CAMPBELL, Mr. Aaron S.: 1819-1889

CAMPBELL

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Date: 8/21/2013 at 05:08:40

OBITUARY.
**Handwritten: Keo.Rep. 30 May 1889

Died, Sunday morning, May 20 1889, Mr. AARON S. CAMPBELL, of Jackson township, Van Buren Co., Iowa.

Mr. Campbell was born in Wayne county, Ohio, April 21, 1819, and lived a few days beyond his three score and ten years. He united with the Presbyterian church in Lexington, Ohio, in 1858, and after removing to Iowa in 1865, he transferred his membership to the church in Troy. When a Presbyterian church was organized in Lebanon in 1871 he became an elder in that church and so remained until his death. As a Christian and member of a Christian church, he was ready and prompt and earnest in the discharge of his duties, and was a member and leader who will be greatly missed in the church to which he belonged. Mr. Campbell was also a soldier, and when the dark cloud of civil war rested upon our land, and enemies sought to rend our nation asunder, he was not slow to render his service to his needy country. In November 1861 he was mustered into service as a Lieutenant in Co. C., of the 64th regiment of Ohio Infantry, and, sometime after the battle of Stone River, he became by promotion the Captain of the same company. His regiment was connected with the Army of the Cumberland and the service rendered was mainly in the state of Tennessee. He remained in the army until August of '63 when he resigned and was mustered out on account of disability; the cause of disability being rheumatism, the same disease which caused his death. After spending a few months at home and regaining his health he again enlisted for one hundred days as Major of the 163rd regment of Ohio Volunteers and when the time had transpired he was mustered out with the regiment at Camp Chase, Ohio, and his military service was ended. The last twenty-four years of his life was at the home where he died. Here he became widely known and so far as the writer is aware was respected by all who knew him. Conscious of approaching death and in full hope of a glorious immortality, he fell asleep. A large concourse of friends and neighbors conveyed the body to its place of rest.
WM. YOUNG.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book C, Page 190, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA