Nathan Snow Kemp
Nathan Snow Kemp was born on January 20, 1816, in Pomfret, Vermont, to Nehemiah and Betsey Kemp. His father was a farmer. Kemp grew up in Pomfret, and he moved to Natick, Massachusetts, in the 1840s. He married Martha Felch on November 6, 1844, but she probably died in the 1840s.
 
By 1850, Kemp was working as a shoemaker in Natick, and he owned $500 of real estate. He married Lucinda Butterfield on January 9, 1851, and their daughter Elizabeth was born on March 30, 1855. They moved to Weston, Massachusetts, in the 1850s, and by 1860, they owned $150 of personal property.
 
He enlisted in the Union army on August 2, 1864, and he mustered in as a private in Company I of the 39th Massachusetts Infantry later that day. He may have lied about his age, as his enlistment records list him as 40 years old. He was 5 feet, 8 inches tall, with black hair and hazel eyes. The regiment took part in the siege of Petersburg, and Confederate forces captured him on December 10, 1864. He spent the next few months imprisoned in Richmond, Virginia.
 
By February 1865, he was suffering from “chronic diarrhea.” Confederates granted him a parole that winter, and he returned home to recover his health. He died in Watertown, Massachusetts, on May 19, 1865.  
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(2629)Kemp, Nathan Snow1816-01-201865-05-19
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: Private
  • Rank highest: Private
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 12

  • (3657) [writer] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 5 August 1864
  • (7458) [writer] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 10 August 1864
  • (7459) [writer] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 19 August 1864
  • (7460) [writer] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 25 August 1864
  • (7461) [writer] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 3 September 1864
  • (7462) [writer] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 18 September 1864
  • (7463) [writer] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 3 October 1864
  • (7464) [writer] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 18 October 1864
  • (7516) [writer] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 4 November 1864
  • (7517) [writer] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 1 November 1864
  • (7518) [writer] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 29 November 1864
  • (7521) [writer] ~ Nathan S. Kemp to Lucinda Kemp, 20 January 1865

People - Records: 2

  • (2630) Kemp, Lucinda is the [wife of] (2629) Kemp, Nathan Snow
  • (2631) Kemp, Elizabeth is the [child of] (2629) Kemp, Nathan Snow

Places - Records: 2

  • (516) [birth] ~ Pomfret, Windsor County, Vermont
  • (1984) [death] ~ Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (715) [enlisted] [I] ~ 39th Massachusetts Infantry
SOURCES

1830, 1840, 1850, and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Vermont Vital Records, 1720-1908, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Military Service Records of Nathan S. Kemp, available from Fold3.com.