The Campbell Family

Chapter 3 Generation 5

Featuring Marsh and Ida

Very late 1800s through the 1900s

Marshall and Patty Smith • Marshall

Mattison was born to Kentuckians Marshall and Patty Smith in 1885

• The family lived on a farm close to Williamsburg, KY

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• Today thousands of people drive on I 75 past Williamsburg

• It is located at exit 11 just north of Tennessee

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Marshall Mattison Smith II

• As a young man Marsh enjoyed the Cumberland Falls area around his home

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But Marsh would soon be moving west

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• Uncles, aunts, cousins and a brother were already in Indian Territory working

• Marsh was about 17 when he began working for cousin Jeptha Smith, father of Sadie, in a Wewoka store

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• The families settled in Indian Territory, during the later part of the 18th century.

• Wewoka, an early day oil boomtown, was a new home for Marsh

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• A prominent building, the I. A. Smith Brothers store was built in 1898 in Wewoka

• It was the second store built in the town but is no longer standing

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• Marsh, as he was called, also worked for his Uncle Frank in a clothing store in Wewoka

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• South of Wewoka, Ida, eleven years younger than Marsh, was growing into adulthood

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The beginning of Marsh and Ida’s long life together

• Ida was born in 1896 in Alabama

• At age 18, she was employed at the Randlett U.S. Post Office where she served as Assistant Postmistress for three years

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• Ida is on the right

• Her good friend Minnie Wood is with her

• Babe was the horse who pulled the buggy to school and church

Marsh and Ida meet

• While visiting Aunt Sally and Uncle John Jeffreys in Wewoka, Oklahoma she met Marsh

• They went together a couple of years often riding in a buggy to attend church services

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• In 1917 they were married in the living room of John and Sally Jeffreys home, southwest of Wewoka

• Reverend C. A. Higgs, a Baptist minister, performed the ceremony

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Ida’s own words written in 1969

• Marsh and I had a wonderful summer being together so much—riding horses and taking buggy rides. After we were married I rode with him over the big pasture looking after his brother Bert’s cattle and checking fences for breaks.

• We always had nephews with us. When there was work, they made their spending money by helping us.

• Marsh’s dad lived with us in a two story house the first winter. Marsh would sleep with his dad to keep him warm.

• Marsh and Ida had a good crop the first year of marriage. We worked our crop and then we took the flu that was raging. A member of the national guard, Marsh was called up to go in to WWI but the doctor reported that Marsh was sick and couldn’t go.

• Marsh is pictured on the right

• We had sold our livestock, farming equipment, ect. thinking Marsh would have to be in the Army. But the doctor advised us to go to Hot Springs, AR and take the mineral baths there.

• We stayed six weeks taking baths and resting. We came home and had no place to live. We moved into a two room log house on Bert’s property then cleared lumber out and made a cotton crop. Elvis was born in this log home in 1919.

• The log home was close to Aunt Sally’s SW of Wewoka. Dr. Scott from Holdenville took a taxi to Uncle Jake’s place then Jake and Aunt Loney brought him in a 2 seated buggy while the taxi driver waited 24 hours to take the Dr. back to town.

• Everyone was so pleased we had a baby boy, Elvis Earl

• In addition to the uncles Marsh worked in the stores for, another relative, a brother Nathaniel Bert, and other cousins lived in the Seminole County area

• According to old timers in Wewoka Bert was the first notary public. He and Marsh bought mineral leases as they became available in the region

• When the Depression took place the leases provided income for each family and accorded benefits such as household help for Ida on the farm

• The young couple bought the “Belle City” farm SW of Wewoka

• They later built a new home on the farm

• At one time the farm was made up of 740 acres nearby the other Smiths in Seminole County

• Brothers Bert and Marsh were good business men and the mineral rights investment made life easier for our ancestors during a long decade in the United States

• Neither Smith brother may have realized the lasting legacy their descendents would have almost a century later

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Marsh traveled to Kentucky but missed his Oklahoma family

Community was important • Ida helped the Ong

community receive $300 from a Home Demonstration Contest

• The prize was divided between

– Bethel Pentecostal Holiness Church

– Ong Grade School

– The local Home Demonstration Unit Club

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• There friends formed a committee and then won the contest

• Mrs Bleigh, President of the Farm Women District is shown here

• Mr Kiker, a long time family friend is pictured along with Mr Dearing representing the Farmer-Stockman

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Religion was important to the family

• Ida’s father wanted to be baptized by Rev. Williams of Bethel Church

• The Smith family thought a lot of the Williams family

• Ida arranged for her dad’s baptism to take place

• Rev. Williams, pictured, preformed the baptism

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• A L was baptized in the Victory pond near Bethel Church by Wewoka

• It was a cooling pond for the oil lease equipment

• The baptism might have looked like this

Family traveled to watch • Clara and Irene

traveled from Ponca City for their father’s baptism

• Robert, Zane and Jakie Smith attended

• Most of the other family had been baptized in the Deep Red River near Randlett, OK

