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Jasper Newton Campbell loved his job
by
Shannon Hollon
My GGGgrandfather was Jasper Newton Campbell (1836-1911). He was born in Dekalb County. In 1859 he worked for the Alabama Coal mining company, he was in charge of the Browne and Phil Weaver mines and the Fancher pit these are in the Montevallo coal seam.
Jasper Newton Campbell (1836-1911)
He worked as a miner and mine supervisor and served as a private in Co. D 44th Alabama infantry during the Civil War, fighting in some of the bloodiest battles of the war, Antietam, Gettysburg(Devils Den) and Chickamauga.
After the war he began prospecting coal in the Cahaba coal fields, it was a life of solitude looking for and measuring outcropped seams of coal.
One 19th century Alabama coal prospector was quoted “I would rather be in the woods on a foxtrotting mule with a great seam coal under my feet than the President of these United States.”
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is he on your Campbell side?
Keith Campbell never heard of this Campbell man. Possibly a relative of a relative?
He died about the time my grandfather was born.