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- Reverend Kemp Scott1790 - 1864
Facts and Events
SCOTT KEMP was born in on June 20, 1791 in Washington County, Virginia. He moved to Kentucky in 1810. He later moved to Missouri in 1820.
On September 20, 1830, Scott Kemp lived on 80 acres of land in Section 1,Township 48-N, Range 16-W, Cooper County, Missouri.
On June 26, 1832, Scott Kemp lived on 40 acres of land in Section 12, Township 48-N, Range 16-W, Cooper County, Missouri.
Scott died on April 13, 1864 in Carroll County, Missouri. He is buried in Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery, Carroll County, Missouri.
A History of Kentucky Baptists, From 1769 to 1885, by J. H. Spencer, 1886. Reprinted by Church History and Archives, 1976, Lafayette,
Kentucky Barren County.
KEMP SCOTT was born in Washington County, Virginia, June 20, 1791. He was early left an orphan, and was raised by his grandfather, receiving avery limited education. In 1810, he emigrated to Kentucky, and marrying, in May of that year, settled in Barren County. In the following September, he was converted, and was baptized into the fellowship of Glovers Creek Church, by Ralph Petty. He commenced exercising his gift, in 1815, and having moved to Monroe County, was set apart for ordination by Cumberland Church of which John B. Longan was pastor, and was ordainedin December, 1820, by Hiram Casey, James Fears, and Robert Norvell. He was very active and zealous, and proportionately popular. He was pastor of at least five churches in Stocktons Valley and Green River Associations, during the brief period he remained in Kentucky. In October, 1824, he moved to Missouri, and settled in Cooper County. Here he united with a small church, called Mt. Pleasant, to which he preached nineteen years, leaving it with over 200 members. He remained in Cooper county, till 1846. During his stay there, he served, for different periods, twelve churches, and rode five years as missionary. At the last named date, he moved to Carroll county, and accepted the appointment of Missionary for North Grand River Association. Of this body he was Moderator six years. While living in Carroll county, he was pastor, at different times, of eleven churches. He was a strong advocate of sunday-schools, temperance societies, and other benevolent enterprises. It was estimated that, during his ministry, he baptized over 1,200 converts and aided in the constitution of 20 churches. He raised twelve children, all of whom became church-members, and one of them, at least, R. P. Scott, a minister. He died at his home in Carroll county,Missouri, April 13, 1864.
Kemp served as pastor of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church from 1843 - 1844
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 One World Tree. (www.ancestry.com).
- ↑ George W. Lasher, D. D. The Ministerial Directory of the Baptist Churches
Pages 88 - 93, 12 Nov 2007.
- Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Volume IV, Supplemtn A-Z. (Broadman Press, Nashville, Tennessee, 1982.)
Page 2447, 12 Nov 2007.
- ↑ REV. KEMP SCOTT
(1790-1864). RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY IN MISSOURI (1820-1864)
J. C. M.
Like many of the earliest permanent settlers in Missouri, this very useful servant of the Lord Jesus was born in Virginia. He came into this world in Washington County, Virginia, on June 20, 1790.
When a babe of one year and a half his father died. The mother, Mrs. Dorcas Scott, with great courage, Christian fortitude and small means, began heroically to train her eight children for the service of her Lord and Savior. But the mother's life was soon ended by death and so the future preacher in the great region west of the Mississippi River, became an orphan. Kemp was now taken care of by a brother-in-law, with whom he lived until he was approaching the twentieth year of his age, when he followed the great host of Virginians to the new State of Kentucky. He found a home in Barren County, and there met his future wife. She was a daughter of Rev. David Allee, a Baptist minister. In after years both he and the son-in-law, who had become the husband of his daughter, Anna, made their home in Missouri.
It is worth while to pause here in this narrative of the life of Rev. Kemp Scott and write a few sentences concerning the work of his father-in-law, Rev. David Allee. He, too, was a native of the Old Dominion, a brave soldier for the independence of the original thirteen Colonies, and for some years a faithful minister of the gospel in Kentucky. He came to Missouri in 1820, and settled in the southeast part of Cooper County. He aided in the organization of churches and in the formation of the Concord Association. He was in favor of the organization of the Central Society (now General Association), and in every way sought the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ among men. A short time after young Kemp Scott became a resident of Barren County, Kentucky, he was deeply convicted of sin, under the preaching of Elder Ralph Petty. For a long time he was in great distress of mind. But slowly and surely the light came into his heart, and he gave his whole being to the Redeemer of lost men. When he had experienced the grace of God in his own inner consciousness, his joy was so great that he began to
"Tell to sinners round
What a dear Savior he had found."
