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He was probably named after his uncle, Mathias Green, discussed above. He joined the Confederacy on March 25, 1862, at Columbia, Mississippi, and died at the Columbia, Mississippi Hospital on July 1, 1862, according to records. He was assigned to 38th Mississippi Calvary, Company I. We have found no further information on him.
K. Mary “Samantha” Cameron - she was bom on June 22, 1847, in Marion County, Mississippi, and died in Bay St. Louis on June 19, 1917. One of her children was Pauline Catenaro who married George Heitzmann, and they are the grandparents of Jerry D. Heitzmann. For more details on her, see our research titled “Mary Samantha Cameron and her three Husbands.”
L. William M. “Bill” Cameron - he is listed with his parents in the 1850 and 1860 censuses. He was 10 years old in 1860, or bom in 1850. He is listed in the 1920 census of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, using the name “William M. Cameron.” William is buried in the Clear Creek cemetery near Baxterville, Mississippi. Dates on the headstone are “1846 - Jan 1923,” but we think the year of birth is given incorrectly. We know he was Samantha’s younger brother, but if he was bom in 1846 as the headstone says, he would have been older than Samantha. His niece, Pauline Heitzmann, remembered “Uncle Bill” visiting her mother in Bay St. Louis at least two times.
Much of the following information on William M. “Bill” Cameron was told to us by his granddaughter, Mary “Louella” Cameron (Mrs. Hollis H. Fortenberry) while she was living in the Dixie Community near Hattiesburg, in June of 1973.
William M. Cameron was bom in Marion County and raised there. He also lived in Pearl River County for a while, had a store in Baxterville, Mississippi, and a sawmill near Columbia at one time. Several years before his death, William moved to Sicily Island, Louisiana, where he died. He is now buried in Clear Creek cemetery with a headstone. Louella also said he was of “Scotch-Irish” descent, and he married three times. His first wife was Mary Elizabeth Davis (daughter of Dave Davis a Civil War hero), and they married on March 25, 1880, as recorded in Marion County Courthouse. In the 1880 Marion County census, Mary Elizabeth is age 16 and William is 28 years old. By this marriage William and Mary Elizabeth Cameron had:
1.	Willie Lafayette Cameron - bom August 1, 1881, and died December 12, 1936, as found on his headstone in the Ford’s Creek cemetery in Pearl River County. He married Julia E. Burge, lived in Pearl River County, and they had: Mary “Louella” (we got this information from her), Robert Lee, Hebron Harvey, and Elbert Harleston. Willie was murdered in Pearl River Swamp.
2.	Louisa Delila “Lila” Cameron - bom on March 7, 1882, and died on December 27, 1938, as found on her headstone in the Old Pine Hill cemetery in Sicley Island, Louisiana. She married first to Robert Gill and
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