Annie Eliza Campbell

Annie Eliza Campbell was a daughter of George Campbell. Annie Eliza was born during the month of January in the year 1872. Like her other siblings Annie Eliza was born in Duck Hill, Montgomery county, Mississippi.

(Image of Annie Eliza Campbell courtesy of cousin James Rickman).~

The first record that we find Annie Eliza on is the 1880 U.S federal census. Here we see Annie Eliza, Her parents and siblings enumerated under the surname Cameron.

(Source Citation:Federal Census:Year: 1880; Census Place: Montgomery, Mississippi; Roll: 658; Page: 361A; Enumeration District: 141 Description Enumeration District: 141; Description: 2nd District Embracing 2nd Supervisor's District).~~

Around the year 1888 Annie Eliza Campbell married James Rickman in Montgomery county, Mississippi. During the following decade Annie Eliza and Husband would add children William, Dillie, John, James and Epsy Rickman to their fast growing family.~

When the census year 1900 came around and the census enumerator knocked on Annie Eliza's door we find her still living in Duck Hill, Montgomery county, Mississippi. Two of her neighbors being her brothers Solon and John. You'll notice that Solon is enumerated under his mother's maiden name Carver and her brother John was still going by the surname Cameron. Cameron was a surname used by their father George and also by George's blood relatives living in North Carolina. Counted amongst Annie's household was her husband James and the children previously named.

(Source Citation: Federal Census.Year: 1900; Census Place: Duck Hill, Montgomery, Mississippi; Roll: 820; Page: 7; Enumeration District: 0077; FHL microfilm: 1240820).~

Before the 1910 census Annie Eliza added more little ones to her bustling family. Also just like her parents and some siblings started leaving Duck Hill decades earlier, Annie Eliza,her household, and the households of her brothers Odis and Solon Campbell decided to move to Tallahatchie county, Mississippi. When the census taker walked up to Annie Eliza's door in 1910 that's where her and her children were living. The census enumerator counted Annie Eliza, her husband James and their children James W,George, Lura and Sylvester Rickman in Annie's home. Annie Eliza's son William Rickman was listed as her neighbor. Her brothers Odis and Solon were living in the same town.

(Source Citation: Federal Census.Year: 1910; Census Place: Beat 5, Tallahatchie, Mississippi; Roll: T624_760; Page: 18B; Enumeration District: 0081; FHL microfilm: 1374773).~

Annie Eliza remarried twice. Once in Tallahatchie county, MS to Robert White in 1916. To this union was born a daughter named Bobbie White.

(Source Citation: "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979," database, FamilySearch)(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Z4XL-3TMM : 3 May 2020), Mrs Annie or Anna Liza Rickman in entry for Mr Bob White, 28 Nov 1916; citing Marriage, Tallahatchie, Mississippi, United States, 00486, citing multiple county clerks; Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson").

Eventually Annie Eliza would leave Mississippi. She lived in Missouri for sometime but she would eventually settle in Illinois.
On the 1930 and 1940 Federal census we find Annie Eliza living in Cairo,Alexander County, Illinois with her husband Frenchie Lewis. Her child Bobbie and her grandson James Rickman can be seen living in the home as well. In 1940 we see Eliza's daughter Lura is also her neighbor.

(Source Citation: Federal Census.Census Year: 1930; Census Place: Cairo, Alexander, Illinois; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 0009; FHL microfilm: 2340141 Description District: 0009; Description: CAIRO CITY (PART), BOUNDED BY (N) 34TH EXTENDED, 34TH; (E) OHIO RIVER; (S) 30TH, WASHINGTON AVE., 28TH, 28TH EXTENDED; (W) MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

(Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Cairo, Alexander, Illinois; Roll: m-t0627-00758; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 2-3 Description Enumeration District: 2-3; Description: CAIRO ELECTION PRECINCT, CAIRO CITY BOUNDED BY (N) CITY LIMITS; (E) OHIO RIVER; (S) 28TH; (W) SYCAMORE).

Just as the 1940 census showed Eliza's daughter was also a neighbor, when her son Sylvester registered for the WW2 draft in October of that year he put on his draft card that he also lived on 29th street in Cairo. His address being 331 on 29th and his mother's address being 311 on 29th street.

(Source Citation:National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; WWII Draft Registration Cards for Illinois, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 1503). ~

While researching Annie Eliza I was able to learn oral history passed down from her grandson James Rickmon. He spoke of Annie Eliza's Campbell background and how two of her siblings namely Georgeanna and Sing Campbell often came to visit in Cairo. By the year 1950 Annie Eliza's husband Frenchie Lewis had passed away. On the census for that year we find Annie Eliza still living in Cairo, Illinois. Living in the home was her sister Georgeanna and her grandson James Rickmon. Also in the home were other grandchildren Charles , Lura, Versie and Richard Hogue, the children of her daughter Bobbie.

(Source Citation:United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Cairo, Alexander, Illinois; Roll: 1027; Sheet Number: 6; Enumeration District: 2-7).~

According to oral history passed down from James Rickmon, Annie Eliza passed away in Cairo, Illinois around the year 1955.

(Image of Annie Eliza's daughter Lura Rickman and Lura's husband Eddie Hornbeak courtesy of cousin James Rickman).