After a lingering illness Margaret Jane Campbell died at the family home in this city at 3 a. m., Monday, Dec. 21. Miss Campbell was born at Brooklyn, Iowa, Oct. 19, 1871. When eight years old, with her parents she moved to Audubon county, Iowa, and five years later to a farm near Coon Rapids, Iowa, where she resided until 1906. In 1908, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Campbell, she came to Hardin to join her brother Pat, who the year previous had taken up a homestead on the West Bench, about three miles west of Hardin, and that fall she filed on a homestead adjoing that of her brother. Here she lived until the fall of 1917, when with her father and brother-the mother died in March, 1913-she moved into Hardin and kept house for her brother until her last illness. The father died in October, 1918. Five years ago her brother Pat became ill of a dropsical affection and for years was a helpless invalid, whom she tenderly cared for until June, a year ago, when she was stricken ill and gradually grew weaker until death put an end to her suf- ferings. Almost as if by a miracle, her brother, a year or more ago, took a change for the better and his improvement has been gradual until the past few months he has been strong enough to materially aid the nurse in charge in the care of his sister.
She is survived by two brothers, Pat Campbell of Hardin and William Campbell of Pillsbury. N. D. Two cousins in Carbon County. Clara Goff of Boyd and Mrs. Ada Clawson of Rockvale, were present at the funeral, which was held from the family home Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, after a requiem high mass at St. Joseph's Catholic church at nine. Father Cardon officiating, Miss Campbell having been A devout member of the Catholic church. Interment was In the Hardin cemetery beside the remains of her father and mother. The sympathy of the community goes out to the bereaved brother in his affliction.
The Hardin Herald 12-25-1925