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Benjamin M. Camp

Full Name: Benjamin M. "Ben" Camp
Birth date: September 2, 1839
Death date: September 10, 1936

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 .
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 . 1930 Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950

B.M. Camp, birth date 9/2/1839 in Georgia, death date 9/10/1936 in Hopkins County, Texas. 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 .
Biographical sketch, B.M. Camp, pp. 19-20. Born 9/2/1839 in Jonesboro, Georgia. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
Confederate States Army, 2nd Regiment, Georgia Cavalry. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
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) .