With a title like that I must be confusing everyone! I just learned that the
"Sister" to my ggrandfather (whom I was calling Elvie Cameron) was really
Elvina Perkins who married Charles Cooper in Duluth on 20 Aug. 1901. I do
not know the details of this fascinating story. I just knew her in my
paperwork as Mrs. Elvie Cooper sister to Fred Cameron. I have a theory
however, There was a Perkins family that lived in Wadena Co. by my Camerons
in the late 1870's through 1888. I believe that something must have happened
to that family and John J. Cameron and Millie Cameron took in the child. I
do not make this analogy without some family history.
Fred Cameron (John's son) took in an abandoned baby in ND. They found her in
a snow bank and had to put her in a warm woodstove to bring her body temp. up.
They named that baby "Alice" Cameron. She was later married to a Mr. Magee.
I would like to think that I come from a long line of Good Samaritans!
Well, enough rambling for now. If any name are familiar let me know,
Thanks, Dean Cameron