Phebe Campbell
Phebe Campbell (maiden name: Thomas) was born around 1827 in New York. She married Cornelius B. Campbell, and the couple apparently had no children. They lived in Low Moor, Iowa, and her husband worked as a minister. By 1860, they owned $750 of real estate and $1,400 of personal property. According to an early biographer, she and her husband “made their home one of the stations on the Underground Railroad, receiving, secreting and forwarding fugitive slaves along the line.” They adopted two children—Ralph and Wendell Weston—in the 1860s. They moved to Vineland, New Jersey, in the 1860s, and by 1870, they owned $6,000 of real estate and $500 of personal property. Her husband died on May 6, 1889, and she passed away in Landis, New Jersey, on May 10, 1896.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (5391) | Campbell, Phebe ~ Thomas, Phebe | 1827 | 1896-05-10 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Female
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (8323) [recipient] ~ Emelia M. Weston to Cornelius B. Campbell and Phebe Campbell, 24 September 1863
People - Records: 3
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; New Jersey Deaths and Burials Index, 1798-1971, available from Ancestry.com; Frank D. Andrews, “Cornelius Bowman Campbell: A Biographical Sketch,” The Vineland Historical Magazine, Vols. 10-12 (Vineland, NJ: Vineland Historical Society, 1927); Delight W. Dodyk, “Education and Agitation: The Woman Suffrage Movement in New Jersey,” PhD diss. (Rutgers University, 1997)
