Robert Madison Lanham

Family/Spouse: Marguerite Kelly. Marguerite was born in cir 1904; died on 25 Mar 1994 in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Sarah

Notes:

William Lanham left South Carolina for Floyd County, Georgia, in 1856. According to family tradition, he enlisted in the Confederate Army, but was sent home because he couldn't keep up. A slave reportedly had thrown a pitchfork and hit him in the knee cap. He did serve in Company I, Floyd Legion, Georgia State Guards, as a private, and may be the William Lanham who served in the 17th Battalion, Georgia Infantry, as a private. He is recorded in the 1900 census as living on E. Central Ave., Calera, Alabama, with his wife, Sarah, step-daughters Artie M. and Nellie Jones, daughter Lucy, son Robert, and mother-in-law Mary A. Campbell. After William's death, Sallie lived in Shades Mountain, Alabama, until 1908, then Birmingham for a year, then to Weaver, Alabama, until 1912, then to Armiston, Alabama, until 1916, and finally to Chattanooga, Tennessee. His Civil War service is noted on his tombstone, as "C.S.A."

Buried:
Plot: E~103

William married Sallie Mae Campbell on 13 Nov 1892 in Shelby County, Alabama, USA. Sallie (daughter of Peyton LaFayette Campbell and Mary Ann Elizabeth Bethea) was born on 12 Mar 1866 in Dallas County, Alabama, USA; died in 1949 in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Concord Baptist Church Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Carpenter and wagon-maker

Joseph + Frances Gentry. Frances was born on 12 Nov 1810 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA; died on 22 Aug 1875 in Floyd County, Georgia, USA; was buried in Blue Pond Baptist Church, Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Bogue Chitto, Dallas County, Alabama, USA
• Occupation: 1850; gin maker
• Census: 1860, Orrville, Dallas County, Alabama, USA
• Census: 1870, Cahaba, Dallas County, Alabama, USA
• Occupation: 1870; cotton gin repairer
• Census: 1880, Calera, Shelby County, Alabama, USA

Notes:

Peyton Campbell may have been born in North Carolina, according to the 1850 Dallas County, Alabama, census. Listed on the same page is A.F.G. Campbell, presumed to be his brother. A letter of transfer from his church at Catfish, Marion District, South Carolina, to Fulton, Dallas County, Alabama, was dated 13 November 1852. His name was given as LaFayette Campbell. At the time of the 1860 census, the family was living in Orrville District, Dallas County, Alabama. Peyton's occupation was listed as gin maker, and his age was given as 36, born in North Carolina. In 1870, Peyton Campbell was living in Cahaba, Alabama. He was a cotton gin maker. According to family tradition, the Campbells may have been from Hoboken, New Jersey. Also mentioned are Hudson or Bergen County, New Jersey, and the maiden name of Peyton's mother is given as Peyton (Paton, Patton, etc.). His name may have been Peter rather than Peyton, and the 1932 soldier's headstone application filed by a supposed descendant uses the name Patrick Lafayette Campbell. He was listed as Peyton in 1880 census of Calera, Shelby County, Alabama. On 5 April 1881, Peyton L. Campbell made an application for relief for maimed Confederate soldiers in Shelby County, Alabama. The application states that he was shot in both legs at the Battle of Gettysburg while a member of Company F, 5th Alabama Infantry. In the book, "Company F, 5th Alabama Regiment, Dallas County, Alabama, 'Cahaba Rifles,' " P.L. Campbell's Civil War record is given as follows: P.L. Campbell, Pvt., enlisted 10 March 1862. Cahaba, AL, wounded and captured 1 Jul 1863 Gettysburg PA." There are no dates on his tombstone, which gives his name as P.L. Campbell and mentions his Civil War service. His grandson, Robert Clifton Campbell, is buried in the same cemetery. There is also a monument for P.L. Campbell at Summer Hill Baptist Church Cemetery on Highway 25 in Shelby County, Alabama. In January 1864, Mary Campbell petitioned the Supreme Court of Alabama on an appeal of a lower court order in Dallas County, in which she attempted to have her husband, Peter, declared a "lunatic." A letter in possession of the Bryan family from Edward M. Jackson, Catfish, Marion District, South Carolina, to W L. Barton and LaFayette Campbell, Fulton, Dallas County, Alabama, restores Campbell to the church. It also serves as a letter of dismissal and transfer to another church from the Baptist Church of Christ at Catfish. The 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment was organized at Montgomery, Alabama, on May 5, 1861, and fought through the war until it was surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April of 1865. It mustered a total of 1,719 men during the Civil War, of whom 300 were killed in action and 240 died of disease. At Gettysburg, where P.L. Campbell was wounded and taken prisoner, the regiment was at Oak Ridge on July 1 and at Culp’s Hill on July 2 and 3. On July 4, the regiment moved to Seminary Ridge.

Litha Kilgore, in a letter to Lucy Lanham Bryan dated May 28, 1970, stated that Peyton Campbell's mother was a Patton.

Died:
On her application for a government-provided headstone for P.L. Campbell, Mrs. D.L. Fulton stated that he died in February 1881.

Buried:
Leach Cemetery, sometimes called Bristow Cemetery, is located 3.5 miles east of Calera off Highway 25 (Columbiana Road). Turn right at Leach Cemetery Road, cross the railroad tracks, proceed .5 mile, turn right into cemetery at top of the hill.

Peyton married Mary Ann Elizabeth Bethea on 25 May 1846 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA. Mary (daughter of Phillip Bethea and unknown) was born on 10 Jun 1826 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA; died on 10 Jun 1908 in Calera, Shelby County, Alabama, USA; was buried in Shelby Springs, Shelby County, Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: wagon maker

Notes:

Family tradition holds that three Lanham brothers moved from Maryland to Edgefield District, South Carolina. There names are remembered as Walter, Josiah, and Rezen. Joseph Lanham is listed in a number of land transactions in Spartanburg County, South carolina. On 29 September 1828, Hutson (probably Hudson) Lanham was named administrator of the estate of Joseph Lanham in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.

Joseph + Sarah Elder. Sarah was born before 1775 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA; died after Nov 1828 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

? + Mary Peyton. Mary was born in cir 1795. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The descendants of Peyton LaFayette Campbell have a letter from an A.S. Campbell to A.F.G. Campbell, dated 1855. In the letter, A.S. mentions "mother, Eliza, and Charlotte." The 1850 Census of Chesterfield County, South Carolina, contains an entry for a Mary Campbell (age 55, born New Jersey) and the following people, presumed to be her children: Eliza A. (age 37, born New York), Mary C. (age 20, born South Carolina), Charlotte H. (age 16, born South Carolina), and Adrian S. (age 12, born South Carolina). Also living there was a Rebecca L. Henshaw (?), age 5. In the 1880 Alabama census, the place of birth of both of Peyton Lafayette Campbell's parents is given as New York. According to family tradition, Mary Campbell was of Dutch descent. Mary's last name is in question. According to Litha Kilgore, her last name was Patton.

Phillip + unknown. unknown was born in cir 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]