Individual Details
Dr. Granville Garnett Kemper
(September 5, 1844 - December 24, 1920)
Granville Garnett Kemper was born in 1844 in Owen County, Kentucky to Joel Hitt Kemper and Millie Ann Garnett Kemper. He grew up in Kentucky and was a farmer.
Granville served as a private in the Confederate forces during the War Between the States. In September 1862, he was taken prisoner of war while serving in Company C of the 4th Kentucky Cavalry and incarcerated in Camp Morton, Indiana. He was released February 1865 at the end of the war after swearing an oath of allegiance to the Union.
After the Civil War, Granville Kemper became a physician. He met and married his first wife, Mary Frances (Fannie) Caruthers, in Russell County, Virginia in 1868. She was the daughter of John F. and Mary (Wyatt) Caruthers. Between 1868 and 1870 the couple and Mary's mother moved to Hopkins County, Texas where Mary bore two sons, William Garnett and Claude Emmert. In 1876 they also had a daughter, Ida May, who may have been born in Montague County as Granville and Fannie were in St. Jo when the child died in 1877 and they buried her there in Head of Elm Cemetery where other Wyatt relatives are buried. Granville, Fannie and the boys returned to Tazewell in Hopkins County where in 1879 Fannie died and was buried on their farm. Granville, his mother-in-law, and his two sons moved back to St. Jo, Texas after Fannie's death and were there in 1880.
In 1881 in Clay County, Texas, Granville remarried to Helen Estelle Scudder and had five children -- Roy, Rex, Sue, Minnie, and Ruth. He lived in Hopkins County for more than 50 years before he died and was survived by his wife.
Granville was buried with his first wife, Mary Frances Wyatt (Fannie), and after his death in 1920 a beautiful double tombstone was prepared to mark their graves on their farm in Tazewell, southeast of Sulphur Springs. This family plot was at the time in their pasture and apparently a later owner/farmer removed the tombstone and dumped it into a stock pond. Years later when the pond was dried up, the tombstone was found in the bottom. The discoverer removed their tombstone and placed it for safekeeping on his own property in Hopkins County and posted a standing offer for a family member to reclaim the stone and place it in an appropriate place in Hopkins County. In 2013 a family member found the posting, and in 2014 arrangements are being made to re-erect the tombstone in Greenview Cemetery in Sulphur Springs where Granville's second wife is buried. Granville's granddaughter and the family hope to locate the original burial site and with the new owner's permission to place a historic plaque marking the two graves.
Granville's obituary reads: "Dr. G. G. Kemper, age 75, of Bonanza community, died Christmas Eve after living in Hopkins County for more than 50 years. He had lived at Reilly Springs, Tazewell and Bonanza. He leaves a wife and seven children, five of whom live in this county and two in Kentucky." (Hopkins County Echo, Fri., Dec. 31, 1920)
Granville served as a private in the Confederate forces during the War Between the States. In September 1862, he was taken prisoner of war while serving in Company C of the 4th Kentucky Cavalry and incarcerated in Camp Morton, Indiana. He was released February 1865 at the end of the war after swearing an oath of allegiance to the Union.
After the Civil War, Granville Kemper became a physician. He met and married his first wife, Mary Frances (Fannie) Caruthers, in Russell County, Virginia in 1868. She was the daughter of John F. and Mary (Wyatt) Caruthers. Between 1868 and 1870 the couple and Mary's mother moved to Hopkins County, Texas where Mary bore two sons, William Garnett and Claude Emmert. In 1876 they also had a daughter, Ida May, who may have been born in Montague County as Granville and Fannie were in St. Jo when the child died in 1877 and they buried her there in Head of Elm Cemetery where other Wyatt relatives are buried. Granville, Fannie and the boys returned to Tazewell in Hopkins County where in 1879 Fannie died and was buried on their farm. Granville, his mother-in-law, and his two sons moved back to St. Jo, Texas after Fannie's death and were there in 1880.
In 1881 in Clay County, Texas, Granville remarried to Helen Estelle Scudder and had five children -- Roy, Rex, Sue, Minnie, and Ruth. He lived in Hopkins County for more than 50 years before he died and was survived by his wife.
Granville was buried with his first wife, Mary Frances Wyatt (Fannie), and after his death in 1920 a beautiful double tombstone was prepared to mark their graves on their farm in Tazewell, southeast of Sulphur Springs. This family plot was at the time in their pasture and apparently a later owner/farmer removed the tombstone and dumped it into a stock pond. Years later when the pond was dried up, the tombstone was found in the bottom. The discoverer removed their tombstone and placed it for safekeeping on his own property in Hopkins County and posted a standing offer for a family member to reclaim the stone and place it in an appropriate place in Hopkins County. In 2013 a family member found the posting, and in 2014 arrangements are being made to re-erect the tombstone in Greenview Cemetery in Sulphur Springs where Granville's second wife is buried. Granville's granddaughter and the family hope to locate the original burial site and with the new owner's permission to place a historic plaque marking the two graves.
Granville's obituary reads: "Dr. G. G. Kemper, age 75, of Bonanza community, died Christmas Eve after living in Hopkins County for more than 50 years. He had lived at Reilly Springs, Tazewell and Bonanza. He leaves a wife and seven children, five of whom live in this county and two in Kentucky." (Hopkins County Echo, Fri., Dec. 31, 1920)
Events
| Birth | September 5, 1844 | Owen County, Kentucky | |||
| Marriage | Abt, 1868 | Russell County, Virginia - Mary Frances "Fannie" Carithers | |||
| Marriage | May 5, 1881 | Cambridge, Clay County, Texas - Helen Estelle "Stella" Scudder | |||
| Death | December 24, 1920 | Rains County, Texas | |||
| Burial | Family Farm, near Tazewell, Hopkins County, Texas |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Frances "Fannie" Carithers (1848 - 1879) |
| Child | William Garnett Kemper (1872 - ) |
| Child | Claude E. Kemper (1874 - ) |
| Child | Ida May Kemper (1876 - 1877) |
| Spouse | Helen Estelle "Stella" Scudder (1852 - 1937) |
| Child | Roy Kemper (1883 - 1950) |
| Child | Rex Kemper (1886 - 1952) |
| Child | Sue Kemper (1889 - 1938) |
| Child | Minnie Lee Kemper (1891 - ) |
| Child | Ruth Grant Kemper (1891 - 1960) |
| Father | Joel Hitt Kemper (1812 - 1880) |
| Mother | Milly Ann Garnett (1815 - 1880) |
| Sibling | William Rice Kemper (1836 - 1908) |
| Sibling | Susan Francis Kemper (1840 - 1874) |
| Sibling | John Thomas Kemper (1842 - 1915) |
| Sibling | Jamison "James" Hitt Kemper ( - 1932) |