Duncan Cameron, Complainant

Source

John Hannon

Calendar 75, Page 77, No. 12

5 December 1895

Sureties being John H. Johnson and John Hannan

 

Roscommon County, Michigan Deed# 8-116

  Roscommon County, Michigan

Deed# 8-116

26 June 1885

...Township of County of Roscommon State of Michigan described as follows

the NW 1/4 of Section 19, Town 23, N of Range 2 W

To

Duncan Cameron of Roscommon Village...

Cross-posted at In Deeds

Camerons in Roscommon index

  Cameron in Roscommon index:

Cross-posted at In Deeds

Cameron Deed-2346 In Sombra Township

Sombra Township, Lambton, Ontario, Canada

D-2346 Image 384

Made: 6 December 1861

Recorded: 29 May 1869

Daniel Alonzo and Susanna Jemima Myers of Sombra

To

Duncan Cameron, Laborer

All of the Township of Sombra

1/5 of an acre

Part of the North 1/2 of Lot# 16 in the 12th Concession

particularly known as

Lot#3 in Block F in the Village of Wilkesport

Cross-posted at In Deeds

Ellen Cameron, Wife Of Duncan Cameron, Sombra Township Deed F-3479

Estate of Inheritance....

Sombra Township, Lambton, Ontario, Canada

F-3479 [Image 247]

Made: 4 December 1865

Registered: 7 July 1873

Between Ellen Cameron wife of Duncan Cameron 

of the Township of Sombra County of Lambton and the said

Duncan Cameron parties of the first part,

And

Jane Hooper of the said township, spinster, of the second part

1/5 acre...part of the north 1/2 of Lot# 16, 12th Concession

better known as Village Lot Number 4 in Block A

 in the Village of Wilkesport

That she, Ellen Cameron, the said party of the first part at the time of the unsealing and delivery hereof is, and stands solely, rightfully, and lawfully seized of a good sure perfect absolute

and indefeasible estate of inheritance in fee simple of and in the lands tenements hereditaments and all and singular other the premises hereuntofore described with their and every of their appurtenances....Also that she Ellen Cameron the said party of the first part has in

 her right self good right full power and lawful and absolute authority to grant

 sell....unto the said party of the second part

Witness: Wm. Cameron

Cross-posted at In Deeds

Cameron Deed# D-2347 In Sombra Township

Sombra Township, Lambton, Ontario, Canada

Deed# D-2347 

Made: 2 December 1868

Registered: 29 May 1869

...conveyances between Duncan Cameron of the Township of Moore in the County of Lambton in the Province of Ontario Late Province of Canada, Yeoman, of the first part

Ellen Cameron of the same place wife of the said party of the first part of the second part

And

David Wilson, Yeoman, of the Township of Sombra....

Partial Map - Lambton County - McGill University

....being in the village of Wilkesport, Township of Sombra, in the County of Lambton

in the Western part of the said province of Ontario

1/5 acre

Lot#3, Block F...part of the North 1/2 Lot 16, Twelfth Concession

fronting on the north side of Queen Street in the said

Village of Wilkesport

Witness: Alexander MacDonald

Cross-posted at In Deeds

Duncan And Ellen Cameron In 1851 Census

...which was taken in 1852 in West Canada (now Ontario).

Source

(The related 1851 Agricultural census page)

About the 1851 census:

"While the census for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia was completed in 1851, Canada West and Canada East did not start their collection of data until the following year. Therefore, for Canada West and Canada East, what is known as the Census of 1851 officially began on January 12, 1852."

Is it possible that they (Duncan and Ellen) were married when census was taken (married 13 May 1852)?  I have not been able to pinpoint precisely when this particular census page was enumerated.

1903 Death Certificate For Allen Bruce Cameron

At SeekingMichigan.org:

Allen Bruce Cameron was the son of Duncan and Ellen (Cameron) Cameron.  He was born in Ohio and died in Houghton County, Michigan, on 29 October 1903.

Relatives Of The Clement Family

Ellen (Johnston) Carpenter was the daughter of Anna Cameron and John Johnston.  Ellen's daughter, Lorraine Carpenter, married Hugh McLeod Clement in September, 1925, in Genesee County, Michigan.  Lorraine and Hugh had two sons, Bruce and Harvey.

