John Lafayette Camp

After graduating from the University of Tennessee in 1848 he moved to Gilmer in Upshur County, Texas.

The couple would have five children, including John Lafayette, Jr. Camp entered to Civil War by joining the Confederate States Army.

By the end of the war, he was Colonel of the 10th Texas Cavalry, and attached to the Army of Tennessee.

But, when the drier climate failed to improve his health, he came back to Texas two years later.

He settled in San Antonio, living in his later years with his son, John Lafayette Camp, Jr.