KEMPTON, Rufus Fabush

1868 - 1943  (75 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	KEMPTON, Rufus Fabush
  Birth	10 May 1868	Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States
  Gender	Male
  WAC	COMPLETED	PROVO
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Death	6 Sep 1943	Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States
  Burial	16 Sep 1943	Clear Creek, Box Elder, Utah, United States
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  Person ID	I22028	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	KEMPTON, Jerome Bonapart ,   b. 13 Oct 1820, Fort Ann, Washington, New York, United States Fort Ann, Washington, New York, United Statesd. 3 May 1899, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States (Age 78 years)
  Mother	CHAPMAN, Amelia Caroline ,   b. 20 Mar 1835, Hubbardsville, Madison, New York, United States Hubbardsville, Madison, New York, United Statesd. 13 Mar 1923, Clear Creek, Box Elder, Utah, United States (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	28 Oct 1851	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
  Family ID	F11691	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	CAMPBELL, Olive Viola ,   b. 13 Aug 1876, Rosette, Box Elder, Utah, United States Rosette, Box Elder, Utah, United Statesd. 2 Jul 1936, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	4 Sep 1892	Utah
  Children	2 sons and 5 daughters
  1. KEMPTON, Estella Viola ,   b. Apr 1893, Utah Utahd. 1970, Gooding, Idaho, United States (Age 76 years)   2. KEMPTON, Anna Lee ,   b. 1895, Idaho, United States Idaho, United Statesd. 1897, Idaho, United States (Age 2 years) + 3. KEMPTON, Agatha Helen ,   b. 8 Apr 1898, Naf, Cassia, Idaho, United States Naf, Cassia, Idaho, United Statesd. 3 Sep 1974, Caldwell, Ada, Idaho, United States (Age 76 years)   4. KEMPTON, Rufus Earl ,   b. 1900, Idaho, United States Idaho, United States   5. KEMPTON, Gladys Margaret ,   b. 1903, Idaho, United States Idaho, United Statesd. 1903, Idaho, United States (Age 0 years)   6. KEMPTON, Ethel Lucinda ,   b. 1905, Idaho, United States Idaho, United Statesd. 1951 (Age 46 years)   7. KEMPTON, Lorenzo Ray ,   b. 1 Jan 1907, Idaho, United States Idaho, United Statesd. 28 Dec 1943, Lessen County, California, United States (Age 36 years)
  Family ID	F10757	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. Rufus was around six years old when his family moved from Bingham Canyon, Utah to Idaho. His mother took her children and moved to Clear Creek when he was around twelve years of age. Ruf lived with his mother until he married Olive viola Campbell of Rosette, Utah. Ruf build a cabin not far from the cabin Lorin and Dell had built for their mother. The cabin was still standing in 1978. Rufus herded sheep for some time for Mac C Barnes, and later for other rancers in the Clear Creek area. He also worked on neighboring farms and mined with his brohters, Lorin and Dell. He was less shy and more of a social person than his brothers. He sent ore fro his brothers last mine, "The Golden Rule Mine" to Professor Lund, Weaver College , Ogden, Utah to be assayed. Ruf was around five feet seven iches tall and weighted around one hundred fifty pounds. He resembeld Lorin and his half-brother, Osborn. Ruf was a great story-teller. He liked to make his stories larger than life so no one knew exactly what to believe. But his stories were interesting as weall as outlandish. One time he told about his horse running so fast that his tail hit the back of his buggy. Rufus was a sort of unofficial spokesman for the family after Charlie died. He stopped by the farm of his half-brother, Osborn, in Kimberly, briefly on occasions during the 1920s and once he brought some baby bob cats to the farm. And his sons Earl and Lorenzo stopped by once. In the late 1930s Stella came by, but Osborn's wife did not welcome them or ask them to stay. Rufus visited his maried daughter when she lived in Shoshone, Hagerman and Caldwell, Idaho. He took Dell and Lute to Shoshone on one of these visits. In July of 1938 he joined his half-brother, Osborn, with his family as they gathered at the Tupper residence in Hagerman, Idaho following the funeral of Clarence W. Kimpton's wife, marie (Tuppe)Kimpton. A few years later, on 6 September 1943, Rufus was reported missing. On 14 September 1943 his body was found floatin gin the New York Canal eight miled southwest of Boise, Idaho. No inqest was held as nothing of a criminal nature was found. He was buried in the Clear Creek Cemetary, Clear Creek, Utah. He was a widower at the time of his death. (from Kempton/Kimpton Families Life and Lineage of Jerome B by Margarite Kimpton Stevens and Jan Stevens Lockard, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo) Family Story from Della MacArthur dictated to Darcy Kennedy: Rufus and Olive lived up in the mountains and were not active in any church. Rufus was very good at hunting and would take rich people out hunting to earn money. Rufus was born in the covenant, but wasn't ever active in church. He and his two brothers always thought they would get rich in the mines and they never made a good living. They would take the frying pan and go to the river and catch fish for dinner and sometimes for breakfast. He was crack shot a very good hunter and really knew the out of doors. One day they were told that people from the church were coming up to 'castrate' their sons. Their sons had not been going to school or to church. They would have gone had they had the chance, but they were too poor and didn't have the clothes to go. Because of this fear Olive hid the boys in the warming oven which was quite large standing the heighth of a man. They used these to cook bread and were made of brick. This family has never been active in the church since that time forth until Della's children came in followed by their mother. Ina Lorena Horner Normandeau, the first great granddaughter of the Prophet Joseph Smith was told this story by Darcy and she, having been a teacher, started to laugh. She said, 'I know what the word really is. They thought they were coming to 'castrate' their sons, but they were coming to castigate--reprimand them.' So a couple of generations were kept out of the church because of one word, but the Lord saw to it that the later generations were taught and have come in. All cousins of Gordon, Darwin, Dolores, and Darcy's age have come into the church within just a few years of each other. Aunt Della said the church was probably going to get after the parents for not sending their children to school, but because they had heard it second hand they didn't get the message right.