Mary Jane Snoddy Kemp

 

 

 

CARTHAGE COURIER    CARTHAGE, TENNESSEE   6  JUNE 1929

 

Transcribed by Judith Kemp Holley

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Kemp, Mary Jane Snoddy  1852 - 1929

 

 

Mrs. Mary Kemp Dies At Home of Daughter

 

Mrs. Mary Kemp died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. L. Russell, in

Carthage at 2:30 o’clock Monday afternoon, June 3rd., 1929. Mrs. Kemp

had been in declining health for the past several months, but her final illness

kept her confined to the bed the last three weeks. She was 77 years of age

and had been a member of the Primitive Baptist church for 21 years, her

church membership being at Friendship.

 

Mrs. Kemp spent practically all of her life in the Defeated Creek

community. Some years ago she moved to Carthage with Mr. & Mrs. J. L.

Russell with whom she resided, who looked after her with utmost care and

tenderness all the while. In September 1868, Mrs. Kemp was married to

Robert Kemp, who preceded her to the grave a few days more than five

months years ago, he having died on Dec. 23, 1928 1923.

 

Before marriage she was Miss Mary Jane Snoddy, and was a quiet

unassuming woman who devoted her love and attention to her home duties.

She was loved and highly respected by all her neighbors and a large list of

friends, all of whom extend deepest sympathy to the family in their bereave-

ment. She is survived by one child, Mrs. J. L. Russell, one granddaughter,

Grace Bates, and one great-granddaughter, Miss Pauline Bates.

 

Funeral services were conducted at the residence  Wednesday morning

by Rev. E. S. Frye of Brush Creek, assisted by Rev. Bunyan Smith and

Rev. J. L. Smotherman of Carthage. Burial was made in the new Carthage

Cemetery where the remains were laid to rest beside her departed husband.

 

The floral offerings were very numerous and beautiful, and in a measure

marked the high esteem in which Mrs. Kemp was held. Among those out of

town who were in Carthage to attend the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kemp

and daughter Majorie, Mrs. Lee Duke, Mrs. Bob Hearn and daughter,

Josephine of Gallatin. Mrs. Bob Witt, Mrs. Robert Allen and Mrs. Sowell of

Old Hickory. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor and Mrs. Carter, of Lebanon, and

Joe Snoddy and Mrs. Samantha Snoddy of near Lebanon. Also a number of

relatives and friends from Hickman and Gordonsville attended the funeral.

 

 

 

Transcriber’s Notes:

 

* Mrs. Mary Snoddy Kemp’s husband was Robert Harvey Kemp, son

of Beverly S. Kemp, grandson of Jinks Kemp and great grandson of Murphy Kemp.

Her daughter was her & Robert’s only child, Ollie Lee Kemp Russell,

Mrs. Jeff L. Russell. Jeff died March 21, 1923 and Ollie died April 01, 1942.

Grace Russell Bates was married to Roy Melvin Bates Dec. 31, 1914. Roy

died Dec. 01, 1918 of double pneumonia after having the influenza during the

epidemic.

 

Grace Russell Bates was instrumental in the organization of the Capt. Henry

W. Hart chapter of the United Daughters of The Confederacy. Her signature

is on my grandmother’s charter member certificate in 1928. Her mother,

Ollie Lee Kemp Russell, claimed Sampson Dixon Kemp as her ancestor

when she joined the U.D.C.. Sampson D. Kemp was the brother of Beverly

S. Kemp and the uncle of Robert Harvey Kemp & died during the Battle of

Franklin , Nov. 1864. Sampson joined the Confederacy in Missouri where

another brother, Ellis B. Kemp removed to with his wife Elizabeth Pankey

and their children. Ellis was murdered for helping the Confederate Cause.

An out of town couple described as Mr. & Mrs. Tom Kemp were Tom T. &

Florence Duke Kemp. Their daughter Marjorie attended the funeral with them

and told me several years ago that the farm, where the Defeated Memorial

Gardens now resides, once belonged to her father and the first to be interred

there was her baby sister who died while they lived there before moving to

Gallatin. Tom T. Kemp was the son of Peyton Taylor Kemp, grand son of

Asa Kemp, & great grandson of Burrell Kemp Jr. the brother of Jinks Kemp.

Tom T. & my grandfather, Carcie Allen Kemp, were first cousins and were

partners in a Chevrolet dealership in Gallatin in the 30’s. Tom T. Kemp had

a son Otis who joined him as partner some time after the war. Otis was

Mayor of Gallatin at one time.

 

 

 

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