Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Camp, Carrie L., 1894 

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CARRIE LEA CAMP

   CAMP - Carrie Lea Camp, the subject of this little sketch, was the eldest 
daughter of James L. and Carrie F. Camp, and was born in Hertford County, 
N.C., Oct. 12th 1886 and fell asleep at her home in Franklin, Va., Nov. 18th, 
1894, having brightened the home, gladdened the hearts and blessed the lives 
of our brother and sister just eight years, on mouth and a day; not very long 
it is true, only a child's life, and yet it was long enough for the child's 
life so to entwine itself about the hearts of those who lived her, that when 
she went away the hearts seemed to go with her.  And the light from the 
child's life was so warm and bright that it was cold and dark when the light 
went out.

   Hers was a nature which engenders favoritism, obedient, gentle and 
affectionate, she was easily a favorite at home and in school; generous, self-
denying and brimming over with life and spirit she was a leader among 
children; attractive in person and winning in manner she was lived by all who 
knew her, and the tears and sadness of the great through at her funeral were 
not so much from sympathy with the family as they were the expression of a 
personal loss and a common bereavement.

   Even during the brief scope of her little life was deep spirituality 
developed under the pious training of godly parents, as the following incident 
will show.  Some months ago she came to her mother one day in great perplexity 
with this question, "Mama, what does 'being a Christian' mean?"  "Nothing, 
darling," said her mother, "but to love the Lord and trust in Jesus."  And 
then all the trouble left the little face as she replied, "Why, Mama, I have 
been doing that a long time."

   There were peculiar reasons which made the dear little one doubly dear to 
the writer; in person, disposition, and manner she was the exact image of her 
mother, who as his oldest sister was his constant companion and playmate, and 
the dearest tie that binds him to the recollection of his childhood, and many 
a time while visiting the family and watching little Lea and her brother at 
play the years seemed to roll back, and it was no longer "Lea and Buddie Rob," 
but it was "Carrie and Buddie."  God grant that in the years to come the 
memory of the little sister who has passed away may prove the benediction to 
her brother that the influence of that other sister has been to me.

   It was hard, hard to give thee up, little one, and that none know so well 
or feel so keenly as the bleeding hearts of thy father and mother, but the God 
who called thee to himself is a Father too, and he knows what it is to give up 
a child, and he will heal the wounds he has inflicted.

   After all there is something to be envied in a life like hers.  The bud was 
plucked ere it was open, it is true, but it is also true that it was with the 
dew of its freshness and purity still upon it, with ne'er a petal soiled or 
withered and was plucked but to open in a more genial clime.

   The stream met the ocean close to its source.


Carrie Lea CAMP, eldest daughter of James L. & Carrie F. (SAVAGE) CAMP, 
b. 12 Oct 1886, Hertford Co., NC, d. Nov 1894*, at home, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 53**), Franklin, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown 

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

*The cemetery list gives d. 13 Nov; the obit, 18 Nov.  The (transcribed) 
   Southampton Co. Death Index (p. 1 #23) gives d. 4 Nov. 

Her father's obit ("The American Lumberman," Dec. 12, 1925) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c510j3ob.txt

Three 1949 obits for her mother are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c510c1ob.txt 


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