Williams P. Camp (Birth 19 April 1859)

Williams Peter Camp, 96, Oneida County’s oldest citizen, died at the home of a son, Alvin Camp, Saturday morning (9 April 1955) following an illness of six weeks.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, April 12, at the Pleasantview LDS chapel with Bishop Leo Brown officiating. Family prayer at the funeral home was offered by Grant Jensen; invocation at the chapel, Loren Hunsaker; benediction, Leo Bowen; dedicatory prayer as the cemetery, William Neal Moon. Speakers were Daniel M. Price, Thomas W. Richards, John J. Roderick and Bishop Brown who gave opening remarks and the obituary. A poem, written by Mary Rose Jones, was read by Olive Bowen. Musical numbers consisted of a vocal duet, Vern Yeates and Leora Brown; musical duet, Fern Willie and Melvin Atkinson; song, Jenkin Jones; song, Pleasantview ward Singing Mothers.

Mr. Camp, resident of Oneida County for 79 years, was born the son of Williams Washington and Amelia Evans Camp in Salt Lake City on April 19, 1859.

After moving to Samaria, Idaho, at the age of 17, he married Ann Morse on March 16, 1879, in the Salt Lake Endowment House. Upon completion of their home, Mr. Camp was called to serve a mision (sic-mission) for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Southern states from 1884 to 1887.

During his early life, he worked as a farmer, hauled freight from Corinne, Utah, to Butte, Mont. and was active in capturing and breaking many wild horses for freighting and farm use.
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In 1907, he sold his Samaria farm to his sons and homesteaded a farm in Pleasatnview (sic-Pleasantview), where he has since resided.

Civic-minded, Mr. Camp was Pleasantview’s first postmaster and Justice of the peace. He also became a member of the first Pleasantview Ward bishopric and held the first Sunday School in his home.

Mr. Camp lived for short times in Logan, Delta and Honeyville, Utah, and Holbrook and Pocatello, Idaho.

Mrs. Camp, also very active in Church work, died in 1942 at the age of 79. Mr. Camp has since lived with his sons and daughters.

Mr. Camp, father of 14 children, is survived by two sons and four daughters; William Peter Camp Jr., Pleasantview; Alvin M. Camp, Malad; Margaret C. Peterson, Mrs. William C. (Deseret) Moon, Malad; Mrs. Loren (Millie) Hunsaker, Honeyville; Mrs. France (Emma) Hunsaker; Delta, Utah. He has 45 grandchildren, 128 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-grandchildren.