Person:Margaret Campbell (175)

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Alexander married Margaret (Crockett) Campbell. Margaret was born before 1754.

From "Kentucky Antebellum Portraiture", Edna T. Whitley, Nat. Soc. of Colonial Dames in Amer. in the Commonwealth of Ky., 1956 - "Margaret Campbell" ... "was stolen at the age of nine by the Indians on Clinch River, and kept for five or six years before prisoners were exchanged." .... "During this time, it is said, she forgot the English language, except some phrases from the Lord's Prayer. Her petitions" ... "were overheard by an Indian trader, who confided to authorities that he suspected she was white. Eventually this led to the recovery of the "Alla-wulla-wulla" (the beautiful praying child), and she was united with her family."

There seems to be some confusion about Margaret's maiden name. In "Crockett Cousins", by Kathryn E. Jones, it states that Margaret was "either Margaret Kerr or Margaret Campbell".

Source: Rootsweb.com