My grandfather John Paul Campbell Sr. was born in 1870 in Jackson Parish, Louisiana. He inherits his renowned disputatious personality from his paternal ancestral line of pompous, quarrelsome, and holier-than-thou Scottish settlers in America. Feuds with neighboring families were common. 

My grandmother Ella Naomi Jordan Campbell was born in 1873 in Gilmer, Upshur County, Texas. She inherits a kind and gentle personality from her Jordan ancestral lines of dutiful, pious English Methodist settlers in America. 

My grandparents were cotton farmers on their land east of Oak Grove, Louisiana. Their youngest child was my father John Paul Campbell Jr.—their 13th child.