He had changed his residence from Barren to Monroe County, and here, at the call of the Cumberland River Church, was ordained to the ministry, in 1815. He remained in this State for five years and preached constantly to various churches, besides spending much time in holding meetings in many destitute localities.
In October, 1824, he moved to Missouri and became a resident of Cooper County. He became pastor of Mount Pleasant Church and continued as such for nineteen years. "In July, 1836, the church hearing that he was receiving a salary of $150 from the American Baptist Home Mission Society, voted him out by a majority of two; but, in December, following, voted him back unanimously." Mr. Scott continued his labors from his home in Cooper County until 1846. He had, during this period, served for longer or shorter periods of time twelve churches. Also for five years he served as missionary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, which required that he explore new territory and preach in the widely scattered settlements. After a residence of twenty-two years in Cooper County, he moved to Carroll County, in 1846, and labored as missionary of the North Grand River Association for a number of years.
Here it becomes necessary to blend the names of Kemp Scott and A. F. Martin, in this narrative. The North Grand River Association included within its bounds all that central part of the State between the Missouri River and the Iowa line. The constituent members of the Association were Carrollton, Locust Creek (now Linneus) and Salt Creek, with a total membership of about 100. The constitution declared: "We will not be known a Missionary or an anti-Missionary Association." This Association was formed in the year 1841, and in 1845 the church in Trenton sent up the inquiry: "What can be done to supply the destitute portions of the Association with the preached gospel?" As the constitution forbade any formal action favorable to missions, it was, after careful consideration, decided to request A. F. Martin to travel and preach and to recommend that the churches support him. The query arises in the mind of the writer, How many preachers have me in this Twentieth Century who would engage in a gospel campaign over some six or eight counties on such a promise of support? And this, too, when we know that the liberality of church members is much more fully developed now than it was in that day. The next year, 1846, "such had been the development of the missionary spirit under the labors of A. F. Martin and others, that it was resolved to employ Elder Kemp Scott to ride as an itinerant at a salary of $18 per month." With much earnestness Elder Scott traveled and preached over this wide region. And in 1847 he was given permission to read his report to the Association. This meeting was held at Zoar Church in Harrison County .He reported that ninety-seven persons had been baptized into the fellowship of the churches during the year. This report decided the question of missions in the North Grand River Association, and by an overwhelming majority that "omission" clause was expunged from the constitution.
The labors of Elder Scott in the North Grand River Association, do not mark the beginning of his, zeal in the cause of missions. In 1837 he was appointed agent of the General Association for the collection of funds, and otherwise to labor as its missionary. He reported at the meeting in 1838 that he had secured $75 in cash and obtained $11.75 in pledges. "His work was by no means a failure, for he reported the baptism of 126 converts."
Rev. Kemp Scott and his wife were blessed with twelve children. All these were led into the like precious faith with their parents before the sainted father was given his great release. At least one son became a gospel minister; this was Rev. R. P. Scott, who greatly assisted in preserving the memory of his father's useful life. Such was the zeal of this man of God, that, when too feeble to leave his home, he arranged to hold a protracted meeting beneath his own roof, and, for four days, preached twice a day until help came. Of the seven persons who professed conversion in these meetings one was his grandchild. He had arranged with his son, Elder R. P. Scott, to baptize these persons; but when the day came he said, "It is the last opportunity I shall have of administering the ordinance of my blessed Master, and I am determined to do my whole duty." He entered the stream and, supported by a deacon, "with the light of other days still beaming in his eye, his voice, trembling with emotion, he baptized, with others, his youthful grandchild in the name of the Holy Trinity." "And that," says Dr. S. H. Ford in the Christian Repository, "was the closing of his life's labors."
It was not long after this that he heard the call to leave the old frail tenement and go to that rest that remaineth to the children of our Heavenly Father. He died April 12, 1864, at his home near Carrollton, Missouri, and was buried in the cemetery of the Bethlehem Church, located six miles in a northeasterly direction from Carrollton.
He is described as a man full six feet in height, with a strong, bony frame and boldly marked features.
He was thoroughly familiar with the Bible, and he fearlessly preached what he believed the one Book taught. This narrative, all too brief to do justice to his memory, shows how full of the labors of His love his life was. He spared not himself nor consulted his own comfort. No distance was too great for him to travel, and no peril held him, when he heard the call to "go and preach." How sweet indeed is the rest of such an honored and faithful servant of the Great Master!
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