The Clements were known among Canadian Loyalists in years past.  Hugh M. Clement was born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, to James Harvey Clement (1873-1919) and Marie Coulson in 1904.  James was the son of James and Martha (Willson) Clement.  A bit of James and Martha Clement's history was recorded in a biography* of Mazo de la Roche because of her (Mazo's) relationship with their daughter, Caroline Clement (sister of James Harvey Clement).

 *"She [biographer Heather Kirk] casts Caroline in a dark light: 'Exiled from her extended and immediate families, Clement was an outsider who wanted in. Humiliated by the failures of her father and brother, she was a low-life who wanted up. Like her mother, she was an invisible partner. Like her father, she was an audacious entrepreneur. Caroline Clement was the ingenious person who developed and maintained an amazing writing machine that got her what she wanted.'” [Source]

Hugh and Lorraine (Carpenter) Clement, with sons Bruce and Harvey, were living in Ohio in 1940.  Perhaps Hugh did not reach adulthood unscathed either since his death in 1946 was a suicide.

Duncan Patrick Cameron

The Archives of Michigan houses the following form:

Cameron, Duncan Patrick
5,247,938 (Army serial number)
Trout Creek, Outonogan [sic] MICHIGAN
Enlisted: R.A. N.G. E.R.G.
Inducted at:  Kalamazoo  Mich  Oct 2  18
Place of birth: Kenton Mich   Age or date of birth  Sept 12/99
Organizations served in, with dates of assignments and transfers:  Co B  Students Army Tng C Western State Norman[sic] Kalamazoo  Mich
Grades, with date of appointment: Pvt
Wounds or other injuries received in action:  None
Served overseas from :None
Honorably discharged on demobilization Dec 15/18
In view of occupation he was, on date of discharge, reported 0 percent disabled.
Form No. 724-1, A.G.O.
Nov. 22, 1919.

Is there a photo of Duncan Patrick Cameron at the digitized collection at Western Michigan University?  I don't know; slow connection made it difficult to check.

Beatrice's Partial Ahnentafel

Here's what I can state about my Camerons from my own research* in Ahnentafel form, starting with my grandmother, Beatrice (Cameron) Powers:

(Click on Image to Enlarge)

#1:   Beatrice Cameron; my grandmother.

#2:   Donald Cameron

#3:   Anna Cameron

#4:  Richard Cameron

#5:  Nancy Cameron

#6:  Duncan Cameron

#7:  Ellen Cameron

#8: Donald Cameron

#9: Mary MacMillan

#10 and #12: Allen Cameron

#11 and #13:  Mary MacMillan (Nancy)

#14: Ewen Cameron

#15: Bridget Higgins



*With acknowledgments to cousins who have helped along the way.  This is to differentiate from information that has come from others that I have not corroborated on my own.

Obituary of Mrs. Duncan (Ellen) Cameron

Arenac Independent Newspaper [Michigan]

4 March 1898
In response from a telegram from J. B. McCrea, of Roscommon, Undertaker J. C. Fry left on the early train with a casket for that place, where he embalmed the body of the late Mrs. Duncan Cameron, of Sterling, who died on Wednesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. B. McCrea. Mr. Fry brought the remains to Sterling on the five o'clock train Saturday.

4 March 1898
Sterling Column -- The funeral services of Mrs. Duncan Cameron were held in the M. E. Church Saturday evening. Music in connection will be string instruments in charge of Rev. Lambrecht.

Mrs. Duncan Cameron was Ellen Cameron (1833 - 1898), daughter of Ewen and Bridget (Higgins) Cameron.

James McCrea's Obituary (Husband of Isabelle Cameron)

 The obituary of James B. McCrea (1850 - 1934), husband of Isabelle Cameron, daughter of Duncan and Ellen (Cameron) Cameron.

