Campbell Family
The Cainpbells are of Irish descent. They came to America during the seventeenth century and settled in Virginia. It was here in London County that Wm. Campbell was born, about 1707. Here he lived, and died about 1810, at the age of one hundred and three years. Andrew Campbell, his son, was born in 1768, and lived there to marry Jane Carr. They raised a family of eight children. Eliza, the eldest of these, was born in Virginia in 1804, and married Henson Monroe in 1819. They had born to them sixteen children, fifteen of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. Their names are as follows: Nancy, James, Mary, Henson S., Eliza, William, Sarah, Emily, Jonathan, Virginia, Lydia, Amanda, John, Caroline, and Josephine. Mr. Monroe settled in Shelby County in 1834, where he died in 1853. His widow still survives and resides on the old homestead they first bought. Of this large family of children there are still ten living.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883