Thanks again Steve...you've made another day for me...your suggestions make
a lot of sense and seem to jibe with the information in the article. Thanks
again....Thomas P
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Eugene Camp <nazman(a)cvconline.com>
To: CAMP-L(a)rootsweb.com <CAMP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Sunday, October 24, 1999 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [CAMP-L] Ambrose Camp (1757-1828)
I list a Ambrose Camp b. 1778 married to Elizabeth Cowne b. 1774. He
was
the son of William Camp (1754 -1801) and Frances Willis (1754-1820).
William's father/mother was Ambrose Camp (1723-3-11-1768) and Ann Marshall
(1739-?).
Is that any help? Steve Camp
----- Original Message -----
From: TPShively <tpshively(a)bestnetpc.com>
To: <CAMP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 1999 10:16 AM
Subject: [CAMP-L] Ambrose Camp (1757-1828)
> Hi Steve and Barbara...Steve, you asked me to fill you in on Gabriela
Camp.
> I didn't realize it, but my nephew has done some research about the Camps
in
> Jefferson Co, Ky. The following is from a copy of an article that he
sent
> me that was apparently printed before 1982 about the Camps'
(publication
> unknown). I have a small problem with the dates listed since they are at
> odds with the information at the Camp website...the b/d dates of both
John
> (1757-1801) and Robert Ambrose (1782-bet 1830-1840) and the names
of
their
> respective wives...Mary Strother Gray and Sarah Pollard:
>
> "Ambrose Camp (1757-1828) came from Culpeper County, Virginia and
> settled in Goshen on the other side of Louisville. He served in the
> Revolutionary War at the age of 22 and the land he settled on was
believed
> to be a land grant for his services. He married Miss Elizabeth
Cooms.
The
> family burned bricks and built their house that remains today. At
present
> it is the Belknap home.
>
> "Thomas Pollard (1799-1876), son of Ambrose married Susan Magruder
> (1802-1872). Susan's father was Capt Enoch Magruder, veteran of the
> Revolutionary War. He received around 1000 acres of land in Valley
Station
> for his services in the war. This was part of the land William P. Adams
and
> Alice Lewis Adams purchased in 1876 from the Magruder heirs, presently
owned
> by Dr. Hicks.
>
> "After Thomas Camp and Susan were married, Thomas bought 1059 acres
of
> land. This property joined the John Woolfork 4000 acre tract and
Byrd
tract
> of 5000 acres. This Woolfork property was the land that Willis Moremen
> later owned, because in both deeds it is stated that land is left for a
> church, and also leaves land for a cemetery. The Woolfork's lived on
their
> land for a time and according to deeds it seems to me that the house of
Mr
> Richard Fenley could have been built either by the Woolforks or
John
Speed,
> who had a patent on the 4000 acres.
>
> "The Camp farm was located on Deering Road where the Houchin family
now
> live. William Adams later owned this too, after the Camps' sold.
>
> "Thomas Pollard and Susan had several children; Frank, a lawyer;
> Angereau, druggist who moved to Texas; Horace, grandfather of Ailsie Camp
> (Mrs F. L. Wilkerson); Joshua; Ambrose, who fought in the Orphans Brigade
of
> the Civil War and later was jailer for many years in Louisville;
Gabriella;
> Elizabeth; Susan; and Clementine (1830-1903). Gabriella (1838-1918)
married
> James R. Gray (1836-1904). From this union there were five children;
Mattie
> (Mrs Blanchard), Ambrose, Horace, Frank and Jesse. Mrs Mattie Gray
> Blanchard has two children; Louise (Mrs Hyatt), and Gray. Mrs. Blanchard
is
> in her eighties and lives with her daughter, Mrs. Hyatt. They helped
with
> the family record of the Camps.
>
> "Thomas and Susan's daughter Gabriella or Gaby as she was known,
> although Protestant, was educated in a Catholic Girls School. At the
time
> of the Civil War and when the army marched through here on their
way to
> Louisville, and took every thing was they proceeded, she watched as the
> soldiers led all the horses from the barn. They finally came to her
small
> horse, Fanny, who came out of the barn lame. After walking the
horse
around
> several times the soldiers left without her. Gaby rushed out to see her
> horse, but could find nothing the matter with her. Perhaps there was
> something temporarily wrong with the horse's foot, but you could never
prove
> that to Gaby. She believed Fanny was something special and a very good
> actor. James T. Gray, whom Gaby married was Superintendent of the Water
> Works for many years and he planted the rows of trees that are still
> standing there.
>
> "During the Civil War many young men who were inducted by
conscription
> into the Northern army deserted to the South. Some of these men
came
across
> the Ohio Rived near Goshen. In one instance a young boy of fourteen,
> William P. Adams, drove a spirited team and spring board wagon from
Goshen
> to Valley Station. His mission was to deliver a grandfathers
clock, but
in
> the clock a Southern sympathizer was hiding. The boy brought him through
> the back roads to the Camp farm, of whom the young deserter was a
relative.
> He hiding in the hills above the farm and the Camps fed him until he
could
> join the Southern army"
>
> There appears to be more to this article about the Camps...will try to
> research the source.
>
> Thanks again for your help....Thomas P
>
>
>