Camilla Whitfield HOLMES

1821 - 1880  (58 years)

• Name	Camilla Whitfield HOLMES  [1, 2]
  Birth	2 Oct 1821  [3]
  Gender	Female
  HIST	from Charleston, South Carolina Laurel Jennings Dinkins, husband of Camilla Dinkins, and head of the Dinkins’ farming household in Sumter District, SC, died in 1859, only a year before South Carolina’s secession, leaving Camilla with her two oldest sons, Charles C., age 17, and Lewis B., age 15, to help her tend the Dinkins’ farm and her other four minor children. When the War came, her dutiful sons, Charles and Lewis, volunteered. She lost them both. Lewis died in the service of Co. C, 1st SC Artillery. Charles was killed in action in the Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia, Serving with Co. E, 6th SC Infantry Regiment.  [2, 4]
  Occupation	farmer; keeping house  [1]
  _UID	F5076C154CB64E189EA0787BA16BBAA6825E
  Death	alive 1880  [5]
  Person ID	I19983	Singleton and Related Families
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2015

  
  

  Father	Judge James T. W. HOLMES
  Mother	Caroline RIVERS
  _UID	28F40C1E27014148948F457785F4E1ED1D04
  _UID	28F40C1E27014148948F457785F4E1ED1D04
  Family ID	F14122	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Laurel Jennings DINKINS,   b. 1798   d. Jul 1859 (Age 61 years)
  _UID	359CA3F6B7AD4935959D3B0287D64F55BC86
  _UID	359CA3F6B7AD4935959D3B0287D64F55BC86
  Children	1. Charles C. DINKINS,   b. 1844, South Carolina   2. Lewis M. DINKINS,   b. 1846, South Carolina   3. Emma L. DINKINS,   b. 1849, South Carolina   4. Bradley DINKINS   5. Laurella DINKINS   6. Sarah Moultrie DINKINS,   b. 1856/7, South Carolina   7. Mary Caroline “Carrie” DINKINS,   b. 3 Apr 1854   d. 7 Jan 1935 (Age 80 years)   8. Percival R. DINKINS,   b. 1851, South Carolina
  Family ID	F14120	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S10176] Verna Dinkins Information taken from the 1850, 1860, 1870, & 1880 Census, Proposed Change: Laurel Jennings Dinkins. [S22754] Herbert O. Chambers, III, (Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1907 Buena Vista Circle, Wilmington, NC 28411-7892 (910)686-4816), page 33. [S683] Maidee, Update to Singletonfamily.org web cards. [S6685] . [S43] Ellen McNeal of Columbia, SC, Page 6.