Andrew Warwick Cameron was the son of Col. Charles E. Cameron (died 14 Jun 1829 in 77th year) who served in Bath Co. during the Revolutionary War and Rachel Primrose Warwick (they married 3 May 1792 in Bath Co., see Rev War Pension App. W6624 plus were bonded on that day, in same). His father Charles military marker is beside his grandfather Jacob. Charles and Rachel's gravestone is at Warm Springs Cemetery. Charles's and Jacob's family home is run as a Bed and Breakfast called Warwickton, on the National Register of Historical Places.

Andrew married first to Margaret Grattan (AKA Gratton) Miller on 25 Jan 1828. She died 13 Apr 1829 shortly after the birth of daughter Margaret in Jan 1829.

Children of 1st wife Margaret G Miller, d 1829)
Margaret G. M., abt 1829, (William B Cochran), below

On 17 May 1832, (now widowed) Andw Warwick Cameron and Cyrus Hyde of Rockbridge county were bonded for the sum of $150, so Andrew was bound to marry Ellen Mc Hyde, the daughter of John H Hyde, deceased, and ward of Cyrus Hyde. See original signatures (posted on wife Ellen's site).

He married second to Ellen McCue Hyde, the daughter of John Hyde, on 17 May 1832 in Lexington, Virginia. On 28 Jan 1833 Andrew, the only remaining child of Charles E. Cameron, was awarded Rev. War bounty land.

Cameron children from the 2 censuses below:

Children of 2nd wife Ellen:
John Hyde, 21 Mar 1836 -16 Jul 1915
Charles J., 20 May 1838 - 4 Sep 1877
H. Warrick, abt 1841 ?
George H, 7 Nov 1842 - 18 Jan 1898
Andrew Warwick, 7 Dec 1840 - 1 Mar 1871
Rachel or Rose P., 25 Nov 1844 - 9 Jan 1886 in Bath (Jos H Sherrard)
Sarah E., 25 Nov 1846 - 1925 (Thos S White)
Mary Elizabeth, 25 Feb 1849 - 22 Nov 1932 (Jno Wallace Lee)
Eugenia Martha, 25 Jul 1851 - 11 Jan 1898 (Asher W Harman)
Annie Frances, 5 Apr 1855 - 14 Jul 1860
Lucy Lewis, 23 Aug 1856 - 13 Mar 1931 PA (Wm Scott White)
"Martha E., 22 Jul 1859"

In 1850 and 1860 he owned a lot of slaves in both NE District and District 6, in Rockbridge Co. and in Bath Co., where he was born.

On the 1850 Dist. 51, Rockbridge Co., Virginia census, I found farmer Andrew W. Cameron, 43 with $59K in real estate residing with Camerons: Ellen M., 36; Margaret G. M., 21; John H., 14; Charles J., 12; Andrew W., 7; Rachel P., 5; Sarah E., 3 and in the "pool house" were India, 30 and James Philips, 1, all Virginia born.

"Col. Andrew W. Cameron has been nominated for the Senate by the Whigs of the Rockbridge District." Published in the Lynchburg Virginian, Vol 29, #29, dated 20 Nov 1851.

Andrew grew many things including wheat, oats, Indian corn, etc.

In 1860, Col. Cameron had 9 listed children on the census with wife Ellen Hyde. He was a large land owner, in both Bath and Rockbridge Counties and had a large number of slaves, about 49 and livestock (horses, pigs, cattle, sheep and a mule).

On the 1860 Dist. 7, Rockbridge Co., Virginia census, I found farmer Andrew W Cameron, age 54, owned $100K in real estate (a large amount in his day); Ellen W Cameron, 46; John H Cameron, M.D., 23; farmer H Warrick Cameron, 19; Geo H Cameron, 17; Rose P Cameron, 15; Sally E Cameron, 13 Mary E Cameron, 11; Eugenia Cameron, 9; Annie F Cameron, 7; Lucy L Cameron, 4 and overseer Samuel H Barnett, 28, all Virginia born.

On 11 Dec 1872, their daughter Eugenia M., born 19 Jul 1851, married Asher W. Harman, Jr. (born 6 Sep 1850) in Lexington, Virginia.

Robert E. Lee wrote a letter on 12 Mar 1868 to his son, Robert Jr. and described his visit on Andrew's land. "I rode out the other day to Mr. Andrew Cameron's and went into the field where he was plowing. I took great pleasure in following the plows around the circuit. He had four in operation. Three of them were held by his former comrades in the army, who are regularly employed by him, and, he says, much to his satisfaction and profit." Per Recollections and Letters of General Lee, by Robert E. Lee Jr. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904, p 305-07.

