Joanna(h) Catherine Thurston Camp v William Camp (Journal 7 p410 - Mar 1869; Roll 21 case number 108 - Nov 1869)
By Pamela Pattison Lash (updated 12 November 2021)
The couple was married on 8 February 1866in Wms Co, OH (Marriage V3 p545; Joanna, b 9 July 1839 in Benton, Columbia Co, PA, was the daughter of Samuel Moore and Mary Ann Appleman Thurston; her father had died on 6 Aug 1849 in Stryker, Williams Co, OH shortly after the family moved to the count. In the 1850 Springfield Twp, Wms Co, OH federal census p98b, the Thurston family was listed as Mary Ann 41 PA, Sarah 13 PA, Joanna 11 PA, Mathias 9 PA, and John 6 PA. By the 1860 Springfield Twp federal census p72, mother Mary A had married Hiram Theodore Betts on 22 Aug 1854 in Wms Co (Marriage V2 p145) and the family was listed as Hiram 28 NJ, Mary A 40 PA, Franklin 5 OH, Chauncey 2 OH, Mathias Thurston 19 PA, John Thurston 17 PA, and Harriet Thurston 8 PA. Note that Joanna did not reside with this family. Stepfather Hiram was a Springfield Twp trustee, the first advocate of abolition in the area, and active in the Pomona Grange as cited in the History of Williams Co, Ohio, Goodspeed, 1882, p706-707.
William A. Camp may be a native of Shelby, Orleans Co, NY, born c1826; also, he may be the son of Aaron Pixley and Mary Welch Camp. The couple’s daughter, Mary Josephine, was born 12 Dec 1866 in Archbold, Fulton Co, OH.
Joanna charged that on 1 Dec 1868 in Cleveland, OH, William was sentenced to a term of several months to the Ohio Penitentiary for passing counterfeit money. “He currently resides in prison”. On 21 Apr 1869 he received a summons to appear in court on another charge in Archbold, Fulton Co, OH. The couple had a two-year-old daughter, Mary Josephine. The wife brought witness John Sloan, a neighbor to the Thurston-Betts family to court to corroborate these facts. A legal notice of intent to divorce appeared in the Bryan Union Press. The divorce was granted.
In the 1870 Springfield Twp, Wms Co, OH federal census p26, the Betts family was enumerated as Hiram 38 NJ, Mary A 53 PA, Franklin 15 OH, Clarence 12 OH, Mary Camp 3 OH, and Hiram’s parents, John L 66 Nova Scotia, and Sarah (Pryor) 65 PA. Note the presence of Joanna and William Camp’s daughter, Mary, who lived with the Betts family. Joanna C. Thurston died on 11 Nov 1892 @53Y 4M 2D and was buried in Boynton Cem, Springfield Twp along with her brothers John, a Civil War casualty, and Samuel L. Thurston. Her mother Mary Ann Betts later died on 31 Jan 1907 @90Y and was buried in Oakwood Cem, Stryker, OH. Wms Co, OH Marriage Records show a Mary E. Camp became the bride of John M. Zimmerman on 30 Nov 1893 (Marriage V6 #1073).
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