Carroll County, Indiana - 1916 History
ROSCOE A. CAMPBELL
Roscoe A. Campbell, who is a well-known farmer of Clay township and a man who
is prominent in Masonic circles and Republican politics in Clay township, is a
native of the township in which he lives, having been born on January 16, 1879.
Mr. Campbell is the son of Albert M. and Mary J. (Smith) Campbell, the former
of whom was born on September 14, 1837, in Clay township. He was the son of
Moses and Rebecca (Mooney) Campbell, both of whom died in Clay township, the
former at the age of sixty-three and the latter at the age of about fifty-five.
Both were members of the Christian church. Mary J. (Smith) Campbell was a native
of Romney, Indiana, born in 1843. She was the daughter of Richard Smith, a
native of New Jersey, and who settled at Romney, Indiana, in pioneer times. He
had five children. Lewis, who was killed at Haines Bluff during the Civil War;
Rachel, who married John M. Beard; Mary J., who was first married to Joseph
Garst and later to Albert M. Campbell; Louisa, who married Thomas Gwinn, and
John M., of Joplin, Missouri.
The late Albert M. Campbell, who died on December 7, 1914, was first married
to Rebecca Shelley, by whom he had one daughter, the wife of John Hufford. After
the death of Rebecca (Shelley) Campbell, he was married, the second time, to
Mary J. (Smith) Garst, the widow of Joseph Garst, who herself died in 1901. She
bore her husband three children: Addie, who died in infancy; Elizabeth, who
married William Fetterhoff, of Clay township; and Debbie, the wife of Matthew A.
Clark, of Pratt, Kansas. She bore her second husband, Albert M. Campbell, three
children. George, who died at the age of eight years; William M., a prosperous
farmer of Clay township, and Roscoe A., the subject of this sketch.
Roscoe A. Campbell was educated in the district schools of Clay township and
lived at home with his parents until his marriage, on October ll, 1899, to Maud
M. Gard, a daughter of Joshua and Lue (Manion) Gard, the former of whom was born
in Clay township and the latter near Lafayette. They were married in Carroll
county, Indiana, and had twelve children, two of whom died in infancy. The other
children were as follow: Lett is the wife of Edward Espy; Julia married Frank
Smith, of Dayton; James lives at Rossville; Jennie is the wife of William
Foster, of Rossville; Lula is the wife of L. D. Gray, of Clay township; Madeline
is the wife of Thomas Hooper, of Minot, North Dakota; Maud is the wife of Roscoe
A. Campbell; Elizabeth died at the age of fourteen; Josephine lives at
Rossville, Indiana; William lives with Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe A. Campbell. Mrs.
Campbell's father was a farmer and lived in Clay township until his death, in
1903. Mrs. Campbell's mother lives with L. D. Gray.
Roscoe A. Campbell has been a very successful farmer and now owns one hundred
and seventy-four acres of well-improved land in Clay township. He is engaged in
general farming and stock raising. Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe A. Campbell have had four
children, all of whom are living, as follow: Mary Helen, Glenn O., Russell A.
and Josephine Elizabeth.
Fraternally, Mr. Campbell is a member of Masonic Lodge No. 318, at Rossville.
He is a stanch Republican. Both Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are members of the Baptist
church, and Mr. Campbell's parents were also all members of the same church.
History Of Carroll County Indiana, Its People, Industries and Instititions by John C O'Dell -
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the
Old Families - Illustrated (1916 - B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. - Indianapolis, Indiana)
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