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/1428.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have a pretty complete history on my Kemp side, predating Thomas S. Kemp and also after him, but we seem to have lost him somewhere along the line. It is very possible that records concerning his residence in Texas and probable death there as well could have been lost in the hurricane that wiped out the Texas coast around the turn of the century (1900). He was last seen and contacted by his son in Galveston prior to that date. He was born and raised in Maryland, moved to Tennessee in the 1830's and left (for Texas?) in the mid 1840's. My appreciation for your help.