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From: "Lee and Billie Jones" <>
Subject: KEMP name in Greenville Co, SC
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 14:39:48 -0400
References: <005101c4915b$7cf6b150$640f0281@Barbaras>


Responding to Barbara (her message below mine)

Barbara,

Do you know if these Kemps are connected to the Various Edgefield Dist, SC
Kemps. The area of Greenville and Edgefield were both in the Old Ninety Six
Dist until 1790 when the area of Greenville because a part of the short lived
Washington District.

I have info. on some of the Edgefield Kemps that inclued the following who
married and had at least some of their children in Greenville area...

1 Wiley KEMP b: Bet. 1765 - 1774 in NC d: December 12, 1829 Edgefield Dist,
SC
. +NANCY m: December 25, 1788 Greenville, Greenville Co, SC d: January 28,
1828
..... 2 Son KEMP b: Bet. 1784 - 1794
..... 2 Sterling B. KEMP b: February 04, 1790 in Greenville Co, SC d:
Conecuh Co, AL
..... 2 Henry Johnson 'Harry' KEMP b: March 12, 1792 in Edgefield Co, SC d:
1846
......... +Hannah GORMAN b: March 12, 1797 m: November 19, 1812 d: Aft. 1850
Father: John Gorman Mother: Nancy 'Annah' Nicholson
..... 2 Clarissa S. KEMP b: March 08, 1794
..... 2 Richard KEMP b: April 26, 1796 d: April 14, 1829
......... +UNKNOWN
..... 2 Susannah KEMP b: January 25, 1799 in Greenville Co, SC d: November
09, 1800 Edgefield Co, SC
*2nd Wife of Wiley KEMP:
. +Mary NICHOLSON b: Abt. 1776 in SC m: Aft. 1826 Father: David Nicholson
Mother: Rhoda Whitehead

I don't know Wiley's parents at this time. According to an August 2003
message from Connie McNeill, OEDGS, She states that "Wilson Kemp was born in
North Carolina, and was part of the group that moved from NC to Greenville and
then on to Edgefield. Includes my GGGGgrandfather Capt Wiley J. Kemp, a
brother of Wilson. Whether the above is that same Wiley, I have not yet
confirmed. But note the reference to Greenville.

1 Wilson KEMP b: Abt. 1780 in NC d: July 01, 1859 Edgefield Dist, SC
. +SARAH b: Abt. 1780 in NC m: NC d: Bef. July 01, 1859 Edgefield Dist, SC
..... 2 Green KEMP b: Abt. 1808 in NC d: Abt. 1843 Edgefield Dist, SC
......... +Christiann HOLLOWAY b: Abt. 1810 d: Bef. 1838 Edgefield Dist, SC
Father: William Holloway, Sr Mother: Margaret ?
..... 2 Hannah KEMP b: 1812 d: 1892 Burial: Good Hope Baptist Church Cem.,
Saluda Co, SC
......... +John Sheppard DODGEN b: 1805 d: 1880 Burial: Good Hope Baptist
Church Cem., Saluda Co, SC
..... 2 Mary Ann KEMP b: Abt. 1815 in Edgefield Dist, SC d: Russell Co, AL
......... +William BEAN b: Abt. 1808 Father: James Bean Mother: Mary
Bledsoe
..... 2 Allen KEMP b: January 31, 1816 in Edgefield Dist, SC d: February 14,
1894 Burial: Good Hope Baptist Church, Saluda Co, SC
......... +Lydia S. BLACK b: July 18, 1826 in SC d: October 13, 1880 Burial:
Good Hope Baptist Church, Saluda Co, SC
..... 2 Wilson KEMP, Jr. b: August 08, 1817 in Edgefield Dist, SC d: April
02, 1898 Bowden, Carroll Co, GA
..... 2 Margaret KEMP b: Abt. 1818 in Edgefield Dist, SC d: Edgefield Dist,
SC
..... 2 Lucinda KEMP b: December 04, 1822 in Edgefield Dist, SC d: September
19, 1898 Edgefield Co, SC
..... 2 Bud KEMP b: Abt. 1824 in Edgefield Dist, SC d: Jefferson Co. FL
..... 2 Thomas J. KEMP b: Abt. 1827 in Edgefield Dist, SC d: Edgefield Dist,
SC
..... 2 Richard KEMP b: Abt. 1828 d: September 24, 1853 Campte, LA
..... 2 Sarah Ann/Amanda KEMP b: Abt. 1830 in Edgefield Dist, SC d: Sumter
Co, GA
......... +John M. FORREST b: Abt. 1824 in Edgefield Co, SC m: December 10,
1846 Father: William 'Buck' Forrest Mother: Gillieannia 'Gilly' Goodwin

There may be probate records in Greenville that will prove the attachments of
these folks to the Greenville names you mentioned in your message below.

I would be interested in putting those Greenville familes together with their
neighbors and wives to see about early connections and possible other family
ties. These Edgefield Kemps were neighbors, witnesses, and married into some of
my Edgefield Co. familes.

Billie Jones
Camden, SC



----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Rutan" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: [SCGREENV] Re:Kemp & Barbare


> Would your Elizabeth Kemp be related to Aaron Kemp who sold and bought land
> from my gggggrandfather Benjamin Barbare. Benjamin along with Aaron,
> Elizabeth, Moses, Thomas and Henry Kemp also purchased items from a sale of
> Polly Kemp that was ordered May 12, 1813. Aaron Kemp, Sr. also witnessed
> the deed selling the property from Benjamin's widow to the Barbare children.
> I have long thought that the Barbares and Kemps may have been related in the
> late 1700's but have not been able to prove it. We have not been able to
> find the maiden name of Benjamin's wife Sally. I have even wondered if she
> was a Kemp. Benjamin died in 1817 in Greenville, SC and Sally died about
> 1848.
>
> Barbara


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