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• Clara and Ida were baptized in a gin pond in Randlett by the same preacher who married Jim and Clara

• Steam was used to make the cotton gin run

• The pond cooled the boilers used with the gin

• Clara, Jim Tribble and Ida are pictured

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Quilt • A quilt with 20 names of the first

grandchildren of A. L. and Lucinda was made by friends and given to the Campbell’s

• The grand children listed are first cousins or siblings

• Later grandchildren were not included on the quilt

• Feed sack muslin was used to trim this quilt

made by

Lucinda Deloney (Jeffreys) Campbell

who was married to Arromanus Lyle Campbell

1933

The handpieced, handquilted quilt features their 20 oldest grandchildren

The Campbell's had 29 grandchildren, 26 of those children lived to adulthood.

Name on quilt granddaughters married name Campbell parent name

1st row

across Bobbie Tribble Clara Tribble

Lucille Campbell Bohner, Huff Lila (L.O.) Campbell

Carl Campbell Lila (L.O.) Campbell

Nedra Campbell Kuntz Lila (L.O.) Campbell

2nd row Odessa Wood ___________ Suzie Wood

Elvis Smith Ida Smith

Geneva Campbell Turner Lila (L.O.) Campbell

Jep Smith Ida Smith

3rd row Laverne Tribble Clara Tribble

Mildred Wood McGee Suzie Wood

Milford Smith Anna Lou Smith Streater

Billie Jo Wood Heard Suzie Woods

4th row Ollie Mae Smith Rogers, Burdett, Graham Ida Smith

Robert Campbell Lila (L.O.) Campbell

Helen Joyce Heflin Conerly Ollie Heflin

Manus Lyle Smith Ida Smith

Manus may be the youngest cousin on the quilt

5th row Robert Kaye Smith Ida Smith

Sammie Arnell Hinkle Irene Hinkle Swearingen

died in infancy

Marshall Smith, III Ida Smith

Thomas Allen Campbell Tommy Campbell

Manus is pointing to his quilt block

• Friends of Grandmother Lucinda Campbell made this quilt naming the Campbell’s first 20 grandchildren

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• Ollie Mae and Johnnie enjoyed a reunion at the Pioneer Woman Museum in Ponca City, OK

• Featured were hand made items by many Smith family members

• Throughout her life Ollie Mae created hand work as she rode to and from work

Robert is pointing to his name on the Campbell quilt

Mildred is standing in front of a friendship quilt with Sapulpa ladies names which was made in the 1930s

Ida made the green vest, granddaughter Jo Elaine painted the blue shirt, Mildred made the purple dress

• Activities, hobbies, farm life and the grocery business provided ways for family to draw closer and support each other.

• Many endeavors whether in work or play, helped maintain the strong bonds of the Campbell and Smith members

The end of chapter 3

Useful websites and books mostly relating to Marsh Smith’s lineage

• A Jeffreys Family 1765-1984 by Allen Ray Jeffreys, 1984

• 1818 History and Families 1993 Whitley County, Kentucky, Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, KY 1994

• Booklet –Prepared for the 250 year of deed conveying land for the Church at Maidenhead, 1948, Hannah Smith, mother of patriot Elijah Smith is buried in their cemetery http://www.pclawrenceville.org/

• Sons of the American Revolution, Jacksonville, IL http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iljaghs/sar_dar.htm

• Whitley County Historical and Genealogical Society and Museum, http://www.wchgs.org/

• Whitley County Public Library, Williamsburg, KY contact Pat Jones, http://www.wchgs.org/

• Kentucky Genealogical Society, Inc., Frankfort, KY http://www.kygs.org/

• Online pension records are available at most public libraries free of charge Go to www.heritagequestonline.com Click search Persi Click Rev. War link, Type in Smith Elijah All

All Click search Select the one from NJ and VA The 26 pages of pension papers will be shown Series: M805 Roll: 747 Image: 255 File: W10501/BLWT101700-160-55 Page: 1 of 26 pages

• legacyhistorycollections.com contact khunter54@gmail.com

• Oklahoma Historical Society http://www.okhistory.org/research/index.html

• http://www.uky.edu/KentuckyAtlas/

• http://www.seminoleoklahoma.com/ use the Historical Photos from Seminole County link

• University of Oklahoma Western History Collections, Monnet Hall, Norman, OK http://libraries.ou.edu/

• The Whitley Republican, Thursday, Aug 28,1896 article Then Came the Great Depression

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• If any errors occur in the content, please email documentation to khunter54@gmail.com The Campbell story will never be told completely but it has been a pleasure to relive the history contained therein. May future generations have the moral fiber of the Campbell family. May our relatives have the spiritual character shown by the ancestors and their connections with the Church. Many thanks to all who contributed to this work. It is a cumulative family project.