STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1903, page 1, column 6

LYDIA (JACKSON) KEMP CARY, 19 Apr 1819 - 06 Dec 1903

   Lydia Jackson was born at Carlisle, Cumberland county, 
Pennsylvania, April 19, 1819, and died at her home near Angola, 
Dec. 6, 1903.  Aged 84 years, 8 months and 13 days.
   In early youth the family of which she was a member, moved to 
Huron county, Ohio, where she was married to Abner Kemp about the 
year 1836.  With him she came to Steuben county in 1837, settling 
on the farm one-half mile south of Angola, where she has since 
resided.  She passed through all the experiences and hardships of 
pioneer life and saw Steuben county grow from a wilderness to its 
present condition of improvement and culture.  Her husband died in 
1851.  She was the mother of two children, one of whom died in 
early childhood.  The survivor, John Kemp, resides on the old farm 
where his parents settled sixty five years ago.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

   Lydia (Jackson) Kemp Cary, 19 Apr 1819 - 06 Dec 1903, on 01 Dec 
1836 in Huron, Ohio, married Abner Kemp, 1803 - 10 Jan 1851.  Lydia 
is buried at Circle Hill Cemetery, Angola, Steuben County, Indiana, 
and Abner is buried at Old Angola Cemetery, Angola, Steuben County, 
Indiana.

   Son, John Kemp, 1840 - 1919, married Cordelia (Fuller) Kemp, 09 
Dec 1844 - 23 Apr 1918.  They are buried at Circle Hill Cemetery.

   " Cemeteries of Steuben County, Indiana, 1990," by Audree Seibel 
Lewis, Vol. 1, page 297, lists:  CARY, Elizabeth (________). D. 
June 15, 1851, ae 31 y. 4 m., "wife of John __. Cary."  This may be 
Mary Elizabeth Hicks who marr. John L. Cary, Apr. 27, 1845.  John 
L. later marr. Lydia Kemp, July 17, 1851.  Old Angola Cemetery. 
 
   A second marriage is not listed in the obituary.

   Steuben Republican, 31 May 1893, "City of the Dead", page 1, 
column 5, lists, " Elizabeth, wife of John L. Cary, died June 15, 
1851, aged 31." Further down in the column it lists, "Abner Kemp, 
died Jan. 10, 1851, aged 48."

"Cemeteries of Steuben County, Indiana, 1990," by Audree Seibel 
Lewis, Vol. 1, page 297; Vol. 2, page 1028.
Steuben Republican, 24 Aug 1904, "The Pioneers", Lydia Kemp's 
death.
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