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GIVEN  BY 

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VI.     TOF.L   WILLIS    HOPKINS. 


A  CHAPTER 


OF 


HOPKINS  GENEALOGY 


CHICAGO 

THE    LAKESIDE    PRESS 
1905 


The  genealogist  can  not  long  remain  a  mere  compiler  of 
family  statistics.  In  following  back  the  currents  which  have 
united  in  his  own  life  he  finds  himself  traveling  from  one  town 
to  another  of  colonial  America  and  he  is  brought  into  vital  or 
accidental  relation  with  many  important  events  of  American 
history. 

Dotted  through  the  desert  of  history  he  finds  oases  where  his 
own  people  encamped,  where  they  did  great  deeds,  or  at  least  saw 
great  deeds  performed  and  lent  the  influence  of  their  presence. 
"Land  where  my  fathers  died,  land  of  the  pilgrims'  pride"  means 
something  for  the  man  who  is  aquainted  with  his  ancestors 
which  it  never  can  mean  for  the  man  who  does  not  know  his 
own  grandparents,  but  has  a  vague  idea  that  he  is  an  American. 
— BENEDICT 


ELLA  WARREN  HARRISON 

COMPILER 

ARCHIBALD  WILSON  HOPKINS 

PUBLISHER 


DEDICATED  TO 

A  BONNY,  FLAXEN-HAIRED  BOY  WHO  CAME  ONE  DAY  TO  AN  EARTHLY  HOME 
BRINGING  A  BIT  OF  HEAVENLY  SUNSHINE.  THEY  GAVE  HIM  A  NAME  HONORED 
AND  LOVED  BY  ALL  THE  COUNTRY  SIDE,  THE  NAME  OP  HIS  GRANDFATHER, 

JOEL  WILLIS  HOPKINS. 

HEIR  TO  ALL  THE  ACHIEVEMENTS  OF  THE  GENERATIONS  BEHIND  HIM,  INHER- 
ITING BOTH  THE  GOOD  AND  EVIL  OP  THEIR  NATURES,  HE  FACES  HIS  BATTLE  OF 
LIFE.  MAY  HE  MEET  IT  WITH  HIGH  COURAGE.  "MAY  THE  LORD  BLESS  HIM 
AND  KEEP  HIM;  THE  LORD  MAKE  HIS  FACE  SHINE  UPON  HIM  AND  BE  GRACIOUS 
UNTO  HIM ;  THE  LORD  LIFT  UP  HIS  COUNTENANCE  UPON  HIM  AND  GIVE  HIM  PEACE.' 


TABLE   OF   CONTENTS 

DEDICATION  -  5 

SCOTCH-IRISH  NOTES  15 

VIRGINIA  NOTES  17 

"THE  VALLEY"  -  23 
NOTES  FROM  THE  SESSION  BOOK  OF  COOK'S  CREEK  AND  PYKED 

MOUNTAIN  CONGREGATIONS  -  27 

JOHN  HOPKINS,  PIONEER  37 

THE  JOHN  HOPKINS  FAMILY  40 

RED  OAK,  OHIO  FAMILY  43 
ITEMS  COPIED  FROM  THE  SESSION  BOOK  OF  THE  OLD  STONE  CHURCH 

AT  RED  OAK,  OHIO  49 
INSCRIPTIONS  ON  THE  STONES  IN  THE  OLD  CHURCHYARD  AT  RED 

OAK,  OHIO  52 
OLD  LETTERS  WRITTEN  BY  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  OF  RED  OAK, 

OHIO  -  59 

WILL  OF  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  OF  RED  OAK,  OHIO  63 

THE  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  FAMILY  -  65 

THE  WILLIAM  HOPKINS  FAMILY  68 

THE  JOHN  HOPKINS  FAMILY  95 

THE  JANE  HOPKINS  POGUE  FAMILY  1 1 1 

MARY  HOPKINS  POGUE  145 

THE  SARAH  HOPKINS  GILLILAND  FAMILY  146 

THE  ROBERT  HOPKINS  FAMILY  160 

THE  GORDON  HOPKINS  FAMILY  163 

THE  BENJAMIN  HOPKINS  FAMILY  171 

THE  THOMAS  HOPKINS  FAMILY  -  172 

THE  ELIZABETH  HOPKINS  KINKEAD  FAMILY  178 

ELIJAH  HOPKINS  184 

THE  JAMES  HOPKINS  FAMILY  185 

HARRIET  HOPKINS  EVANS  189 

THE  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  FAMILY  -  190 

THE  EDWIN  HOPKINS  FAMILY  193 

THE  GRACY  ANN  DUNLAP  FAMILY  -  197 

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LETTER  WRITTEN  BY  BENJAMIN  HENTON  205 

