Son of Jesse and unknown (DUNHAM) CAMPBELL; his father reportedly died in 1825, leaving several daughters and Jesse as the only surviving son. His mother was said to be the daughter of John & Sara (CLANCY) DUNHAM.

Jesse married 24 JUN 1830 in Greene County, Georgia (license issued in Putnam County, Georgia), to Frances STANLEY. Family is enumerated on the 1850 census of Stewart County, Georgia. He is said to have married second 27 MAR 1873 in Houston Co, GA, to Emily CULPEPPER.

Mary Jane Galer's list of persons interred in the New Cemetery area of Linwood shows: Rev, Jassie [sic] CAMPBELL, male, died aged 86 [sic] years; buried 17 APR 1888 in Section A2 [sic - read "Section 2"], Lot 1005 1/2.

1850 federal census of Lumpkin, Stewart Co, GA, Dwelling #712 / Household #720:

Jesse H. CAMPBELL / 43 / M / Bapt. Clergyman / $1000 / GA

Frances (CAMPBELL) / 49 / F / GA

Martha (CAMPBELL) / 18 / F / GA

Jesse (CAMPBELL) / 16 / M / Student / GA

Sherwood (CAMPBELL) / 14 / M / GA

Cooper (CAMPBELL) / 12 / M / GA

Abner (CAMPBELL) / 10 / M / GA

Charles (CAMPBELL) / 8 / M / GA

1860 GMD 1001, Griffin, Spalding Co, GA, Dwelling #213 / Household #213:

Jesse H. CAMPBELL / 53 / M / Preacher = Baptist / $3000 / $3000 / GA

Frances S. (CAMPBELL) / 58 / F / GA

Sherwood S. (CAMPBELL) / 24 / M / Law Student / GA

Cooper C. (CAMPBELL) / 22 / M / Civil Engineer / GA

Abner B. (CAMPBELL) / 20 / M / GA

Chas. D. (CAMPBELL) / 18 / M / GA

In 1870, Jesse CAMPBELL (63 GA) is a Minister of the Baptist Church, residing at Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia; in the household he heads are: Frances CAMPBELL (64 GA) female, keeping house; Cooper CAMPBELL (32 GA) male, civil engineer; Joseph TOOKE (38 VA) male, coach maker; Mariah QUALLS (18 GA), Mulatto female, school teaching; and Nancy QUALLS (16 GA), Black female.

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On 11 MAR 2024, Contributor #50546419 submitted a suggested edit to change the middle initial H. to the name Harrison. (I don't have a source for this. jml)

On 02 FEB 2024, Contributor #47349823 submitted the following biography:

"From History of Bethel Association Including Centennial Meeting, by Alexander Lee Miller:

"JESSE H. CAMPBELL

"Dr. J. H. Campbell was born February 10, 1807 in McIntosh County, Georgia. His father, Jesse Campbell, belonged by descent to the Scottish clan of that name. His mother was the daughter of John Dunham, who with his wife, Sara Clancy, came to this country as an emigrant in the same ship with General Oglethorpe. Mr. Campbell was fortunate in being educated until his eighteenth year chiefly at Sunbury, Liberty County, and for a few months attended school at Athens. His attendance was cut short by the death of his father in 1825, which necessitated his return to the old homestead on the coast for the protection and support of his three orphan sisters, he being the only surviving son. Though but eighteen years of age, he administered his father's estate, and occupied for three years the position of head of the family. He was converted when sixteen years of age and baptized at Sunbury, Liberty County, November 1822 by Rev. C. O. Screven. Prior to his conversion he was wild and in the habit of using profane language but immediately discontinued all bad habits and began to conduct family worship and before he reached his seventeenth year he began to exhort and pray in public and in this way became known as "The Boy Preacher" in the coast counties of Georgia.

"He was ordained at Sunbury in 1830 and became pastor of the church at Macon in 1831 for one year.

He then went to Clinton, Jones County and preached in the village and the surrounding country.

Under his preaching many were converted. He finally entered the work for an evangelist for the state

at large and was eminently successful in this labor. At the beginning of the civil war in 1861 he promptly relinquished his work and entered the army as a volunteer Evangelist, in which capacity he served until the war closed. The five or six years which succeeded the war he spent at Quitman and Thomasville preaching the Gospel. He then took charge of the church at Perry, Houston County, but in 1876 moved to Columbus where he resided with his son, Rev. A. B. Campbell. He was on the first Board of Trustees of Mercer University, and continued on that Board for more than thirty years. He removed to Lumpkin and while residing there originated the Masonic Female College in that place, and the Baptist Female College at Cuthbert. He is the author of the only published history of our denomination in the State up to that time. His influence has been widely felt in the territory composing the Bethel Association. He was a devout preacher and did much towards the upbuilding of the Baptist faith in this state. The writer is unable to give the place and date of his death."