Thomas Amis Cameron, 2nd of 8 known 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. Thomas Amis Cameron was either born retarded or suffered a childhood disease that left him enfeebled. Despite this, he was tutored at home before finally being sent away to school. He first attended his grandfather John Cameron's school in Lunenburg, VA; then sent to Rev. John Churchill Rudd's school in Elizabethown, NJ; and in 1820 to the military academy of Captain Patridge in Norwich, VT. Despite the family's efforts for his education, Thomas was never independent, and relied on his family for his care throughout his long life.
Thomas Amis Cameron died 1870, at age 63. He is buried in the Mordecai Plot near his sister Mildred Coles Cameron.
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. Thomas Amis Cameron was either born retarded or suffered a childhood disease that left him enfeebled. Despite this, he was tutored at home before finally being sent away to school. He first attended his grandfather John Cameron's school in Lunenburg, VA; then sent to Rev. John Churchill Rudd's school in Elizabethown, NJ; and in 1820 to the military academy of Captain Patridge in Norwich, VT. Despite the family's efforts for his education, Thomas was never independent, and relied on his family for his care throughout his long life.
Thomas Amis Cameron died 1870, at age 63. He is buried in the Mordecai Plot near his sister Mildred Coles Cameron.
Thomas Amis Cameron, 2nd of 8 known 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. Thomas Amis Cameron was either born retarded or suffered a childhood disease that left him enfeebled. Despite this, he was tutored at home before finally being sent away to school. He first attended his grandfather John Cameron's school in Lunenburg, VA; then sent to Rev. John Churchill Rudd's school in Elizabethown, NJ; and in 1820 to the military academy of Captain Patridge in Norwich, VT. Despite the family's efforts for his education, Thomas was never independent, and relied on his family for his care throughout his long life.
Thomas Amis Cameron died 1870, at age 63. He is buried in the Mordecai Plot near his sister Mildred Coles Cameron.
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. Thomas Amis Cameron was either born retarded or suffered a childhood disease that left him enfeebled. Despite this, he was tutored at home before finally being sent away to school. He first attended his grandfather John Cameron's school in Lunenburg, VA; then sent to Rev. John Churchill Rudd's school in Elizabethown, NJ; and in 1820 to the military academy of Captain Patridge in Norwich, VT. Despite the family's efforts for his education, Thomas was never independent, and relied on his family for his care throughout his long life.
Thomas Amis Cameron died 1870, at age 63. He is buried in the Mordecai Plot near his sister Mildred Coles Cameron.
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