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 lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. She died on 28 June 1850, in Utah, United States, at the age of 6, and was buried in Plains, New Shoreham, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America.
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"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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.
Possible Related NamesEmma Eliza Camp is the 13th of 15 children born to Williams Washington Camp of Georgia and Diannah Harriett Greer of Tennessee. Emma’s parents were married in Alabama in 1822. As members of The Church …
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