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    1. Campbells of Laurens
    2. Larry Campbell
    3. Ran across this while sorting thirty years of files. As printed: The next Source on Campbell-- Annals of Newberry (S.C.) by Chapman & O'Neall originally published 1892 page 168 " In 1781, a party of whigs, under the command of Col. Hays, passed in the neighborhood of Coats' shop, (Newberry Court House,) to Jacob Brooks' ,(now the plantation of Harrington Pope.) Two of the party, James Tinsley and John Campbell , a lad, son of Captain Angus Campbell, of Laurens, and brother of the present Dr. Robert Campbell, diverged from their direct route to have a horse shod at Coats' shop, at the Cedar Spring, just below the village grave yard. Having accomplished this they started to rejoin their companions at Brooks'. They were fired upon about where the barn of Drayton Nance, Esq., now stands, on Higgins' Road. One ball took effect in the bridle arm of Campbell; his mare jumped from under him , and accompanied Tinsley in his flight to Brooks'. There the command turned out, and retracing Tinsley's steps, they found Campbell dead. The persons, whoever they were, who had wounded him, had completed the work of death. His companions bore him to Coats' shop. On the margin of Scotts Creek, he was buried; and there he slept the sleep of death until, in 1849, the excavations for the railroad laid bare the remains. They collected, with pious care, by his excellent brother, Dr. Robert Campbell, and buried in the family burying ground.

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