> > > Have searched for 15 years about the ancestry of one John J Campbell of > Darlington, SC. He was born in SC according to all records in which I > find > him, 1845/9. His father was from NC or Ireland depending on census > records. > He lived his entire live in Darlington, except for a trip to VA to pick up > his son upon his discharge fom the Coastal Artillery Unit of the US Army > in > 1910. Maybe this was why he was not on the 1910 census. He died in > Darlington on 20 Jun 1911 from injuries received in a fall from a ladder > while lighting a lamp over the dining room table. He married Cynthia Jane > Elmore. The first listing of John Campbell was when Cynthia joined the > Wesley Chapel Methodist Church in 1876 as Cynthia Campbell. His death > date > is confirmed in a Bible Record of the William Robert Hudson Bible, who > married Cynthia's sister Mary Elis Elmore. These two families were close. > However, all inquiries of this family have led to a ZERO. > No Deeds > No Tax Lists > Not in 1850, 1860 or 1870 census > Nothing on him listed in the Darlington Co Historical Society > No obit in Darlington > No Nothing. > > Does anyone have any information on my gggrandfather? Does anyone have > any > other suggestions? > > Cal Campbell