Benoni CAMPBELL

                   Obituary

The Vernal Express
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Bernal, Utah
March 4, 1910

Samual Joseph Capmbell, a Utah pioneer, and a member of the Mormon Battalion, who died February 17th was buried from the stake house February twentieth.

One more gone of the characters that were a product of the pioneer days;   one of the strong men who cheerfully bore his part not only in subduing the wilderness, bearing arms for his country, but who was also in the thick of the vicissitudes of his faith having lived in Kirtland, Nauvoo, and later took up the march to the promised land beyond the limitless prairies.  During Mr. Campbell's enlistment as a  volunteer, he saw service in Pueblo, Santa Fe, and Los Angeles, being mustered out in the latter place, then almost wholly Mexican.  He remained in California for a year, coming to Salt Lake when he had the honor of being married by Brigham Young to Clarissa Rebecca Hall, by who he had six children, four of whom are living, Heber, Joseph, Benjamin and Mrs. Polly Chapman.

In 1879 Mr. Campbell and family came to Ashley, and endured cheerefully with he other settlers the "Hard Winter".  He with other families lived first in Ouray, but when that country was taken for the White River Utes, the little colony came to Vernal.

A pathetic and moving feature of the funeral, was the guard  of honor of old war vetrans, Morey and McCoy of the Mormon Battalion and McBlankeship,  Hullinger, Omindson, Keifer and Rodgers of the civil war, and Baker, a confederate vetran, who fell in with the procession and formed a guard of honor to the stake house, where the flag draped casket war dear.  Two of the vetrans, Keifer and Omindson acompanied the procession to the grave; carrying the flag at half mast.  The speakers were those Mr. Campbell had chosen only a few days before his death; Bishop Davis, R.S. Collett and Don B. Colton.  All bore witness to the kindly character and integhrity of the deceased.


Married By Brigham Young May 1849