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 | The Evolution of Franklin County As Franklin County, GA quickly populated it divided repeatedly into smaller counties. Most of the original Camps to settle were located in modern day Stephens and Franklin Counties. Nathan Camp's cousin clans settled massively in Jackson, Barrow, Gwinnett, and Walton Counties. Their pioneer family cemeteries and modern-day descendants can be found there today. While doing genealogy on my mother's Prickett family, I discovered that the patriarch George Prickett and family were also settling Franklin County at the same time as the Camps. George Prickett sold and donated land for the formation of the county seat. A Biographical Digression - The Kemp/Camp and Prickett lines cross It would take 150 years before the Kemp/Camp and Prickett clans would connect when my father, John Wilbur Kemp, married Virginia Margaret Young, herself being a Prickett descendant. They joined the lines in 1949 and I was born eight years later in 1958 in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Before the lines would fortunately meet, Nathan's group would move first to Madison County, AL and then up to Hardin and McNairy Counties, TN where my grandfather, William McKinley (Culous) Kemp was born in 1895. The Pricketts slowly migrated toward Atlanta as the Prickett, Spruell, Young, and House clans intermarried. After service in World War I, my grandfather left West TN forever and moved back down to Augusta, GA and Aiken, SC where he married Viola Mae Bivens. My father, the middle of five brothers, was born in Evans, GA in 1926. My mother, born in 1927 and raised in Roswell and Decatur, GA, met my father while he attended Emory University in Atlanta, GA during World War II. You know the rest.... |
