Individual Details

1870 Census. James River, Buckingham Co, VA, Hh 137
Elizabeth Patteson, age 54, Farmer. Value of real estate $6500, Value of personal property $1000.
Kate, 15. Prentis, 14.
Lucy Woody, age 10, domestic servant.

I didn't find Elizabeth in 1880.


Elizabeth was the daughter of John Camm and Elizabeth Powell. Elizabeth in turn was the daughter of Thomas Powell and Betsey Thomas, daughter of Cornelius Thomas of Albemarle. John Camm was a son of the Rev. John Camm, President of William & Mary College. He was born 2 Dec 1775, died in 1818.

John Camm, from Wikipedia:
Born in 1718, in Hornsea, Yorkshire, and educated in the school at nearby Beverley, John Camm was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, on 16 June 1738, and took his B.A. in early 1742.
He became the minister of Newport Parish, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, in 1745. From 1749 to 1771, he served on the faculty of the College of William and Mary as professor of divinity and was the minister of York-Hampton Parish, York County. He served as the College of William and Mary President from 1772–1777, being succeeded by James Madison.
Camm Hall at the College's campus adjacent to Colonial Williamsburg is named in his honor

Elizabeth Powell Camm apparently lived to old age.
Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg by the Oldest Inhabitant, C. H. Wynne, publisher, 1858, p.160-161
The house now occupied by Dr. John Patterson, was, in 1819, the residence of Mr. James Stuart, who married a daughter of Major William Warwick, and the house nearly adjoining the Methodist Church, was, for many years, the residence of Mrs. Nancy Tait, a sister of the late George Whitelocke, of Petersburg; and the house just above the Methodist Church, and at the foot of the hill, was inhabited by Mr. Cullensworth and his sister; Mrs. Martin, who resided there many years with her sons and daughter. These good people were members of the Methodist Church, and their abode was ever open to young visitors from the schools on that street, who would resort thither to amuse themselves with Mrs. Martin's fine swing, or to gaze with wonder and admiration at the wax figures of the "Babes in the Wood," sleeping peacefully in death! " No burial or covering Were given to the pair; But little Robin Redbreast Did cover them with care." All of which affecting particulars were read in those days from a large edition, and were religiously believed. The white house on the cross street, from Dr. Gilmer's to Main street, was (if memory does not deceive), for a brief period, the residence of William and Jane Lynch. It was afterwards the residence of a Mr. Duffy-and it was here that " Duffy's Brewery" was kept. It was afterwards the abode of Green B. Lewellen; and then a man, by the, name of Wilson, kept there an " entertainment" for gentlemen, wagoners and hog-drovers. The house occupied by Dr. Gilmer was also, at one time, the residence of Mrs. ELIZABETH CAMM, of Amherst county. This lady was the wife of Mr. Camm, well-known and esteemed for brilliant talents. She was the mother of Robert Camm, who was also remarkable for his fine talents, and whose early death was much deplored by a large circle of friends. This venerable lady survives, and, at an advanced age, retains all of her faculties in a remarkable degree. She resides on her estate, in the county of Amherst, managing her domestic concerns with great energy. Mrs. Camm is the mother of Mrs. Donald and Mrs. Anderson, of Bedford; Mrs. William Saunders, of Lynchburg; and Mrs. Dr. David Patterson, of Amherst. Mrs. Camm also resided, for a time, in the house opposite; and in the house on the hill now occupied by Mr. Cabaniss.
p.162-163
In 1826, the house occupied by Dr. Gilmer was the residence of Mr. DAVID PATTERSON, of Buckingham. He was a good man, and honest, useful citizen; and was a younger brother of Mr. Alexander Patterson, who was the first to run stages between Lynchburg and Richmond. This latter gentleman was a person of great energy and enterprise; and, at the time he first started his line of stages, the road between the town and the city of Richmond, was almost impassable, and the "Leathern Convenience" only plied once a week between the two places:-the coaches then were very little better than wagons, and the passengers clambered in, by way of the driver's seat, in front. When the stages began to be made comfortable, and to have side-doors, they were considered as most luxurious conveyances: they then made two trips in one week, and, finally, they made tri-weekly trips, which were thought to be the greatest speed, at which public conveyances could arrive. But since the canal and railroad have been in operation, the pleasures of stage-travelling are now scarce known, whilst all those well known and celebrated stopping places-" Upper Patterson's, " " Lower Patterson's, "French's," " Raines' Tavern"-are broken up, and many public houses on the Richmond road untenanted, save by owls and bats

Birth	9 Mar 1815
Marriage	19 Dec 1832	Amherst County, Virginia - Dr. David Patteson

Spouse	Dr. David Patteson (1810 - 1862)
Child	Reuben Blakey Patteson (1834 - 1862)
Child	Sally Donald Patteson (1836 - )
Child	Camm Patteson (1840 - 1909)
Child	David R. Patteson (1842 - 1861)
Child	Elizabeth Camm "Bettie" Patteson (1844 - )
Child	John Anderson Patteson (1846 - 1864)
Child	Robert Camm "Robin" Patteson (1848 - 1862)
Child	Nannie A. Patteson (1850 - )
Child	Hampton Warwick Patteson (1852 - 1862)
Child	Kate Patteson (1855 - )
Child	Sergeant Smith Prentiss Patteson (1856 - 1930)
Child	Jessie M. Patteson (1859 - )