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Confederate Veteran, Sept., 1920, page 350.
ROBERT LAFAYETTE CAMPBELL, who died recently at his
home, in Augusta, Ga., was born on Feb. 4, 1845, in Abbeville district,
now Greenwood. He was the only son of Rev. THOMAS M. CAMPBELL and
ETHELDA LOVELESS. His parents moved to Georgia when he was about a year
old, living in Dekalb Co. for several years and afterwards moving to
Gainesville, Ga. From Gainesville ROBERT CAMPBELL, a lad of 18 marched
away to join the army of the Confederacy, serving from 1863 to the close
in Howell's Battery, Ga. volunteers, Martin's Battalion, Smith's
Regiment of artillery.
One of his messmates said of him : " Robert
Campbell is one of the few men I know who carried his religion into the
army, lived it, brought it home with him, and has lived it ever since."
In 1873 he was married to MARY EUGENIA MATTOX,
daughter of DR. ELIJAH MATTOX, of Decatur, Ga. In 1888 he was appointed
by the Conference to Paine College at Augusta...
Surviving him are his wife, 4 sons, and two
daughters.
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