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Thomas Dillon Campbell (Ballard County, Kentucky, farmer. )

b. 1823-10-13 d. 1881-01-17

Ballard County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of James Campbell and Mary Campbell. Stepson of Thomas N. Dodson, Sr. Married to Margaret Ursula Gray Campbell. Father of James N. Campbell, Mary C. Campbell, Frank Campbell, Capitola Campbell, William L. Campbell, and Leona Campbell. Farmer in Ballard County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Ballard County in 1850. Farmer in Ballard County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Ballard County in 1860. Employed John Harris and Leonard Smith as farmhands in Ballard County in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, p. 262B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, City/District, p. 120.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Picketts District, p. 625.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Picketts District, p. 43B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, District 5, p. 437A.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 24290.

Ruth and Albert Campell, "Campell-Grey," in Ballard and Carlisle Counties History, Volume I, ed. Ballard-Carlisle Historical-Genealogical Society, (Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing, 1993), p. 47.

"Thomas Dillon Campbell (1823-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial 157605201, accessed September 16, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157605201.

Citation

Campbell, Thomas Dillon. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204702 (November 12, 2026).

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