CAMPBELL, THOMAS was born Oct. 31, 1786, in Yorkville District, South Carolina. His father, James Campbell, was born in county Antrim, Ireland, and emigrated to South Carolina. Thos. Campbell went, in 1807, to visit his brother David, in Caldwell county, Ky. He was married in that county, March 22, 1810, to Elizabeth Robinson, a sister to Edward Robinson. See his name. She was born May 3, 1788, in Nelson county, Ky. Her father, George Robinson, was born in Bucks county, Pa., married in Maryland, to Elizabeth Griffith, moved to Loudon county, Va., and from there to Nelson county, Ky. Thomas and Elizabeth Campbell had eight children in Kentucky. He moved with his family to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving about Nov. 10, 1823. The first land sales took place in Springfield on the sixth of that month, and a few days later he entered some land south of Little Spring creek, and there made a home for his family. It is now in Island Grove township, three miles northeast of Bates, where they had four children. Of their twelve children--

JAMES R. was born March 4, 1812, in Caldwell county, Ky. He enlisted in a Sangamon county Light Horse Co. in the spring of 1831, for the Black Hawk war: served three months, enlisted in another Sangamon county company, in 1832, was in the battle of Wisconsin, and served until the surrender of the Indian chief, Black Hawk. Mr. Campbell enlisted at Galena in Co. K, 1st Ill. Inf., in 1846, for one year. He was in the battle of Buena Vista, Mexico, Feb. 22, 1847, in which Col. J. J. Hardin was killed. J. R. Campbell never married, and resides at the family homestead near Bates.

MARGARET A., born Nov. 8, 1813, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, to Allen Short. See his name. They had three children, and she died Sept. 23, 1845.

ELIJA J., born July 18, 1815, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Pinckney. Hughes. They had four children. MARY E. married Thomas Baker, and lives at Nilwood. THOMAS P. married Amanda Ross, and lives at Nilwood. ANNIE and NETTIE live with their mother. Mr. Hughes died in 1860, and his widow resides at Nilwood, Macoupin county, Ill.

NARCISSA D., born Dec. 9, 1816, is unmarried, and resides at the family homestead, near Bates.

DOROTHY M., and POLLY M., twins, born Oct. 9, 1818, in Kentucky.

DOROTHY M., married in Sangamon county, to Benj. T. Renshaw, moved to Iowa, and had three children, ELIZABETH L., MORGAN and ELIJAH C. Mr. Renshaw was a soldier in an Iowa regiment, and died in St. Louis. His family live near Clio, Wayne county, Iowa.

POLLY M., married in Sangamon county to Robert Wiggins. They have one child, CHARLES, and live near Nilwood, Ill.

WILLIAM B., born Jan. 28, 1821, in Kentucky, married Oct. 11, 1849, to Sarah L. Dunbar, who was born June 1, 1825. They have five living children, CHARLES V., MINNIE A. and WALTER L., (twins), VELMA A. and WILLIAM LINCOLN, and live near Oskaloosa, Iowa.

EDWARD DODDS, born May 29, 1825, in Sangamon county, married Eliza Baldwin. They have two children, ELIZABETH and CHARLES J., and reside near Hutchins, Dallas county, Texas.

JULIETTE, born June 13, 1827, in Sangamon county, married Solomon Brundage, moved to Texas, and died in time of the rebellion.

JOHN B., born Oct. 26, 1829, in Sangamon county, went to Oregon, about 1853, and from there to California. Last heard from in 1867, at Petalouma, Cal.

THOMAS, Jun., born Nov. 2, 1834, in Sangamon county, married Sarah A. Selby. They have one child, THOMAS H., and reside near Hutchins, Texas.

Thomas Campbell was licensed to preach the gospel in 1818, by Logan Presbytery, of the Cumb. Presb. church, in Kentucky, and was ordained after coming to Illinois. He preached at Irish Grove, Menard county, to the church on Sugar creek, Sangamon county, and preached in his own neighborhood as long as he lived. Rev. Thomas Campbell died May 11, 1850, at the place where he settled in 1823, and his widow died there in Feb., 1876.