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Note: Harrison Lee Douglas was raised on Hogan's Creek, Smith Co., TN by his
grandparents, Richard and Delilah (Risen) Hodges. I believe his home place
was at the entrance of Hogan's Creek and named Hodgetown. He was brought up
to TN from Arkansas after his parents deaths to be raised by his mother's
parents. Harrison was a veteran of the Civil War. He enlisted in the Union
Army and was in Company I, 1st Tennessee Inf. After the war, he returned home
to Hogans Creek where he died April 26, 1927. He was married three times
and is survived by one child (the year 2000) Mrs. Alice Alvis of the Bluff
Creek community.

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Note:
Thomas Layton Petty
Enlisted January 1862 in General Forrest command, Col. Smith: Lieut. Col.
Anderson: Capt. Sanders made up company/ Was paroled under Capt. Moore.He
was paroled April 26. 1865 either at Greenville or Charlotte, N.C. He also
stated that he never took the oath of allegiance to the United States
Government. He moved to KY 1869.

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Note:
Sergeant Sampson Dixon Kemp
Sampson Dixon Kemp had gone to be with his brother Ellis B. Kemp who had removed to
Missouri with his wife, Elizabeth Pankey Kemp & children. Elllis B. Kemp was shot in
Madison County, Mo. during the civil war. He was one of the leaders of the "Knights
of the Golden Circle", a group of southern sympathizers who helped people in Missouri
head south & cross over into Kentucky to join the Confederate Army.

A group of Union soldiers from Illinois were sent into the area to find member of the
"Knights of the Golden Circle". They were not wearing their uniforms and the people
in the area mistook them for men wanting to go south along their secret route through
the creeks & rivers. Unfortunately, they directed them to where Ellis B. Kemp was and
when he would not reveal the names and locations of the other members of his group,
they shot him. They also shot another of his neighbors who belonged to the "Knights"
and arrested Ellis' son and took him to jail. This information is all in a letter in the
Missouri State Archives, written by a member of the Union unit that shot him.
A picture of Ellis B. is in the county history of Madison Co., Missouri.

A great great granddaughter of Ellis B. Kemp (bro. of Sampson D.) has written me with
more info on the death of Ellis B. Kemp. She says that another of her gg grandfathers,
Edward S. Sanders..was murdered with in a few days of Ellis B. Perhaps this is the other
neighbor mentioned in the write up. She said the Union Missouri Militia took both men
out of their family homes and executed them by a shot to the head.

Ellis B. & Sampson D. Kemp were sons of Jinks Kemp whose father was Murphy Kemp.

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