David Wilson Campbell

Campbell's land comes with paper. A Navarro County biography says the Robertson County board issued him a headright certificate for three-fourths of a league and one labor on September 6, 1838. His Navarro tract was surveyed in 1845, and on November 5, 1845 the Republic issued him a grant of 2,668 acres signed by President Anson Jones. It was filed in Navarro County in 1856. The same page lists him among the men who stayed at the Texas army's camp across from Harrisburg on April 21, 1836, citing the San Jacinto Monument.

What the plaque says

David Wilson Campbell (May 4, 1812 - April 4, 1879) A native of Georgia, David Wilson Campbell migrated to Texas in 1835. He served in the Texas army the following year during the Texas War for Independence. A pioneer farmer in Navarro County, he gave ten acres of land to the Harmony Methodist Church in 1845. Part of that acreage was used for this cemetery where many Campbell descendants are buried. Campbell was married three times and had children from each marriage. Recorded - 1978

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Petroleum Industry Park — 9.3 mi
  The pipes and drilling tower mark where a city water well struck oil on June 9, 1894, the start of the first Texas field to produce oil and gas in important quantities.
• Blind Lemon Memorial Cemetery — 18 mi
  The Freestone County grave of the Texas blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, who recorded for Paramount in Chicago from 1926 and died there in December 1929.
• Ellis County Courthouse — 28 mi
  J. Riely Gordon's courthouse of 1897 in Pecos red sandstone and pink granite, with twenty-one carved stone faces and two cornerstones left by a quarrel over its building.

More markers nearby

• Campbell-Elrod Cemetery — steps away
• Dresden Cemetery — 4.7 mi
• Dresden United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi
• Annie Carpenter Love — 4.8 mi