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| I have recently made contact with another cousin, Tommie Dorlene Phillips Rodgers, currently of Memphis, TN. She has been an active genealogist for some years recording family information on the Phillips, Rodgers, Kemps, and other related lines. Her father is Tommy Phillips of Adamsville, TN, son of T.C. (1887-1968) and Hattie Lee Kemp Phillips (1889-1936). Since Hattie Lee Kemp Phillips is the aunt of W.C. Kemp (my grandaddy) that makes her and T.C. my great-great-aunt and uncle, and Tommy Phillips and Tommie Phillips Rodgers our cousins. Tommie has sent several useful Kemp tidbits so far in our young friendship. The following is just one of the documents she brings to our attention: |
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Scott, I almost forgot I had this in my files. . . . It was copied from the Clifton TN Mirror, 16 June 1905: "I was born 8 June 1830 on the headwaters of Snake Creek in McNairy County. I am how living at Crump within 15 miles of where I was born. When the war came up, I was a deputy sheriff of Hardin County and was the first sheriff and tax collector of that county after the war. Anybody in the town of Savannah can tell you about Mack Kemp. Gov. William G. Brownlow (the old parson) appointed me sheriff. I still have the papers to show for this. I also have a commission from Andrew Johnson as captain of Company C, 6th Tennessee Cavalry, U.S. Volunteers. I am an old Federal soldier, have a honorable discharge, and am very proud of it. I have at various times made official bond in Hardin County - sums ranging from $600 to $20,000 and no man ever paid one dime security for me yet. I am now 75 years old, 6 feet and 1/2 inch tall and weigh 211 pounds. My health is not very good at present. My first vote for president was cast for General Winfield Scott and my last for Teddy. N. M. D. Kemp" |
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