Henry Kelsey Kemp

Henry Kelsey Kemp is the second of 15 children born to Frances Mary Goodsell and James Kemp, both of England. James was a gardener by trade.

The Kemp family immigrated to America with two sons, James and Henry. They sailed on the ship “SS William Tapscott.” After arriving in America, they joined other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who departed Nebraska for the Great Salt Lake Valley. The David Haight Wagon Company, left July 22, 1862 bound for the Utah Territory.

Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. The company was in Wyoming Territory when 1-year-old Henry died of undocumented causes. He is buried along the Mormon Trail in Wyoming.