Tempa's death certificate shows her death as February 15, 1923. Tempa had six children of which three lived to adulthood. Alice V. Ellen Register was born about 1856 and died on February 20, 1916. Another son was named Archibald. Born about 1859, he died as an infant.
Nothing is known of the other two children.
It is assumed that they too died as infants. He answered the call of the Confederacy for volunteers and joined a company being organized in Abbeville, Henry County, Alabama. He enlisted on May 11, 1861. He left behind his family, including his pregnant wife. From Montgomery the regiment traveled by railroad boxcar to Corinth, Mississippi by way of West Point and Atlanta, Georgia and Chattanooga Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama.