Monument Honoring Five Children of Timothy and Catherine Campbell

In St. Joseph's Cemetery in Sandusky, in Section D, is a monument which honors the memory of several children of Timothy and Catherine Campbell, who were both natives of Ireland. 

John Campbell died in 1874, at the age of 22. Thaddeas, who was also known as Timothy, died in 1881, in an accident involving a train car at the Lake Shore Railway Depot in Sandusky. William Campbell died in 1895 in Fort Worth, Texas. Fanny Campbell died in 1888, at the age of 28. Catherine, who went by Kitty, died in 1882 at the age of 20.

Timothy Campbell, the father of the Campbell family died in 1896. He and his wife Catherine, who died in 1906, are honored on a separate monument at St. Joseph's.

There were several other children in the Campbell family. James Campbell moved to Spokane, Washington, Robert and Joseph Campbell moved to Michigan. Daughter Mary Campbell first married John Cullen. Mr. and Mrs. Cullen ran a boarding house on Washington Street in Sandusky. After the death of John Cullen, Mary married businessman Patrick J. Milan. Mary was living in Cleveland, Ohio, with her daughter, at the time of her death in 1920. At that time, Patrick J. Milan was living in Hot Springs, Arkansas, due to ill health. Mr. Milan died in 1926. He is buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery next to his first wife and several children.

Anyone with loved ones who are buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery on Mills Street in Sandusky can learn more about their family members by consulting the St. Joseph's Cemetery book of interments at the Sandusky Library. Ask to see this resource at the Reference Services Desk. Details provide dates of birth and death, if known, and location within the cemetery.