CAMPBELL, FRANCES A.

by Charles C. Campbell Jr.

Entry F62 from the History of Hooker County Nebraska
with permission of the Hooker County Historical Society

Frances A. Stevenson was born at Pinca-
tonica, Illinois on May 8, 1865 and died at her
home in Mullen, Nebraska July 12, 1928.
June 5, 1883 at Cherokee, Iowa she was
united in marriage to M.L. Campbell and to
this union one child, Charles C. Campbell was
born. The family moved to Westmoreland,
Kansas and a short time later from there to
Mullen, Nebraska, locating on what was
known as the Otto Maire place. In 1890, they
moved to Gothenburg, Nebraska and from
there to Cripple Creek, Colorado in 1896 and
it was here that her husband was killed while
working in a mine. She returned to Mullen in
April 1898, where she resided up to the time
of her death.

Mrs. Frances A. Campbell was one of the
pioneer residents of Mullen, coming here
when the town was a mere frontier hamlet,
and for a number of years conducted a
millinery store, where she became a well-
known and successful business woman.
After retiring from the millinery business,
Mrs. Campbell, in partnership with her son,
Charles, acquired the long established and
well-known Sandhills Commercial Company
business and assisted in its management until
failing health took her from the ranks of
active workers. Frances was kind and affec-
tionate in her disposition, charitable in her
ways and devoted to her home and loved
ones, she lived a noble life that was full of
usefness to the world. Her son Charles C.
Campbell had two sons, Chester and Ray.

The funeral service for Frances was con-
ducted by Arch Deacon S.E. Wells and was
laid to rest in the Mullen Cedarview ceme-
tery.