Catherine Ellen Camp

Brief Life History of Catherine Ellen

When Catherine Ellen Camp was born on 17 October 1837, in Dresden, Weakley, Tennessee, United States, her father, Williams Washington Camp, was 36 and her mother, Diannah Harriett Greer, was 30. She married Thomas Lacy Greer on 25 November 1855, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Greer, Apache, Arizona, United States in 1880 and Saint Johns, Apache, Arizona, United States in 1910. She died on 15 November 1929, in Holbrook, Navajo, Arizona, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Saint Johns, Apache, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Lacy Greer
1826–1881
Catherine Ellen Camp
1837–1929
Marriage: 25 November 1855
Nathaniel William "Nat" Greer
1856–1938
Thomas Riley Greer
1858–1873
Gilbert Dunlap Greer
1860–1895
Deseret Diannah Greer
1861–1898
Richard Decatur Greer
1864–1937
John Harris Greer Sr,
1866–1926
Oasis Ann Greer
1867–1958
James William Greer
1870–1871
Lacy Greer
1872–1904
Harriet May Greer
1875–1907
Anna Terry Greer
1877–1964
Greer
1878–1878
Margaret Ellen Greer
1879–1967

Sources (35)

  • T L Greer, "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860"
  • Mrs. Ellen Camp Greer, "Arizona, Deaths, 1870-1951"
  • Catherine Ellen Camp, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1850

Named after the early pioneer leader Daniel C. Davis the County was established as a territory in 1850.The territorial legislature created Davis County in 1852 and designated its County seat at Farmington-midway between boundaries-the Weber River on the north and the mouth of the Jordan River on the south. Westward the County includes a portion of the Great Salt Lake-its largest island on which Antelope Island State Park is now located.During first half-century Davis County grew slowly.It supported a hardy pioneer people engaged in irrigation agriculture and raising livestock.The Utah Central Railroad(now the Union Pacific crossed the County from Ogden on the north to Salt Lake City on the south in 1870 and offered welcome transportation links to bring manufactured products.This was the beginning of a transition in the County's history that led to mechanized agriculture, a surge of commerce, banking, and local business along with improved roads, new water systems, and the electrification of homes and business

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

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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Story Highlight

Memories of Crossing the Plains by Ellen Canp Greer 1921

There were so many buffalo that we had to go right along wagons, and herd them away from the wagons. We had sacks and sacks of buffalo meat. We would take it and cut it up into 5 and 10 lb. pieces. T …

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