Wood & Torbert Families

Moses Manley Camp

b. 24 March 1839, d. 8 July 1888

Moses Manley Camp was born on 24 March 1839 in Alabama.
He married Dorothy Elizabeth Jett, daughter of Lester Jett, on 17 July 1868 in Grimes County, Texas.
The following appeared on 19 June 1877 in The Galveston Daily News: The press dispatches from Washington of the 12th said Moses M. Camp had been commissioned postmaster at Navasota, Texas. A private dispatch from Navasota says Dr. R. Quinney is the lucky man, commissioned by the President for Navasota postoffice.
His wife Dorothy Elizabeth Jett became a widow at his death.
Moses Manley Camp died on 8 July 1888 at age 49.
He was interred at the Camp family cemetery, Navasota, Grimes County, Texas.
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.