Patti...thank you so much for your information...will compare with my notes...would you please send me your email add? Melba MELEL512@att.net -------Original Message------- From: Patti McNeal Date: 10/25/05 17:03:49 To: TNSMITH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TNSMITH] Fw: Re: Kemp, Edgar McKenney Born 1896 Defeated, TN Lola May/Mai Kemp is a Brooks, daughter of Alexander Roscoe Brooks and Rosetta Frances Shepherd Brooks. She was married to Ernest Kemp (son of Hailey Kemp) and she died from child-bearing Martha. Martha died at birth and Lola died 2 days later. Lola is my grandmother's sister. I am pasting the following obit that was published in newspaper (Tennessean, I think) and written by my grandmother, Eunice Brooks Lankford. IN LOVING MEMORY (Retyped (without corrections) by Patti Lankford McNeal) LOLA BROOKS KEMP was born June 22nd 1905 and fell to sleep in JESUS March 3rd 1938 making her stay here on earth 33yrs. 8mo. 9 days. She professed a hope in Christ in 1920 and joined the Primitive Baptist Church at Friendship She said in her experience, when she joined the Church, that she felt to be such a sinner that she didn’t want anyone to see her face and wore an old bonnet pulled down over her face most all the time until finally she thought she could live no longer, and went to the barn to pray before she died, as JESUS did. But when she fell on her knees to pray, JESUS visited her and she got her comfort and arose singing “JESUS LOVER of MY SOUL LET ME TO THY BOSOM FLY” and that is where she has gone now. I feel sure for JESUS said “I go to prepare a place for you and if I go away I will come again and receive you unto Myself that where I am there you may be also.” And she proved that she loved Him for she lived a devoted member of the Church and always done her part in everything. Always took care of the preachers. Her home was their home and the Church people. She enjoyed cooking for them and taking care of them and everyone of her friends and relatives. She worked so hard to have the things to take care of us all. She was a devoted companion, a loving kind Mother, a good neighbor and a loving daughter and the sweetest sister anyone could ever have. OH! How hard it was to give her up. I can’t understand why God called her from her little ones and her companion. They were so happy but we know that God doth all things well. Lola leaves a husband and four children, a Mother and a Father, 4 brothers and 4 sisters and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her going away. One little infant preceded her in death two days. She was just as a blooming flower. We all looked to her (Lola) as the flower of our flock. She just bloomed a little while and was cut down and OH! How sad to think she can’t never come home to greet us at the door no more. Dear Lola was just sick 2 days. A little babe was born on Tuesday night 7 O’clock and Lola died the following Thursday eave at 5:30. She suffered so much but she never complained. She would just pray for God to have mercy on her. She was so bad and suffered so much that she didn’t say anything about dying. She said to Sister, a few minutes before she died, that her feet and hands felt so numb. That was death and she didn’t realize it or she was so bad she couldn’t talk one. Mother asked Lola if she wanted to tell them something and she looked so wishful and didn’t say anything. Children you have lost your best friend and she can’t come to you but you can go to her. Just do as Dear Mother taught you to do and don’t forget that you will see her some sweet day when God sees fit to call us home to live with her forever. There a precious one from us has got a voice we loved. Is_________a place is vacant in our home that never can be filled. Sleep on Dear Sister and take your rest for you worked and toiled and made so many things with those sweet hands and done so many kind deeds here that you will live on here in our memory. I would give the world if I could see that sweet face one more time. You are missed at