THE  SARAH  HOPKINS  HENTON  FAMILY  207 

THE  JOHN  HENTON  FAMILY  207 

THE  DAVID  HENTON  FAMILY  208 

JANE  HENTON  RALSTON  214 

THE  SILAS  HENTON  FAMILY  215 

THE  ELIZABETH  HENTON  SITES  FAMILY  219 

ESTHER  HENTON  FAWCETTE  219 

THE  HANNAH  MARY  HENTON  WALKER  FAMILY  220 

SARAH  HENTON  226 

THE  MARY  HOPKINS  POAGE  FAMILY  229 

THE  JOHN  HOPKINS  POAGE  FAMILY  229 

THE  JANE  POAGE  POAGE  FAMILY  230 

THE  GEORGE  POAGE  FAMILY  243 

THE  THOMAS  POAGE  FAMILY  250 

THE  JAMES  POAGE  FAMILY  -  255 

THE  HARRIET  POAGE  POWERS  FAMILY  257 

THE  ANN  POAGE  STEWART  FAMILY-  261 

THE  ELIZABETH  POAGE  BRUBAKER  FAMILY  265 

THE  MARY  POAGE  WILSON  FAMILY  266 

THE  REBECCA  POAGE  METCALF  FAMILY  266 

THE  ROBERT  WATSON  POAGE  FAMILY  267 

THE  WILLIAM  POAGE  FAMILY  267 

LETTERS  WRITTEN  BY  JANE  HOPKINS  POAGE  FAMILY  273 

THE  JANE  HOPKINS  POAGE  FAMILY  280 

THE  JOHN  HOPKINS  POAGE  FAMILY  282 

THE  W7ILLIAM  LlNDSEY  POAGE  FAMILY  284 

THE  EDWIN  POAGE  FAMILY  285 

AMY  POAGE  285 

THE  HANNAH  AMANDA  POAGE  MCDOUELL  FAMILY  285 

THE  JANE  ISABELLA  POAGE  McKAY  FAMILY    -  285 

ROBERT  POAGE  286 

ROBERT  C.  POAGE  286 

THE  ANN  E.  POAGE  GARRISON  FAMILY  286 

THE  HANNAH  HOPKINS  SHANKLIN  FAMILY  291 

THE  JOHN  HOPKINS  SHANKLIN  FAMILY  291 

RUTH  HOPKINS  -  299 

THE  THOMAS  HOPKINS  FAMILY  303 

THE  JOHN  HOPKINS  FAMILY  303 

THE  FRANCES  GORDON  HOPKINS  FAMILY  305 

BENJAMIN  HINTON  HOPKINS  305 

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THE  ANNA  JANE  HOPKINS  SCOTT  FAMILY  306 

