Dr. Edwin Cameron

Source

United States of America Declaration of Intention

Residing: Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia

Occupation: Physician

Born: Tatangouche, Canada

DOB: 6 September 1899

Married 3 April 1926

Place: Halifax, Canada

She (Wife) Born 30 June 1900

Three Children: Jean Isabel Marie; Donald Chisholm; Anna

Name Edwin Cameron

Census 1940

Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia

Last Place of Residence Martinsburg, Berkeley, West Virginia

Edwin Cameron Head M 40 Canada

Molly Cameron Wife  F 39 Canada

Jean Cameron Daughter F 12 Kentucky

Donald Cameron Son M 10 Kentucky

Ann Cameron Daughter F 8 West Virginia

Dr. Cameron moved to Delaware (per daughter Ann):

 "In 1945,my father, Dr. Edwin Cameron purchased the house at 22 South Main Street.  We had relocated from West Virginia so that Dad could take the position as Delaware's Public Health Physician." 

Edwin Cameron died in Kentucky in 1967.

Excerpts of the obituary published on April 10, 1967 in The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware:

Dr. Edwin Cameron, 67, a former executive secretary of the Delaware State Board of Health, died Thursday in Clay City, Ky.... . For two years after leaving Delaware, Dr. Cameron served the Connecticut health department. Before taking the Kentucky post he had a tour of service in India for the World Health Organization, spent a year in Syria working for the U.S. State Department and practiced for a time in West Virginia. 

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Molly Cameron; two daughters, Mrs. Robert Dowd of Seaford and Mrs. Ann Burke of Camden; a son, Dr. Donald Cameron, Wilmington, and 13 grandchildren. 

Edwin was the son of Laughlin and Maud Cameron.

Emily Cameron Chenault

Genealogical memoranda of the Quisenberry family and other families... (1897):


Upon attaining his majority he [James Francis Quisenberry] bought a little farm in what was then called "the McMillan neighborhood,'" and made money rapidly. October 14, 1847, he was married to Emily Cameron Chenault, the daughter of Anderson Chenault and Emily Cameron, his wife, of Madison county. [Source]

Source

More about this Cameron family here.  Robert Cameron, born 1720 in Inverness, Scotland, whose Chieftan was Lochiel, fled to America (Connecticut) after Culloden.  His son Robert married Sarah Tiffin (who had Mayflower ancestors).

Oliver G. Cameron

A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, Volume 3:


At the outbreak of the Civil war William C. French returned to Robertson county, Kentucky, where he and Oliver G. Cameron organized the Second Kentucky Mounted Riflemen of which Mr French became captain.

Emily (Cameron) Chenault

A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, Volume 3:

...Emily (Cameron) Chenault Quisenberry was a daughter of Anderson and Emily (Cameron) Chenault, the former of whom was born in Madison county, Kentucky, in 1788 and the latter of whom was born at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1796.

Hardin County, Kentucky

Angus Cameron (Camron)

28 Nov 1808

Hannah Cameron mentioned

More Cameron information here.

Miss Jean Cameron Of Berea College

Newspaper extracts from the Tri-Counties Genealogy and History by Joyce M. Tice:

Newspaper Clippings  July 12, 1912  -  Sylvania [Pennsylvania]

Miss Jean Cameron, of Berea College, Berea, Ky., stopped over for a day or two and spent the 4th with her brother, *Rev. A. G. Cameron.  She is on her way to Nova Scotia where she expects to spend her summer vacation.

United States Census, 1900

Columbia Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania

*Head Alex Cameron M 46  Nova Scotia

Wife Jennie H Cameron F 33  New York

Son  Hugh A Cameron M 10  Pennsylvania 

Son Neil A Cameron M 8  Pennsylvania

Son Donald H Cameron M 4  Pennsylvania

Name: Jean Cameron

Event Type: Census

Event Year: 1910

Event Place:  Berea, Madison, Kentucky

Gender: Female

Marital Status: Single

Birth Year (Estimated): 1861

Birthplace: Canada English

Immigration Year: 1885

Father's Birthplace: Canada English

Mother's Birthplace: Canada English

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace

Jean Cameron F 49 Canada English

Katherine Bowersox Roomer F 40 Pennsylvania

Mary E Welsh Roomer F 47 Massachusetts

Kate Coddington Roomer F 40 Indiana

Leanar E Orr Roomer F 44 Ohio

Emma Haagan Roomer F 47 Pennsylvania

Absalom L Golden Roomer M 36 Kentucky

Margaret Golden Roomer F 35 Kentucky

Canada Census, 1881

Head of Household Name: Angus Cameron

Forks St-Mary, Guysborough, Nova Scotia

Angus Cameron M 59y Nova Scotia

Catharine E Cameron F 59y Nova Scotia

*Alex George Cameron M 26y Nova Scotia

A ... Jane Cameron F 24y Nova Scotia

Angus Hugh Cameron M 23y Nova Scotia

David N Cameron M 19y Nova Scotia

Catharine E Cameron F 16y Nova Scotia

Sarah M Cameron F 14y Nova Scotia

Daniel G McIntosh M 5y Nova Scotia

Jean is listed as a surviving sibling living in Detroit in her sister Mary Ann's 1936 obituary.  Is she not the correct Jean?  Or was her date of death 1938, not 1928?  Perhaps Jean was a deceased sibling and the obituary was wrong or wrongly transcribed. Or is there another explanation?

Michigan, Death Certificates, 1921-1952
Name:   Jean Cameron
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 24 Aug 1928
Event Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
Gender: Female
Age: 72
Marital Status: Single
Birth Date: 28 Jan 1856
Birthplace: Newtown, Nova Scotia
Birth Year (Estimated): 1856
Father's Name: Angus Cameron
Mother's Name: Eliza Catherine Gunn

John Cameron In Early Kentucky

From the Kentucky Secretary of State, Virginia and Old Kentucky [Land] Patent Series:

Patent: OK 0710.0 [OK = Old Kentucky]

CAMERON, JOHN

Date on document: 6 November 1792 (there were other dates)

Nelson County, Kentucky

220 Acres

Recorded: P168

Cameron In The Old Kentucky Patents

The Kentucky Secretary of State, Early Certificates of Settlement and Preemption Warrants in Kentucky County, Virginia, included documentation for Charles Cameron, John Cameron and Angus Cameron.  The images can be seen online.


1.) Preemption Warrant #: 76
Name: Dochester, James County: Kentucky
Type #1: Settlement Acreage #1: 400
Type #2: Preemption Acreage #2: 1000
Location/WaterCourse: "Dochester Improvement" on Dicks River Assignee #1: Paulin, Henry
Assignee #2: Cameron, Charles
Issue Date: 10/19/1779 Authorized: VA 0947.1; VA 0947.2; VA 0947.3

2.) Preemption Warrant #: 593  

Name: Cameron, John County: Kentucky

Type #1: Preemption Acreage #1: 1000

Location/WaterCourse: Salt River

Issue Date: 2/13/1780 Authorized: VA 3914.0

3.) Preemption Warrant #: 594
Name: Cameron, Angus County: Kentucky
Type #1: Settlement Settlement Acreage #1: 400
Type #2: Preemption Acreage #2: 1000
Location/WaterCourse: Licking Creek
Issue Date: 1/1/1780 Authorized: VA 5122.0; VA 5123.0; OK 5186.0

William & Hazel Cameron Buried In Muhlenberg Co., KY

From Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky, Cemeteries - Volume 3

Rose Hill Cemetery

Hazel I. Cameron

December 29, 1898 - February 8, 1978

William Howard Cameron