Sarah Ann (Wright) Kempton (1818 - 1895)

Born 12 Dec 1818 in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Wife of Oliver Millard Kempton — married 5 May 1842 in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died 12 Apr 1895 at age 76 in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Sara Ann Wright was born 12 December 1818, the daughter of Charles John Wright and Lydia Bangs of Liverpool, Queens, N.S., Canada.

On 05 May 1842, she married Oliver Millard Kempton, the son of Francis Kempton and Abigail Millard of Liverpool, NS^{[1] [2]}

Their children included:

1. Herbert, born April 1, 1843, who married Letitia B Hewitt September 11, 1870 in Boston, and then married Lena Kean in April 1893 in Boston^{[1] [2]}
2. Priscilla, born March 27, 1845, who married William MacEwan^{[1] [2]}
3. Alwilda, born July 27, 1847, who married Addison LeCain in 1865^{[1] [2]}
4. Charles Robie, born December 9, 1849, who married Jane Foster MacEwan in 1873, and then married Eliza Morton Ford in 1881^{[1] [2]}
5. Lydia, born August 26, 1852, who died unmarried in 1878^{[1] [2]}
6. Alfred, born August 14, 1854, who died in infancy^{[1] [2]}
7. Eunice, born October 6, 1855, who died in 1858^{[1] [2]}
8. Eunice, born August 22, 1859, who married William R MacEwan in 1879^{[1] [2]}
9. Alfred, born March 21, 1862, who married Edith Parker Hewitt in Nelsonville, OH^{[1] [2]}

Oliver Millard Kempton died May 1, 1894, and his obituary was published in the Liverpool Advance on May 9^{[1] [2]}

Sarah Ann (Wright) Kempton died 12 April 1895 in Milton, Nova Scotia^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10} The Kempton/Kimpton families in North America : from Plymouth Colony through the tenth generation throughout the United States and Canada by Morton W. Saunders ; co-editors Eleanor F. Saunders, Kevin W. Saunders; Published: Baltimore, MD : Gateway Press ; 2000. See page 92 for Oliver with his parents, pages 249-250 for Oliver as an adult
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10} TB Smith Collection, found at the Thomas Raddall Research Centre archives in Liverpool, NS. Oliver is person 4018. His father is person 1582, his mother 1583. His wives are persons 4019 and 4020
3. ↑ (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV6R-3ZB : 18 November 2014), Sarah Ann Kempton in household of Olover Kempton, Milton and Bristol - Local District No. 5, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada; citing p. 13; Library and Archives Canada film number C-13170, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 1,375,806.