I found some great information about Reuben Kemper that I'm posting here: From, Old Families of Louisiana, Alston & Pirrie Families, Pg. 193: "4. Solomon Alston, never married. As a captain in the Spanish troops he captured the Kemper brothers, who had led an ill-advised and unsuccessful revolt against Spanish rule at Tunica Bayou. The Kempers escaped their captors a few hours after their arrest and hounded Solomon to his death, brought about by sleeping night after night in a skiff on the Mississippi River to escape their fury. However, it was not his ears Ruben Kemper cut off and kept for several years in a bottle as a warning to everyone that it was unhealthy to trifle with anyone named Kemper." ****Supposedly, the Kemper brothers tracked down their captors and cut off the ears of one of them, pickled them and displayed them for many years at their tavern!!! From, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol. II, Prominent Persons, Pg. 318: " Kemper, Reuben, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, in 1770, emigrated to Ohio in 1800 with his father, who was a Baptist preacher. He and his two brothers went later to Mississippi territory, engaged in land surveying, and were leaders in the movement to rid western Florida of Spanish rule. In 1808 they organized an expedition to Baton Rouge, from the adjacent counties of Mississippi, and were captured by the Spaniards. They were rescued by the United States troops at Point Coupe, and afterwards severely punished the Spaniards who had been engaged in their capture. Kemper was engaged in an unsuccessful attempt to capture Mobile; was one of the organizers of the expedition of Gutierrez and Toledo against the Spanish in Mexico; and in 1812, as major, and subsequently as colonel, commanded a force of about six hundred Americans who cooperated with Mexican insurgents. The expedition advanced into Texas, and several successful battles were fought, but the dissensions that followed between the Mexican and Americans enabled the Spaniards to defeat the divided forces, and the Americans, returned home. Kemper then joined the United States army as a volunteer, served under Andrew Jackson at the defence of New Orleans, and performed important duties. At the end of the war, he settled in Mississippi. He died in Natchez, Mississippi, October 10, 1826." From, Mississippi Territory in the War of 1812: "Reuben Kemper, one of three brothers, was a native of Fauquier County, Virginia. The brothers were frontiersmen of the type that made the Indian fighters and territory conquerors of America. They removed when very young to Pickneyville in the Mississippi Territory and were the leaders in an insurrection known as the Kemper Rebellion which finally culminated in the annexation of the Biloxi and Mobile Country to the Mississippi Territory." Also, Kemper County, MS was named for Reuben Kemper. What is the ancestry of Reuben Kemper? I think he is the same Reuben Kemper mentioned in BC's Ancestry and Descendants as the husband of Phoebe Coons, the son of Henry Kemper and the grandson of John Kemper, of the 1714 colony. Is this correct? Also, who is the wife of John Kemper? Is it Anna Catherina Utterback, daughter of Herman Utterback and Elizabeth Heimbach? Was Anna Catherina also married to Harman Fishback? Barb Price