Sarah Margaret Kemper was the daughter of William Kemper and Maria Elizabeth Allison. She married Presbyterian minister, John Holmes Bocock, the son of John Thomas Bowcock and Mary Flood, on 6 Sep 1853.
Her brother, James Lawson Kemper (1823 - 1895), was the Virginia Governor in 1874-1877 and was an attorney, a General during the Civil and Mexican Wars and served as a congressman for 11 years, from 1853 to 1863.
On the 1850 Madison Co., VA census, I found farmer William Kemper, 74; Maria, 63; farmer John S., 28; Maria R, 24 and SARAH M, 22. They lived next to Susannah Kemper, 72. They were all VA born.
On the 1870 Fincastle, Botetourt Co., VA census, I found Presbyterian minister John M Bocock, 57; Sarah M, 42; John P, 14; Walter, 12; Mary J, 11 and Willie H, 5. They were all VA born, except for Walter and Mary J, born in Wash., D.C.
Husband, Dr. John H Bocock, D.D. died 17 Jul 1872 in Lexington. He graduated from Amherst Collect and was a Confederate chaplain.
Their children were:
Frederick William, 22 Jun 1854 - 1955, below
John Paul, 9 Feb 1856 - 1903, below
Walter Kemper, 10 Feb 1858 - 1904, below
Mary Jasper, 1862 (Richd B Willis) below
Willis Henry, 1865 - 31 Oct 1947, below
Data on her family is found in the Library of Southern Literature, Biographical Dictionary of Authors, Vol. 15, edited by Edwin A Alderman and others, p 40-4. (writer and clergyman John H, editor and poet John P, editor and clergyman Walter, and author and educator Willis). Also see Genealogy of the Kemper Family in the United States.
Long obit begins: SARAH MARGARET KEMPER BOCOCK. Mrs. Sarah Margaret Kemper Babcock passed from this life on October 3, 1916, in Fayettevilles, Ark. She was born November 16, 1827, the daughter of William and Maria (Allison) Kemper, of Virginia. She was married in her young womanhood to tne Rev. John Holmes Bocock, also of Virginia. To them were born five children, four sons and a daughter. The eldest son lived only one year, but the others reached maturity. Two sons, Mr. John Paul Bocock, of New York City, who attained eminence as an editor and magazine writer, and the Rev. W Kemper Babcock (sic), a clergyman of saintly character whose life was spent for those who were in need, died in the early maturity of their lives. The youngest son, Professor Willis Bocock, has for many years been at the head of the department of Greek in the University of Georgia. The only daughter is the wife of Rev. Richard B. Willis and has lived many years in Arkansas, where she is prominent in educational circles and club life. It is impossible to do justice in a brief memoir to a woman whose life touched so many lives and who accomplished so much as Mrs. Bocock did. Her life, begun in the peace and luxurious plenty of her father's home - Mountain Prospect, dear to her through all her life - and so happily launched by her marriage to a man of congenial spirit, was torn rudely from its safe moorings while she was yet comparatively young. Descended from a military hero and warm personal friend of Gen. Washington, Colonel John Jasper Stadler, a Prussian officer in our Continental army, she seemed destined to meet the trials that come from war. Her brother, Gen. James L. Kemper, a gallant officer in Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps, was wounded almost unto death and left for dead on the field of Gettysburg; her husband's health failed utterly, borne down by the strain of his ministerial duties and the burden on heart and soul of the awful war strife in Virginia, and she was left at his untimely death with four young children to rear and educate. The grief and burden of those years, what mind may estimate? De....... (see 2nd page). Published in the Presbyterian of the South dated 22 Nov 1916, p 22-23 (see 2 photos).
large 4 sided monument shared with husband, says:
SARAH MARGARET BOCOCK
Nee KEMPER
BORN NOV. 16, 1827
DIED OCT. 3, 1916
Her brother, James Lawson Kemper (1823 - 1895), was the Virginia Governor in 1874-1877 and was an attorney, a General during the Civil and Mexican Wars and served as a congressman for 11 years, from 1853 to 1863.
On the 1850 Madison Co., VA census, I found farmer William Kemper, 74; Maria, 63; farmer John S., 28; Maria R, 24 and SARAH M, 22. They lived next to Susannah Kemper, 72. They were all VA born.
On the 1870 Fincastle, Botetourt Co., VA census, I found Presbyterian minister John M Bocock, 57; Sarah M, 42; John P, 14; Walter, 12; Mary J, 11 and Willie H, 5. They were all VA born, except for Walter and Mary J, born in Wash., D.C.
Husband, Dr. John H Bocock, D.D. died 17 Jul 1872 in Lexington. He graduated from Amherst Collect and was a Confederate chaplain.
