Individual Details

French Fleury Kemper

(February 11, 1801 - August 28, 1884)

1850 Lincoln County, Missouri census, Hurricane Township, District 49, Dwelling/Family #988/988, taken 30 October 1850: French KEMPER, 42, male, farmer, real estate, $1200, Virginia. (Living next door to his mother, Roseann KEMPER and other siblings.)

"State of Missouri, County of Lincoln - I, A. B. King, a justice of the peace do certify that I solomized the rights of matrimony between French Kemper and Jane King on the 28th day of January 1858. A. B. King, J. P. Filed 15 January 1858, Alexander W. Martin, Recorder." (Lincoln County, Missouri Marriage Book 1, page 351.)

1860 Lincoln County, Missouri census, Hurricane Township, New Hope Post Office, Dwelling/Family #1267/1143, taken 31 July 1860, page 164: French KEMPER, 59, m, Farmer, $4000 real estate, $1000? personal estate, Mo; Jane KEMPER, 53, Tenn; Mary A. KEMPER, 1, f, Mo.

1860 Lincoln County, Missouri slaves census: French Kemper is shown owning a 25 year old black male.

1870 Lincoln County, Missouri census, Hurricane Township, family #166: French KEMPER, 69, male, male, white, farmer, real estate $3000, personal estate $1400, Virginia; Jane KEMPER, 42, female, Tennessee; Mary A. KEMPER, 16, f, Missouri; William KEMPER, 7, m, Missouri; Eliza A. KEMPER, 6, f, Missouri; James KEMPER, 2, m, Missouri.

1880 Lincoln County, Missouri census, Hurricane Township, District 90, taken 17 June 1880, Dwelling/Family # 329/329: French KEMPER, white, male, 79, married, farming, Virginia, Virginia, Virginia; Jane KEMPER, 51, white, female, wife, keeping house, Tennessee, Kentucky, Tennessee; Wm C. KEMPER, white, male, 19, son, single, farming, Missouri, Virginia, Tennessee; Jas H. KEMPER, white, male, 11, son, single, Missouri, Virginia, Tennessee.

"French Kemper had blue eyes." (Interview of Grace (Watts) Long by Roy Kemper, in the 1950's.)

Events

BirthFebruary 11, 1801Culpeper County, Virginia
MarriageJanuary 28, 1858Jane Hammack Luckett
DeathAugust 28, 1884Lincoln County, Missouri
BurialAugust 29, 1884Kemper Cemetery, near New Hope, Lincoln County, Missouri

Families

SpouseJane Hammack Luckett (1828 - 1907)
ChildMary Alice Kemper (1858 - 1877)
ChildWilliam Octavius Kemper (1861 - 1934)
ChildAnna Eliza Kemper (1863 - 1962)
ChildJames Henderson (or Hammock) Kemper (1868 - 1885)
FatherMartin Kemper (1778 - 1848)
MotherRosanna Kemper (1780 - 1854)
SiblingMatilda Kemper (1800 - 1873)
SiblingMary "Polly" Kemper (1804 - 1890)
SiblingEmily Kemper (1806 - 1876)
SiblingAmbrose Dudley Kemper (1808 - 1883)
SiblingCatherine Kemper (1810 - 1832)
SiblingNancy "Frances" Kemper (1814 - 1903)
SiblingOctavius Kemper (1820 - 1863)