In an interview in 1937 - see http://www.roark-family.org/ - Frances Elizabeth said her parents had "ten children, six growing to maturity. We moved to Panola County, about 1852, near Red River which was later known as Kemp Ferry Place. Later built at same place a two-story log house with two rooms and two side-rooms with a hall between, two rooms upstairs, front porch 40 feet long. The house still stands and the logs are as firm as when put there in 1857. The old family graveyard is 300 yards from the house. My mother and father, with two of my brothers and four sisters, are buried there."
You can find Viki Anderson's short biography of Joel I. Kemp at ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ok/bryan/bios/k5100002.txt
