You wrote, in part: I presume I am a Kemper descendant. My GGGG Grandmother was Leticia (or Letitia) Whitesides Kemper, second wife of Jacob Coons (1), born 1740 in Culpeper, VA, grandson of Johann "Jost" Cuntze. Jacob and Leticia were married around 1795. My response: I don't collect ALL the Kempers, some of whom who lived in Kentucky in counties which I have not researched. I concentrate mostly on Garrard Co., KY, and its adjacent county, Mercer Co., where their cousins the Holtzclaws lived. And now I find your people in Fayette Co., KY--not too distant from Garrard Co. If through your local public library - or a nearby one - you are able to access the online genealgoical database called HeritageQuest, I believe you will find a digitized copy of Willis N. Kemper's genealogy of the Kemper Family in the USA. Some historians quarrel with the history Mr. Kemper gives, and I have to confess I have not read that part. I believe Mr. Kemper, who compiled this genealogy over 100 years ago, probably worked with what was available to him. As with many of us, he probably drew the wrong conclusions. In some libraries, there is a supplement to this genealogy, which I confess I have not read. I believe the Family History Library in Salt Lake City has filmed both the genealogy [a thick volume] and its supplement. Also, on HeritageQuest are some books compiled by a later genealogist, who visited Germany and who spoke German, B. C. Holtzclaw. If you are able to access HeritageQuest, do an author or surname search in the Book Section of Holtzclaw. He did some genealogies of several Germanna colonist families. In a separate e-mail, I am sending some notes I have accumulated on a Henry Kemper, and according to the will of his widow, Letitia Camper, she names a daughter Lettice Coons. I am sorry I did include in my notes the source of my information. Incidentally, when I clicked on HeritageQuest and searched Books, specifying Fayette Co., KY, I found some Rev War pensions had been abstracted long ago, and among the pensions was one for Tilman Camper. Tilman, I see, is one of the witnesses to the will of Henry Camper, proved Jan 1793, in Fayette Co., KY. This information will be forthcoming in another e-mail, but, unfortunately, without the source. I must have made these notes long ago! If these are your people, you probably want to get a copy of the handwritten wills of both Henry Camper and his widow Letitia Camper. I am fairly sure these must be on films available through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. E.W.Wallace descendant of the Kempers of Garrard Co., KY near Dicks River ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com