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  Kempers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Johann Heinrich is the ancestor of the Pennsylvania Kempers.
Reuben, an uncle of John Moore Kemper, was born February 21, 1771, in Fauquier County, Virginia, and died January 28, 1827, unmarried, at Natchez, Mississippi.
Reuben aided the Mexicans in efforts to overthrow Spanish rule, and was a colonel of the American contingent in expeditions in Texas, then ruled by Mexico.
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 Chapter 34: St. Stephens -- Huntsville -- Indian Commerce Kemper Expeditions
Reuben and Samuel captured Kneeland, one of the kidnappers, and inflicted upon his naked back one hundred lashes, then one hundred more for their brother Nathan, who was absent, cut off his ears with a dull knife and permitted him to retire.
Captain Alston, who received the Kempers at the line, with a Spanish guard and conducted them to Bayou Tunica, died of the dropsy contracted in lying in an open boat at anchor every night to avoid the attacks of the injured brothers.
However, before the new republic was annexed to Louisiana the convention despatched its colonel, Reuben Kemper, to the Tombigby river to enlist an army for the purpose of expelling the Spaniards from the Mobile district.
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 Handbook of Texas Online: KEMPER, SAMUEL
Samuel Kemper, filibuster, was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, and moved with his father to Ohio in 1800.
Frequently in trouble with Spanish authorities, the Kemper brothers led an abortive rebellion in West Florida in 1804.
Kemper operated a tavern at Pinckneyville until he became a major in the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/KK/fke17.html   (433 words)

  
 In early times the Kemper name.
The first that is known of the Kempers is that they were living about 1650 in the little German village of Musen, about 15 miles northeast of the city of Siegen, on the Sieg River, in the then principality of Nassau-Siegen, the present Prussian province of Westphalia.
The name of Reuben Kemper was a household word in the Southwest for the first 25 years of the 19th century, and no one man did more than he to win Florida and Texas for the United States.
Reuben, Samuel, and Nathan went with their family from Virginia to Ohio, then about 1800 went down the Mississippi and settled in Feliciana, near the mouth of Bayou Sara, lust above Baton Rouge in what was then West Florida, Spanish territory.
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 AllRefer.com - Reuben Kemper (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The three were kidnapped in 1805 but were rescued by a U.S. force as they were being taken down the Mississippi River to Baton Rouge by the Spanish.
Other forays were climaxed in 1810 by Reuben's attempt to occupy Mobile.
He failed and was arrested and detained by U.S. authorities while the Spanish dispersed the rest of his band.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Reuben Live mixes by: Reuben on CD DVD and Tape.
Fenton, Reuben Eaton Fenton, Reuben Eaton, 1819-85, U.S. politician, b.
Reuben Reubenroo´ben, in the Bible, Jacob's eldest son and eponymous ancestor of one of the 12 tribes of Israel.
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 Burness Genealogy and Family History - Person Page 247   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Reuben Arnold Morgan was the son of Anthony Wayne Morgan and Sarah Woods.
Spencer Morgan Rice was the son of Reuben Sims Rice and Agnes Bullock Morgan.
Agnes Rice was the daughter of Reuben Sims Rice and Agnes Bullock Morgan.
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 Regions of Louisiana: Florida Parishes
Joseph White and Reuben Kemper appointed by the convention to invite inhabitants of Mobile and Pensacola to join the revolution.
Reuben Kemper travels to Washington to plea for their release.
As the Battle of New Orleans approaches Colonel Reuben Kemper leads his volunteers in a skirmish against the British, is separated from his men and manages to assume the position of a British officer and captures a troop of British soldiers by leading them to American lines.
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 Terry Mason's Family History Web Site.
One of her sources of information was the book entitled, "The Kemper Family in the United States, Descendants of John Kemper & Virginia," by Willis Miller Kemper and Harry Lynn Wright, published by Geo.
Hazlitt & Co., Printers, of Chicago, in 1899; her other sources given about the various Kempers in the United States are unknown; this information is being provided only as information, even though it may not in all cases pertain to the Kempers listed earlier in on the other pages.
James Lawson Kemper, 1823-1895, a Confederate general and a Democrat, was 34th Governor of Virginia (1874-1878).
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 Reuben
Reuben, in the Bible, Jacob's eldest son and eponymous ancestor of one of the 12 tribes of Israel.
When Palestine was occupied his tribe, with that of Gad, was allotted the pasture lands E of the Jordan; Reuben was given the region adjoining the Dead Sea and S of Gad.
Reuben Bell - Reuben Bell Age: 24 professional boxer who compiled a 13-2 record as a middleweight; died of...
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 Evisum.com The Educational Vortal
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art - Kansas City, Missouri museum with a permanent collection of contemporary art which includes works by Jasper Johns, David Hockney and Willem de Kooning.
Utility Rates in Kemper County Mississippi USA - Water and wastewater: Water and wastewater are provided by two municipalities and four rural water systems.
Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and Science Center - An educational organization dedicated to furthering the public's understanding of science and technology, located in Balboa Park.
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 Reuben Kemper
KEMPER, Reuben, adventurer, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, in 1770; died in Natchez, Mississippi, 10 October, 1826.
Reuben and his two brothers subsequently went to the Mississippi territory, engaged in land-surveying, and were leaders in the movement to rid western Florida of Spanish rule.
Kemper then joined the United States army as a volunteer, served under Andrew Jackson at the defence of New Orleans, and performed important duties that greatly added to his reputation.
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 Kemper Family Genealogy Forum
Re: Kemper/Campers in KENTUCKY 1800 Census - Dennis Kemper 3/23/05
Re: KENTUCKY 1800 Census - Reuben KEMPER - Dennis Kemper 3/15/05
Re: KENTUCKY 1800 Census - Reuben KEMPER - Dennis Kemper 3/26/05
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 Tinsley Family
Reuben and Mary married in Butler Co. in 1830.
Kemper Co., MS John Henry Tinsley was born in Jones Co., GA on April 3 1797.
John Jay Tinsley born: Jan. 24, 1823, Maringo Co., Selma, Al Died: Nov. 30, 1885, Kemper Co., MS, Buried in Tinsley Cem., MS Married: in 1847 to Letty A Rogers Lettie was born: Feb. 27, 1827 and Died: Sep. 4, 1892 also buried in the Tinsley Cem.
www.rootsweb.com /~mskemper/firstfamilies/tinsleyfam.htm   (6087 words)

