Carthage Courier Carthage,
Tennessee January 18, 1923
Transcribed by Judith Kemp
Holley
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Within the past week the Defeated Creek community has lost two of its
old Confederate soldiers. Uncle Loss McCall died at his home last Thursday
after an illness of some time. He was 87 years of age, and during the Civil
War was enlisted as a Confederate soldier. He is survived by the following
children, William and Chas. McCall, Mrs. Kittie Carter, Mrs. Lizzie Law,
and Mrs. Mary Jones. He was a member of the Hickory Grove Methodist church and was buried at his home place after funeral services had been conducted by Rev. J. L. Smotherman.
Uncle Marlin Kemp died at his home near Defeated early this (Thursday)
morning after an illness of only a few days ago. He was 82 years of age,
was a member of the Primitive Baptist church, and was an old Confederate
soldier. He is survived by his wife and the following children, Johnnie,
Wade, and Burford Kemp, the latter of whom is a member of the Smith County
Court, and Mrs. R. L. Bullard, Mrs. Allen Powell and Mrs. Hubert Carver.
After funeral services had been conducted by Rev. Gholston the remains
were laid to rest in the family cemetery.
Both Mr. McCall and Mr. Kemp were honorable, upright and good
citizens, and numerous friends extend sympathy to the bereaved families.
With the death of these two it brings the total of the deaths of Smith
County Confederate soldiers up to four during the past week, the other two being Capt. W. B. Petty and Uncle Tom Hackett.
*Note: Mr. Hugh Lawson (Loss) McCall was preceded in death by his wife,
Mary Ann (Polly) Kemp McCall eleven years earlier. She was the daughter
of William Layton & Dorothy Pankey Kemp Sr.
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*Note: Mr. John Marlin Kemp was survived by his wife, Amanda Sarah West
who lived till Dec. 29, 1930. She was the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Robin
West. He was the son of John Wilson & Judith Pankey Kemp. Both are buried
In the Kemp Cemetery in Friendship Hollow.
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*United Daughters of the Confederacy information:
McCall, H. Lawson - Co. H, 24th Tennessee Infantry
Member: Nellie Ethel McCall Kemp (granddaughter), b. 1 Apr. 1899 at
Kempville, Tenn. (46/118)
Kemp, John Marlin - Co. F, 9th Tenn. Calvary
Members: Fannie Betsy Kemp, b. 15 Nov. 1884 (niece) (49/99)
Berta Goodner Hawk (gr. niece) (62/279)
Bessie Goodner DeArmond (Mrs. John B.) (gr. niece) (62/255)
Annie Lucille Kemp Powell (daughter), b. 8 Aug. 1884 (51/96)