Maude Lee Kemp Jones
FROM
THE TENNESSEAN
Jones,
Maude Lee Kemp 1886
- 1959
Transcribed
by Judith Kemp Holley
JONES
Monday
afternoon, Nov. 23, 1959 at a local infirmary, Mrs. Maude Kemp Jones, age 73
years. Survived by husband, Arthur Clarence Jones, 1307 Edgewood Place; a son,
James Allen Jones, Decatur, Ala.; two brothers, Ottie Kemp and Willie Kemp,
both of
Transcribers
Notes:
Maude
was the daughter of James Allen Kemp who fought in the Civil War and whose name
was on the list of soldiers who witnessed Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. U.S.
Grant signing the papers that brought an end to the most horrific war on our
soil, that April 1865 in
KEMP, JAMES ALLEN - Co. C, 44th
b.
29 Mar. 1845, d. 19 Sept. 1910.
Married to Sarah Susan Perry on 22 Feb. 1877. She was b. 18 July 1859.
Member:
Maude Lee Kemp Jones (daughter), b. 9 July 1886 at Defeated,
Maude
was the granddaughter of Wiley and Elizabeth (Betsy) Jones Kemp and the great
granddaughter of Solomon Kemp and Wiley Jones Sr. of Smith Co., Tenn. Arthur
Clarence Jones was the son of James Richard Jones and Cassie Latony West. He
was the grandson of Wiley and Mary Parker Jones Jr. and Martha Williams, d/o
James Clardy and Millicent Sutton Williams, and Isaac Dixon West. Mary Parker
Jones was the daughter of Richard Parker who was the brother to Lucy Parker
West, wife of the Elder Miles West. Isaac Dixon West was the son of William
West and grandson of Miles West. According to Hoke Holland West in his book
"What's In A Name?" Maude and Arthur's son,
James Allen Jones m. Thelma Bracey and they had a daughter Norma Faye Jones
b.1937 and m. Burrus Dorris in 1955. They had a son Burrus Dorris Jr. who was
born in Decatur, Ala. and was brought home from the hospital in a long dress
made by his great-great-great grandmother, Mrs. Isaac D. West 75 years before
for her grandson Arthur C. Jones. On this trip from
Transcribed by Judith Kemp Holley, gggg
granddaughter of Murphy Kemp, a brother of Solomon Kemp.