OBIT # 5471 - Presbyterian Witness - November 26, 1870 "Death of an Aged Lady - Janet Campbell, relict of Donald Robertson, (Col.) died at the residence of her son, Alexander Robertson, Barney's River, Saturday, November 12th, at 6 a.m. after a few days' illness, in the hundred and second year of her age. She was born in Blair Athol, Perthshire, Scotland, in October, 1769, immigrating with her husband, a son and two daughters to this country in the year 1800, and settled at Merigomish in the County of Pictou. The little boy died on the passage out and was buried at sea. All her children except this one still survive. Soon after their arrival at Merigomish, they purchased a farm about five miles up from the mouth of Barney's River, and one mile down the River from Rev. D.B. Blair's Church. Many years ago Mr. Robertson died, leaving a widow, six daughters and two sons. Since then until a week before her death the good old woman enjoyed excellent health, and to the very last she retained all her faculties. Just before her death she asked her daughter-in-law what time it was, and when told it was six o'clock, she said, "Well well," and breathed her last. Not long since she told the writer that she distantly recollected when a little girl in Scotland, of her grandfather John Campbell taking her on his knee and telling her that at the age of twenty-one he fought in the Battle of Culloden under Prince Charles. She lived to see seven generations, four of these are still living. She has left eight children, fifty-five grand children, fifty-five great grandchildren and four or five great great grandchildren. She was remarkable for her beauty, and strange to say she retained her rich rosy complexion to the very last, and her hand was as soft and smooth as a child's. But better than all this, she was made beautiful by the righteousness of Christ, rich in faith towards God and mellowed through the influences of the Holy Spirit. She died beloved by all her friends and acquaintances. She was born on the 11th of October, 1769, died November 12th, 1870, thus making her on the day of her death one hundred and one years, one month and one day of age