Roscommon (MI) Herald-News / December 6, 1934

FORMER RESIDENT DIES AT MUSKEGON
James B. McCrea, former well known resident here, passed away at his home at Muskegon, Monday afternoon, after having been ill for several months.  He was about 85 years of age.  He came to Roscommon during the early lumbering days and for years was engaged in the lumber business.  When things quieted down in that industry he engaged in farming, developing a nice farm in Richfield township, where he lived for several years.  While there he was elected supervisor from that township and served in that capacity for several terms, also served several terms as chairman of the Board of Supervisors.  He gave up farming nearly fifteen years ago and then moved to Flint, later going to Muskegon where he has resided for the past four or five years.  Beside his widow, he is survived by five children, James E., of Salem, Ore., Miss Adelia and Duncan C., both of Detroit, Mrs. Ellen Audley of Waukesha, Wis., and Miss Jessie B., of Honolulu, Hawaii.  The remains are being brought here today for burial in Higgins cemetery.  The funeral will be held from the Congregational church this afternoon under the auspices of Roscommon Lodge, F. & A. M., of which he had been a member for a number of years and of which he is a past master.

D. Cameron And The New School House In Roscommon Co., MI

Roscommon [Mich.] News

25 May 1888
Local Items
D. Cameron secured the contract for building the new school house in District No. 1, Roscommon Twp.

Bridget (Higgins) Cameron And Family Photo

The back of the family photo says "Children and grandchildren of Aunt Ellen. Mr. Duncan Cameron (Aunt Ellen's husband). Mrs. Duncan Cameron (Aunt Ellen) Grandma Murray's oldest sister. Grandma Cameron (Grandma Murray's mother) nee Bridget Higgins of Cork, Ireland. I'm not certain who wrote it.

Bridget (Higgins) Cameron is on the far right; next to her is her daughter Ellen; next to Ellen is her husband Duncan.  Not quite sure who has her hand on Duncan's shoulder (probably his daughter Lillas or Bridget).  The woman sitting on the left is most likely Isabelle (Cameron) McCrea, oldest daughter of Duncan and Ellen.  Ellen McCrea is the 12 year old girl in the picture.  Her older sister Adelia is probably the woman standing to the right of her mother, Isabelle.  Mary McCrea is probably one of the little ones as is Jessie McCrea.  Duncan McCrea is probably the boy sitting in the middle of the photo.

Photo Courtesy of Cousin Gail via Cousin Michael.

I believe this is the photo referenced by Ellen (McCrea) Audley, granddaughter of Duncan and Ellen (Cameron) Cameron in the following letter excerpted below:

Letter From Mrs. Ellen M. Audley dated 9-25-69

Dear April,

First tell me how Bea is your gt aunt. Are you Marion's granddaughter? I have on my TV a 4 generation picture containing a number of the people you ask about taken 74 years ago and all but me dead now.

My gt grandma Bridget Cameron (nee Bridget Higgins). Born in Cork, Ireland 1805? She came to Canada when she was 15 the year of the potato famine in Ireland and that was 1822 or 23 thereabouts. Good looking old woman when I knew her and was probably a real beauty. Also smart. She took service in the Cameron family, the son came home, fell in love with her, couldn't get her any other way so married her and was disowned by his family. She was the oldest of a family of 13 and never saw any of her people again except two brothers who later came to Canada. I could write a volume about her and almost have. This picture was taken in her last summer when she was 85 and I'm my 12th year.

Wish I could personally thank the late April for taking the initiative to find out what she could about our family history.  I believe April's mother, Audrey*, passed this letter along to Aunt Barb and she passed it along to me.  *(I attended a birthday celebration for her and her sister Lois on July 23, 2011, with my aunt)

Cousin Michael was sent a transcript of the letter from Ellen to April and found that Cousin Gail had a copy of it in her possession, passed down through her branch of the family.  It was exciting beyond belief when Michael sent a copy of the photo to me.  

A big thank you to Gail for allowing me to post it online.

I'm grateful for all of the collaboration involved that allowed me to possess a copy of a photo of ancestors whose names I've known but whose faces I had never before seen.

