Cynthia was the daughter of John and Emily Ford Campbell. She was one of 10 children and had three brothers and six sisters.
Cynthia E. Campbell married William E. Atteberry on October 4, 1855. See Macon County, Missouri marriage records, Book B, page 43.
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
June 29, 1939
CYNTHIA ATTEBERRY
---Mrs. Cynthia Atteberry, one hundred and three, a former La Plata resident, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. B.C. Johnston, Belle Fourshe, South Dakota, Wednesday morning, according to messages received here by relatives.
---The remains will arrive in La Plata over the Santa Fe and funeral and burial rites will be made Sunday afternoon from the La Plata Baptist Church at 2:30, conducted by Rev. O.P. McKenzie, pastor of the church. Burial will be made in the La Plata cemetery.
---Mrs. Atteberry was born March 30, 1836 in Virginia which later became West Virginia. She was married to W.E. Atterberry some years before Missouri became the hotbed of guerilla warfare in the Civil War and before England, France and Russia had ended their Crimean War. She knew well the gold rush to California in '49 and wanted to go along with the covered wagons.
---She was rearing her family, the first of eight children, when John Brown raided Harper's Ferry and was hanged for his crime. She was past her twenty-ninth birthday when John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln.
---Mrs. Atteberry came to Macon County when she was eleven years old. She and her family formerly lived in Hannibal where they moved when she was a year old. She had been with her daughter in Belle Fourshe since 1911.
---Mrs. Atteberry's son, L.P. Atteberry, of near La Crosse, and Mrs. Johnson at whose home she died, are the only ones of her eight children living. She also has relatives living here.
Cynthia E. Campbell married William E. Atteberry on October 4, 1855. See Macon County, Missouri marriage records, Book B, page 43.
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
June 29, 1939
CYNTHIA ATTEBERRY
---Mrs. Cynthia Atteberry, one hundred and three, a former La Plata resident, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. B.C. Johnston, Belle Fourshe, South Dakota, Wednesday morning, according to messages received here by relatives.
---The remains will arrive in La Plata over the Santa Fe and funeral and burial rites will be made Sunday afternoon from the La Plata Baptist Church at 2:30, conducted by Rev. O.P. McKenzie, pastor of the church. Burial will be made in the La Plata cemetery.
---Mrs. Atteberry was born March 30, 1836 in Virginia which later became West Virginia. She was married to W.E. Atterberry some years before Missouri became the hotbed of guerilla warfare in the Civil War and before England, France and Russia had ended their Crimean War. She knew well the gold rush to California in '49 and wanted to go along with the covered wagons.
---She was rearing her family, the first of eight children, when John Brown raided Harper's Ferry and was hanged for his crime. She was past her twenty-ninth birthday when John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln.
---Mrs. Atteberry came to Macon County when she was eleven years old. She and her family formerly lived in Hannibal where they moved when she was a year old. She had been with her daughter in Belle Fourshe since 1911.
---Mrs. Atteberry's son, L.P. Atteberry, of near La Crosse, and Mrs. Johnson at whose home she died, are the only ones of her eight children living. She also has relatives living here.
Cynthia was the daughter of John and Emily Ford Campbell. She was one of 10 children and had three brothers and six sisters.
Cynthia E. Campbell married William E. Atteberry on October 4, 1855. See Macon County, Missouri marriage records, Book B, page 43.
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
June 29, 1939
CYNTHIA ATTEBERRY
---Mrs. Cynthia Atteberry, one hundred and three, a former La Plata resident, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. B.C. Johnston, Belle Fourshe, South Dakota, Wednesday morning, according to messages received here by relatives.
---The remains will arrive in La Plata over the Santa Fe and funeral and burial rites will be made Sunday afternoon from the La Plata Baptist Church at 2:30, conducted by Rev. O.P. McKenzie, pastor of the church. Burial will be made in the La Plata cemetery.
---Mrs. Atteberry was born March 30, 1836 in Virginia which later became West Virginia. She was married to W.E. Atterberry some years before Missouri became the hotbed of guerilla warfare in the Civil War and before England, France and Russia had ended their Crimean War. She knew well the gold rush to California in '49 and wanted to go along with the covered wagons.
---She was rearing her family, the first of eight children, when John Brown raided Harper's Ferry and was hanged for his crime. She was past her twenty-ninth birthday when John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln.
---Mrs. Atteberry came to Macon County when she was eleven years old. She and her family formerly lived in Hannibal where they moved when she was a year old. She had been with her daughter in Belle Fourshe since 1911.
---Mrs. Atteberry's son, L.P. Atteberry, of near La Crosse, and Mrs. Johnson at whose home she died, are the only ones of her eight children living. She also has relatives living here.
Cynthia E. Campbell married William E. Atteberry on October 4, 1855. See Macon County, Missouri marriage records, Book B, page 43.
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
June 29, 1939
CYNTHIA ATTEBERRY
---Mrs. Cynthia Atteberry, one hundred and three, a former La Plata resident, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. B.C. Johnston, Belle Fourshe, South Dakota, Wednesday morning, according to messages received here by relatives.
---The remains will arrive in La Plata over the Santa Fe and funeral and burial rites will be made Sunday afternoon from the La Plata Baptist Church at 2:30, conducted by Rev. O.P. McKenzie, pastor of the church. Burial will be made in the La Plata cemetery.
---Mrs. Atteberry was born March 30, 1836 in Virginia which later became West Virginia. She was married to W.E. Atterberry some years before Missouri became the hotbed of guerilla warfare in the Civil War and before England, France and Russia had ended their Crimean War. She knew well the gold rush to California in '49 and wanted to go along with the covered wagons.
---She was rearing her family, the first of eight children, when John Brown raided Harper's Ferry and was hanged for his crime. She was past her twenty-ninth birthday when John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln.
---Mrs. Atteberry came to Macon County when she was eleven years old. She and her family formerly lived in Hannibal where they moved when she was a year old. She had been with her daughter in Belle Fourshe since 1911.
---Mrs. Atteberry's son, L.P. Atteberry, of near La Crosse, and Mrs. Johnson at whose home she died, are the only ones of her eight children living. She also has relatives living here.
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