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