Benjamin Franklin and Luticia Rice Kemp with their three children Ulysses,
  Minnie, and infant daughter, Emma, came to Kansas in 1877 and lived on a 
  farm near Danville.
     In 1883 they moved to the Sharon Valley where they held 100 head of cattle
  on the free range. That year the Texas fever, brought in by ticks on Texas
  cattle, infected and killed countless native cattle. Grandfather lost all
  but twenty-one head. That winter, my grandfather with the help of his sixteen
  year old son, Ulys, and Mr. Beal, a carpenter and cabinetmaker, built a nice
  house on the farm the Kemps had bought south of Sharon. Grandmother and the
  little girls spent that winter in Dale, Indiana, with her parents.
     Grandfather farmed, raised cattle, and had a fine orchard. Emma, my mother,
  recalled the peaches, apples, and apricots which they sold in Medicine Lodge.
  Later when people came to the farm for the fruit, she remembered how he always
  piled the baskets high. They butchered their own meat and made sausage which
  was smoked in a special smoke house. They made apple butter in a huge iron
  kettle in the yard.
     The family attended a basket supper and New Year's Eve party at the College
  Hill School four miles from their home. At about 10:00 PM a blizzard struck.
  All but two teams were sheltered close by at the Urton farm. The other horses
  were brought into the school building after two rows of seats were removed. By
  morning the storm had abated, but the roads were badly drifted. Enroute home
  the Kemps were entertained at at New Year's dinner at their neighbors, the
  Jim Crawfords.
     Grandfather, in his teens, served in the Civil War in the Army of the 
  Potomac. He fought in the battles of Gettysburg and Cold Harbor and was
  wounded three times. My father, Elbert S. Rule, wrote of my mother's parents:
  "He was a man of highest integrity and met all of my requirements of the ideal
  man. She matched all of his best qualities which made for a happy married life."
     Grandfather was six feet five inches tall and was of athletic build. An
  account printed in the Medicine Lodge Cresset of March 2, 1892, reported, "A
  cow pony riden by B.F. Kemp stopped short, and he was thrown, dislocating his
  left elbow. Mr. Kemp is probably the strongest man in the county, and while
  a messenger went for help, Mr. Kemp placed his left hand between his knees
  and pressed on the joint and fortunately the bones went back in place.
  Immediate relief was the result.
     Grandfather died in the Wichita Hospital March 3, 1905 from an infection
  in his foot. He was a diabetic, and this was before insulin. Grandmother 
  moved to a home in Sharon, where she lived until her death April 23, 1906.
     Ulys Kemp, their only son, married Mary Belle Hyder of Sheldon, Missouri.
  Their children were Naomi, now Mrs. J.B. Montgomery of Buchanan Dam, Texas;
  Frank, deceased; Gladys, Mrs. Clarence Graff, deceased; Ruth, Mrs. A.K.
  Hubbard of Pueblo, Colorado. Emma, my mother, married Elbert S. Rule, and I
  was the only child. Minnie Kemp did not marry. She was associated with my
  father in the Golden Rule Refining Company.
     I have almost no personal recollection of my grandparents, but to judge
  by the expressions of love and admiration of their children and of their
  friends, I know that they were fine, warm, and caring people who met pioneer
  problems and hardships with hope, courage and fortitude.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 256 
     Submitted by: Mildred Elberta Rule Olson (Mrs. R.E.)