Obituary of Adelia, Daughter Of Lillas Cameron

Published in the Flint Journal, ca May 26, 1948:

McDonnell, Adelia, 406 W. Eldridge
Age: 51
Died: Tuesday, May 25, 1948, at the residence
Funeral from Groves & Co., Saginaw at Fifth
Reverend O. H. Hood officiating
Burial: Flint Memorial Park Cemetery
Death due to complications after a sudden illness
Born: Sterling, [Arenac Co.] Michigan, 7 March 1897
Came to Flint 29 years ago from Duluth, MN
Survived by: Husband, Alexander; son, Thomas Kilpatrick of Kalamazoo;
4 sisters: Mrs. Jessie Dean, of St. Paul, MN; Mrs. Rachel Brandt of Flint and Mrs. Inez Hagen and Mrs. Isabel Buxton of Superior, Wis.; Brother Lawrence McLaughlin of Superior, Wis; several nieces and nephews

Adelia probably never knew that her father's real name was Isaac Codling.  Her sister, Isabel, with whom I corresponded 20 plus years ago, had at that time only recently found that her father's name was not Laughlin McLaughlin.

Duncan Cameron - Lumberjack

From the Saginaw [Mich] Evening News published October 26, 1887:

Lumber News -- October 26, 1887, Page 2
Deep River [Arenac Co.] - Oct. 26
Duncan Cameron, the old and well-known jobber of Roscommon, will lumber south of that place this winter, banking 3,000,000 feet of logs on the Michigan Central for the Ducey Lumber Company.

Marsha Webster Gavry, RIP

 Cousin Marsha was only 60 years old when she died; didn't think I would be writing this post in 2011. 

My childhood summers usually included Marsha, a Massachusetts  native, when she came to Flint, Michigan to visit her grandmother.  It was always fun when model-pretty Marsha with her New England accent came to town.  The last time I saw Marsha was at her grandmother's funeral in 1990 (she flew in on her boyfriend's family's private jet).  I envisioned Marsha in her younger days as being very comfortable in a Mercedes-Benz, wearing a fur coat and diamonds.  At other times she lived the life of a struggling single mother who devoted to her only child and his children later in her life. 

I was hoping that a trip to New England in the near future would include a visit with Marsha.  Facebook put me back in touch with her and an invitation was extended.  

Marsha Webster was Blanche (Johnston) Stout's granddaughter.  Blanche was the daughter of Annie Cameron and John Johnston and Annie was the daughter of Duncan & Ellen (Cameron) Cameron.  Marsha's mother was Jean (Stout) Webster.  My grandmother, Beatrice (Cameron) Powers was Blanche's half-sister.

It was always assumed that Marsha, being a Webster from Massachusetts, had an interesting paternal line  She did.  It included Governor John Webster (Marsha, Living, Duane Erle, Ernest Irving, Eugene, Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, Thomas, John, Thomas, Governor John Webster).  This genealogy takes the Webster line several generations past Governor John Webster.

Didn't find a Mayflower connection through her Websters (although a connection could exist); however she was a Mayflower descendant through her Grandfather Warren Stout. 

Marsha's beloved grandson contacted me via Facebook and informed me of his grandmother's passing. 

Marsha J. (Webster) Gavry, 60, of East Hill Road, Canton, CT, died Monday, February 7, 2011 at her home.

She was born May 22, 1950 in Worcester, MA, the daughter of the late Jean T. (Stout) Webster and had lived in Middletown, RI for many years prior to moving back to Canton, CT three years ago. Mrs. Gavry was a Sales Representative and an Administrative Assistant at Vydek, Wang, Mercedes Benz, and Wachovia for the last 30+ years.

Marsha enjoyed most the company of her family. She is survived by her son, Justin, and his children, Zachary Thomas Gavry and Emma Harbec-Gavry; and her brother Dana Webster.

Friends may call at the Vincent Funeral Home, 120 Albany Turnpike, Canton, CT on Saturday, February 12th from 1 - 3 PM followed by a funeral service to celebrate her life at 3PM. Burial will be private.

 

Published in Worcester Telegram & Gazette on February 10, 2011

Gravestone For Duncan & Dorothy (Westnedge) Cameron

Duncan P. Cameron (1899-1969) and his wife, Dorothy (Westnedge) Cameron (1901 - 1981) are buried in Trout Creek Cemetery, Ontonagon County, Michigan.

Cameron Wildlife Refuge Dedicated to Duncan & Dorothy Cameron Near Trout Creek, Michigan