Pleasant Shade, Tenn. May 16, 1929
Transcribed By Judith Holley
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After an illness of several weeks, Mrs. Florence Kemp, 36,died Sunday night at a Nashville Hospital where she had been a patient for some time. She was stricken with flu and pneumonia early this year and complications developed. Surviving are her husband, R. Lester Kemp, a farmer of this place; five daughters, Elizabeth, Adelle, Ione, Eula Hart, and Etoyle Kemp; her father, the Rev. T.W. Matthews, a prominent Baptist minister of the Kempville community; one brother, Tom Matthews of Louisiana, one sister, Mrs. Gillie Payne of Difficult; two half-brothers, Elijah Matthews of Riddleton, and Henry Matthews of Rough Point, and four half-sisters, Mrs. Mattie Farrish of Little Rock, Ark., Mrs. Minnie Kittrell of Difficult, Mrs. Hattie Matthews and Mrs. Bertha Goad, both of Wellston, Okla. Burial was conducted late Monday afternoon in the family graveyard near Difficult with funeral services conducted by Rev. Calvin Gregory in the presence of a large audience. Mrs. Kemp was a devoted member of (clipping is cut off)
Transcriber notes:
The
family graveyard was the John Morgan & Virgie Allen Kemp
homeplace on
Little Salt Lick Creek Rd..
Go To Kemp Family Cemetery
Pictures
R. Lester Kemp's parents, Henry Bluford & Eula
Jane Allen Kemp, were
brother & sister to John M. & Virgie F.
Allen Kemp. After H.B. & Eula
died on TB, (Eula in 1902 & H.B. in 1903) they
left Lester & his younger
brother, Carcie Allen Kemp, to be raised by their
uncles. Lester went to
live with John & Virgie Kemp and Carcie went to
live with Peyton Taylor
Kemp & his wife Isabella (Belle). Her maiden
name was Taylor, also.
A picture of Robert Lester Kemp can be found on this
website:
Go To Asa Kemp Family Pictures
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