Telfair-Tattnall-Houston County GaArchives Biographies.....Cameron, Joseph Wesley 1852 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 859-860

   JOSEPH WESLEY CAMERON, clerk of the superior court of Telfair county, is a
native of Georgia, born in the same county in which he now lives. His birth
occurred on March 14, 1852, and he is the son of A. J. and Margaret Cameron, the
father a native of Telfair and the mother of Tattnall county. The father was a
gunsmith by trade and was foreman of the Georgia state army during the war, and
for twenty-four years thereafter he was messenger of the Georgia senate, a
position which he was filling when his death occurred, in 1888. The Cameron
family is one which has been prominent in Georgia for a number of generations,
and representatives of the family have ben identified with the fortunes of
Telfair county since its organization in 1807. Duncan Cameron, the grandfather
of Joseph Wesley Cameron, of this review, represented this county in the
legislature five terms. He was a native of North Carolina, and the family is one
of Scottish extraction. He also represented the county in the senate three terms
and in the house two terms. The father, A. J. Cameron, was a member of both
constitutional conventions after the close of the war. He was born in 1826 and
died in 1888, as mentioned previously. The mother, who was born in 1825, died in
1898.

   Mr. Cameron was the only child of his parents. He was educated primarily in
the schools of McRae. On reaching years of maturity, he engaged first in the
merchandise and timber business in this section, and he continued in that line
of enterprise with more or less success until in 1890, when he was elected
assistant doorkeeper in the house of representatives for a term of four years.
In 1894 he was elected assistant doorkeeper in the senate for a five years'
term, and on January 1, 1899, he took charge of the office of clerk of the
superior court of Telfair county, his election to that position coming in the
latter part of 1898. Mr. Cameron is still the incumbent of that office, a fact
which is eloquent of ability and fitness for such a position.

   Mr. Cameron is a member of the blue lodge of the Masonic fraternity, and with
his family, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

   On May 11, 1876, Mr. Cameron was united in marriage with Mollie J. Paschal,
daughter of William Paschal of McDuffie county, Georgia. William Paschal was a
veteran of the Civil war, having served in the Georgia army. Twelve children
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cameron, of which number nine are yet living. Their
names are here given in the order of their birth: Minnie Lee, the wife of W. H.
Turner of Telfair county, is deceased; Annie Laurie, who married C. A. Graham, a
contractor of McRae, is also deceased, her death occurring in 1898; Alice Jane,
is the wife of W. W. Simmons, an architect and contractor of McRae; Maggie Mae
is the wife of M. A. Birch, a farmer of Dodge county; William J. is a pharmacist
of Montgomery county; Josie L. is a teacher in Glenwood; M. A. and Lillie
Endell, living at home; Earl Duncan, Max Lamer and Joseph Terrill are still
attending school in McRae.


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From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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