). Fleming, of Columbia, gradual
of Yale, class of '38.
n At fifteen years of age a sever
e spell of typhoid fever, aggravate
&c doubtless by the mode of mistrea
inc fever patients at that date, lie
his constitution so shattered that h
was never afterwards able to RENAL
9r in school any length Of time. FC
,e this reason he was compelled to r
q turn home and resume the actlv
- outdoor life of the farm, short
y after having entered Franklin 90
X. Iepe. a school five miles cast
le Nashville, under the auspices OF IL
a. Christian Church and the lmmeo
;. ate supervision of Tolbert Fannln
l'' lust at this period when he shou
have been in school, in ADDITION
his own i'll health, his fathers feebl
~ ness compelled him to be at non
ch On his fathers death, in 1901,
ay was the only son left at home, al
thns became the sole support or I
remaining members of the family
a It'was at this period, while quiz
IN w performing the duties that h
,r- deyolved upon him, that his stro
- friendships were formed with I
ZIG man with whom he afterwal
served in the army. These ties
Friendship were made the strong
IN Inv his membership in the order
w. Freemasons. In politics he was
h+ Democrat, but not such a one as
~, w make party allegiance the test Oh
)lr- human excellence and perfectl
the Though the namesake OF PRESIDE
ck- Jackson and an admirer OF
;, sturdy republicanism, his Just
III compelled him to condemn
to spoits system most heartily
tie. snch an extent had he won the c
fidence of his neighbors that he
I'M no sooner reached the age OF TWEEN
one than he was elected just
au- If the peace. This Office was C
the sidered of much more importance
'ep- that date than it is now, and
no honor of his holding it is the grei
- when we reflect that a mau uu
5eu' fifty rarely held it. ,.,uou
sog- As a public spirited citizen
nti- contributed both his time
tba means to the promotion OIL
'ii' anterprise that was likely to
Tance the interests of his c
,ou mnnitv. In evidence of this !
1oN' he cited the fact of his givinl
rom the Nashville and Decatur rallr'
his IN addition to the right Of
date through his farm, lots for fora a q
1tod Winding and section house.
nteu oo,mnany acknowledged this &c
his oeity by giving his name TO
lch- station at that place.
Gov s'1 RoTn of slave-holding pare
go roared In a slave-holding sec
'oV md inheriting slaves himself
said aacrcented the situation as a m "a,
has Of course. That he was a Kl
than master is attested both oy
'l ns Sob and the old negroes