KEMPER, J. Henry

Date of birth:  31 Jul 1842 – Kentucky
Date of death: 11 Jul 1893 – Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 14, 1893,
Volume XXXIV Number 1, page 1 column 5

Henry Kemper died Tuesday after­noon at one o’clock at his home three miles north of Franklin. He was in his fifty-ninth year, having come from Old­ham county, Ky., when but six months old, and lived continuously on the farm on which his father settled. He was never married. His death was due to typhoid fever with complications of heart trouble. He leaves an estate val­ued at from $25,000 to $40,000.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, July 14, 1893,
Volume XXXIV Number 1, page 6 column 3

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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HURRICANE.

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J. Henry Kemper died Wednesday of heart trouble. His funeral took at the Baptist church Wednesday afternoon, at four o’clock, conducted by Prof. C. H. Hall. The large funeral cortege which followed him to his last resting place, showed the high appreciation in which he was held.

“Wild Cat.”

Link to J. Henry Kemper’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 111, referencing Book CH-5, page 34, records that Henry Kemper, a fifty-six-year-old white male, died 11 Jul 1893 in Johnson County.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry