so douglas, where is this graveyard? What is the tie between Connecticut
and Pennsylvania?
On Fri, 28 May 1999 CHAFFEY(a)chatham.edu wrote:
Thanks for your inquiry regarding the two matters relating to my
inquiry -
I can't shed light on your first question - i.e. whether Hezekiah Camp
was the son of a prior wife of Samuel Camp of whom I havee no record.
The information that was sent to me indicated that Hannah Betts was
Hezekiah's mother. Where does your information on this come from? Mine
was from a relative who got it from FTMaker records with the help of
Barbara
Ferris. The second issue, relating to Mary Camp's mother, is a result
of a visit I made last summer to the cemetery where the Rev. Samuel
Camp and his three wives are intered, and a visit I made a year previously
to the Erie, PA cemetery where Mary Camp Hayes is interred. The birth
date from the records I received listed Mary as being the daugher of
Hannah Guernsey, as you suggested, and that she was born in 1773. The
date of birth listed on her tombstone is 1783. Hannah died in 1777, and
Samuel married Mary Northrop in 1782. I am making the judgment that the
date on Mary Camp Hayes' tombstone is correct, and that Mary Northrop was
the mother. If you can shed some light on this, I'd be happy to be dis-
abused of this theory. Dates on tombstones can certainly be wrong, and
even people in the 18th and 19th centuries could be vain.
Douglas Camp Chaffey