Personal Life
Campbell was married to Elizabeth Henry, sister of Virginia Governor, Patrick Henry. They had two children: Sarah Buchanan Campbell, and William Henry Campbell. Following Campbell's 1781 death of an apparent heart attack, his widow subsequently married General William Russell.
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