Godfrey Ragsdale by Caroline Skelton, p 34b: Maragret Carney died in Ireland Ford, NC 1826
Camp - Kemp Family History, Col. Robert Neville and Cathrine Cleek Mann, (Cedar Bluff, Alabama 35959, 1967), Vol. 1, p 13
"Sketch of Thomas Camp, Senior, by the late W.A. Camp"
Thomas Camp and his second wife, Margaret Carney, who was born June 20, 1744 (some say in Ireland) was of full blood Irish descent. She died at the old homestead Island Ford, Rutherford County, NC. She was a very fine business woman and being much younger than her husband, looked after the affairs of her husband, during the Revoluntionary War. They lived about 10 miles down the river from Island Ford in the forks of Camp Creek (named after Thomas Camp her husband) and Broad River. Thomas Camp had sons in both armies of the Revolution, and therefore did not take sides either way, but his wife Margaret Carney Camp was a staunch rebel, and on that account was robbed often by the British and Tories. Their home was situated in the half way ground between the British and Revolutionary soldiers. After the War was over they moved up to what is known as Island Ford, in Rutherford County, NC and made their final and last settlement.
p. 16, The second wife, Margaret Carney Camp was of full blood Irish descent, who was born June 20, 1744, and it is said was born in the County of Limerick, Ireland, and emigrating with her parents to Virginia, while she was young in years. She was only 18 years old when she married Thomas Camp who was then 45 years old at that time and judging by his fame and past record, was still a young, man, even if he did have 12 children to stare her in the face. She must have had great courage to marry Thomas Camp with so many children, or Thomas must have been way above the average men of this day and generation, and a handsome man at that. It has been handed down through the older set of Camps, that he was a man of powerful physique, aimable disposition, very religious, and a sturdy worker, requisites in those days, which were like golden apples to the fair sex.
p. 17 His second wife, Margaret Carney, was a woman of larger frame and likewise her sons, who did not know what fear was, but were cool, collected and honorable in all of their walks in life, and like their half brothers, were very religious, and members of either the Baptist or Methodist church. It is said that Margaret Camp did not join the Baptist Church until she was a very old lady and being a very large woman and almost helpless, it took four ministers to baptize her in the Broad river at Island Ford, NC and that she had to be baptized in her rocking chair. She was always a good woman and mother, and while she was not in the Church as a member until old age, she always attended church meetings and said that before she would be baptized, she must feel and know that she was a fit subject for the church. During the stirring times of the Revolutionary War, she was very outspoken against the British and Tories. Her character for truth, honesty and industry was transmitted to her sons, who developed into strong characters in the formation of society wherever they went. She outlived her husband, Thomas 26 years, dying in 1824, at the age of 84 years."
