Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Camp, Robert G., 1913 

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ROBERT GEORGE CAMP

   Robert George Camp, the oldest child of J.L. Camp and Carrie Savage Camp, 
died here Wednesday, January 22nd, at 2 o'clock p.m. in the twenty-eight year 
of his life. For five weeks he had made a brave fight against the dred disease 
that took him, a young man of unusually ability and with a future promising 
many years of usefulness even while the best medical attention and the constant 
care of loved ones was given him, and many prayers were being offered for his 
recovery. 

   But  "We know, O Lord, so little what is best; Wingless, we move so lowly, 
But in thy calm all knowledge let us rest- Oh. holy, holy, holy!"

   R.G. Camp was born August 12th, 1885. His childhood was spent in Franklin 
and he received his primary education at the Franklin Military Academy. 
Entering Wake Forest College in the fall of 1901 he received his B.A. degree 
from that institution in 1904 and took the Master's degree two years later at 
the University of Virginia. Spending several months in an extensive tour of 
Europe in 1906 he took a special course in law at the University of Virginia 
1906-07, and became a member of the firm of the Camp Manufacturing Co., as 
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer the summer of 1907. His superior educational 
advantages and natural executive ability at once made him a strong actor in the 
company's affairs and during the ill health of his uncle, Mr. R.J. Camp. 
Secretary and Treasurer of the firm, he served ably and efficiently as the head 
of one of the most important departments of the business until the time of his 
illness.  Both popular and prominent in all social, athletic and fraternal 
organizations during his student days and since he had been in business, he was 
a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, and of the Virginia Club of 
Norfolk, and was a liberal patron of all public enterprises in his home town. 
He took an active interest in the recent organization of the Young Men’s 
Business Association and was its First Vice-President and Chairman of the House 
Committee. He was also President of the Sunny South Overall Co., a new local 
enterprise. 

   He is survived by his parents, three brothers and three sisters: Jas. L. 
Jr., William and Hugh Camp and Misses Rena, Sallie and Elizabeth Camp, besides 
a large family connection in this and other Southern states, notably for the 
prominence of its members in business and religious affairs. Among them are 
three paternal uncles: Messrs. P.D. and R.J. Camp of Franklin and Dr. B.Frank 
Camp of White Springs, Fla., and two maternal uncles, Dr. W.V. Savage of 
Churchland, and Toy D. Savage of Norfolk. He is also closely related to Dr. 
R.T. Vann, President of Meredith College, Raleigh, and other members of that 
family in North Carolina. 

   The funeral services were conducted from the home Thursday afternoon at 2 
o'clock by Rev. J.L. MCutcheon, Pastor of the Franklin Baptist Church, of which 
the young man was a member. Touching talks and  prayers were made by Mr. 
McCutcheon and by Dr. R.T. Vann, offering consolation and comfort to the 
bereaved ones and paying tributes to the life of the departed member of the 
home circle. Prof Hubert L. Potent of Wake Forest College sang "The Home Land" 
and "Nearer My God to Thee" and all eyes were moist with tears when Jas. L. 
Camp, Jr. sang his brother's favorite song, "O Heart of Mine" with piano 
accompaniment by Miss Rena Camp. The interment was made in the family plot in 
Poplar Spring Cemetery, and the flowers were beautiful and numerous beyond 
description. 

   The active pallbearers were Jas. L. Camp, Jr., Dr. W.V. Savage, Toy D. 
Savage, Ryland, John, and Vaughan Camp, J.A. Wilman?, and D. O. Norfleet. 
Honorary: Gen. C.C. Vaughan, John V. Boone, Sol. W. Rawls, Dr. Joel Rawls, 
W.H. Jones, and L. Pretlow Holland of Suffolk and the following members of the 
North Carolina Pine Association: Frank Barnes of the E.H. Barnes Co., Norfolk, 
Jas. Cooke of the Canton Lumber Co., Baltimore, Wm. B. Roper, Secretary N.C. 
Pine Association; Wm. J. Jones of the Rowland Lumber Co., Norfolk; Messrs, Hume 
and Tanner of the Montgomery Lumber Co., Suffolk; Horton Corwin of the Branning 
Mfg Co., Edenton, N.C. and Geo. W. Truitt of Suffolk. 

   "Bob" Camp as we knew him was a clean straightforward upright young man, and 
our community is poorer today because of his death. His strict attention to 
business and devotion to home life were unusually marked for so young a man. 
His former schoolmates honored and admired him, all who knew him respected him 
for his sterling qualities of character and the young men who worked under his 
supervision in the company's offices here, say that they have lost a friend 
indeed, one who always dealt courteously and honorably with them.  Our 
townspeople generally realize that they have lost one of their most capable and 
public spirited citizens and when we think of the stricken home from which the 
father's hope, the mother's first born and the elder brother of boys and girls, 
has been taken, our heart goes out in sympathy to them with the earnest desire 
and belief that they have today the comfort and consolation of God who will not 
leave us comfortless. 


[Robert George "Bob" CAMP, 12 Aug 1885 - 22 Jan 1913, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), 24 Jan 1913] 

[file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
 and re-formatted by File Manager.]