Hi, Cuzzins: found the following [not mine] CAMERON at -
http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/NSHS/Comp.NE/index.htm
this is a Nebraska website. There are many other surnames in the
biography section, and much other data listed. Suggest you take a
look-see if you had ancesters who went 'west'. Good hunting - good
luck!
Shirley: bobert(a)panacom.com
COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY, REMINISCENCE AND BIOGRAPHY.
WALLEN CAMERON.
Wallen Cameron, retired farmer of Schuyler, Nebraska, is a son of
Alexander and Lydia (Miller) Cameron, his birth occurring October 1,
1833, in Ohio. He was eldest in a family of six children, and has one
sister, Mary E. Lafferty, residing in Findley, Ohio, the other children
being deceased, as are also the parents, they both having passed away in
Hancock county, Ohio. Mr. Cameron received his education in the home
schools and later engaged in farming.
On April 19, 1857, Mr. Cameron was united in marriage to Miss Sarah J.
Woods, of Hancock county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron have had six
children born to them, four of whom are living:
Melville D., who is married and lives in Omaha, Nebraska;
Jennie, wife of Rev. W. W. Wells, resides in Valentine, Nebraska, and
they have three children;
Horace A., also married, lives in Omaha; Alexander B., is married, has
four children, and lives in South Dakota;
James C., died in 1878, in infancy;
and Wallen died in 1893, at the age of twelve years.
On November 18, 1861, Mr. Cameron enlisted in Company H, Western
Sharpshooters, afterward called the Sixty-sixth. Illinois Infantry,
serving until the close of the war; be received his honorable discharge
at Joliet, Illinois, in July,1865.
Decisive battles engaged in were at Fort Donaldson, Shiloh, advance on
Corinth, as also in the battle of Corinth. In December of 1863, his
company marched from Corinth to Pulaski, Tennessee, camping for the
winter, and there re-enlisting in the same regiment. After a forced
march to Lookout Mountain, they engaged in the Siege of Atlanta, being
under fire for about one hundred days. They recruited at Rome, Georgia,
and was with General Sherman on his famous march to the sea, and also
participated in the battle of Bentonville, and many minor
engagements and skirmishes; and he also participated in the grand review
at Washington, after the strife of war had ceased, and peace reigned in
the land.
After the war, Mr. Cameron returned to Ohio, remaining until June,
1872, when he came to Colfax county, Nebraska, and homesteaded one
hundred and sixty acres of land in Shell Creek precinct. In a couple of
weeks Mr. Cameron returned to Ohio, and in October of the same year,
with his wife and four children, drove to the Nebraska homestead;
several years later he purchased eighty acres in Schuyler precinct and
moved onto the same. He afterwards accumulated a farm of more than one
thousand acres in one body, it being the finest farm in Colfax county at
that time, and is still known as the "Cameron farm."
In 1883, Mr. Cameron sold his farm and moved into Schuyler, running a
hotel for a few years, then selling out and purchasing a farm joining
the city limits of Schuyler, where they lived until March, 1910, when
Mr. Cameron retired, and moved to Schuyler, where he bought a good home,
which is now the residence of the Cameron family.
Mr. Cameron has been prosperous and successful, now owning three
hundred
and twenty acres of fine farm land, aside from good city property. Mr.
and Mrs. Cameron have passed through all the discouragements and trying
pioneer experiences. They are widely known, enjoying the highest respect
of the community.
Mr. Cameron is chaplain of the Phil Sheridan Post of Grand Army of the
Republic.
Mr. and Mrs. Cameron are both members of the Methodist Episcopal church
and have been for over fifty years.
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