Phebe (she spelled it without an 'o') Campbell was born Feb. 12, 1832, in Nelson, Tioga Co., PA; d. there Mar. 16, 1917. Married Feb. 24, 1858 in Nelson, to William Hoyt; b. Jan. 6, 1832, in Fairfield, CT; d. Aug. 12, 1888 in Nelson. William's parents were Edmund D. Hoyt and Mary A. (DeForest?).
Phebe was the 6th of 12 children of Joseph Campbell, b. 1793 in N. Ireland or
Scotland, d. 1864 in Nelson; and Ann
Clinch, born 1804 in Gloucestershire, England, died 1872 in Nelson.
She was the last of her siblings to die, and reached the greatest age
(85).
William and Phebe Campbell Hoyt had two children:
Phebe organized our "clan"'s first Campbell Reunion. It was held in
Nelson in 1893 and held annually thereafter till 1942. The first reunion
was primarily for the descendants of Phebe's parents, Joseph and Ann
Clinch Campbell and of James and Mary Blackwell Campbell. [Note: James
was Joseph's younger brother. And James' wife, Mary, was Ann Clinch's
younger half-sister.] But from 1895 on the Campbell Reunions were
expanded to include all the descendants of Joseph's parents, Joseph and Mary Harper; descendants of Charles Byron Lugg; of the 1814 Enoch Blackwell; and those of his father,
Enoch's, first wife. At their peak, just before WW1, more than 300
attended. In 2000, Phebe's great-grandson, Bill Thompson, re-instituted
the Campbell Reunions. They are now held in even numbered years.
[wbt - 8/6/2000; last rev. 12/21/2017]
View her record on our family tree.