Kansas History and Heritage Project-Labette County Family Files

Labette County Family Files
Budd/Cameron/Hacker Families of Labette County
Submitted by Frank Furillo


My great great grandmother was Rachel Emily Budd, [1850-1937], who married James Newton Cameron, [1850-1875] February 20, 1870, in the "Old Brick Church" in Osceola, Missouri. The song "Fuller and Warren" was sung.


James Cameron and Rachel Emily Budd

Emily, as we knew her, was of English origin, her lineage going back through the Kings of England, and to Charlemagne. James Newton Cameron was of Scot-Irish descent, his grandfather being one of the "Scots of Virginia" who gave us bluegrass music, and the American Revolution. They started their life farming in Sugar Creek, Miami County, Kansas. The hardships of farming in that area, early 1870's, must have forced them out, for James Newton becomes a laborer, in the March, 1875 census for Parsons, Kansas, and the couple now have two children, James Albert Cameron (see obit), named after his father's cousin, and Minnie Gertrude Cameron.


Minnie Gertrude and James A. Cameron,
children of James Newton Cameron and Rachel Emily Budd

James Newton Cameron dies of appendicitis that year, at the age of 25. In December, of 1876, Rachel Emily Budd Cameron marries Allen B. Hacker, an attorney, who lost a leg in the Civil War, fighting with the 93rd Indiana Infantry, a Corporal with Company B.


Allen B. Hacker and Rachel Emily Budd Cameron, wedding photo

The two Cameron children are raised with three new Hacker kids, Granville (Grant) Hacker 1877-1914, Nora Dell (Node) Hacker 1881-1967, and Charles Lauren Hacker 1892-1952.


Standing: Granville (Grant) Hacker, left, Nora Dell (Node) Hacker center, and James Albert Cameron, right.
Seated are Allen B. Hacker, Charles Lauren Hacker, Minnie Gertrude Cameron Hacker, Rachel Emily Budd Cameron Hacker.




Allen B. Hacker and Charles L. Hacker

They lived at 802 N. Central Ave., Parsons, Kansas, and would stay in Parsons until just after 1920, when, following the death of Allen B. Hacker, Emily moves the family to Long Beach, California. Daisy Cameron, (see death certificate) daughter to James Albert Cameron,her mother unknown, who was brought up in the Hacker household, will have a daughter, Shirley Thurman Cameron, father unknown, in 1922 Long Beach.


Daisy Cameron, as an infant




Daisy Cameron, toddler

They moved to California because of Daisy's "condition".




This picture of the family is Dora Cameron's wedding celebration in February 21, 1889, in Girard, Crawford Co., Kansas. Top left to right are, Abraham B. Webb, next to his new wife Dora (Cameron) Webb, holding the vase of flowers. Next to her, the grinning Joseph H. Cameron. They were close in age, and look a bit alike! Below Joseph H., are his wife Alice (Hendrix) Cameron, and on her lap their son Joseph Andrew Cameron. Continuing right of Joseph H., is Fairozina W. (Cameron) Beck and Charles Preston Beck, her husband; then, Peter Franklin Cameron, and of course, then Peter Newton Cameron. � Below Peter, just off to the left, is Minnie Gertrude Cameron, at age 15 my great grandmother. I am not sure who the child on her lap is. Below that child, just right, is Rachel Emily (Budd) Cameron Hacker, in black. Right of her is Charles Wesley Cameron. The two women left of her are Mary E. (Pennington) Cameron, wife of Peter Franklin Cameron, and Nancy "Nannie" (Rollins) Cameron, wife of George W. I'm not sure which is which. Left of them is Mary (Burfield) Cameron, wife of Charles Wesley. Standing finally on the left, is George W. Cameron. I believe the two children below are Louis Hockers Cameron and Charles Newton Cameron. Both children of Charles Wesley Cameron and Mary (Burfield) Cameron. This family also lived in Girard, at the time.


Dora Cameron Webb, daughter of Peter Cameron, at her home in Terlton, Oklahoma.




Dora and her husband, Abraham Webb, Terlton, Oklahoma.




The Webbs at their Terlton, Oklahoma, farm.





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