Kathleen Alice Campbell, daughter of John Campbell and Mary Thompson of Iowa, was married to Marvin Lee Hammitt, son of Norman P. and Sarah Francis (Zumwalt) Hammitt, on Nov. 29, 1902 in Lane County, OR. Mother of three children: two boys, Robert Norman and Andrew Jerome, and one daughter Dorcas Elenore. Together Kathleen and Marvin built and opened the old Mohawk General Store (still in operation as of May, 2016) in 1913 near the old train stop of Donna. In 1915, she contracted tuberculosis and subsequently died in her home near the store at Donna on May 20, age 37 yrs, 11 mo.
Kathleen lies at rest near her husband in the old Stafford Cemetery near the Hammitt homestead at Mohawk, north of Springfield, OR. Details of her shortened life are sparse. After her death, Marvin never remarried and the three children, all of whom lived to old age, could only provide a few memories; the oldest (Robert Norman) was only 12 when she died.
A conflict has arisen recently over Kathleen's actual birth date: a diary entry in her 1905 Daily Log contains the entry (in her hand) "I am thirty years old today but I don't feel as old, maybe I look it". The entry is written on the date: June 07, 1905. Mathematically, that would make her actual birth date as 1875, not 1877 as listed on her stone.
Kathleen lies at rest near her husband in the old Stafford Cemetery near the Hammitt homestead at Mohawk, north of Springfield, OR. Details of her shortened life are sparse. After her death, Marvin never remarried and the three children, all of whom lived to old age, could only provide a few memories; the oldest (Robert Norman) was only 12 when she died.
A conflict has arisen recently over Kathleen's actual birth date: a diary entry in her 1905 Daily Log contains the entry (in her hand) "I am thirty years old today but I don't feel as old, maybe I look it". The entry is written on the date: June 07, 1905. Mathematically, that would make her actual birth date as 1875, not 1877 as listed on her stone.
Kathleen Alice Campbell, daughter of John Campbell and Mary Thompson of Iowa, was married to Marvin Lee Hammitt, son of Norman P. and Sarah Francis (Zumwalt) Hammitt, on Nov. 29, 1902 in Lane County, OR. Mother of three children: two boys, Robert Norman and Andrew Jerome, and one daughter Dorcas Elenore. Together Kathleen and Marvin built and opened the old Mohawk General Store (still in operation as of May, 2016) in 1913 near the old train stop of Donna. In 1915, she contracted tuberculosis and subsequently died in her home near the store at Donna on May 20, age 37 yrs, 11 mo.
Kathleen lies at rest near her husband in the old Stafford Cemetery near the Hammitt homestead at Mohawk, north of Springfield, OR. Details of her shortened life are sparse. After her death, Marvin never remarried and the three children, all of whom lived to old age, could only provide a few memories; the oldest (Robert Norman) was only 12 when she died.
A conflict has arisen recently over Kathleen's actual birth date: a diary entry in her 1905 Daily Log contains the entry (in her hand) "I am thirty years old today but I don't feel as old, maybe I look it". The entry is written on the date: June 07, 1905. Mathematically, that would make her actual birth date as 1875, not 1877 as listed on her stone.
Kathleen lies at rest near her husband in the old Stafford Cemetery near the Hammitt homestead at Mohawk, north of Springfield, OR. Details of her shortened life are sparse. After her death, Marvin never remarried and the three children, all of whom lived to old age, could only provide a few memories; the oldest (Robert Norman) was only 12 when she died.
A conflict has arisen recently over Kathleen's actual birth date: a diary entry in her 1905 Daily Log contains the entry (in her hand) "I am thirty years old today but I don't feel as old, maybe I look it". The entry is written on the date: June 07, 1905. Mathematically, that would make her actual birth date as 1875, not 1877 as listed on her stone.
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