Ancestry of
James L. Kemper

37th Governor of Virginia

James Lawson Kemper

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • William Kemper 
  • Mother:
  • Maria Elisabeth Allison   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Jun 1823 
  • Birth Location:
  • Mountain Prospect, Madison, Virginia 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Apr 1895 
  • Death Location:
  • Walnut Hills, Orange, Virginia 
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  • Notes: 

  • 37th Governor of Virginia

    Civil War veteran - CSA

    James L. Kemper was a Confederate general during the Civil War. He was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg during Pickett's Charge.

• Marriages for James Lawson Kemper

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  • Spouse:
  • Cremora Conway Cave

• Sources for James Lawson Kemper

  • ¹ Germanna Foundation Database of Descendants, ID-I110874, Record for James Lawson Kemper.
  • ² Kemper, Willis Miller and Harry Linn Wright, Genealogy of the Kemper Family in the United States: Descendants of John Kemper of Virginia, Chicago: Geo. K. Hazlitt and Co., Printers (1899), 86, 127.
  • ³ McComb, Virginia Mary, Kemper Records (1946): A Supplement to The Kemper Family (1899), Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: n.p. (1946), 182.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Battle of Gettysburg", (accessed 04/29/2021).
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "James L. Kemper", (accessed 04/29/2021).
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Pickett's Charge", (accessed 04/29/2021).