Thanks for your help on this Libby. I would like for my daughter to
belong under the Camp line. She is eligible under my mothers ancestors
but wanted to go through the Camp line.
Keep us informed.
Thanks.
Donald Allen
ELIZABETH C ANTHONY wrote:
It has been sometime since I saw anything mentioned on the DAR for
the Camp line.....For a while
the local Regent in my town has been bugging me to try....and I told her that it was
impossible to
get in the Camp line....and she said let her try....so I acquired lots of proof,
documents and etc....
which she sent to Headquarters....and she talks to them about everyweek.....so she has
gotten
to know them pretty well...They told her that old Thomas had been accussed of
treason...and for
this reason the line was closed....She told Betty that she wished I would get in under
another
relative and come in and help straighten out this mess with the Camps...they have a
large
drawer of information....While at the Celebration of the Battle of Kings Mountain on the
7th
of October, I learned an interesting little item....Betty and I were talking to Dr. Bobby
Moss
internationally known author and historian told us at one time the DAR was accepting
gifts
of needed finances to close family lines so no one else could come in on their family.
It is a possibility
that this happened on the Camp Family...they wouldn't even talk to Betty about anyone
coming in
under Joseph Camp who served as a minister in the area of the battle of both Kings
Mountain and
Cowpens...after the Battle of Kings Mtn. a deposition in the pension file of William
Bradley, soldier told
of him coming there after the battle to be doctored.....they got the
pension,,,,,Histories of the area tell
of Rev. Joseph being taken prisioner after the battle of Cowpens and held three
days....they were trying
to make him tell where the prisioners were taken...he was a prisioner of
Cornwallis.....People have been
given kingdoms for doing less......this according to them is no good because his elderly
father who lived
miles away was charged with treason....evidently his lands weren't taken away...even
though his house
was burned....he had properties in his will to leave all of his children.....I plan to go
to NC Archieves in
Raleigh soon....any idea what I need to look under to find something to clear this
up........even though I
personally don't care all that much about belonging to the DAR....I feel that I have
the right.....
Elizabeth Camp Anthony