Campen Family

Generation 1

Johann Martens Campen was a farmer at Hage and Ostermarsch, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Germany. He married Foolke Gerdes. They had at least one child:

Gerd Behrends Campen

Generation 2

Gerd Behrends Campen was born c1812 at Hage, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany and died 1 July 1873 at Norden, Niedersachsen, Germany. He was a store owner at Norden, Niedersachsen, Germany. He married Emansia Margaretha Edinga 12 January 1840 at Norden, Niedersachsen, Germany. She was born c1814 at Hage, Niedersachsen, Germany and was the daughter of Edo Mammen Edinga. She died 30 December 1901 at Norden, Niedersachsen, Germany. They had the following children (the sons all immigrated to the US):

Folena Kampen

b. Germany
m. F.C. Hasbargen
took over father's store with her husband, presumed to have remained in Germany

John Kampen

b. c1843 at Prussia (now Germany)
m. Eliza (c1852-) and had the following children: Gerhan Kampen (c1872-); Emma Kampen (c1874-); Annette Kampen (c1876-); Emile Kampen (c1878-); and Theodore Kampen (c1880-)
He was a farmer at Rushville, Schuyler Co., IL

Edward Campen

b. c1846 at Prussia (now Germany)
m. Mary (c1846-) and had the following children: Edward Campen (c1873-); Federick Campen (c1875-); Henry Campen (c1877-); and N.R. Campen (c1880-)

Bernhard Campen

b. c1849 at Prussia (now Germany)
m. Anna (c1854-) and had the following children: Fritz Campen (c1876-) and Carrol Campen (c1879-)
He had a bakery in California

Anton F. Campen

b. c1851 at Hannover, Prussia (now Germany)
m. Auguste (c1854-) and had at least one child: Edmund Campen (c1877-)
He had a drugstore at Peoria, Illinois

Martin Jacob Campen

b. 15 January 1854 at Norden, Hannover Province [now Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen)], Prussia (now Germany)
d. 2 February 1929 at Vancouver, Clark Co., WA
m. 17 December 1876 to Margaret Goebel at Mt. Norway, Washougal, Clark Co., WA

Emanzia Kampen

b. Germany
d. young in Germany

Generation 2

Martin Jacob Campen was born 15 January 1854 at Norden, Hannover Province, Prussia. Norden is presently located in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany near the North Sea and the Holland border. He died 2 February 1929 at Vancouver, Clark Co., WA. He immigrated to the US and c1871 removed from Illinois to Portland, OR. About 1876 he moved to Washougal, Clark Co., WA. He married Margaret Goebel (aka Margaretha Knoblauch) 17 December 1876 at Mt. Norway, Washougal, Clark Co., WA. She was born 22 February 1857 at Hettersroth, Germany and died 1936 at Portland, Multnomah Co., OR. For further information on her ancestry see the Goebel Family. They moved to Rushville, Schuyler Co., IL for a time but returned c1883 to Washougal. About 1888 they purchased a 160 acre farm adjoining the Ackers' farm and c1907 purchased a smaller farm closer to town (Washougal). They had the following children:

Antone B. J. Campen

b. 13 September 1877 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 18 October 1899

Wilhelmina Emanzia Campen

b. 2 November 1879 at Rushville, Schuyler Co., IL
d. 3 November 1974 at Camas, Clark Co., WA
m. 22 March 1897 to Heinrich Peter Scherpf at Washougal, Clark Co., WA

Benjamin F. Campen

b. 8 March 1882 at Rushville, Schuyler Co., IL
d. 14 June 1978 at Vancouver, Clark Co., WA
m. Zetta

Folena or Paulina "Lena" Campen

b. May 1884 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 8 August 1968
m. _____ Shaw

George Campen

b. 23 November 1885 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 27 May 1967

Annie Campen

b. 23 October 1887 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 12 July 1889

Carl Campen

b. 7 December 1888 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 6 April 1966

August Campen

b. 8 October 1891 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 24 January 1975
m. Dorothy

Henry Campen

b. c1893 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. c1918-1920

Ernest Campen

b. 13 April 1895 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 9 April 1966
m. Ruby (11 June 1900-July 1981)

Flora Campen

b. 1 February 1897 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 2 August 1963
m. _____ Heuer

