RHODA COFER³ HAM (JOHN COFER², STEPHEN¹) was born November 22, 1820 in Callaway County, MO, and died November 5, 1881 in Camp Point, Adams County, Illinois. She married (1) SAMUEL SMITH June 23, 1832 in Adams County, Illinois, son of JOHN SMITH and JANE. She married (2) MATTHEW KEMP October 1857.  Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Section IV, Row 25

Notes for RHODA COFER HAM:

	"1879 History of Adams County, Illinois" Kemp, Rhoda C., resident of Camp Poin, is the third child of John and Elizabeth Ham. When she was 10 yrs of age she with her parents moved to Adams County and settled near Quincy. A few years later they settled near Columbus where she was married to Samuel Smith. Her 2nd husband Matthew Kemp was born in Ireland.
	After marrying Matthew they moved to Concord Township where they lived ten years. From there they went to Iowa and lived there until Matthew's death in 1870 in Jackson Township, Keokuck County, Iowa. She remained there for several more years. She returned to Camp Point in 1875. Mrs. Smith ows a residence and a lot in Camp Point and a farm in Iowa.

Samuel was engaged in mercantile pursuits but chiefly farmed.

Children of RHODA HAM and SAMUEL SMITH are:

1.  SARAH SMITH, b. 1833.

2.  DAVID SMITH, b. 1840.

3.  AUGUSTA SMITH, b. 1844.

4. EMMA SMITH, b. 1848.

Children of RHODA HAM and MATTHEW KEMP are:

5. STEPHEN HENRY KEMP, b. January 20, 1860, Camp Point, Illinois; d. May 30, 1949, St. Joseph, Buchanan Missouri.

6. ELIZABETH A. KEMP, b. 1862, Camp Point, Adams County, IL; d. December 29, 1907, Silverton, Colorado; m. HARVEY MILLER, November 20, 1881, Camp Point, Adams County, Illinois. Nicknamed Lizzie

7.  INFANT KEMP.

 STEPHEN HENRY⁴ KEMP (RHODA COFER³ HAM, JOHN COFER², STEPHEN¹) was born January 20, 1860 in Camp Point, Illinois, and died May 30, 1949 in St. Joseph, Buchanan Missouri. He married (1) ANNA ROSS September 4, 1882 in Carthange, Hancock County, Illinois. He married (2) LILLIAN EPPERSON December 24, 1889 in Methodist Episcopal Church, Skidmore, MO.

Notes for STEPHEN HENRY KEMP:

	Stephen Kemp helped his dad on the farm until his dad died in 1870. In 1875 he moved from Iowa back to Camp Point, Illinois where he secured a position with the publisher of the Camp Point Journal, who was also the postmaster and book and stationery store in town. In 1879 he contracted pneumonia and was sent to Pawnee City, Nebraska to recuperate. After that he returned to Camp Point and worked in a dry goods store until he married Anna Ross. After marrying Lillian in 1889 he secured a bank position the next week and continued in banking until 1924 when he was severely burned by an explosion of a kerosene heater.
	Burial: June 2, 1949, Maryville, Nodaway, Missouri
	Occupation: Camp Point Journal and Postmaster of Camp Point, IL

Child of STEPHEN KEMP and ANNA ROSS is:

1.  JEAN⁵ KEMP, b. August 2, 1884, Quincy, Adams County, Illinois; d. March 6, 1973, Kenosha, Wisconsin; m. ADDISON CLARK HOLT, January 28, 1904, Maryville, Nodaway County, Missouri.

Children of STEPHEN KEMP and LILLIAN EPPERSON are:

2.   LARUE KEMP

3.   GEORGE KEMP.

4.  ILENE KEMP.

5.  GRETA KEMP

6. JOSEPH KEMP, b. June 21, 1899, Maryville, Nodaway, Missouri.

7. HAROLD KEMP