Emma Eliza Camp

Brief Life History of Emma Eliza

When Emma Eliza Camp was born on 23 April 1844, in Dresden, Weakley, Tennessee, United States, her father, Williams Washington Camp, was 43 and her mother, Diannah Harriett Greer, was 37. She died on 28 June 1850, in Toledo, Elizabethtown-Kitley, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 6, and was buried in Plains, New Shoreham, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America.

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Family Time Line

Williams Washington Camp
1800–1875
Diannah Harriett Greer
1806–1876
Mary Wentworth Camp
1822–1874
Susan Searcy Camp
1824–1825
Elizabeth Jane Camp
1826–1836
James Greer Camp
1828–1852
Dionysius Paul Camp
1829–1847
Sarah Ann Camp
1831–1836
Robert Ira Camp
1833–1836
John David Camp
1833–1867
Martha Damarius Camp
1836–1836
Catherine Ellen Camp
1837–1929
William Polk Camp
1840–1842
Harriet Diannah Camp
1842–1908
Emma Eliza Camp
1844–1850
Richard Cecil Camp
1846–1923
Margaret Henrietta Camp
1848–1941

Sources (11)

  • Emma E Camp, "United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850"
  • Emma Eliza Camp, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Emma Eliza Camp, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"

World Events (2)

1846

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

1846

Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.

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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