Campbells of Nelson, PA

1914 Cousins Dinner News Clip

Joseph Campbell cousins.¹
Mr. T. C. Campbell
Mrs. T. C. Campbell
Mrs. Ashton
Mrs. Hubbard
Ford Owlett
W. E. Selph
Mrs. E. B. Smith

Mabel Shipman Shaw
E. S. Pratt

P. E. Young
Aunt Phoebe Hoyt
Joe Parks
Walter Thompson
Mrs. Town
Miss Mary Peaslee
A. E. Campbell

[NOTE: The Campbell Cousins Reunions ran from 1893 to 1942, and were open to the public, but were for the descendants of Joseph & Mary Harper Campbell, associated Lugg and Blackwell families, and friends. Attendance was sometimes several hundred. The Cousins Dinners started in 1909 and were by invitation only. They were primarily for the grandchildren of Joseph and Ann Clinch Campbell. Attendance seldom was more than 50.]

1. Naming them group after their grandfather may have seemed an obvious choice to those present. But it later led to confusion because there were 3 generations of Joseph Campbells --- their grandfather, his father Joseph Campbell, and their uncle, Joseph D. Campbell.

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