Dr. Cameron Of Elizabethton, Tennessee

History of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U. S. A ...,  By Samuel W. Scott, Samuel P Angel:

See his Wikitree profile here.

Cross-posted at Relatively Fiction

Edict Regarding Purchasing Lands From The Indians

To add to their discomfiture King George III had, in October 1763, issued an edict forbidding private persons from purchasing lands from the Indians. Soon after the line had been established, the British Indian agent, Alexander Cameron, visited the settlement, informed the whites that they were trespassers on the Cherokees and that they must vacate or they would be removed by British troops. In the meantime the little colony had been joined by John Sevier and the Shelbys, Evan and Isaac, father and son. Robertson had come to be by common consent the leader of the colony, but upon the arrival of Sevier the honors were divided between them. Cameron took Sevier and Robertson to one side and intimated in rather broad terms that on payment of a certain sum to him they would be allowed to remain unmolested, Both scorned the idea of a bribe, and the agent departed. Then the settlers decided to evade the king's order by leasing the lands from the Indians. A council was accordingly called and an agreement made by which the whites were to have undisputed possession of the Watauga Old Fields for a term of eight years, in consideration of goods amounting to about $5,000.  [Source -  Notable Men of Tennessee]

Alexander Cameron's Protege

*"Colonel Innes was a Scotchman.  He was probably a protege of his countryman, Alexander Cameron, the British Indian Agent among the Cherokees; and was, it would appear, an assistant commissary at the Long Island of Holston, at one time; and in the fall of 1777, returned to the Cherokee nation, taking up his  quarters with Cameron.  He was commissioned Colonel of the South Carolina Royalists, January 20, 1780; in 1782, he was Inspector General of the Loyalist forces.  Colonel Hanger, in his Reply to Mackenzie's Strictures states that Innes was living retired in 1789, probably on half-pay."

Don Cameron, Editor Of The Nashville News

The home journal., September 23, 1858 (Winchester, Tenn.):

"Don Cameron, Esq., the talented editor of the Nashville News, was married on the 2d inst., in Franklin, Tenn., to Miss Margaret M. Pipkin, of the latter place."

Census 1860
5th Ward Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Donald Cameron M 45 Tennessee
Margaret Cameron F 34 Tennessee
Mary Ann Cameron F 17 Tennessee
Donald Cameron M 0 Tennessee

Census 1850
Williamson county, Williamson, Tennessee, United States
Donald Cameron M 35 Tennessee
Mary L Cameron M 35 Tennessee
Mary A Cameron F 7 Tennessee
George Ewen Cameron M 2 Tennessee
Catharine W Cameron F 0 Tennessee

See the Donald Cameron memorial at FindAGrave.

Capt. James M. Cameron

History of the Thirteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U. S. A ...
By Samuel W. Scott, Samuel P Angel

Camerons Of Caledonia, New York

Genealogy of the related families of Gordon and Cameron of Caledonia, ... Gordon, C. H. (Charles Henry), b. 1857.  [See Page 17]

Hugh Albert Cameron's Obituary

The featured Necrology database, from which the below information was taken, can be found at the Cleveland Public Library:


  Id#: 0449002
Name: Cameron, Hugh
Date: Jun 21 1974
Source: Plain Dealer;  Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #097.
Notes: Hugh [Albert] Cameron, age 83 of 221/2 Riverside Dr., Poland, O., died Thursday at Little Forest Medical Center, Youngstown (retired Assistant Principal of West High School), husband of Ruth (nee Brink), father of Robert C. of Salem, Ore., Hugh E. of Blacksburg, Va., and Mrs. A. P. Van Indersteine of Poland, brother of Neil A. of Detroit and Angus E. of Oakridge, Tenn., grandfather of eight, great-grandfather of one. Private memorial services will be held Saturday 1 p.m. at the residence.

United States Census, 1940

Lakewood City, Cuyahoga, Ohio

Household Gender Age Birthplace

Head Hugh A Cameron M 49 Pennsylvania

Wife Ruth Cameron F 43 Ohio

Daughter Elizabeth Cameron F 20 Michigan

Son Robert Cameron M 16 Michigan

Son Hugh Cameron M 9 Ohio

United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

Name: Hugh A Cameron

Event Type: Draft Registration

Event Date: 1917-1918

Event Place: Detroit City, Michigan, United States

Gender: Male

Birth Date: 18 Oct 1890

Birthplace: Sylvania, Pennsylvania, United States

Nationality: United States

Biography of Alexander Cameron, Loyalist

Alexander Cameron in Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution ..., Volume 1:

A previous post regarding Alexander Cameron and with his obituary here.