Their children were:
Frederick William, 22 Jun 1854 - 1955, below
John Paul, 9 Feb 1856 - 1903, below
Walter Kemper, 10 Feb 1858 - 1904, below
Mary Jasper, 1862 (Richd B Willis) below
Willis Henry, 1865 - 31 Oct 1947, below
Data on her family is found in the Library of Southern Literature, Biographical Dictionary of Authors, Vol. 15, edited by Edwin A Alderman and others, p 40-4. (writer and clergyman John H, editor and poet John P, editor and clergyman Walter, and author and educator Willis). Also see Genealogy of the Kemper Family in the United States.
Long obit begins: SARAH MARGARET KEMPER BOCOCK. Mrs. Sarah Margaret Kemper Babcock passed from this life on October 3, 1916, in Fayettevilles, Ark. She was born November 16, 1827, the daughter of William and Maria (Allison) Kemper, of Virginia. She was married in her young womanhood to tne Rev. John Holmes Bocock, also of Virginia. To them were born five children, four sons and a daughter. The eldest son lived only one year, but the others reached maturity. Two sons, Mr. John Paul Bocock, of New York City, who attained eminence as an editor and magazine writer, and the Rev. W Kemper Babcock (sic), a clergyman of saintly character whose life was spent for those who were in need, died in the early maturity of their lives. The youngest son, Professor Willis Bocock, has for many years been at the head of the department of Greek in the University of Georgia. The only daughter is the wife of Rev. Richard B. Willis and has lived many years in Arkansas, where she is prominent in educational circles and club life. It is impossible to do justice in a brief memoir to a woman whose life touched so many lives and who accomplished so much as Mrs. Bocock did. Her life, begun in the peace and luxurious plenty of her father's home - Mountain Prospect, dear to her through all her life - and so happily launched by her marriage to a man of congenial spirit, was torn rudely from its safe moorings while she was yet comparatively young. Descended from a military hero and warm personal friend of Gen. Washington, Colonel John Jasper Stadler, a Prussian officer in our Continental army, she seemed destined to meet the trials that come from war. Her brother, Gen. James L. Kemper, a gallant officer in Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps, was wounded almost unto death and left for dead on the field of Gettysburg; her husband's health failed utterly, borne down by the strain of his ministerial duties and the burden on heart and soul of the awful war strife in Virginia, and she was left at his untimely death with four young children to rear and educate. The grief and burden of those years, what mind may estimate? De....... (see 2nd page). Published in the Presbyterian of the South dated 22 Nov 1916, p 22-23 (see 2 photos).
large 4 sided monument shared with husband, says:
SARAH MARGARET BOCOCK
Nee KEMPER
BORN NOV. 16, 1827
DIED OCT. 3, 1916
Sarah Margaret Kemper was the daughter of William Kemper and Maria Elizabeth Allison. She married Presbyterian minister, John Holmes Bocock, the son of John Thomas Bowcock and Mary Flood, on 6 Sep 1853.
Her brother, James Lawson Kemper (1823 - 1895), was the Virginia Governor in 1874-1877 and was an attorney, a General during the Civil and Mexican Wars and served as a congressman for 11 years, from 1853 to 1863.
On the 1850 Madison Co., VA census, I found farmer William Kemper, 74; Maria, 63; farmer John S., 28; Maria R, 24 and SARAH M, 22. They lived next to Susannah Kemper, 72. They were all VA born.
On the 1870 Fincastle, Botetourt Co., VA census, I found Presbyterian minister John M Bocock, 57; Sarah M, 42; John P, 14; Walter, 12; Mary J, 11 and Willie H, 5. They were all VA born, except for Walter and Mary J, born in Wash., D.C.
Husband, Dr. John H Bocock, D.D. died 17 Jul 1872 in Lexington. He graduated from Amherst Collect and was a Confederate chaplain.
Their children were:
Frederick William, 22 Jun 1854 - 1955, below
John Paul, 9 Feb 1856 - 1903, below
Walter Kemper, 10 Feb 1858 - 1904, below
Mary Jasper, 1862 (Richd B Willis) below
Willis Henry, 1865 - 31 Oct 1947, below
Data on her family is found in the Library of Southern Literature, Biographical Dictionary of Authors, Vol. 15, edited by Edwin A Alderman and others, p 40-4. (writer and clergyman John H, editor and poet John P, editor and clergyman Walter, and author and educator Willis). Also see Genealogy of the Kemper Family in the United States.
