Carmelita, William Sidney (Willie/Mr. Willie) Kemp (28 Apr. 1880 - 26 Jan. 1975) [LDVT] [LDVSS] [1880 USC] [1900 USC] [1910 USC] [1920 USC] [1930 USC] married 1) Ina Belle Lemons (12 Aug. 1880 - 14 Nov. 1940) [LDVT] ] [1900 USC] [1910 USC] [1920 USC] [1930 USC], daughter of William Gray and Louisa F. Dillehay Lemons, 27 Aug. 1899 [SCTMR], the mother of all his children. Then married 2) Elizabeth N. (Lizzie) West Smith (27 June 1898 - 26 Jan. 1975) [LDVT], daughter of William Lauren (Lauren) and Margaret Frances Robinson West, 12 Nov. 1941. They were second wife and second husband, Lizzie having been originally married to Carroll Smith (24 May 1898 - 12 Mar. 1934), Oct. 14, 1917. [NOTE: SS Death Records have Elizabeth's birth date as 27 May 1898.] Born in Difficult, Smith Co., TN, Willie was a farmer in the Defeated Creek area; he passed at Cordell Hull Lake, TN. Per her STCD, Ina Belle died of cancer of the stomach. Willie and Lizzie died of drowning when coming home from church they ran off the road, into a creek and no-one could get a door open. Willie was born, raised, married, lived and died in Smith Co., TN. Willie, Ina and Lizzie are buried in the old section of the Defeated Creek Memorial Gardens, Smith Co., TN. Gary >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 19:19:42 EDT >From: WLWMEGAWAT@aol.com >Subject: [TNSMITH] Obits for Kemp families >To: TNSMITH-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <237d4.7f816bd6.393d870e@aol.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > >I am now very confused. I've been inputting some connected families into >my database. Are there 2 Willie or William Kemps with children with the >same names? Here's the 3 obits. > >Adron Lutrell KEMP obit lists his parents as Willie & Ina LEMONS KEMP. >Margie Espie Kemp Green obit also lists her parents as Willie & Ina LEMONS >KEMP. > >The other obit of William Sydney KEMP and wife, Elizabeth WEST KEMP lists >the same children as Adron lists siblings. > >Yet, Elizabeth & Ina cannot be the same........ > >Carmelita > > > > >_http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsmith/obits/kemp_adron_obit.htm_ >(http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnsmith/obits/kemp_adron_obit.htm) > >Adron Lutrell Kemp > >FROM THE CARTHAGE COURIER CARTHAGE, TN THURSDAY 29 AUG 1991 > >Transcribed by Fred and Elaine Brown Ryan > >Kemp, Adron Lutrell 1919-1991 > >Funeral services for Mr. Adron Kemp, a Farmer of the Buffalo Community, >were conducted Friday afternoon, April 23, 1991, from the Hackett Chapel of >Sanderson Funeral Home. Eld. Jeff Patterson officiated at the 2:00 p.m. >services and Burial was in Defeated Creek Memorial Gardens. > >Mr. Kemp died Wednesday morning, August 21, 1991, at Carthage General >Hospital at the age of 72. Married March 23, 1940, to the Former Wanda Lene >Sircy, he was a Defeated Creek native and the Son of the late Willie and Ina >Lemons Kemp. He was a Primitive Baptist in belief. > >Survivors in addition to his wife include a daughter, Dwin Wright of the >Lock Seven Community; Son, Terry Kemp of Buffalo; four sisters, Lucy >Patterson and Margie Green both of Carthage, Edgie Lankford and Grady Brown both of > Nashville; two brothers, Chester Kemp of South Carthage, Ester Kemp of >Defeated Creek; granddaughter, Pam Wright Hunter of Nashville. Sanderson >Funeral Home of Carthage, Directors. > >------------ > > >William Sidney (Willie/Mr. Willie) Kemp AND Elizabeth (Lizzie) West Kemp >FROM THE CARTHAGE COURIER CARTHAGE, TN THURSDAY 30 Jan 1975 >Transcribed by Fred and Elaine Brown Ryan >Kemp, William Sidney (Willie/Mr. Willie) 1880 - 1975 >& >Kemp, Elizabeth (Lizzie) West 1898 ? 1975 >A Defeated Creek couple perished around 12:30 P.M. Sunday when their >Automobile left Highway 85 and plunged into the backwaters of Cordell Hull Lake. >Dead, by drowning, are Willie Kemp, 94, and his wife Lizzie Kemp, 76. >Joint Funeral services for Mr. and Mrs. Kemp were conducted Tuesday afternoon >from the Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home, Carthage. Elder Roy Barker and >Elder Verne Jackson officiated. Interment was in Defeated Memorial Gardens. >Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Lucy Patterson, Carthage, Mrs. >Grady Brown, Mt. Juliet, Mrs. Edgie Lankford, Nashville and Mrs. Margie Green, >Donelson; three sons, Chester Kemp, Ester Kemp and Adron Kemp all of >Defeated; 23 grandchildren; 71 great-grandchildren; and 12 >great-great-grandchildren. In addition Mr. Kemp is survived by a brother, Jimmy Kemp, Defeated. >Mrs. Kemp is survived by two sisters, Miss Kate West, Carthage and Mrs. >Bessie Meador, Galveston, Tex. and three brothers, Bradley West, Carthage, >Horace West, Lafayette and Walton West, Defeated. Sanderson Funeral Home, >Carthage, Directors >---------- >Margie Espie Kemp Green >Submitted by Gary Pace >Transcribed by Fred and Elaine Brown Ryan >FROM THE CARTHAGE COURIER CARTHAGE, TN THURSDAY 18 APR 1996 >Mrs. Margie Kemp Green of Carthage died at 4:30 a.m. Friday morning, April >12, 1996, at the Mt. Juliet Health Care Center at the age of 78 following >a lengthy illness. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon, >April 13, at 3:00 p.m. from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Eld. >Lonnie Mozingo, Jr. officiated at the services and Burial followed in the >Defeated Creek Memorial Gardens. >The daughter of the late Willie and Ina Lemons Kemp, Mrs. Green was born >in Defeated Creek. She was preceded in death on March 5, 1991, by her >husband, Raymond Green. For many years, ending in the late 1970's, she and her >husband Owned & Operated the Walton Hotel and Dining Room before their >retirement. Mrs. Green was a member of the Bethel Primitive Baptist Church in >Nashville. Mrs. Green was preceded in death on February 28, 1981, by a >daughter, Carolyn Green Anderson. >Surviving are two daughters, Barbara Green Sircy of Carthage and Patricia >Norris of Carthage; one Son, LaDon Green of Mt. Juliet; three sisters: Lucy >Patterson of Carthage, Grady Brown and Edgie Lankford, both of Nashville; >one brother, Ester Kemp of Defeated Creek; ten grandchildren; fifteen >great-grandchildren; two great-greatgrandchildren. Sanderson Funeral Home of >Carthage, Directors. > > >------------------------------ > >To contact the TNSMITH list administrator, send an email to >TNSMITH-admin@rootsweb.com. > >To post a message to the TNSMITH mailing list, send an email to TNSMITH@rootsweb.com. > >__________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNSMITH-request@rootsweb.com >with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >email with no additional text. > > >End of TNSMITH Digest, Vol 5, Issue 126 >*************************************** > > >