Alexander Campbell
CAMPBELL, BRADLEY, HAYS
Posted By: Renee Rimmert (email)
Date: 10/11/2021 at 12:36:37
Centerville Citizen
Wednesday, August 22, 1883
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At the residence of his son, one mile east of Centerville on Friday, August 17th, 1883, Alexander Campbell, aged 82 years.
Deceased was the father of D. C. and A. J. Campbell, and Mrs. Wm. Bradley and Mrs. S. A. Hays, and had been a resident of this place for the past fourteen years. The funeral took place from the residence of A. J. Campbell on Saturday.
Centerville Journal
Wednesday, August 22, 1883
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Campbell - At the residence of his son, A.J. Campbell, near this city, on Friday morning, August 17th, 1883, Alexander Campbell, in the 82nd year of his age.
Many neighbors and christian friends were gathered at the funeral, which took place on Saturday at 10 a.m.
Mr. Campbell was born in Brook county, West. Va. in the year 1801. He early connected with the Associate Reformed church at Paris, Washington county, Pa., and remained a consistent member of that, and the United Presbyterian church, until his death. In the year 1855 he came to Iowa, and resided in Madison county from the year 1855 to the year 1887, when he moved to this county, where he spent the remaining days of his time, at the residence of his son. Mr. Campbell was a man of strong convictions and established principles, he was a tender husband and a kind father, while he was a social and genial friend he was by no means lacking in spirt to defend what he felt to be right or to oppose, when necessary, what he believed to be wrong.
The aged and feeble partner of his life, two sones and six daughters, besides a number of grand-children, cherish his memory. To them he could say with departing Jacob, "I go, but God shall be with you", "that where I am there ye may be also." His last illness was of brief duration. Possessed of a strong constitution, he had long battled disease, but God had "determined his days", and "appointed his bounds that he could not pass". Old age and a complication of diseases admonished him to "set his house in order". As the end drew near, he felt if it was God's will to take him, he was ready "to depart and be with Christ". He could look back over his long and eventful life, sensible that it had been marred by the common frailties and failings, to which flesh is heir, but satisfied that his life had not been spent in vain, and that through the blood of the Redeemer, there was "laid up for him a crown of righteousness" in that world where "God shall wipe away all the tears from our eyes".
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