1870 "Mr. Andrew Cameron owned a fine farm near Lexington, and kindly took care of my father's horses when he was away in the summer; also at different times supplied him with a cow and took care of any calf, if there happened to be one, till it was of service. My father constantly rode out to see him, and enjoyed talking farming as they rode together over his fields. His delight in every aspect of Nature was real and ever present. These letters show, too, his care and consideration for animals." R.E.LEE Also on 23 Aug 1870, he wrote to his wife Mary: "I have written to Mr. Andrew Cameron to inquire about a young cow he has of mine, and asked him to let you know if she is giving milk. If his report is good, you had better send for her. She is, however, young, and will require very gentle treatment." From the leearchive at Washington & Lee University, Recollections and Letters of General Robert E Lee by Robert E Lee, Jr., Chapter 23, A Round of Visits.

Check out Cameron-Harmon Plantation, formerly called Oak Hill. It's a private residence, consisting of 197 acres, now owned by the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, Virginia. Oak Hill was built by Asher Harman on his father in law, A W Cameron's estate. It is located on the north side of Alphin Ln/Rt 750, also in Lexington, and is now in poor shape. The Virginia Department of Historic Resources, #081-6935 has a lot of historical details and family data. The property was built in about 1821 and 1873 by Col. A W Cameron and son in law Asher W. Harmon/Harman, filed on 26 Oct 2012.

Many articles written about Andrew and family who lived in Lewisburg, West Virginia, plus Bath, Augusta and Rockbridge Counties, Virginia. See Livia Nye Simpson-Poffenbarge's The Battle of Point Pleasant: A Battle of the Revolution, October 10th 1774.

DISTRESSING TRAGEDY. "From one of our editors, who has been a few days at Lexington, Va, we learn that a most distressing and deplorable scene was enacted there on Wednesday night last, about 11 o'clock, in front of Johnson's Hotel, on the arrival of the stage from Staunton. The prevailing anxiety to hear the news from the collision which had taken place between General Garnett's command and the enemy, had drawn together a large crowd who were awaiting the stage, and who now gathered around the passengers to make their enquiries. One of the passengers was a very young soldier from Baltimore. He was armed with a Minnie rifle, which he had brought with him from Winchester. The gun was loaded, but the cap had been removed.— There must have remained, however, on the nipple of the gun a portion of the detonating powder of the cap. As he was descending from the stage, the hammer caught, in some way, and the gun was discharged into the crowd. The ball first struck the wrist of Lieut. William A. Smith, son of Wm. T. Smith, of King George county, and a graduate of the Institute, but now of the Provisional Army. It produced a severe contusion, and some laceration, but glanced off without other injury than a flesh wound. It next took effect upon a youth named Willie McClung, son of Dr. McClung of Lexington, and about fourteen years of age. It struck him on the right side of the head, penetrating the skull, and dislodging a portion of the brain. He was still lingering on Thursday evening, but no hope was entertained of his recovery. Nor was the ball's fatal errand yet completed. The next victim was Col. Andrew W. Cameron, who resides a few miles from Lexington. The ball entered his neck, in front, and lodged under, the skin behind the right shoulder. He was killed instantly. Col. Cameron was about fifty years of age. He was a most excellent and highly esteemed citizen and gentleman. He leaves a wife and ten children. Three of his sons are in the army. and were in (the late battle near Martinsburg between Col Jackson and Patterson's command, where the Virginian's made so heroic a stand. He was a very wealthy farmer, and among his possessions had a fine farm in Pocahontas county. The overseer of that farm had just come to report that the enemy's foraging parties were committing depredations in that county, driving off heeves, &c.; and he was standing in the crowd when Col. Cameron was shot. He bent some moments over Col C.'s prostrate form, as it lay in the street, until assured that life was wholly extinct : and then retiring into Johnson's Hotel he instantly swooned away and was with difficulty restored. It is seldom that we have to record such fatal results from a similar accident. It is to be hoped that so shocking a tragedy will induce greater thoughtfulness in the use and handling of firearms, and thus be the means of averting at least, from some others, those agonies which the affair at Lexington has entailed upon several families and their friends." Published in the Richmond Enquirer (Virginia), Vol 58, #25, dated 23 Jul 1861.

Andw W Cameron died 17 July 1861 in Lexington, Virginia. He was accidentally shot, aged 55 years, the son of Chas & Rebecca (sic) Cammeron. He was born in Bath (Co., Virginia) and the informant was his consort E Cameron (that's wife Ellen). The next 3 lines involve 3 slaves of A W Camerons Estate, from diptheria and measles in Nov and Dec, also reported by E Cameron. Per the 1861 Rockbridge Co., Virginia Register of Deaths, 603/620 (film # unlisted), line 42, unnumbered page.

Andrew and his wife Ellen were buried in the same plot, White 5, #1. Their son Junior is in 5, #3; Frank is in 5, #2 and Annie is in 5, #5.

Newly cleaned marker says:
In
Memory of
ANDREW W. CAMERON.
Born June 6th, 1806:
Died July 17th, 1861.
"Mark the perfect man and
behold the upright: for
the end of that man
is peace."

(The epitaph is from Psalms xxxvii: 7.)

His second wife died on 29 Sep 1898 and her obit was found in the 28 Sep 1898 issue of the Lexington Gazette, Virginia. Did not locate one for his first wife in 1829.

Bio researched and written by LSP