The Thomas Camp Cemetery
Front gate to the Sand business near door    
The Thomas Camp Cemetery
From THE CAMP CEMETERY By W. D. Floyd
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/rutherford/cemeteries/group1.txt

"This cemetery is located just off Hines Road in southern Rutherford Co., NC. To get to it, go south on US221 until you cross the Broad River bridge. Turn east on the first road past the river, Hines Rd. Go about a mile until you cross a creek. The cemetery is down the driveway by the side of the creek and is just before you get to the sand business, on the left. I was there September 17, 1997."

Prominent among the many ancient stones are those of Thomas Camp (8 Feb 1717 - 1798) and 2nd wife Margaret Carney Camp ((20 June 1744 - 1824). The large modern stone (seen here to the right) was probably placed in the 1960's by a recent descedent, Eugene Vernon Camp, who, with financial backing, restored the failing site (see bottom of page for plaque).
   On both sides of the modern monolith are the original rough-hewn stones with their stratched-out tributes.

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Amazingly, Thomas Camp's inscription is mostly still readable, single-handedly making a pilgrimage to this site well worth it. (I well remember the surprised thrill of finding the stone of my probable tenth-generation ancestor in the Summer of 1991!). It probably originally read,

T. C(AMP)
BORN 1717
DIED
1798


Mr. Floyd provides us with his list of those buried in the Camp Cemetery:

Paul W Camp, 15 Sep 1908 - 19 May 1996
Mary Camp, d. 1855
?? Camp, 20 Jan 1847 - 29 Dec 1850,
son of JTC Camp
Infant Twins, 24 Dec 1848 - 13 & 15 Jul 1849
Joshua Camp, 10 Jul 1786 - 9 Jan 1849
Nancy G. Camp, 24 Apr 1794 - 23 May 1875, wife of Joshua Camp
Joel Barlow Camp, 14 Jun 1819 - 12 May 1839
Thomas Camp, 8 Feb 1717 - 1798
Margaret Carney Camp, 20 Jun 1744 - 1824,
wife of Thomas Camp



Gravestone of Joshua Camp   Gravestone of Nancy Gregory Camp Gravestone of Joel Barlow Camp   Gravestone of Twins of John T. & Rachel P. Camp   Gravestone of ?? Camp
Gravestone of Mary Camp   View from just outside the Camp Cemetery View from inside the cemetery fence   Dedicatory Plaque to Eugene Vernon Camp. et al.   Two Views of the Broad River nearby

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