Notes: Albert and Nettie Campbell made their home in Tyrol Twp., Griggs, North Dakota.
Albert was a grain farmer. The 1910 Tyrol Twp. map
shows Albert owning 2 adjacent quarter sections, consisting of 320 acres.
[SW ¼, Sec 14, and NW ¼, Sec. 23]
Their only son, Cecil Kenneth, was
born in 1904. The family is found in both the USA and Kansas census records from
1910 through 1925. In 1914, their farmhouse burned
down, and Albert built a modern house with Delco lights and plumbing.
Albert was murdered in 1929 by a neighbor.
In the 1930 U.S. census, Tyrol Twp., Nettie, 49 and widowed, was still on the farm, and
her son Cecil, 26, was listed as
head of household. Two helpers, Elizabeth Rogers, 40, and Marjorie Bolts, 20,
were living in the household.
In the 1940 U.S. census, Nettie, 58 and widowed, was listed as head of household and farm
partner. Cecil, 36, was listed as the farm operator. He had also been widowed
and had a 6 year old daughter. Also in the household was Edith B. Leir, 18, a servant.
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