Generation 3

Wilhelmina Emanzia "Minnie" Campen was born 2 November 1879 at Rushville, Schuyler Co., IL and died 3 November 1974 at Camas, Clark Co., WA. She married Heinrich Peter "Henry" Scherpf 22 March 1897 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA. He was born 22 November 1867 at Burgbracht, Hessen, Germany and died 31 May 1945 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA. For futher information about him see the Scherpf Family. Both are buried at Washougal Memorial Cemetery and were members of Bethel Congregational Church at Washougal, WA. They had the following children:

Heinrich Peter Martin "Henry" Scherpf

b. 29 August 1898 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 22 July 1981 at Forest Grove, Washington Co., OR
m. Edna Crabtree and had child Robert Lawrence Scherpf
m. 28 September 1943 to Anna Beatrice Anderson (4 Aug 1900-8 Dec 1963) at Vancouver, Clark Co., WA. They had no children. Both are buried at Forest View Cemetery Mausoleum, Forest Grove, OR

Martha Scherpf

b. 28 May 1901 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 22 May 1907 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA

Katherine Margaret Scherpf

m. Charles Vernie "Mike" Weaver (27 July 1887-16 Sept 1980) and had the following children: Willis Henry Weaver, Radley Douglas Weaver, Britton Darrel Weaver and Ardelle Margarete Weaver

Margarete W. Scherpf

b. 19 December 1904 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 29 June 1964 at OR
m. 15 June 1931 to George D. "Jack" Weaver (6 Aug 1897-Feb 1985) at Tacoma, WA and had child Linda Kathleen Weaver

Carl Louis Scherpf (aka Karl Ludwig Scherpf)

b. 18 December 1906 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 11 June 1975 at St. Helens, Columbia Co., OR
m. 10 August 1927 to Ava Jane Clayton at Vancouver, Clark Co., WA
for further information see the Scherpf Family

Otto Theodore Scherpf

b. 1 February 1909 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 6 August 1992
m. Winnefred F. Fletcher and had the following children: Dolores Jean Scherpf and June Emanza Scherpf

Ruth Felena Scherpf

b. 2 May 1912 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 2 January 1990 at CA
m. Theodore Herbert Holmes (7 Dec 1901-3 May 1970) and had the following children: Joy Louise Holmes, Nathiel Leone Holmes, and Glenn Frank Holmes

Frieda Louise Scherpf

b. 13 November 1917 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 9 April 1981
m. Orval R. Sawyer (30 Dec 1912-27 Aug 1982) and had the following children: Roger Jerome Sawyer and Gail Judith Sawyer

Flora Marie Scherpf

b. 9 June 1919 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
d. 11 October 1946 at Washougal, Clark Co., WA
never married
bur. Washougal Memorial Cemetery, Washougal, WA

Sources

Genealogy of One Branch of the Family of Clayton in England and America 1066 to 1960 by Lulu Irene Waters Hare, Washington, DC 1960

Death Certificate of Henry Peter Scherpf

Correspondence with Dolores Hawkins

Marriage Certificate of Carl Louis Scherpf and Ava Jane Clayton

Correspondence from Ardelle Binder to Ava Marcy, March 1989

Delayed Certificate of Birth of Carl Louis Scherpf, 16 July 1957

Baptismal Certificate of Carl Louis Scherpf

Baptismal Certificate of Heinrich Peter Martin Scherpf

1880 Census Soundex, Illinois

1900 Census, Clark Co., Washington

Obituary of Henry Scherpf, Sr.

Obituaries of Carl L. Scherpf in The Chronicle, St. Helens, OR and the Forest Grove, OR paper

Obituary of Minnie Scherpf

Obituary of Margarete W. Weaver

Obituary of Anna Scherpf

Obituary of Mike Weaver

Obituary of Benjamin F. Campen

"C.V. Weaver passes away, truly a man of the soil" - obituary by Ardelle Binder

Really Grandpa by Ardell Binder, private printing

Funeral Program of Flora Scherpf

Funeral Program of Anna Scherpf

Funeral Program of Mike Weaver

Funeral Program of Theodore Holmes

Funeral Program of Orval Sawyer

Funeral Program of Freida Sawyer

Funeral Program of Carl Scherpf

"Woman Who Shod Horses at the Age of 80" - a newspaper article from the year 1905

Information provided by Britton Weaver

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Sources

28 February 1998