Olin Broadwell Camp (1857 - 1923)

Born 12 Sep 1857 in West Union, Fayette Co, IA

Ancestors

Husband of Phoebe Sevilla (Dick) Camp — married 9 Oct 1881 in Wayne Co, OH

Husband of Sarah Elizabeth (Dick) Camp — married 13 Feb 1917 in SD

Descendants

Died 10 Oct 1923 at age 66 in Plankinton, Aurora Co, SD

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Biography

Olin Broadwell Camp was born 12 Sep 1857 in West Union, Fayette Co, IA, the son of Anthony Camp and Mary Ellen (Gardner) Camp.

In 1860 he was living with his parents and younger brother William in West Union, Fayette Co, IA.^[1] The family moved to Lafayette (now Redhaw), in Perry Twp, Ashland Co, OH, sometime before Olin's brother George was born in 1862.

Olin’s father died in 1863, and in 1865 his mother remarried. In 1870 Olin was living with his mother and stepfather, Joseph A. Funk, in Chester Twp, Wayne Co, OH.^[2] In 1880 he was still living in his mother and stepfather’s household in Chester Twp (“Village of Lattasburgh”), Wayne Co, OH. He is listed as “Boarder” in the U.S. Census, and his occupation is listed as “Carpenter”.^[3]

Olin married Phoebe Sevilla Dick 9 Oct 1881 in Wayne Co, OH.^[4] Olin and Phoebe Sevilla moved to Dakota Territory in the spring of 1883, along with Phoebe Sevilla's sister and brother-in-law, Sarah (Dick) and Worth Howey. An article in the Wayne County Democrat, 28 Mar 1883, has the following:^[5]

Lattasburg    March 12th 1883.
...   Messrs Worth Howey and Olin Camp, with their families, expect to leave for Dakota with the intention of making that their future homes. The best wishes of their many friends in this place and vicinity accompany them to their new homes.   ...

They were living in Plankinton, Aurora Co, Dakota Territory, when their oldest child George Leonard was born in the fall of 1883. They had five more children over the next eleven years, Walter Bertram, Charles Lester, Edna Rose, Carrie Ellen and Mary Elizabeth, all born in Plankinton, Aurora Co (first in Dakota Territory, then in South Dakota after it became a state in 1889). In 1900^[6] and 1910^[7] the family was living in Palatine, Aurora Co, SD.

Olin Broadwell and Phoebe Sevilla homesteaded near Gildford, Hill Co, MT. Phoebe Sevilla died in Montana in 1915, and Olin moved back to Aurora Co, SD. There he married Phoebe Sevilla’s widowed sister, Sarah Elizabeth (Dick) Howey, 13 Feb 1917. In 1920 Olin B. was living in Plankinton City, Aurora Co, SD, with Sarah and two of Sarah’s daughters.^[8]

Olin died 10 Oct 1923 in Plankinton, Aurora Co, SD, and is buried in Plankinton Cemetery, Plankinton, Aurora Co, SD.^[9]

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Sources

1. ↑ 1860 U.S. Census, West Union, Fayette Co, IA
2. ↑ 1870 U.S. Census, Chester Twp, Wayne Co, OH
3. ↑ 1880 U.S. Census, Lattasburg, Chester Twp, Wayne Co, OH
4. ↑ ^{[citation needed]}
   Note: Phoebe Sevilla's obituary states they were married 9 Nov 1881 in Erie, PA.
5. ↑ Wayne County Democrat, 28 Mar 1883, page 4, column 4
6. ↑ 1900 U.S. Census, Palatine, Aurora Co, SD
7. ↑ 1910 U.S. Census, Palatine, Aurora Co, SD
8. ↑ 1920 U.S. Census, Plankinton City, Aurora Co, SD
9. ↑ Olin B. Camp at Find A Grave: Memorial #67769346