Long obit begins: SARAH MARGARET KEMPER BOCOCK. Mrs. Sarah Margaret Kemper Babcock passed from this life on October 3, 1916, in Fayettevilles, Ark. She was born November 16, 1827, the daughter of William and Maria (Allison) Kemper, of Virginia. She was married in her young womanhood to tne Rev. John Holmes Bocock, also of Virginia. To them were born five children, four sons and a daughter. The eldest son lived only one year, but the others reached maturity. Two sons, Mr. John Paul Bocock, of New York City, who attained eminence as an editor and magazine writer, and the Rev. W Kemper Babcock (sic), a clergyman of saintly character whose life was spent for those who were in need, died in the early maturity of their lives. The youngest son, Professor Willis Bocock, has for many years been at the head of the department of Greek in the University of Georgia. The only daughter is the wife of Rev. Richard B. Willis and has lived many years in Arkansas, where she is prominent in educational circles and club life. It is impossible to do justice in a brief memoir to a woman whose life touched so many lives and who accomplished so much as Mrs. Bocock did. Her life, begun in the peace and luxurious plenty of her father's home - Mountain Prospect, dear to her through all her life - and so happily launched by her marriage to a man of congenial spirit, was torn rudely from its safe moorings while she was yet comparatively young. Descended from a military hero and warm personal friend of Gen. Washington, Colonel John Jasper Stadler, a Prussian officer in our Continental army, she seemed destined to meet the trials that come from war. Her brother, Gen. James L. Kemper, a gallant officer in Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps, was wounded almost unto death and left for dead on the field of Gettysburg; her husband's health failed utterly, borne down by the strain of his ministerial duties and the burden on heart and soul of the awful war strife in Virginia, and she was left at his untimely death with four young children to rear and educate. The grief and burden of those years, what mind may estimate? De....... (see 2nd page). Published in the Presbyterian of the South dated 22 Nov 1916, p 22-23 (see 2 photos).
large 4 sided monument shared with husband, says:
SARAH MARGARET BOCOCK
Nee KEMPER
BORN NOV. 16, 1827
DIED OCT. 3, 1916
Her brother, James Lawson Kemper (1823 - 1895), was the Virginia Governor in 1874-1877 and was an attorney, a General during the Civil and Mexican Wars and served as a congressman for 11 years, from 1853 to 1863.
On the 1850 Madison Co., VA census, I found farmer William Kemper, 74; Maria, 63; farmer John S., 28; Maria R, 24 and SARAH M, 22. They lived next to Susannah Kemper, 72. They were all VA born.
On the 1870 Fincastle, Botetourt Co., VA census, I found Presbyterian minister John M Bocock, 57; Sarah M, 42; John P, 14; Walter, 12; Mary J, 11 and Willie H, 5. They were all VA born, except for Walter and Mary J, born in Wash., D.C.
Husband, Dr. John H Bocock, D.D. died 17 Jul 1872 in Lexington. He graduated from Amherst Collect and was a Confederate chaplain.
Their children were:
Frederick William, 22 Jun 1854 - 1955, below
John Paul, 9 Feb 1856 - 1903, below
Walter Kemper, 10 Feb 1858 - 1904, below
Mary Jasper, 1862 (Richd B Willis) below
Willis Henry, 1865 - 31 Oct 1947, below
Data on her family is found in the Library of Southern Literature, Biographical Dictionary of Authors, Vol. 15, edited by Edwin A Alderman and others, p 40-4. (writer and clergyman John H, editor and poet John P, editor and clergyman Walter, and author and educator Willis). Also see Genealogy of the Kemper Family in the United States.
Long obit begins: SARAH MARGARET KEMPER BOCOCK. Mrs. Sarah Margaret Kemper Babcock passed from this life on October 3, 1916, in Fayettevilles, Ark. She was born November 16, 1827, the daughter of William and Maria (Allison) Kemper, of Virginia. She was married in her young womanhood to tne Rev. John Holmes Bocock, also of Virginia. To them were born five children, four sons and a daughter. The eldest son lived only one year, but the others reached maturity. Two sons, Mr. John Paul Bocock, of New York City, who attained eminence as an editor and magazine writer, and the Rev. W Kemper Babcock (sic), a clergyman of saintly character whose life was spent for those who were in need, died in the early maturity of their lives. The youngest son, Professor Willis Bocock, has for many years been at the head of the department of Greek in the University of Georgia. The only daughter is the wife of Rev. Richard B. Willis and has lived many years in Arkansas, where she is prominent in educational circles and club life. It is impossible to do justice in a brief memoir to a woman whose life touched so many lives and who accomplished so much as Mrs. Bocock did. Her life, begun in the peace and luxurious plenty of her father's home - Mountain Prospect, dear to her through all her life - and so happily launched by her marriage to a man of congenial spirit, was torn rudely from its safe moorings while she was yet comparatively young. Descended from a military hero and warm personal friend of Gen. Washington, Colonel John Jasper Stadler, a Prussian officer in our Continental army, she seemed destined to meet the trials that come from war. Her brother, Gen. James L. Kemper, a gallant officer in Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps, was wounded almost unto death and left for dead on the field of Gettysburg; her husband's health failed utterly, borne down by the strain of his ministerial duties and the burden on heart and soul of the awful war strife in Virginia, and she was left at his untimely death with four young children to rear and educate. The grief and burden of those years, what mind may estimate? De....... (see 2nd page). Published in the Presbyterian of the South dated 22 Nov 1916, p 22-23 (see 2 photos).
large 4 sided monument shared with husband, says:
SARAH MARGARET BOCOCK
Nee KEMPER
BORN NOV. 16, 1827
DIED OCT. 3, 1916
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SARAH MARGARET BOCOCK
Nee KEMPER
BORN NOV. 16, 1827
DIED OCT. 3, 1916
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