| Source* | | Source(s): "Johannes (Johann) Kemper, (spelled Kempfer in some records), the smith of Musen, (son of Johann Kemper, Kirchmeister), was born probably around 1630-35 at Musen, Nassau-Siegen, (now Westphalla) Germany; he died at Musen, Germany. There are some discrpancies on Johannes exact date of death, as the 1899 Genealogy of the Kemper Family in the United States, Descendants of John Kemper of Virginia, by Willis Miller Kemper and Harry Linn Wright, indicates he died on December 6, 1670 (old style calendar), and the 1964 Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegan Immigrants ot Virginia, 1714-1750, by B. C. Holtzclaw, indicates hedied in 1668, and he and his daughter, Maria Elizabeth, were both buried on November 16, 1668. Johannes married June 12, 1656, to Anna Loew (or Low), daughter of Johannes Loew of Osthelden and his second wife, Christine, but their marriage record ws not found in the Musen Church, and it is believed that Anna may have come from another parish, and they may have married there. Anna (Loew) Kemper was born at Osthelden in 1641 and was christened on October 13, 1641; she died at Musen on February 4, 1687. After Johannes Kemper's death, his wife, Anna (Loew) Kemper, married a second time on May 6, 1673, to Hans Paul Reichard (or Ricard) of the County of Braunfeld."1 |