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Subject: [DeCamp] DeCamp brick walls - #8: Zachariah DeCamp of VA(?)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:26:12 EST
This is one of several postings that I will make about the "brick walls" that
I have run into. These are DeCamp families that I have been unable to
connect to the known descent from Laurens Jansen DeCamp.
Zachariah DeCamp was married to Elizabeth Kinder in 1791 in Rowan Co., NC.
They had one known child, John, b. 1800 in Monroe Co., VA (SE WV, near
Roanoke, VA, and adjacent to Giles Co., VA; see "Brick Wall #5"). John, In
turn, married Malinda Orr in Sangamon Co., IL. They had a total of twelve
children, although a gap of twelve years between the first and second,
combined with the fact that Malinda was twelve years old when John's oldest
son was born, suggests either that she was his second wife or that their
presumed oldest son, Daniel, b. 1824, is actually John's brother or nephew.
Marriages are known for two sons and five daughters in this family, but no
further descent is known.
It is interesting that Zachariah appears by himself on the 1820 census for
Monroe Co., WV, but he is not listed as white male, slave, or free colored,
but rather under "All other persons except Indians not taxed". Could he be
the mysterious "Melungeon" DeCamp (see "Brick Wall #5)? Zachariah does not
appear in the 1830 census for Monroe Co.
Almost all the information that I have on this family comes from a biography
that was originally published in the "1881 History of Sangamon County,
Illinois". This biography is also available at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/sangamon/1881bios/decamp_john.html.
There are scattered deed and census records, but nothing to suggest who
Zachariah's parents were, or whether he had other children.
Wilson DeCamp
Vienna, VA
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