Sylvester Campbell was the second son born to William Campbell and Sarah Ann (Havens) Campbell. Sylvester was born on 8 September 1849 while his parents were residents at Cold Springs, Hamilton Township, Northumberland County, Ontario. During this time Sylvester’s father, William Campbell, was working a farm for David Sidey almost directly across the road from the Congregational Church and the adjoining burial ground that was to become the Pioneers’ Memorial Cemetery at Cold Springs. Sylvester was briefly without a mother when Sarah Ann (Havens) Campbell died in 1854 when he was about five years old. Within a year or two Sylvester’s father, William Campbell, married Isabella Jane Sidey, probably in the Congregational Church at Cold Springs. Isabella Jane Sidey was the daughter of David Sidey whose farm William Campbell was operating. Undoubtedly, William Campbell and Isabella Jane Sidey knew each other quite well before the marriage, perhaps even to the point that Isabella cared for William’s two young sons following the death of their mother, Sarah Ann (Havens) Campbell. In late 1861 William and Isabella moved their family to Percy Township, Northumberland County where William had bought a farm. Sylvester most certainly helped his father work on the family farm. The Campbell farm in Percy Township existed in close proximity to a farm owned by Richard Sykes and his wife Mary Ann (Langdon) Sykes. In 1869 Sylvester’s older brother, William Hayden Campbell, married Catherine Jane Beggs on 23 December 1869 in Port Hope, Ontario. At some point in the 1870s, land records show that William Campbell sold his farm in Percy Township to his two older sons, William and Sylvester, and moved north to take up residence in Chandos Township in Peterborough County. By the time of the 1881 Census of Canada, William Hayden Campbell had moved to the Ottawa area and taken up residence in Wellington Ward while Sylvester had sold the Campbell farm in Percy Township and moved north to Wollaston Township in Hastings County to take up residence near Coe Hill, Ontario. On 11 January 1893 Sylvester Campbell married Jesse Abigail Sykes, daughter of Richard and Mary Ann Sykes, in the Village of Hastings in Northumberland County. Sylvester Campbell passed away on 5 December 1924 at Coe Hill, Wollaston Township in Hastings County. Sylvester was buried in the Clydesdale United Church Cemetery, Rose Island Road, Chandos Township in Peterborough County. Jesse Abigail (Sykes) Campbell who was born on 13 April 1863 was buried in the same cemetery when she died on 25 February 1943. Family folklore relates that the Clydesdale United Church Cemetery has been maintained on land donated by the Campbell family who are still largely in charge of managing the Cemetery up to the present in 2019.
Jessie Abigail Sykes and Henry Franklin Waller
Although Jessie Abigail Sykes is listed as a “spinster” on her marriage registration to Sylvester, an earlier marriage registration exists which indicates she was married at age 16 on 4 February 1881 in the village of Norham, Percy Township, Northumberland County, Ontario to Henry Franklin Waller, son of William and Rebecca (Moore) Waller of Frankford, Ontario. Sometime prior to 1890 the marriage between Jessie Abigail and Henry Franklin disolved and Henry moves to the USA. Henry Franklin Waller later married Mary Ragan, daughter of John Ragan and Margaret (Hamilton) Ragan of Stratford, Ontario on 12 February 1890 in Stanton, Montcalm, Michigan, USA. Mary (Ragan) Waller dies on 10 June 1921 and Henry Franklin Waller passes away on 23 March 1934, still resident in Michigan, USA.
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