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Daniels. Marlene and her mother, Katherine who was alive at the time, were of tremendous help unscrambling this confusion.
H.	Brantley Cameron - he is listed in the 1850 Marion County census with his parents at age 9 (1841). He is also in the 1860 census with his parents, and was age 18 that year (1842). We have found no other records on this person. We believe he is the brother of Samantha Cameron that was executed for refusing to join the Confederacy. Pauline Heitzmann, daughter of Samantha Cameron and niece of Brantley, could not remember his name, but told us on several occasions in the early 1970s, what happened to her uncle. Toward the end of the Civil War, all available males in Marion County, Mississippi were expected to join the Confederacy. For some reason, Samantha’s brother refused to join. When the soldiers came to take him away, his parents, Jesse and Lavina Cameron, refused to tell where the boy was. The soldiers searched the farm and found him hiding in the barn. They carried him a distance “down the lane” from the house, and he told the soldiers he would rather die than fight. The local Colonel quickly formed a firing squad and shot him dead. The family heard the shots and ran to see what was going on. When they arrived and found out what happened, the Colonel said, “Mr. Cameron, you raised a coward.” Because Brantley was never officially enrolled in the service, there was never any record made on him.
I.	Obeda “Bedy” Cameron - she is listed in the 1850 and 1860 censuses with her parents. She was 16 in the year 1860, thus born in 1844. We were told by George Cameron that she was another sister to his grandfather, John Cameron, and they lived in Marion County for a while. George said she was married to James Warden (they use to pronounce it as War-deen). He was told that they married in Marion County sometime around the Civil War and had at least one child. Something happened, possibly illness, and Bedy was supposed to have moved back in with her father, Jesse Cameron. The Our Lady of Good Hope Catholic Church in DeLisle has “Ophelia Adele Worden, daughter of James Worden and Beda Cameron,” being baptized on May 26, 1878. The record says she was “bom March 1867” and her sponsors were Bernard Saucier and Adel Mathilda Saucier. It seems Ophelia may have been their only child.
What appears to be this James Warden is listed in the 1860 census of Marion County, bom in 1843, living with his parents, William and Martha Warden, and his siblings. It should be noted that in 1860, this Warden family lived a very short distance from the Jesse Cameron family, to include Obeda! The question is how did Ophelia end up in DeLisle, Mississippi? From the few details we were told, and the few pieces of evidence, we suspect that Ophelia’s mother may have died in Marion County and the young child was sent down to live with some of her relatives near the coast, probably the Saucier family. If Obeda died prematurely, then what happened to her husband, James Warden? In the 1910 census of Lamar County (east side of Marion County), we find James Warden, bom about 1841, living alone with
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