Grubbses, Campbells, Sutters, and Hodils: Lottie Campbell (Sutter) McCully

All that has been known about the origins of Lottie Susan Campbell, later Lottie McCully, is that some time after her birth on 24 May 1871 in Pennsylvania, she was "adopted" by a family named Sutter.  Lottie had a brother named John, who "went to California and never came back", and sisters Emma (later Strohm) and Sarah Belle (later Prentice).

Lottie's death certificate gives the information, supplied by her daughter Gladys Sabin, that Lottie's father's surname was Campbell, and that Lottie was born in "Allenson Park, Penn.", presumably Allison Park. Lottie's sister Sarah Prentice's daughter Edna Hile gave the information on her mother's death certificate in 1957 that Sarah's mother's name was "Sarah Grubbs".

With that in hand, we can start looking for this person --

• Lottie Susan Campbell or Sutter,
• born 24 May 1871 in Pennsylvania, probably Allegheny Co.,
• father's surname Campbell,
• mother's name Sarah Grubbs,
• brother John?
• sister Emma, b.1859,
• sister Sarah Belle, b.1874

Unfortunately there does not seem to be a single family in Allegheny Co. who fits this profile.  A possibility is "Lotta Sutor", age eight, who appears as "niece" in the family of widow Ursula Sutor in O'Hara Tp. on the 1880 census.  This surname appears variously as Sooter, Sutor, Sutter, and even Suth, so it doesn't seem much of a stretch to connect this little girl with Lottie Campbell.

But since we need concrete proof, not supposition, this is the first post in my attempt to untangle the very great many lines of Campbells, Grubbses, Hodils, and Sutters who appear in northern Allegheny Co. in the 19th century.