When John David Camp was born on 18 October 1833, in Dresden, Weakley, Tennessee, United States, his father, Williams Washington Camp, was 32 and his mother, Diannah Harriett Greer, was 26. He died on 12 April 1867, in California, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: Hamilton Sawin BIRTH 1836 Massachusetts, USA DEATH 28 Jun 1842 (aged 5–6) Massachusetts, USA CENOTAPH Evergreen Cemetery Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, California, USA MEMORIAL ID 19060865 · View Source
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Dutch (also Van de Camp) and North German: from camp ‘enclosed, fenced, or hedged piece of land, field’, from Latin campus ‘plain’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by such a field. Compare Kamp .
English: from Middle English kempe ‘warrior’; see Kemp . The spelling Camp may be due to the influence of Old English camp ‘battle’ and campian ‘to fight’, or of Old French campion ‘warrior, champion’.
French: mainly southern form of Champ .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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