Rutherfordiana/Source Material Extracts/Historic Families of Kentucky

From Green, 1889:51

...Robert Campbell was a native of Scotland, and, it is belived [Srapgue's Annals] was of the Campbells of Kirnan, who were cadets of the house of Argyle, and from whence sprung the illustrious poet. It is ascertained, crom the concurring records of several families, that the other of Robert Campbell, Elizabeth Walker, was born in Scotland, in 1703, and was the oldest of the seven children of John Walker, of Wigtown, Scotland. The mother of this John Walker was Catherine Rutherford, daughter of John Rutherford, of an ancient and honoroable family in Teviotdale, celebrated in story and ballad as hard fighting, adventrous soldients. One account represents this John Rutherford to have been the son, another asserts that the ws either the nephew or full first cousin of Rev. Samuel Rutherford, the able and learned author of "Rutherford's Letters", one of the seven delegates from Scotland to the noted Westminister Assembly, and one of the very foremost, ablest and bravest of the leaders of the Scotch Presbyterian Curch.--SPrague's Annals.]  The two were certainly of the same blood bery nearly related. Whatever the degree of kindred, the xonnexion could add nothing of honor to the characters of rputations of the gifted, brave, pious descednats of John Rutherford in