Ancestry of
Ellie Kemper

TV and Movie Actress

William Thornton Kemper

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Ellie Kemper — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • James Madison Kemper Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah A. Paxton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1865 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. St. Joseph, Missouri 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1938 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Lottie Crosby
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Jun 1890 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Jefferson County, Kansas 
  • Children:
  
  

  Rufus Crosby Kemper

  James Madison Kemper (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  William T. Kemper

• Sources for William Thornton Kemper

  • ¹ Germanna Foundation Database of Descendants, ID-I022401, Record for William Thornton Kemper.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/13/2021).
  • ³ Kansas, U.S., County, Marriage Records, 1811-1911, Marriage record for Wm T Kemper and Lottie Crosby.
  • ⁴ Kentucky Advocate (Danville, Kentucky), 18 JUL 1917, p. 4, Wedding of son James Madison Kemper and Gladys Woods Rubey.
  • ⁵ The Valley Falls New Era (Valley Falls, Kansas), 13 APR 1916, p. 5, Obituary for mother-in-law Nettie Kendall.
  • ⁶ Christensen, Lawrence O., et. al., Dictionary of Missouri Biography, Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press (1999), 813.
  • ⁷ Missouri Digital Heritage, Missouri Death Certificates, 1910-1973, Death certificate for son James Madison Kemper Sr.

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