Dougald A. Cameron is mentioned with prominence among the early pioneer residents of Runnels county and among the old time stockmen of Central and Western Texas. He was born in Warren county, Mississippi, in 1850, and is of Scotch ancestry, his paternal grandfather having come from the Highlands of Scotland and settled in Mississippi. Dougald A. was reared in his native county of Warren, and came from there to Texas early in the year of 1874, stopping for a month or so in Fort Worth, at that time a very small and unattractive town, and he then came to Runnels county in company with Nat Guest, another of the pioneers of the county. They arrived at the Rich Coffey place, at the mouth of the Concho, on the 6th of April 1874, and Mr. Cameron has been numbered among the citizens of Runnels county practically ever since those early days, although the county was not then organized. It is difficult for those of the present generation living as they do in a time when Runnels county has developed into a thickly settled agricultural community, rich and resourceful, to realize what the conditions were when Mr. Cameron came, when all was an open country given over entirely for range purposes, with no permanent settlements and only an occasional cow camp.
His first work on coming to this frontier was with cattle, and for several years he was engaged with some of the big cow outfits that operated on the great plains of western Texas. He showed such abilitiy and trustworthiness with cattle that he was given many positions of responsibility. His principal employers were the Coggin Brothers and Tally Burnett, although he worked at times with other outfits, such as Tankersley's, Ike Mullins' and R.K. Wylie's, and in 1878, with his associates, he had charge of a herd of three thousand cattle which they brought from old Fort Sumner in New Mexico over the old Indian trail to the Yellowstone Canyon in the Panhandle, and from there to the Pease river, where they were delivered to the Matador Cattle Company. Mr. Cameron did this work for R.K. Wylie and the Coggin Brothers, who owned the cattle, and this was the first herd brought over the Fort Sumner trail by white men.
For several years past Mr. Cameron has made his home in Ballinger, retired from an active business live, but he has land and other intersts in this city and in Runnels county. He has been a witness and an active participant in all the marvelous changes that have taken place in western Texas in recent years. He married in Warren county, Mississippi, Flora Hullum, a native of tha county, and they have six children: Dougald, Stanley, Katie, Dorsey, Frank and John.

SOURCE: History of Central and Western Texas, pgs. 360-361.