I'm looking for anyone researchng the Camp family that lived in the
Somerset (or possibly Cambria) County area of Pennsylvania during the
mid-to late 1800s. Samuel Brady Camp married Rose Phenicie in Scalp Level
in Somerset County, PA in 1864 when he returned from his hitch as a
volunteer in the Union army during the Civil War. Samuel's parents may
have been William Camp and Susanna (or maybe known as just Anna) Robertson
(possible surname). According to my late Aunt, she thought she recalled
someone in the family saying that the Camp name might have actually be
leCamp or deCamp at one point but she couldn't remember anything else
beyond that. Samuel had at least one sibling, a brother named Martin Camp.
Samuel and Rose had several children, one being Ernest Camp, born in 1871
in Shanksville, PA. This is my Great-grandfather. Their other children
were Charles, Anna May, Rosa Grace, Alberta B and Samuel George Camp.
Samuel and Rose left Pensylvannia around the mid-1870s and moved around
breifly but by 1880 they were living in Longview, Texas. They left there
about 15 years later and moved to Hornbeck, Louisiana in about 1896. In
Hornbeck, Samuel worked in the lumber business and was also a Justice of
the Peace as well as a Judge and also Mayor of Hornbeck (many terms) during
the period from 1896 until his death in Hornbeck in 1922. After his death,
Samuel's widow, Rose (also known as Rosie) went to live with a daughter,
Alberta Phares and her family who lived in the El Paso area of Texas. Rose
Camp died in El Paso in 1930.
Their son, Ernest Camp, married Eunice Clark in nearby Many, LA in 1899 and
after a few years, moved to Longview, Texas where they lived for a few
years before moving on and eventually living on a farm in the Teague area
of Texas (Freestone County).
Is any one reasearching this Camp family? Please let me know.
Thanks,
Charles Marshall
Gresham, OR USA