George Washington Campbell (December 23, 1850 – April 14, 1881) was born in Greenup County Kentucky and was the youngest of five children.
[1] Campbell was the last person killed by Dallas Stoudenmire in what would later be dubbed Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight that took place on April 14, 1881.
The events leading up to the gunfight seem to have started with around 75 Mexicans riding into El Paso looking for two young vaqueros who had been killed.
The mercenaries, paid by a wealthy Mexican ranch owner, were looking for two missing farm hands, Sanchez and Juarez, and 30 stolen cattle.
Ben Schuster, the mayor of El Paso, had made an exception for the Mexicans, enabling them to enter the city limits with their guns.
The court determined that the American cattle rustlers, among them Hale, feared the deceased were acting as scouts and would alert the larger Mexican group to their location.
A large crowd gathered in El Paso, including John Hale and his friend, former town Marshal George Campbell.