B.M. Camp

Benjamin M. Camp

Full Name: Benjamin M. "Ben" Camp
Date of birth: September 2, 1839
Date of death: September 10, 1936

Terms of Service top

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 24 Jan 13, 1885 - Jan 11, 1887 19th   Democrat Sulphur Springs / Hopkins   Hopkins

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House District 24
Jan 13, 1885 - Jan 11, 1887
Legislatures: 19th  
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Sulphur Springs / Hopkins
Counties in district: Hopkins

Biographical Information top

Biographical Sketches

Military Service Notes

  • Confederate States Army, 2nd Lieutenant, Company F, 2nd Georgia Cavalry. B.M. Camp, Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, death date 9/10/1936. Pension File No. 47167, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com.
  • Confederate States Army, 2nd Regiment, Georgia Cavalry. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature, 1885.

Other Resources

  • Benjamin M. Camp, marriage to Fannie Martin on 12/24/1867 in Coweta County, Georgia.
    Census of 1880 - B.M. Camp, Hopkins County, age 40, born circa 1840 in Georgia, farmer, wife Fannie.
    Census of 1900 - Ben M. Camp, Hopkins County, age 61, born September 1839 in Georgia, farmer, wife Fannie M.
    Census of 1910 - Ben M. Camp, Hopkins County, age 70, born circa 1840 in Georgia, farmer, wife Fannie M.
    Census of 1920 - Ben M. Camp, Hopkins County, age 80, born circa 1840 in Georgia, farmer, wife Fannie.
    Census of 1930 - Benjamine M. Camp, Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, age 90, born circa 1840 in Georgia, widowed, retired farmer, living in household of grandson Bennie Camp. FamilySearch. 1880 1900 1910 1920 1930 Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950
  • Col. B.M. Camp, birth date 9/2/1839 in Georgia; death date 9/10/1936 in Hopkins County, Texas; retired farmer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
  • Col. B.M. Camp, birth date 9/2/1839, death date 9/10/1936, burial in Sulphur Springs City Cemetery, Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County. Find a Grave.
  • Obituary, "B.M. Camp, 97, Dies at Sulphur Springs," The Delta Courier (Cooper, Texas), 9/15/1936, p. 1, crediting Delta County Public Library. "He was active in Hopkins County political affairs and represented the county in the Nineteenth Legislature." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).

Photographs

  • Photograph. B.M. Camp, 19th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

Committee Information top

19th R.S. - 1885
Agricultural  
Agricultural and Mechanical College at Bryan, Prairie View Normal School, and Sam Houston Normal School at Huntsville  
Comptroller's and Treasurer's Office, Examine  
Internal Improvement  
Public Debt  
State Fish Commission  

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