Family Tales

The Campbells are Coming, Hurrah!

An imagined Hollywood film proposal based on the forebears of  John’s paternal grandfather, John Paul Campbell, Sr.

My grandfather John Paul Campbell Sr. is 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 are common. Three Campbell generations produce a combined total of 35 children. My grandfather’s youngest child, with “good Christian” wife Naomi Jordan Campbell, is my father John Paul Campbell Jr.—their 13th child.

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