  
 Sago
Reuben served in Company E of the 3rd West Virginia Infantry (afterwards the 6th Cavalry).
His children were Thomas Haymond, Celia (wife of Eliza Stansbury), Nancy (wife of Reuben Beer), and Mollie (wife of I. Bennett).
In it were Andrew and Henry Bryan, Simon and Elmore Casto, David and George Thrasher, Benjamin and Isaac Tenney, Reuben D. Beer, Granville Cutright, Samuel H. Wilfong, Henry C. Boggess, Andrew Black, Marshall Gould, J. Montgomery, and Walter and Burnham Bunten.
www.wvculture.org /history/agrext/sago.html   (9000 words)

  
 Spanish Texas, Section 7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Reuben Ross and a small party were sent to New Orleans to sell the wool and with the money thus gained, plus the specie, to purchase needed supplies.
Kemper's older brothers were key players in the separation of West Florida from the Spanish in 1810.
Kemper and his men talked of joining Texas with the United States.
users.ev1.net /~gpmoran/chap1f.htm   (4468 words)

  
 Kemper Family Genealogy Forum (All Messages)
Re: Letitia Whitesides Kemper - Marilyn (Cunningham)Sanders 4/14/00
Re: Johann Kemper 1635 Mussen, Nassau Siegen - Joyce Norris 2/28/01
Re: Reuben and Phebe Coons Kemper - Bonny McDaniel 1/17/99
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 Re: KENTUCKY 1800 Census - Reuben KEMPER
In Reply to: Kemper/Campers in KENTUCKY 1800 Census by Dennis Kemper
Reuben (no 106) is the son of Henry and Letitia WHITESIDES-Kemper.
Re: KENTUCKY 1800 Census - Reuben KEMPER Dennis Kemper 3/26/05
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 “Not Merely Perfidious but Ungrateful”: The U.S. Takeover of West Florida: Publications: The Independent Institute
Among the most prominent troublemakers in West Florida were the Kemper brothers—Nathan, Reuben, and Samuel—an uncouth, boozing, and violent trio once described by a Spanish official in the area as “white Indians and river pirates” (qtd.
From 1804 to 1810, the Kempers engaged in episodic attempts to expel the Spanish from West Florida and actively sought to engage other Americans in their filibuster.
Plans were made to take Mobile and Pensacola from the Spaniards—naturally, Reuben Kemper figured prominently in this scheme—and thus to incorporate the eastern part of the Spanish province into the new-born Republic of West Florida (Sterkx and Thompson 1961, 382–85; Cox 1918, 457).
www.independent.org /publications/working_papers/article.asp?id=1478   (2359 words)

  
 15 June 2001 Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
There are almost fifty students on South Tarawa attending Taekwondo, most of them primary and High School students led by the first I-Kiribati Black Belt of Taekwondo holder, Mr Eddie Karoua, a former student of Master Lee.
On Wednesday, 13/06/01 they put a public show at the Reuben K Uatioa Stadium in Bairiki to show how good they are and letting the people realised that Taekwondo is very important to their lives regarding fitness and health and self defence.
Kemper told the Newstar that her father, Clarence (Bill) Kemper was stationed on Bikaati for about 9 months from 1944 until May 1945.
www.users.bigpond.com /kiribati_newstar/Archive/2001/June/15-06-01.htm   (685 words)

