Mildred Cole Cameron, 8th of 8 children born to wealthy lawyer and planter, Duncan Cameron & Rebecca Benneham of "Fairntosh" Plantation, Hillsborough, Orange County, NC.
The Cameron family was one of antebellum North Carolina's wealthiest families, having migrated to the Piedmont area from Virginia in the mid-18th century. On the eve of the Civil War, the Cameron family (at this time run by her brother, Paul and siblings) owned over 1,000 slaves and nearly 30,000 acres of plantation in Orange, Wake, and Granville Counties (NC) as well as plantations in Alabama and Mississippi.
Despite their wealth, many of the 8 children were sickly and afflicted by disease. Mildred escaped contracting tuberculosis that afflicted 4 of her sisters, but fell prey to an undiagnosed disease that left her partially paralyzed for life. She traveled to Philadelphia and New York for a cure, but the doctors efforts were to no avail. Mildred remained an invalid throughout her life, with the burden of her care falling to her older sister Margaret Bain Cameron, who not only took care of Mildred and managed the household, but care for other ailing siblings and her aged parents. Margaret later married, at age 42, to the wealthy and prominent George W. Mordecai, President of the State Bank of NC, heir to the Raleigh Mordecai family, a once a prominent Jewish family, but by now practicing Christians. (George Mordecai succeeded Duncan Cameron in this position, when Cameron resigned his post in 1849.)
Mildred Coles Cameron never married and died in 1881 at age 61. She is buried in the Mordecai plot.
The Cameron family was one of antebellum North Carolina's wealthiest families, having migrated to the Piedmont area from Virginia in the mid-18th century. On the eve of the Civil War, the Cameron family (at this time run by her brother, Paul and siblings) owned over 1,000 slaves and nearly 30,000 acres of plantation in Orange, Wake, and Granville Counties (NC) as well as plantations in Alabama and Mississippi.
Despite their wealth, many of the 8 children were sickly and afflicted by disease. Mildred escaped contracting tuberculosis that afflicted 4 of her sisters, but fell prey to an undiagnosed disease that left her partially paralyzed for life. She traveled to Philadelphia and New York for a cure, but the doctors efforts were to no avail. Mildred remained an invalid throughout her life, with the burden of her care falling to her older sister Margaret Bain Cameron, who not only took care of Mildred and managed the household, but care for other ailing siblings and her aged parents. Margaret later married, at age 42, to the wealthy and prominent George W. Mordecai, President of the State Bank of NC, heir to the Raleigh Mordecai family, a once a prominent Jewish family, but by now practicing Christians. (George Mordecai succeeded Duncan Cameron in this position, when Cameron resigned his post in 1849.)
Mildred Coles Cameron never married and died in 1881 at age 61. She is buried in the Mordecai plot.
Mildred Cole Cameron, 8th of 8 children born to wealthy lawyer and planter, Duncan Cameron & Rebecca Benneham of "Fairntosh" Plantation, Hillsborough, Orange County, NC.
The Cameron family was one of antebellum North Carolina's wealthiest families, having migrated to the Piedmont area from Virginia in the mid-18th century. On the eve of the Civil War, the Cameron family (at this time run by her brother, Paul and siblings) owned over 1,000 slaves and nearly 30,000 acres of plantation in Orange, Wake, and Granville Counties (NC) as well as plantations in Alabama and Mississippi.
Despite their wealth, many of the 8 children were sickly and afflicted by disease. Mildred escaped contracting tuberculosis that afflicted 4 of her sisters, but fell prey to an undiagnosed disease that left her partially paralyzed for life. She traveled to Philadelphia and New York for a cure, but the doctors efforts were to no avail. Mildred remained an invalid throughout her life, with the burden of her care falling to her older sister Margaret Bain Cameron, who not only took care of Mildred and managed the household, but care for other ailing siblings and her aged parents. Margaret later married, at age 42, to the wealthy and prominent George W. Mordecai, President of the State Bank of NC, heir to the Raleigh Mordecai family, a once a prominent Jewish family, but by now practicing Christians. (George Mordecai succeeded Duncan Cameron in this position, when Cameron resigned his post in 1849.)
Mildred Coles Cameron never married and died in 1881 at age 61. She is buried in the Mordecai plot.
The Cameron family was one of antebellum North Carolina's wealthiest families, having migrated to the Piedmont area from Virginia in the mid-18th century. On the eve of the Civil War, the Cameron family (at this time run by her brother, Paul and siblings) owned over 1,000 slaves and nearly 30,000 acres of plantation in Orange, Wake, and Granville Counties (NC) as well as plantations in Alabama and Mississippi.
Despite their wealth, many of the 8 children were sickly and afflicted by disease. Mildred escaped contracting tuberculosis that afflicted 4 of her sisters, but fell prey to an undiagnosed disease that left her partially paralyzed for life. She traveled to Philadelphia and New York for a cure, but the doctors efforts were to no avail. Mildred remained an invalid throughout her life, with the burden of her care falling to her older sister Margaret Bain Cameron, who not only took care of Mildred and managed the household, but care for other ailing siblings and her aged parents. Margaret later married, at age 42, to the wealthy and prominent George W. Mordecai, President of the State Bank of NC, heir to the Raleigh Mordecai family, a once a prominent Jewish family, but by now practicing Christians. (George Mordecai succeeded Duncan Cameron in this position, when Cameron resigned his post in 1849.)
Mildred Coles Cameron never married and died in 1881 at age 61. She is buried in the Mordecai plot.
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