Bean Cartmell Campbell

CAMPBELL, B.C. - The family of B.C. Campbell received word here Tuesday of his sudden death at “Stony Mead,” the old Campbell home at Opequon, Virginia early Tuesday morning. A later message told that funeral services would be held at the Presbyterian church in Winchester Friday at eleven o’clock and burial be made in the family lot in Mt. Hebron cemetery by his parents, Robert M. and Rebecca Ann Campbell. Bean Cartmell Campbell was born in Fredrick County, Virginia, September 26, 1840, was educated at home and at the Winchester Academy, studied law with Judge Parker of Winchester until the war. He was in the War Between the States and belonged to Lee’s Body Guard. He came west in 1871 and was several years in Kansas, and at that time, Indian Territory, later going to Florida. He married Miss Betsie Todd Walker of King and Queen County, Virginia, October 22, 1884. From Florida the family moved to New York City, then back to Virginia and to Arkansas in 1901. While in Florida Mr. Campbell served as an elder in the Presbyterian church. He was a member of the Prairie Grove Camp U.C.V. until it was disbanded a few years ago His wife, two daughters, Mrs. Dorothea Harris and Miss Betsie G. Campbell of Prairie Grove and two sons, R.D. and Temple L. Campbell of Beverly, Kansas survive him. Douglas Campbell left Beverly Tuesday afternoon for Virginia to attend the funeral. [Prairie Grove Herald 10/28/1928]

Mrs. B.C. Campbell, widow of B.C. Campbell, filed Widow Application #29895 with the State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Board and was allowed on October 20, 1929, her husband’s service with Company A, 39thVirginia Cavalry from 1862 thru 1865 cited. [State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Archives]