The Galveston Daily News, April 2, 1923:

Former Gov. Thomas Mitchell CAMPBELL, age 67, died April 1 at John Sealy Hospital in 
Galveston. Funeral to be held in Palestine. Campbell is survived by wife Fannie Irene 
Campbell and children Fannie Bruner (Mrs. D.S.) Womack; Thomas Mitchell Campbell Jr. 
of Palestine, Sammie Belle (Mrs. C.V.) Dilley of Dallas, Maydell (Mrs. R.R.) Allen of 
Ft. Riley, Kansas, J.N. Campbell and T.D. Campbell both of Longview, half brothers.

He was born in Rusk, Cherokee Co., TX on Apr 22, 1858, son of Thomas D. and Rachel 
(Moore) Campbell, and went from saw mill worker in Longview to being the second 
native-born governor of Texas. Thomas Campbell’s mother died when he was seven, and 
his father remarried to a woman he fondly thought of as mother. He attended the common 
schools in Rusk and Jacksonville, and the Masonic Institute at Rusk.