THE  RTJFUS  C.  HOPKINS  FAMILY  309 

THE  JOHN  HOPKINS  FAMILY  313 

MARY  HOPKINS  -  3J3 

THE  THOMAS  HOPKINS  FAMILY  313 

GEORGE  BAXTER  HOPKINS  313 

THE  JOHN  HOPKINS  FAMILY  314 

LUCINDA  HOPKINS  ARMENTROUT  314 

JOSEPH  BAXTER  HOPKINS  314 

THE  CYRUS  HOPKINS  FAMILY  315 

THE  ANN  HOPKINS  RICE  FAMILY  321 

MARRIAGE  BOND  GIVEN  BY  ANN  HOPKINS  AND  JAMES  RICE  323 

JOHN  RICE    -  324 

JAMES  RICE  324 

ANNA  JANE  RICE  HALL  32S 

THE  THOMAS  HOPKINS  RICE  FAMILY  325 

THE  GEORGE  POAGE  RICE  FAMILY  -  327 

THE  WILLIAM  CYRUS  RICE  FAMILY  330 

WILL  OF  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  (PIONEER)  339 

SALE  BILL  OF  PERSONAL  PROPERTY  341 

RECEIPTS  GIVEN  BY  THE  HEIRS  345 

WILL  OF  JENNET  HOPKINS  348 

THE  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  FAMILY  -  349 

THE  EPHRAIM  HOPKINS  FAMILY  349 

THE  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  FAMILY  351 

THE  WILLIAM  HOPKINS  FAMILY  367 

THE  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  FAMILY  -  367 

THE  JOHN  HINTON  HOPKINS  FAMILY  368 

THE  DAVID  RALSTON  HOPKINS  FAMILY  371 

WILLIAM  E.  HOPKINS  372 

FRANCES  HOPKINS  HOPKINS  37 2 

THE  ELIZABETH  HOPKINS  HARNSBERGER  FAMILY  372 

JANE  HOPKINS  CRISMAN  375 

MARY  HOPKINS  ROLSTON  375 

THE  ELIZABETH  HOPKINS  HOPKINS  FAMILY  375 

THE  WILLIAM  HOPKINS  FAMILY  3Sl 

THE  JOHN  HOPKINS  FAMILY  382 

NAMES  OF  THOSE  WHO  HAVE  SERVED  IN  THE  ARMY  OR  NAVY  -  393 

COMPILER'S  NOTES   -  395 


LIST   OF   ILLUSTRATIONS 


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FRONTISPIECE — VI.  IOEL  WILLIS  HOPKINS 

OLD  HOUSE  BUILT  BY  JOHN  HOPKINS,  PIONEER  37 

OLD  RED  OAK  CHURCH,  OHIO  49 

HOPKINS  GRAVES,  RED  OAK  CEMETERY  52 

HOUSE  BUILT  BY  II.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  RED  OAK  63 

IV.  IOEL  WILLIS  HOPKINS  69 

V.  ARCHIBALD  WILSON  HOPKINS     -  73 
IV.  JOHN  CRAWFORD  HOPKINS  -  83 
OLD  BEECH  TREE,  FORT  BRIDGE — RED  OAK  CHURCH  108 
III.  SARAH  HOPKINS  GILLILAND  146 
III.  THOMAS  AND  III.  GORDON  HOPKINS    -  163 
HOUSE  BUILT  BY  III.  BENJAMIN  HOPKINS — GRAVE  OF  III.  ELIJAH 

HOPKINS  -  171 
HOUSES  BUILT  BY  III.  JAMES,  III.  THOMAS,  AND  III.  GORDON 

HOPKINS  177 

III.  JOHN,  III.  JAMES,  AND  III.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  185 

III.  GRACY  ANN  HOPKINS  DUNLAP  197 

IV.  JAMES  ALEXANDER  WALKER  223 
OLD  UNION  GROVE  CHURCH  265 
CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH,  GRANVILLE,  ILLINOIS  311 
HOPKINS  GRAVES,  GRANVILLE,  ILLINOIS     -  335 
IV.  JOEL  WILLIS  HOPKINS  397 


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Does  not  every  genealogical  student  learn  to  know  men,  not  only  for 
what  they  are,  but  for  what  ancestral  factors  have  made  their  lives  possible  ? 

Life  histories  of  Christian  fortitude  and  love  and  unselfishness,  which 
make  us  wholesomely  ashamed  of  being  discontented  with  the  comforts 
which  the  least  fortunate  of  us  now  enjoy. 

This  is  the  historic  lore  that  genealogy  furnishes,  besides  stimulating  our 
own  interest  in  the  notable  events  of  our  early  development  into  a  nation. 

BENEDICT. 


SCOTCH-IRISH    NOTES 

From  "The  Puritan  in  Holland,  England,  and  America,"  by  Douglas 
Campbell. 

