Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Camp, Carolyn F. Savage, 1949 

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CAROLINE FOUNTAIN SAVAGE CAMP

TOWN MOURNS DEATH YESTERDAY MORNING OF MRS. J.L. CAMP

   Mrs. Carrie Savage Camp, widow of the late James L. Camp, died at her home 
in Franklin on Thursday morning, March 31, at 8:15 o’clock in the 84th year of 
her age.

   Mrs. Camp was the daughter of Robert Rysop Savage and Rowena Vann Savage of 
Como, Hertford County, N.C.  Her father was a Baptist minister, and pastor of 
Buckhorn Church and other nearby charges.  Mrs. Camp, the eldest of five 
children, was born June 24, 1865.  She was married October 21, 1884, to James 
Leonidas Camp, one of the founders of Camp Manufacturing Company in Franklin 
and president of that company at the time of his death in 1925.  She was a 
member of the Franklin Baptist Church.

   Mrs. Camp was the last survivor of her brothers and sisters.  They were Dr. 
William Vann Savage, for several decades pastor of the Baptist Church at 
Churchland in Norfolk County; Toy Dixon Savage, prominent attorney in Norfolk; 
Miss Lizzie S. Savage, for a number of years executive secretary of the 
Baptist Women’s Missionary Union of Virginia, and a resident of Franklin; and 
Mrs. Mary S. Williams, who was wife of the late Herbert Taylor Williams, 
pastor of the Baptist Church in Chase City.  A foster brother was the late Dr. 
R.T. Vann, president of Meredith College, Raleigh, and executive secretary of 
the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.

   Mrs. Camp is survived by six children, all of Franklin; Mrs. Rena Camp 
Rawls, wife of Sol W. Rawls; Mrs. Sallie Shepherd Camp Ray, wife of Burton J. 
Ray; James L. Camp, Jr., president of Camp Manufacturing Co., Inc.; Mrs. 
Elizabeth C. Smith, wife of William Eldridge Smith; William McCutcheon Camp 
and Hugh Douglas Camp.  Another son, Robert G. Camp, died in early manhood in 
1913.  Also surviving are seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

   Mrs. Camp was one of the most beloved and influential women in eastern 
Virginia and North Carolina.  She was a member of the first class graduated 
from Chowan College in Murfreesboro, N.C.  For all of her adult life she was 
an ardent supporter of her church and of the local and Missionary program of 
that denomination.  To the end she was the center of a devoted family and of a 
vast circle of friends, and the strength and sweetness of her character marked 
her as one of the outstanding women of two generations.

   Funeral services will be conducted at the Franklin Baptist Church at 3:30 
o’clock Friday afternoon, and burial will be in the family plot in Poplar 
Spring Cemetery.

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MRS. CAMP INTERRED WITH SIMPLE RITES

   Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie Savage Camp, who died Thursday morning, 
March 31, were conducted on Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock in the Franklin 
Baptist Church.

   As befitted one of her simple tastes, there was no eulogy.  Rev Randolph 
Gregory, pastor of the church led in prayer; Dr. Sparks W. Melton, pastor of 
the Freemason Street Baptist Church, Norfolk, read the Scripture; and Rev. 
Robert D. Stephenson, a former pastor of the deceased, closed the service with 
prayer.

   Two hymns were sung, the first, "How Firm A Foundation," as a solo by Mrs. 
H.M. Purviance of Boykins; and the second, "In the Cross of Christ I Glory," 
by the choir of the Baptist Church.  Miss Dorothy Ballinger, Minister of 
Music, was the accompanist at the organ Mrs. Camp had given to the church in 
memory of her husband, James Leonidas Camp, who preceded her to the grave 
nearly a quarter of a century ago.

   Burial was beside her husband in the family plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery, 
the pallbearers being her five grandsons, Robert Camp Ray, John E. Ray, 3rd, 
Sol W. Rawls, Jr., William McCutheon Camp, Jr., and Leon Clay Camp; and three 
great-nephews, Robert Risop Savage, 3rd, of Churchland, Toy D. Savage, Jr., of 
Norfolk, and William Johnson Williams of Richmond.

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CAROLYN FOUNTAIN SAVAGE CAMP

   On March 31, 1949, the tired body of Mrs. Carrie Savage Camp, ceased its 
struggle, and her soul quietly winged its way down the path of death and 
passed on to God.

   The following words from the thirteenth and fourteenth verses of the third 
chapter of Paul's letter to the Philippians are descriptive of the life of 
Mrs. Camp, "But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind 
and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark 
for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

   Mrs. Camp was an heroic figure in her Christian life - strong, fearless, 
humble, calm, understanding, a woman of vision.  Her possessions and the 
material things of life meant little to her, save as a means for helping 
others.  Her heart and hand were opened wide and outstretched to her church, 
her beloved Missions and the needs of others.

   Mrs. Camp possessed great courage, which was pronounced not only in her 
daily battle with suffering which she endured for many years, but in her 
strong convictions of what constituted a surrendered Christian life and 
service for her Master.

   She moved with a quiet, gentle dignity, and possessed many lovable traits 
of character which endeared her to a large circle of friends.  She retained a 
keen interest in the life around her and world events, until the last few 
hours of her life.

   Her moments here has been and will continue to be a benediction to all who 
knew her glorious Vision and will help to swell the chorus of her hymn of 
prayer, of faith and thanksgiving which will reverberate down the ages.

   Mrs. Camp was a charter member of the Woman's Missionary Society of the 
Franklin Baptist Church.  She had served as its president and on many and 
various committees down through the years and was a moving influence in this 
organization until her death.

   She was the wife of the late James L. Camp and leaves the following sons 
and daughters: James L. Camp, Jr., William M. Camp, Hugh D. Camp, Mesdames 
Sol. W. Rawls, Burton J. Ray, W. Eldridge Smith; seven grandchildren and five 
great-grandchildren. 


Carolyn Fountain "Carrie" (SAVAGE; Mrs. James L. {Sr.}) CAMP, 
b. 24 Jun 1865, d. 31 Mar 1949, at home, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 53*), Franklin, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 1, 1949, p. 1; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 8, 1949, p. 14; 
"The Religious Herald" (Richmond, VA) 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

An obituary for husband James Leonidas CAMP, Sr. (1857-1925) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c510j3ob.txt

An obituary for her mother, Rowena M. VANN SAVAGE (1840-1908), is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/s120r1ob.txt 


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