ALLEN CAMPBELL Obituary
“Uncle Allen” Dead. (Laurel Hill News)
It was last Monday night (Sept 5, 1911) at about 1 o’clock that the death angels descended from Heaven and entered the home of Daniel Campbell, who lives four miles west of town, and beckoned to the saintly father and grandfather, “Uncle Allen” Campbell, to come heavenwardly. This saintly old father was born May 28th, 1828, and died Sept. 5th, 1911, which made him upwards of 83 years of age, and was borned and lived all his life within three miles of where he died, and if he had an enemy in all this country, we have never heard of it; on the other hand everybody liked and honored him.
There were children borned and reared by him and his wife, who preceeded him to the great beyond several years ago; eleven children — four sons and seven daughters. The four sons are P. J., W. A., R. A. and Daniel, all of whom still survive, the four daughters living are Mesdames John Harrison, John Steele and Sam Fowler, those dear are Mesdames J. W. Gaskin, Roe Richbourg, J. L. Clary, Sr., and J. J. Moore.
All told he had fifty-two grand children and twenty-two great grand children, and there were present at the burial two hundred and twenty-nine relatives.
Interment was made in the old Clary Cemetery near where he was borned and reared, the Rev. J. E. Holley, of Flomaton, Ala., conducting the burial ceremony in the presence of what was said to be the largest crowd ever gathered beside a grave in this part of the country. –Laurel Hill News.
Contributed by Michael Strickland