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Note: 1. Sydney Masterson Campbell was a scholar; he mastered seven languages, graduated in law from Ohio University and then taught at this same university. 2. He was known for his abilities as a land lawyer, surveyor, engineer, writer, mathematician and historian. According to Campbell "family tradition" he is believed to have traced the heritage of the Campbell family of Nicholas county back to the line of Sir Colin Campbell, the famous, Scot army general. No proof of this work, however, exists today. 3. In an attempt to banish ignorance in the area he loaned hundreds of his books to his neighbors. Few of these books could be located when his estate was administered by Lycurgus Campbell. The books had been lost, destroyed or given away. ALSO LOST WAS THE CAMPBELL LINEAGE BOOK HE HAD COMPILED THAT TRACED THE CAMPBELL LINE BACK TO SIR COLIN CAMPBELL, THE GREAT SCOT CLAN ARMY LEADER. 4. Conscripted in the Union Army while he was a student at Ohio University. 5. Unmarried. 6. Col. Edward Campbell never got over the fact that his son, Sydney, fought on the Union side during the Civil War for he and three other sons fought for the South; Edward spent time as a prisoner of war in Ohio and the three sons (Robert Spotts, Nathaniel Redmon and Luther Rice) died for the cause. Col. Campbell "threw Sydney's plate out in the yard" and the breach "of faith" was set in cement. He also omitted Sydney from his will although the family reinstated him. (This information came from Larry McCutcheon via Robert E. Campbell). 7. Death occurred at Landisburg in Fayette county, WV near Danisel, now Hell's Acre.
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