The independent-reporter., 1923-03-29

where. Reporter pages have already
told OF the coming of the Walkers
and Wentworths to settle along the
old Canada trail as it passes through
Embden One of the pleasantest of
these homes is Stoney Hill owned by
Chas. S. Walker, given to him at his
majority by his father. Stillman A.
Walker and his mother, Martha r.
Wentworth Walker. In 1906 Chas.
Walker married Hope Campbell. Here
is woven in thread that comes OF
tangled pyrne' indeed. When
the army of Wolfe camped be-
fore Quebec, it numbered in a regi-
ment of the BLACK Watch young
captain. Tamberlin J. Campbell.
Down through the history of Canada
can be traced this mans descendants, (
dark haired, gray-eyed. Scottish folk
readers and thinkers-lumbermen and .
landholders by choice, soldiers, some
times when it was necessary to de-
fend their homes. In 1880 approx
imately, Tamberlin !. Campbell.
then the head of the family genera
tions down from the original Tamber-
lin j. living at st. John \. b.,
married Elizabeth Alexander Cunna-
bel, known all her long life for her
beauty of face and character. sWhen
their eldest son. Allan Tamberlin was
seven, the family physician warned
them that only a radical change OF
climate would save his life from the {.
attacks of asthma. At that time |
the only warm climates under Brit
ish rule were the seorehing climate
of British India, a few tropical mill
tary and naval stations, and the Is
lands of the Antipodes' savage, re- F
mote, a hard prospect to face. How i
ever they faced it. Mr.. Campbell +
disposed of his numbering interests,
land. etc. and bought a new ship /
lust ready for launching, the Belle I
Creole. stocked it with all manner of
stores for pioneering, hlled the ca
bins with his family, many OF his re-
latves and friends, and set forth. /
After fourteen months at sea they |
landed in Melboure. Australia. There |
they disposed of their ship and set |
tied into temporary quarters to be-
gin the search for suitable land, on |
ly to find themselves caught in the
confusion and terror of a great gold
rush. Crime and disease on all
hands combined to make them home |
sick and fearful of the future. Soon, !
an opportunity came for them to get
away to the quieter little colony OF
New zeaahnd which they promptly
embraced. Arriving there in lo4z
they took up land near Wanganui and
built their home and here young Allan
began to grow and thrive along with
his brother and sisters in good earnest
Somehow, somewhere on the long
weary journey the terrifying asthma
had disappeared, never to return.
They had need of health. To cut a
home out of the huge hardwood for
est of New Zealand to shoot wild cat
tie and hogs that threatened the crops,
to. help plant and harvest those crops, |
made a strenuous life for the most ro-
bust boy When Allan was II, his
father was accidentally killed. That
same year there rose in revolt the
fanatical and terrible Maori
tribes. warriors of the calibre OF
the North American Indian, savage, !
unspeakably malignant.
but when once beaten, honest
dependable and intelligent to deal
with In the bitter struggles Of the
war and the years of re-adjustment
Allan Campbell grew and developed
with his farm until at 35 when he
was a man indeed. About this time
he married Harriet, a daughter thru
her mother. of the great Frazer elan
of New Zealand. CWhen the World
War broke out 17S sons and daugh-
ters of this clan volunteered for SER
vice during the first three monthsl I
To them, before Harriets early death /
at SO, were born five children, three /
of whom later came to live in the
L. S. A. They are Philip who lives
in Michigan. Olive NJ. (Jeffery who
lives in North Vassalboro, Maine and
Hope, who married Charles Stillman
Walker of Stoney Hill, North Anson.
Their children. Marjorie E., Esther
R.. Allan Stillman, Harriet Martha,
Addie L., and Forest C., may surely
claim to be of pioneer stock. This
family is a proof of how small the
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