Bertha CAMPBELL

Bertha CAMPBELL

Female 1871 - 1971  (99 years)


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  • Name Bertha CAMPBELL 
    • Also known as: Belle CAMPBELL
    Birth 20 Oct 1871  Barada, Richardson County, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Census 18 Jun 1899  Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Ioway Tribe, Pottawatomie & Gr. Nemaha Agency. 
    • Indian Census Rolls
      18 June 1899
      Kansas, USA
      Pottawatomie & Gr. Nemaha
      Ioway Tribe

      Charles Dupins, [head], 32
      Belle B. Dupins, wife, 30
      Charles Dupins, Jr., son, 11
      Murray Dupins, son, 9
      Clara Dupins, daughter, 8
      Adda Dupins, daughter, 6
      Thomar Dupins, daughter, 4
      Son Dupins, 1
      [2]
    Death 3 Jul 1971  Falls City, Richardson County, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Address:
    Falls City Hospital
    Falls City, Nebraska
    USA 
    • St Joseph (Missouri) News-Press
      6 July 1971
      p. 12e-f

      Mrs Bell Dupuis Member of Iowa Tribe, Dies at 99
      (Special to the News-Press)

      FALLS CITY - Mrs. Bell Dupuis, Falls City, died Sunday at Falls City hospital, where she had been a patient since June 28. She had been in failing health since early spring.

      Mrs. Dupuis, who was born at Barada, Neb., would have been 100 Oct. 20. She was believed to be the oldest member of the Iowa Indian tribe of which she was a member.

      Mrs. Dupuis was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Harvey Campbell. Her materal grandfather, Antonine Barada, was the son of a French count who came to this country and married and Indian maiden. Antonine Barada was a riverman for whom the town, where Mrs. Dupuis was born, was named.

      In 188, Mrs. Dupuis was wed to Charles Dupuis, who died in 1940. She was the mother of 11 children, five of whom are surviving. Mrs. Dupuis was well-known in this area for her Indian bead work.

      Surviving are her daughters, Mrs. William Banks, Albany, Ore.; Mrs Walter Hamilton, Macy, Neb.; Mrs. O. A. Pappan, Sweet Home, Ore,; Mrs Roy Hendershot, Topeka, and Mrs. Sara S. Courtright, Falls City. There are also a number of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren surviving.

      A funeral feast and all-night watch will be held at the George Ogden farm southeast of Rulo tonight. An Indian funeral service will be conducted at the Ogden farm tomorrow at 2. Burial will be in the cemetery at White Cloud. [1]
    Burial c 7 July 1971  White Cloud, Doniphan County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Address:
    White Cloud Cemetery
    White Cloud, Kansas
    USA 
    Person ID I307  Clan Campbell Genealogy
    Last Modified 13 May 2025 

    Father Harvey William CAMPBELL,   b. c 1835-1843, Missouri Territory, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 May 1875, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years) 
    Mother Clara BARADA,   b. 1842, Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Apr 1916, White Cloud, Doniphan County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Marriage 27 Sep 1866  Nemaha County, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • One of the witnesses to the marriage was Michael Barada, St Deroin, [Nemaha County, Nebraska]
    Family ID F113  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Charles DUPUIS,   b. c 1867, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1940 (Age 73 years) 
    Marriage 10 Jul 1888  Falls City, Richardson County, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • Bertha and Charles are to have been the parents of 11 children - of which 5 survived Bertha in 1971.
    Children 
     1. Charles DUPUIS,   b. c 1888
     2. Murray DUPUIS,   b. c 1890
     3. DUPUIS   d. Aft 6 July 1971
     4. DUPUIS   d. Aft 6 July 1971
     5. DUPUIS   d. Aft 6 July 1971
     6. DUPUIS   d. Aft 6 July 1971
     7. Living
     8. Sara S DUPUIS   d. Aft 6 July 1971
    Family ID F114  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 12 May 2025 

  • Sources 
    1. [S74] St Joseph (Missouri) News-Press, 6 July 1971., p. 12e-f.
      (Special to News Press) Mrs. Bell Dupuis Member of Iowa Tribe, Dies at 99.

    2. [S72] Indian census rolls (USA), 18 Jun 1899, p. 4.
      Ioway Tribe, Pottawatomie & Gr. Nemaha, Kansas. Dupuis, Charles [head]. Collection: U.S., Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940. NAID: 595276.

    3. [S42] Marriages (CR) USA, 27 September 1866., No. 322. p. 144.
      Nemaha County, Territory of Nebraska. CAMPBELL, William and TAUPAN, Clara.

    4. [S42] Marriages (CR) USA, 10 July 1888., No. 2861. p. 276.
      Falls City, Richardson County, Nebraska. DUPUIS Charles and CAMPBELL, Bertha.