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Judge David Campbell
Motto: “Ne Obliviscaris” (“Do not forget”)
DAVID CAMPBELL, son of David and
Mary (Hamilton) Campbell
was born in 1750, in Augusta County, Virginia. He received a liberal education for his
time and chose the law for his profession. Upon the organization of Washington
County, Virginia, in 1777,
he was made Clerk of the Court.
In 1779 David Campbell married
Elizabeth Outlaw, the daughter of Colonel Alexander and Penelope (Smith)
Outlaw. During the Revolution
David Campbell served as Major in the Virginia Militia, and his troops
were there with General Nathaniel Greene in his southern campaign.
In 1783 David Campbell moved with his
family to Green County, North
Carolina, and there began a career of
usefulness which continued throughout his life. In 1784 he was elected Judge of
Washington District, but he chose to cast his lot with the State of
Franklin, of which he was made Chief Judge and a member of the Council of
State. In 1787 he represented Greene County in the
North Carolina Assembly, and was made Assistant Judge of the District of
Washington.
He was appointed by President
Washington, in 1790, as one of the Judges of the Territory South of the Ohio River, which
position he held until the Territory was admitted into the Union as the
State of Tennessee. In 1792 he served as one of the
Commissioners for the national government to run the boundary line
between the white settlements and the Cherokee Indians.
In the fall of 1797, Judge Campbell
was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court of the State of Tennessee and
remained in this position until the abolition of the court in 1810. In
1811 he was appointed by President Jefferson a Judge of the Mississippi Territory.
Judge Campbell died at his home near Washington, Rhea
County, Tennessee, in
1812. Elizabeth Campbell sold her Rhea County home in
1818 and moved to Cahaba, Alabama, near Huntsville.
Over 400 persons attended the marking
of Judge Campbell’s grave on July 4, 1925, conducted
by Mrs. Cyrus Griffin Martin, Regent of the Judge David Campbell Chapter.
(The foregoing text and photographs
have been compiled over the years from scrapbooks and historical records
of Judge David Campbell Chapter, NSDAR.)
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