Private Virgil Alfred Camm
Kentucky Post, Saturday, 15 October 1904, page 5
Word was received here Friday that Virgil A Camm, a Bellevue boy,
now a gunner on the Marblehead, a United States war vessel, guarding the Russian
cruiser Lena at San Francisco, had sustained a serious accident. The yard arm of
the vessel broke and precipitated Camm and a number of of other sailors to the
deck below.
Young Camm sustained a fracture of a rib and an arm, besides other injuries.
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Virgil was born 18 August 1881 in Bellevue, the son of Joseph Camm and Sarah Elizabeth Cunningham. He died 20 March 1935 in Portland, Oregon and was buried in the River View Cemetery in Portland.