Glynn-Wayne County GaArchives Obituaries.....KEMP, Francis E. May 25, 1927 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 July 7, 2009, 12:24 am The Brunswick News; Wednesday 25 May 1927; pg. 8 col. 1 FRANK E. KEMP, AGED VETERAN, DIED TODAY—HE FOLLOWED WHEELER DURING CIVIL WAR AND TRIED TO JOIN HIM IN LATER YEARS Frank E. Kemp, aged 80, another of the old Confederate veterans now so rapidly disappearing, left the “thin gray line” shortly after 6 o’clock this morning, when he passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Janie Laslie, 3308 Norwich street. Mr. Kemp had been a resident of Brunswick for many years, in fact his entire life had been spent in and around the city, he having at one time resided at Darien. He fought through the entire Civil war, and followed that gallant old soldier, General Joe Wheeler, of whom he often talked, and who, in his opinion, was the greatest general of them all. During the Spanish-American war, when General Wheeler again went to the front, Mr. Kemp made a desperate effort to enlist and again get under the command of his Confederate general, but he was past the age limit, and consequently could not join the army. The remains will be forwarded tomorrow morning to Jesup, where the funeral will take place a few miles from that city. Mr. Kemp is survived by one brother, A.A. Kemp, of Waycross, and five children, Mrs. W.C. Cook and Mrs. LeRoy Williams, of Jacksonville; W.A. Kemp and Miss Susie Kemp of Atlanta, and Mrs. Laslie, of this city. Some of the out of town relatives will arrive tomorrow to attend the funeral. Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/glynn/obits/k/kemp12491ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb