For those Kemp researchers of Smith County, Tennessee, I am transcribing this record from the Carthage Courier obituary section dated 31 December 1992. It is copied as written. ELLA MAE KEMP Mrs. Ella Mae Kemp, age 77, of Nashville died during surgery Wednesday afternoon, December 23, 1992, at the Nashville Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were conducted Saturday morning from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home and burial was in the Defeated Creek Memorial Gardens. Elder Harold Dean Linville officiated at the 11:00 a.m. services. Born in Defeated Creek the daughter of the late Pete Turner Wilkerson, she was married December 22, 1930, to Benton (Buster) Kemp, who survives. She was a member of the Defeated Creek Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Kemp was preceded in death on February 8, 1990 by a son, George Turner Kemp. Surviving in addition to her husband are two daughters, Sue Decker, of Arlington, Texas, and Pam Baggett of Murfreesboro; a son, David Kemp of Hendersonville' a sister, Etta Dockery Cothern of Lebanon; seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Sanderson Funeral Homes of Carthage, Directors. Melba Greene Wilkins

Eldon Wilkins wrote: >For those Kemp researchers of Smith County, Tennessee, I am transcribing >this record from the Carthage Courier obituary section dated 31 December >1992. It is copied as written. > >ELLA MAE KEMP > >Mrs. Ella Mae Kemp, age 77, of Nashville died during surgery >Wednesday afternoon, December 23, 1992, at the Nashville >Memorial Hospital. > >Funeral services were conducted Saturday morning from the >Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home and burial was >in the Defeated Creek Memorial Gardens. Elder Harold Dean Linville >officiated at the 11:00 a.m. services. > >Born in Defeated Creek the daughter of the late Pete Turner >Wilkerson, she was married December 22, 1930, to Benton (Buster) Kemp, who >survives. She was a member of the Defeated Creek Missionary Baptist Church. >Mrs. Kemp was >preceded in death on February 8, 1990 by a son, George >Turner Kemp. > >Surviving in addition to her husband are two daughters, Sue Decker, of >Arlington, Texas, and Pam Baggett of Murfreesboro; >a son, David Kemp of Hendersonville' a sister, Etta Dockery Cothern of >Lebanon; seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. > >Sanderson Funeral Homes of Carthage, Directors. > >Melba Greene Wilkins > > >==== TNSMITH Mailing List ==== >Visit Photos Of Cemeteries Of Smith County >Over 500 + Cemeteries online with pictures and Descriptions >http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsmith/tngen/cempics.htm > > > > > Were her parents Peter Turner Wilkerson and Mollie Kemp Wilkerson? Jim