Wood & Torbert Families

Dorothy Elizabeth Jett

b. 8 December 1848, d. 6 January 1930

Dorothy Elizabeth Jett was born on 8 December 1848 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.
Moses Camp enlisted as a private on 31 August 1861 in Company C, 5th Texas Regiment of Mounted Volunteers, and was taken prisoner 26 March 1862.
She married Moses Manley Camp on 17 July 1868 in Grimes County, Texas.
Dorothy Elizabeth Jett became a widow at the 8 July 1888 death of her husband Moses Manley Camp.
The following appeared on 21 October 1888 in The Galveston Daily News: (Navasota, Oct. 20) On Thursday the case of J. H. Mooring, charged with the murder of Moses Camp, a rival hotel Keeper, at the union depot, on the night of July 10, was taken up in the district court at Anderson, and the special venire was exhausted before a jury was obtained. The case went to the jury last night and this morning they returned a verdict of not guilty.
The case against his son Seth, indicted on the same charge, was continued until the next term.
She married James Buchanan Runnels, son of Dudley Runnels and Mary Ann Frances Ellington, on 19 May 1898 in Grayson County, Texas.
Dorothy Elizabeth Jett became a widow at the circa 24 October 1914 death of her husband James Buchanan Runnels.
Dorothy Elizabeth Jett died on 6 January 1930 at age 81 in Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas, at 2400 Proctor Street at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alice Cuthrell.
She was interred at Greenlawn Cemetery.