Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Camp, E. A. April 18 1901
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Cedartown Standard, April 18, 1901
Rev. E. A. Camp, was born in Gwinnett County, GA., August 20th, 1825; died in 
Polk County, GA., April 18th, 1901, aged 75 years, 7 months and 28 days. His 
father, James Camp, was born in North Carolina in the year 1740, served as a 
volunteer through the Revolutionary war, after which he settled in Gwinnett 
County, GA., and died there in the year 1827, at the age of 87 years. Rev. E. 
A. Camp was probably the only man at the time of his death living in the state 
who was the son of a soldier who served in the war of the revolution. Mr. Camp 
was married to Miss. Sarah Garrett, in Paulding County, Ga., January 2nd, 1848; 
seven children blessed their union, three of which are living~C. M. Camp, R. A. 
Camp and E. A. Camp, jr. He joined the Baptist church at New Hope, Paulding 
county in 1852; was licensed to preach in 1855, and was ordained to the 
ministry at Bethlehem church in Polk county in 1859, where his membership has 
been ever since, he having been pastor a great deal of the time. He has been a 
citizen of Polk County ever since 1858, and has served nearly all the Baptist 
churches in Polk, Paulding and Haralson as pastor. He was Moderator of the 
Tallapoosa Association for a number of years, and was considered one of the 
wise counselors of that body. He was an able speaker and a deep thinker. The 
writer was often interested to hear his recapitulate on the past. He was a man 
of great memory, and was in possession of a talent to explain what he knew. It 
can be truly said that a great man has fallen in Isreal. A large congregation 
assembled at the Baptist cemetery, near Fish, Sunday evening to pay their last 
tribute of respect to this good man. Short services were conducted by Rev. P. 
Woody, after which all that was mortal was consigned to the tomb to await the 
great morning of the resurrection. May the giver of all good, comfort and 
console his aged and invalid wife, who has been confined to her bed for a long 
time. With these closing lines we say, Farowell, old brother, knowing as we do, 
that those of us who are faithful unto death will meet you in that sweet bye 
and bye, where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. 

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