Church. That humble face will live on. You are missed at home and everywhere we go. We could not wish you back to suffer but we wish you could be with us. You suffered your part and now sleep on that sweet sleep that knows no disturbance until that Resurrection morn. Then your sweet precious body will come forth from the grave and be fashioned like the body of our Precious Lord. OH that day is the day I am looking forward to. Then I feel like that will be one reunion. Daddy, Mother, Husband, Children, Brothers and Sisters and meet to part no more. OH happy thought. Her funeral was conducted at the Friendship Church with a large congregation Bro. Cantrell, C.L. Thomason, E.S. Frye after which she was laid to rest in Kemp Cemetery, Defeated, TN. Written by a heart broken lonely Sister that loved her so much. Mrs. Billie Lankford-919 Elvira Ave.-Nashville, TN Patti Lankford McNeal Eldon Wilkins <MelEl512@att.net> wrote: Kemp Seekers and friendly helpers.... If you have any information about any of these people will you please join in and give us your information...We are trying to identify all the these Kemp connections. (Interesting that none of the Kemps in this Anderson Cemetery were recognizable to me with as much Kemp info as I had collected over the years.) Thanks Melba & Gary -------Original Message------- From: G.J.Pace Date: 10/24/05 21:08:23 To: Eldon Wilkins Cc: bill_kemp@comcast.net; Mary Knight; Judith Holley Subject: Re: Kemp, Edgar McKenney Born 1896 Defeated, TN Melba, The Lola in the Anderson Cemetery near Hoggtown is not the Lola, daughter of Harvey & Dora. Here are the details on Harvey & Dora's Lola: Lola Kemp (4 June 1903 – 1 Jan. 2005) [LDVSS] married William C. (Willie) Gammon, Sr. (? – 1960). [DDCO] They resided in Webbtown, Macon Co., TN; Lola passed in Madison. I know nothing at all of these Kemps - can anyone out there help, or should I post? KEMP, Allie 15 May 1893‑ 25 Mar 1925 KEMP, Edgar McKenney 17-Jan-37 WW I Born 1896 KEMP, Edgar McKenney, Jr. 13 Jan 1923 – 30 Jan 1936 KEMP, Madeline 6 Sep 1916 ‑ 9 Sep 1962 KEMP, Lola May 22 Jun 1904 ‑ 3 Mar 1938 Lola & Marhta Kemp removed to Defeated Memorial Gardens KEMP, Martha Frances 1 Mar 1938 ‑ 1 mar 1938 I've placed (already had, in fact) all the Kemp WWI vets annnotated as such. Will look at the others "one of these days" Gary Eldon Wilkins wrote: > Some of you probably have this but here is what I found in the Anderson Cem > in Hogtown, Sm. Co. Hwy 85... > >Edgar McKenney Kemp - no birth date - 17 Jan 1937 WWI > >buried next to Allie Kemp 15 May 1893 - 25 Mar 1925 (don't know if was his >wife or not). > >Not far down from them is > >Hailey Kemp 3 July 1868 - 19 Mar 1966 and wife > >Maggie (Kennedy we know) Kemp 4 Jan 1881 - 7 May 1966. > >Also in this cem. is > >Lola May Kemp 1904 - 1938 > >Martha Frances Kemp 1938 - 1938 > >(I believe Martha may be dau/of Lola???) > >Madeline Kemp 6 Sept 1916 - 9 Sept 1952 > > > >Some of these graves-Lola May & Martha I understand were > >moved to Defeated Mem. Gardens. I believe Hailey and > >Maggies were moved to Carthage Smith Mem. Gardens. > > > >??Was this Lola Kemp the same Lola d/o of Harvey Kemp > >and Dora Cartwritht who md____Gammon??? > > > >So Gary...that WWI info I sent will keep you busy (and me too) > >now. > > > >Melba > > > >-------Original Message------- > > > >From: G.J.Pace > >Date: 10/23/05 23:30:54 > >To: Robbie Frye; Judith Holley; Andrea & Kevin Kemp; bill_kemp@comcast.net; >Mary Knight; Melba Wilkins > >Subject: Kemp, Edgar McKenney Born 1896 Defeated, TN > > > >Gang, > > > >I found this reference in the list of SMith Co, TN WWI vets. Does > >anyone recognize him and know where he fits into the lines? Info about > >him, siblings, children, parents? > > > >Thanks, > >Gary > > > > > > ==== TNSMITH Mailing List ==== Submit Your Family Pictures, Biographies, Histories Wills, Fokelore, To The Smith Co Web Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnsmith/ --------------------------------- Yahoo! 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