Florence Elizabeth Matthews Kemp

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Transcribed by Judith Kemp Holley

Kemp, Florence Elizabeth Matthews 1893 - 1929

Mrs. R. (Robert) Lester Kemp

Pleasant Shade, Tenn. May 16, 1929

(Special)____

After an illness of several weeks, Mrs. Florence Kemp, 36, died Sunday night at a Nashville Hospital where she had been a patient for some time. She was stricken with flu and pneumonia early this year and complications developed. Surviving are her husband, R. Lester Kemp, a farmer of this place; five daughters, Elizabeth, Adelle, Ione, Eula Hart, and Etoyle Kemp; her father, the Rev. T.W. Matthews, a prominent Baptist minister of the Kempville community; one brother, Tom Matthews of Louisiana, one sister, Mrs. Gillie Payne of Difficult; two half-brothers, Elijah Matthews of Riddleton, and Henry Matthews of Rough Point, and four half-sisters, Mrs. Mattie Farrish of Little Rock, Ark., Mrs. Minnie Kittrell of Difficult, Mrs. Hattie Matthews and Mrs. Bertha Goad, both of Wellston, Okla. Burial was conducted late Monday afternoon in the family graveyard near Difficult with funeral services conducted by Rev. Calvin Gregory in the presence of a large audience. Mrs. Kemp was a devoted member of (clipping is cut off)

Transcriber’s notes:

The family graveyard was the John Morgan & Virgie Allen Kemp homeplace on Little Salt Lick Creek Rd.

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Robert Lester Kemp's parents, Henry Bluford & Eula Jane Allen Kemp, were brother & sister to John M. & Virgie F. Allen Kemp. After H.B. & Eula died of TB, (Eula in 1902 & H.B. in 1903) they left Lester & his younger brother, Carcie Allen Kemp, to be raised by their uncles. Lester went to live with John & Virgie Kemp and Carcie went to live with Peyton Taylor Kemp & his wife Isabella (Belle). Her maiden name was Taylor, also.

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