Paul Carrington Cameron

(1808-1891)

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Paul Carrington Cameron was born on September 25, 1808. He died on January 6, 1891.

Relatives

• Spouse: Anne Ruffin (1814-1897) [1].
• Other children: one daughter (Annie Ruffin Cameron [1] (1842-1915) ). Annie's father Paul Carrington Cameron bought the old Norwood-Mickle-McNair House (partly of logs) across from Eno Lodge; and in 1877 he enlarged the house to the east, added a porch and new roof and presented it to the George Pumpelly Collins family [1].
• Others: Alice Ruffin Collins (granddaughter, 1874-1958), George William Kent Collins (grandson, 1869-1946), Henrietta Page Collins (granddaughter, 1870-1955), Mary Arthur Collins (granddaughter, 1866-1871), Paul Cameron Collins (grandson, 1877-1961) and Susan Mary Ruffin  (sister-in-law, 1827-1851).

References

1. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).