Martha Cunningham

From Family Record, Written by Dr. Thomas Davis Parks of Elmwood, Missouri. Feb. 2nd, 1878

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mlwilson/parks.pdf

I am not able to give the maiden name of his wife, but previous to her marriage with Robert Cunningham, she was the widow Hamilton, and the mother of several children.

If I am not mistaken, one of her daughters married a William Campbell and was the mother of Gen. William Campbell of King’s Mountain fame.

Ben M. Angel notes: William Campbell of King's Mountain fame was sired by Robert Campbell and Margaret Buchanan. Robert Cunningham's wife had nothing to do with this person's ancestry.

Two of her daughters by Robert Cunningham also married Campbells of the same family. One of these was Arthur Campbell of Campbell Station East Tennessee, and the father of Gen. John Campbell a soldier in the War of 1812, and the grandfather of William C. Campbell some twenty years ago Governor of Tennessee.

Ben M. Angel notes: Arthur Campbell, father of Col. John B. Campbell, in fact married his cousin, Margaret Campbell, and not a Cunningham. Further, there was no William C. Campbell who served as Governor of Tennessee. There was a William Bowen Campbell who did. His ancestry includes three David Campbells before him, the third of which (his great grandfather "Black David") did marry a Jane Cunningham (1710-1759), who died in Augusta County, Province of Virginia. Her parents are unknown, but 1710 is within the possible range of siblinghood to Martha (born around 1726).

The other daughter of our ancestor Robert Cunningham also married a Campbell, some of whose Descendants I knew in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, worthy and respectable men.

From them and from General John Campbell of Arkansas, I received a large portion of my information in regard to the Campbell family.