  
 MSGenWeb
This county is situated near the center of the Alabama border, and received its name from Reuben Kemper, an American soldier in the Florida, Mexican and 1812 wars.
Kemper County has a land area of 752 square miles.
They indicate a farm valuation of $6,088,000; value of crops $2,567,000, to which the cereals contributed $1,383,000, and the vegetab1es of the county $372,OQO; 32,000 acres cultivated to cotton, the crop of which was represented by 4,400 bales; and a valuation of all live stock amounting to $1,373,000.
www.rootsweb.com /~msgenweb/county-hist/kemper.htm   (665 words)

  
 Ohio River Valley Families Genealogical Database Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
KEMPER, Elizabeth (3 MAR 1791 - WFT Est 1792-1885)
KEMPER, Frances Elizabeth (1 OCT 1845 - 1923)
KEMPER, Thomas Holden (23 JUL 1854 - 25 OCT 1877)
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 (Moses KEMPER - Thelma KEMPER )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Phyllis Elaine KEMPER (7 JUN 1943 - ____)
Reuben Allen KEMPER (3 JAN 1824 - ____)
Susan R. Thelma KEMPER (15 JUN 1902 - 24 JUN 1902)
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H, enlisted April 1861; CO A, 7th VA Infatnry, Kemper’s Brigade, Pickett’s Div; captured Apri 6, 1865, at Sailors Creek; held at Pt.
GAINER, Reuben M, enlisted April 17, 1861; CO l, 7th VA Infantry, Kemper’s Brigade, Pickett’s Div; killed at first Manassas July 21 ’61.
STRINGFELLOW, B. W., enlisted May 1861; CO I, 11th VA Infantry, Kemper’s Brigade, Pickett’s Div; lieut; wounded May 31, 1862, at 7 Pines; captured 1862 in Orange CO; paroled; captured 1864 at Petersburg held at Old Capitol, Washington.
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 Kemper Family Genealogy Forum
Re: KENTUCKY 1800 Census - John KEMPER (Jr) - Dennis Kemper 3/19/05
Re: KENTUCKY 1800 Census - John KEMPER (Jr) - Dennis Kemper 3/23/05
Re: KENTUCKY 1800 Census - John KEMPER (Sr) - Dennis Kemper 3/19/05
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 Handbook of Texas Online: ROSS, REUBEN
Reuben Ross, a native of Virginia, was a member of the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition
on March 29, 1813, Ross and Samuel Kemper
Ross became the senior Anglo-American officer with the expedition after Kemper's departure, but Ross himself left the army in June 1813.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/RR/fro83.html   (208 words)

  
 Evisum.com The Educational Vortal
MSU: Kemper County Staff - Mississippi State University Kemper County Extension Service Staff.
Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School - This web site is designed to inform visitors about our law school and law library, as well as to serve our faculty, students, staff and alumni by offering current law school information and links to legal resources.
Kemper Funds - Provides a wide range of funds in all investment styles.
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 Flags Of The Confederacy
The inhabitants of West Florida were in large part English speaking people on whom the authoritarian rule of Spain did not wear well.
They were disappointed in the failure of the United States to annex the territory, and in 1804 an unsuccessful revolt was lead by the brothers Reuben, Nathan, and Sam Kemper.
In the years following the Kemper Rebellion, the English speaking people of West Florida attempted to secure some degree of traditional English liberties within the framework of their Spanish government.
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 Professional Bull Riders
Visit the Kemper Arena parking lot for pre-event festivities and celebrate with a live radio remote, food, and even a mechanical bull!
Stop by Kemper Arena box office and pick up your exclusive PBR corral pass.
Bart Jackson, Tony Mendes, Brian Herman, Cody Whitney, and Reuben Geleynse will be showing fans the ropes during this special VIP occasion.
www.pbrnow.com /competition/BFTS/event_promos.cfm?ID=04-121   (528 words)

  
 PAL: Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
PS1732.R6 Cavanagh, forest ranger; a romance of the mountain West by Hamlin Garland.
A son of the middle border, edited with an introduction by E. Kemper McComb.
Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century - Hamlin Garland." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap6/garland.html   (1801 words)

  
 Original manuscripts at THNOC concerning the Battle of New Orleans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Boré 12 o'clock on Sunday 19th Feby 1815," stating that Captain Kempe[r?] announced the signing of the Peace Treaty at Ghent and the surrender of Fort Bowyer (Ala.) to the British.
Kempe could be either Samuel or Reuben Kemper of the Mississippi Dragoons.
The collection consists of official papers on the voyages of and goods and ships taken by the French corsair Le Pandoure and her captain, Dominique You.
www.hnoc.org /BNO/bnopathmss.htm   (2898 words)

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