Background
DeCamps was born in 1878 in Greenville, South Carolina, the son of Modeste and Mary Decamps.
DeCamps was born in 1878 in Greenville, South Carolina, the son of Modeste and Mary Decamps.
Virginia Technical Hokies.
DeCamps was a prominent quarterback for the Virginia Technical Hokies football team of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He was considered very fast. He also spent three years at Furman University and a year at Richmond College.
1901
DeCamps was captain in 1901.
He was selected a substitute on the All-Southern team He was once a quartermaster sergeant of Company B, second South Carolina regiment.
DeCamps served in the Spanish–American War. On 27 November 1907 DeCamps married Lois Catherine Sykes, daughter of Technology C and Alice Sykes, in Portsmouth, Virginia.
They had three children.
Captain William Luke deCamps (July 6, 1911 - May 12, 1991), served in the 111th Field Artillery battalion of the 29th Infantry Division during Operation Overlord. Lois Sykes Decamps (1912–1991), married the diplomat George H. Steuart on May 28, 1938 in Wallacetown Virginia. Charles Decamps.
