This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EZm.2ACIB/1428.2.1.2.1 Message Board Post: My Kemp family is pretty well documented except for Thomas S. Kemp (and we aren't even sure that the middle initial was an S as it shows up only one time on any documents). There is no connection to a Lord family of which I am aware. My Kemps were in the Wichita Falls area prior to 1850, my grandmother's brother, Joseph Kemp, was involved in many things in the Wichita Falls area - Lake Kemp was named for him as it was an irrigation project that he started. There is also a Kemp Blvd. in Wichita Falls as well as a Kell Blvd. which was the name of his partner, Frank Kell. The missing ancestor, Thomas Kemp, was the grandfather of Joseph Kemp. The father, William Thompson Kemp, was born in Tennessee in the early 1840's and left for Texas as a young man, served in the Confederate Army and returned to Texas afterwards where he married Frances Stinnette and raised his family. I've been looking for information on Thomas S? Kemp now for a number of years and even the family history ha! s no information on his place or date of death though Galveston is the most probable site as he met his son there - but he was apparently estranged from his son and nothing was ever written down about that one meeting, nor did the family ever seem to have much information on it. My appreciation for your help.