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Source: "Memoirs of Georgia", Historical and Biographical Sketches, by S Emmett Lucas Jr, published in 1896.

C C. EAVES, farmer, Buchanan, Haralson Co., Ga., son of L. B. and Lavinia (Camp) Eaves, was born in Paulding county,

Ga., in 1834. His father came from Rutherford county, N. C., where he married his wife, a daughter of Cleburne Camp,

who came to Georgia in 1832. When his parents settled in Haralson county they were in moderately good circumstances.

 His father died at the age of SIXTY- five and the mother at the age of seventy-two years. Mr. Eaves was reared on the

farm, but like thousands of others, children of frontiersmen and pioneers, received very meager schooling, owing to

inconveniences and disadvantages, both of Accommodations and teachers. He, however, by studying at home at night

by fire-light, improved himself very much in that respect. In 1862 he enlisted in Montgomery's artillery, with which he remained

 about six months, when, being taken sick, he returned home and sent a substitute to the army. His attention has been given

 principally to his farm, although at one time he engaged in merchandising, and now, in addition to his farm, runs a grist mill.

A plain, commonsense, unostentatious farmer, he is entirely content with his vocation, with its sufficient income, and with

 being regarded by his neighbors as an honorable man and citizen.

Mr. Eaves married in 1865, for his first wife, Miss Amanda, daughter of John and Betsy Kirk , of Pike county, Ga., by whom he

had nine children: Johnnie Cleburne, William Taylor, Benjamin F'ranklin, Davy Alonzo, Davis, Lovie, Bailey Sedford and

Jackson. He married for his second wife Miss Jennie, daughter of Absolom Wilson. Himself and wife are consistent and

 zealous members of the Primitive Baptist church. About the close of the war he was, elected a justice of the peace.
(Note - 2-5-2003. Full Name: Calburn Camp; Buried at Piney Woods Cemetery. Bn. Sept. 26, 1832, Died Dec. 9, 1912
First Wife: Mary Amanda Kirk, born Nov. 7, 1848, died May 4, 1882
Second Wife: Nancy Ann Wilson, born Nov. 7, 1847, died Apr. 30, 1937) 

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