Sacramento County
Biographies
POLLY
CAMPBELL
POLLY CAMPBELL, of San Joaquin Township, was born October 29, 1825, daughter of Jonathan C. and Phebe (Stites) Tice, who emigrated from their native state, Pennsylvania, in an early day to New York State, and from there to Michigan, where they died. Her father, a farmer, died in 1850, at the age of forty-six years. Mrs. Campbell was married in 1842, in New York State, within eight miles of Havana, lived there three years, and in 1846 moved to Iowa, and remained there until 1852; then she resided in Utah for a time and finally came to California by wagon, the journey being very pleasant, excepting that they lost a great deal of live-stock. They finished their journey with a cow and horse in the yoke. They came through Dutch Flat, and camped just beyond the American River. Mr. Campbell made his first purchase of land in Brighton Township, buying about 500 acres in all. Mrs. Campbell now resides on a quarter-section of land in San Joaquin Township, about fourteen miles from Sacramento. At this place she has a nice little home. She has only two children living,—George G., and Garret L. The latter is in Idaho.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 700. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.