Campbell Family Cemetery
Rome, Alabama
Distant View of the Campbell Family Cemetery, Rome, Alabama

William Granville Campbell and his wife, Elizabeth, lived out their lives in Covington County and are buried in the Campbell Family Cemetery on the family farm. The cemetery is located north of Highway 29 between Rome and Andalusia, Alabama.

This cemetery was surveyed by Ed Smith several years ago. Below is an extract from his survey record.

Campbell Family Cemetery

Directions:

  1. North of Highway 29 between Rome and Andalusia.

  2. There is an intersection between County Highway 14 (running North-South) and State Highway 29 (running roughly East-West). 14 South takes you to the Pleasant Home Church and School. 14 North takes you to the Campbell Family Cemetery.

  3. Go North about 3.9 miles.

  4. Turn off of the road onto a hunting / logging road.

  5. There will be an immediate "Y."  Take the left fork of this "Y."

  6. Go 0.6 miles and take the first left.

  7. Go 0.1 miles and take the first right.

  8. The cemetery is on the right at the top of the hill, a total of about 4.7 miles from leaving the road.

 Contact:

Mr. Johnny Fuqua was very helpful in providing directions and unlocking the gate across the hunting/logging road.  His phone number is (334) 222 8639 (home) or (334) 301 8143 (mobile).

Cemetery Diagram

The individual plots are given numbers to indicate their position in the cemetery according to this diagram: 

                                     1    x

Entrance              2    3    4    5

           6    7    8    9    10   11   12   13

Note: "x" indicates a marker without names/dates.
The tombstones for 1, 5, and 11 are in alignment

Internments:

Parents
4.  Wm G(ranville) Campbell
Born Oct 2, 1799
Aged 65 years
(Died: Oct 11, 1864)		 5.  Elizabeth (Mason Campbell)
Wife of WG Campbell
Dec 20, 1806
March  1879
(BR Campbell booklet says death was 1871)

Children

12.   Mary (Campbell)
(Daughter of WG and Elizabeth Campbell)
Apr 15, 1829
March 7, 1900

1.  William P(eter) Campbell
(son of WG and Elizabeth Campbell)
Co E , 15 Confederate Cavalry, CSA
(1830 - 1904)
10.  Charles Campbell
(son of WG and Elizabeth Campbell)
Jan 13, 1835
Died a Confederate Soldier, 1862		 11.  George Campbell
(son of WG and Elizabeth Campbell)
Dec 17, 1837
Died a Confederate Soldier, 1862
6.  Davis Campbell
(son of WG and Elizabeth Campbell)
March 19, 1846
July 19, 1928

8.  Nancy Jane (McGowin Campbell)
wife of Davis Campbell
(Born July 22, 1859)
Died July 1878
Aged about 28 years

Grandchildren

2.  Para Lee Campbell
(daughter of Davis and Nancy Jane Campbell)
March 12, 1870
Date lost (Died 1910)

7.  (Charl)es M. (Campbell)
Son of Davis and Nancy Jane
Born (April 23) 1871 - (October 17) 1879

13.  Georgia Campbell
(daughter of Nancy Campbell and Kimp Cotton)
Wife of Frank Thompson
Feb 24, 1872- Dec 8, 1936

9.  Lulie E(llen Campbell)
Daughter of D. and NJ Campbell
Oct 22, 1875 - (October 14) 1879

3.  Addie Florence Campbell
(daughter of Davis and Nancy Jane Campbell)
May 18, 1877
Date lost (Died 1898)

  

According to other sources these people are also buried in this cemetery, but there are no markers:

Elizabeth Campbell
(daughter of Wm G and Elizabeth Campbell)
June 2, 1832 - April 20, 1835

Marda Campbell
(daughter of Wm G and Elizabeth Campbell)
Aug 3, 1843 - died as a child

Nancy Campbell
(daughter of Wm G and Elizabeth Campbell)
Feb 10, 1848 - 1912
(she was the mother of Georgia Campbell Thompson listed above.)

William Henry Campbell
(son of Wm G and Elizabeth Campbell)
May 25, 1850 - 1850

 

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