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From: Larry Camp <>
Subject: Re: [CAMP-L] Camp burial in Bethlem Cemtery Polk Co., Georgia
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 21:07:18 -0700


Most of the CAMPS in this cemetery are in one way or the other related to Elias
A Camp and my line. None of them was included in the Mann tomes. If one examines
the 1850, 1870 and 1900 censuses you will find that many of the Jackson county
Camps are listed on the same pages including Elias and Sarah. Many of them as we
all know moved on to Texas. The difficulty I have is making a direct tie from
Elias to his father (his obit listed James born in 1740, but that is highly
unlikely because of age). I figure him to be Thomas or Eli but have absolutely
no proof. The reasoning is that Elias's father moved from Gwinnett county
Georgia to Paulding County shortly before the good Reverend's birth in 1824. The
full obit is on the Camp Family page at http://www.clipper.net/~genlady/, or on
the Polk County genweb page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~gapolk/ . There you will
find a great deal of information about Polk County and the Bethlehem cemetery
but little of fact about the CAMPS.
My gedcom is accessible through the North Georgia Camp page at
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Canyon/9325/ . There is a lot missing and any
help through post its or email would be greatly appreciated. In the Cemetery you
will find ATKINS, CAMPS, VALENTINES and HARRIS' and EASTs' who are all descended
from Elias. Richard A. is the Second Son of Elias and is buried at Bethlehem
Baptist where Elias was the pastor during the latter days of his life. A picture
of the good Revered still hangs in the church.

Thanks for any help, sorry this ran on.

Larry

Clarence Atkins wrote:

> Mike,
>
> Richard A. Camp is buried in the Bethlehem Baptist Cemetery. I've been to
> this cemetery about four times. The last time I walked through the entire
> cemetery checking each tombstone last year, and I took a lot of photographs.
> I'll check to see if I a photo. If so, I'll e-mail a copy to you. I only
> wished that I had taken photographs of all the tombstones the first time,
> prior to the storm that did so much damage to this cemetery.
>
> Clarence
>
>
>

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