John Oliver Campbell

1806 - 1885  (78 years)

• Name	John Oliver Campbell  [1]
  Birth	28 Dec 1806	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Special	California Pioneer
  FSID	L84W-LNS
  Burial	Abt 1885	Santa Cruz County, California, United States
  Death	29 Jul 1885	Santa Cruz County, California, United States   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I308	footsteps | Campbell, Bruce, Lady Godiva, Charlamagne, Conqueor, Robert Capet II, William Wallace
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

  Father	Samuel Campbell,   b. 12 Aug 1779, Kishacoquillas, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States d. 19 Aug 1841, Marion County, Ohio, United States (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Nancy Agnes Oliver,   b. 14 Feb 1784, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States d. 10 May 1861, Plymouth, Marshall County, Indiana, United States (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1805	Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States
  Family ID	F6831	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Matilda Hannah Shearer,   b. 1826, New York, New York, United States d. 7 Feb 1888, Santa Cruz County, California, United States (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	1838
  Children	+ 1. Benjamin Franklin Campbell,   b. 12 Jul 1849, Polk, Iowa, United States d. 31 Dec 1931, Oakland, Alameda, California, United States (Age 82 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Alonzo Emerson Campbell,   b. 1854   d. Jun 1914, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States (Age 60 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Carlista E Campbell,   b. 1840, Ohio, Ohio, United States d. 1916, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Cornelius Campbell,   b. 1842, Indiana, Indiana, United States d. Dec 1900, California, California, United States (Age 58 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. George Oliver Campbell,   b. Mar 1847, Iowa City, Wright, Iowa, United States d. 26 Jun 1925, Santa Clara, California, United States (Age 78 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F94	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 28 Dec 1806 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Burial - Abt 1885 - Santa Cruz County, California, United States Death - 29 Jul 1885 - Santa Cruz County, California, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos		John Oliver Campbell
  		John O Campbell and Matilda H Shearer Golden Anniversary

  
  

• Notes

  Source: A 1932 family history recorded in vol. 9, page 53 of the Records of the Families of California Pioneers in the California State archives. Benjamin Franklin Campbell is the source for this report. John O. Campbell started west with his family in the 1840's. Starting from Pennsylvania, he went to Missouri, where his family joined a wagon train led by David Burris to Calif. thru Salt Lake City in 1856. Leaving from Council Bluffs, Iowa with their five children. The family started out with a fine outfit, oxen, cattle, a carriage, horses. By the time they reached the last high mountains they had lost their treasures one by one. They finally arrived in Placerville with nothing but one old cow which had but one eye the other had been shot out by an Indian arrow. From Placerville the family came to Petaluma, or as it was spelled at the time Patoloma. The family settled in Petaluma.

  
  

• Sources

  [S755] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;). Record for John Oliver Campbell https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=62476&h=5876496363&indiv=try [S300] Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current. Record for Poppa 'Duchess of Normandy' De Valois