Son of Peter Kemper (d. 1824) of Hornes Mill, Culpeper Co., Virginia by his first wife Mary Whitesides Kemper, Joel was likely born on his parents' home tract on Negro Run in Culpeper Co., Virginia, which was half of a 400-acre tract patented by his great-grandfather Tilman Weaver (1701-1760) in 1752. He was married to Anne Coons on Feb. 29, 1792 by the minister of the Hedgeman River Baptist Society in Culpeper Co., Virginia. By 1799 they settled near Harrods Creek in present-day Oldham Co., Kentucky. He and Anne were charter members in 1800 of the Eighteenmile Baptist Church, along with Anne's parents. In addition to his work as a carpenter, estate appraiser, and road overseer, he operated a tavern in his brick house in Westport, Kentucky (where the newly formed Oldham County Court held its sessions in 1826). He owned multiple town lots in Westport, a dozen tracts along the water courses of Harrods Creek, Eighteenmile Creek, and the Ohio River, as well as a town lot in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Son of Peter Kemper (d. 1824) of Hornes Mill, Culpeper Co., Virginia by his first wife Mary Whitesides Kemper, Joel was likely born on his parents' home tract on Negro Run in Culpeper Co., Virginia, which was half of a 400-acre tract patented by his great-grandfather Tilman Weaver (1701-1760) in 1752. He was married to Anne Coons on Feb. 29, 1792 by the minister of the Hedgeman River Baptist Society in Culpeper Co., Virginia. By 1799 they settled near Harrods Creek in present-day Oldham Co., Kentucky. He and Anne were charter members in 1800 of the Eighteenmile Baptist Church, along with Anne's parents. In addition to his work as a carpenter, estate appraiser, and road overseer, he operated a tavern in his brick house in Westport, Kentucky (where the newly formed Oldham County Court held its sessions in 1826). He owned multiple town lots in Westport, a dozen tracts along the water courses of Harrods Creek, Eighteenmile Creek, and the Ohio River, as well as a town lot in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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