NEGenWeb Project
Looking for ties to Samuel & Agnes (Earl) CAMPBELL
families, Otoe Co., NE. Came from Scotland 1849-1854 with 3
children: Mary, who married Abraham SEARS, 1860, Cass Co., NE;
Samuel, Jr., who married Cynthia Ellen JEMISON; and Elizabeth.
Two or three other children born in NE: John Campbell, and
Jane/or Jennie Campbell. Samuel, Jr. married 2nd, Matilda D.
O. Towne, 4 Oct. 1870. They went to Osborne, KS after raising
11 children. JOHN SEARS, b. KY in Cass and Otoe Co., NE by
1857/58. Spouse Kitty /or Hetty (RADLEY). (They married 1837,
Coles Co., Illinois). Children: Hannah, married James B.
Crume; Evaline, married Jacob Francis Jemison; Abraham,
married Mary Campbell; John A. Sears, married Mary Marie
Hawkins; Sarah L. married Phillip O'Neil; Isaac married Hannah
Johnson and Ida Sears, b. in NE, never married. Isaac SEARS,
b. KY, and spouse Hester/ or Hetty Ann (NEIGHBORS), came from
Jasper Co., IL. Appear in Otoe Co., NE 1856. Isaac is brother
of John Sears. Children: Sarah Jane, Jacob and Isaac Sears.
Hester died 1896, at Brock, Nemaha Co., NE. Isaac died before
she did.
Additional info on my Father's side was that my Father was
born in Dunbar, NE. My Dad was the youngest of 4, Glen Orin b.
3-3-09, Earl. b. 10-26-07. Velma Mae. b. 7-17-05. Fern Myrtle,
b. 6-9-03. Emma Folkers' Mother's name was Catherine LEMON who
died 7/15/24