When Margarett Helen Kemp was born on 11 May 1849, in Tennessee, United States, her father, James S. Kemp, was 33 and her mother, Eleanor A Thomas, was 26. She married William Shelby Hewitt on 6 November 1871, in Smith, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Civil District 6, Smith, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 14, Smith, Tennessee, United States in 1910. She died on 30 April 1912, in Carthage, Smith, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Carthage Cemetery, Carthage, Smith, Tennessee, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: status name for a champion, Middle English and Middle Low German kempe. In the Middle Ages a champion was a professional fighter on behalf of others; for example the King's Champion, at the coronation, had the duty of issuing a general challenge to battle to anyone who denied the king's right to the throne. The Middle English word corresponds to Old English cempa and Old Norse kempa ‘warrior’; both these go back to ancient Germanic campo ‘warrior’, which is the source of the Dutch and North German name, corresponding to High German Kampf .
Dutch and North German (North Rhine-Westphalia): from the personal name Kempe, Kampe; see 1 above.
Dutch and Flemish: metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or processed hemp, from Middle Dutch canep ‘hemp’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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