"Driven  from  their  adopted  home  in  the  north  of  Ireland  by  English 
persecution,  there  was  burned  into  their  very  souls  the  bitter  recollection  of 
a  century  of  English  ingratitude  and  broken  faith.  They  were  un-English 
in  their  origin,  and  they  came  to  America,  which  they  have  always  looked 
upon  as  their  only  country,  hating  England,  her  church,  and  her  form  of 
government  with  the  intensest  hatred.  By  them  American  independence 
was  first  openly  advocated,  and  but  for  their  efforts,  seconding  those  of 
the  New  England  Puritans,  that  independence  would  not  have  been 
secured.  As  these  men  founded  none  of  the  American  colonies,  their  story 
has  found  no  place  in  Colonial  History ;  but  this  story  is  needed  to  complete 
our  sketch  of  the  Puritans  in  America.  They  were  the  Puritans  of  the  South, 
Calvinists  in  theology  and  republicans  in  politics.  For  centuries  Ireland 
has  been  a  thorn  in  the  side  of  England,  causing  ceaseless  irritation, 
because  its  people  would  not  tamely  submit  to  what  they  justly  regarded 
as  the  oppression  of  their  neighbors.  During  the  reign  of  Elizabeth, 
Edmon  Spencer  had  laid  before  the  English  Council  an  exhaustive  scheme 
for  the  pacification  of  the  sister  island.  He  proposed  that  the  native  popu- 
lation should  be  substantially  exterminated  by  the  sword  and  by  famine, 
and  replaced  by  English  settlers.  Nothing  came  of  the  scheme  at  this  time, 
but  in  the  early  days  of  James  the  First,  it  was  taken  up,  although  on  a 
restricted  scale.  A  rebellion  of  two  of  the  great  nobles  in  the  province  of 
Ulster  furnished  an  excuse  for  confiscating  their  vast  estates,  amounting 
to  some  two  million  acres.  Of  this  princely  domain,  about  three-fourths, 
consisting  mostly  of  bog,  fen,  and  mountain  wastes,  was  returned  to  the 
Irish  tenants.  The  remaining  five  hundred  thousand  acres  of  fertile  land 
were  thrown  open  to  protestant  colonization.  Here  begins  the  history  of 
the  Scotch-Irish  as  a  distinctive  people. 

"It  was  under  such  conditions  that  the  colonization  of  Ulster  was  begun. 
The  men  who  gave  it  character  were  the  same  class  as  those  who  afterwards 
made  New  England.  They  were  promised  full  indulgence  for  their  reli- 
gion, and,  so  far  as  trade  and  commerce  were  concerned,  an  act  of  parlia- 


ment  placed  them,  with  all  the  inhabitants  of  Ireland,  on  an  equality  with 
their  English  brethren.  These  Scotch  settlers  were  selected  under  the 
direction  of  James  himself,  and  were  picked  men,  even  superior  to  the 
English  colonists.  In  1698,  upon  the  demand  of  the  English  manufactur- 
ers, the  woolen  industry  of  Ireland  was  utterly  destroyed.  It  was  claimed 
that  labor  was  cheaper  there  than  in  England,  and  that,  therefore,  the  manu- 
factured product  could  be  sold  at  a  lower  price.  This  was  not  to  be  en- 
dured. The  interference  of  parliament  was  invoked,  and  by  a  series  of 
repressive  acts,  the  Irish  looms  were  closed.  As  one  result  of  this  legis- 
lation, twenty  thousand  of  the  protestant  artisans  of  Ulster,  deprived  of 
employment,  left  Ireland  for  America,  carrying  with  them  the  remembrance 
of  how  English  faith,  plighted  to  their  fathers,  had  been  broken  under  the 
influence  of  English  greed. 

"This,  however,  was  but  the  beginning  of  the  exodus.  In  1704  a  Test 
Act  was  passed  for  Ireland,  almost  as  severe  in  its  provisions  against  the 
Dissenters  as  against  the  Catholics,  while  no  Toleration  Act  like  that  in 
England  mitigated  its  severity.  In  practice  it  was  enforced  most  rigor- 
ously against  the  Protestants.  Under  this  act  none  of  the  non-conformists 
were  allowed  to  hold  any  office  above  that  of  petty  constable.  They  were 
forbidden  to  keep  schools  of  any  character,  marriages  by  their  ministers 
were  declared  invalid.  The  issues  of  such  marriages  were  bastardized 
before  the  law,  and  men  were  even  prosecuted  for  living  with  their  wives. 
The  dead  were  not  exempt,  for  they  were  denied  burial  in  their  ancestral 
churchyards,  among  their  fathers,  by  whom  the  churches  were  founded. 
A  new  exodus  to  America  began,  which  continued  until  the  passage  of  the 
long-delayed  Toleration  Act  for  Ireland  in  1712.  At  first  they  hoped  for 
speedy  relief,  but  as  soon  as  1719,  all  such  hope  was  abandoned  and  there- 
after ships  enough  could  not  be  found  to  carry  from  Ulster  to  America 
the  men  who  were  unwilling  to  live  except  in  the  air  of  religious  freedom. 

"We  were  told  that  in  1727  six  ships,  loaded  with  families  from  Ulster, 
landed  in  Philadelphia  in  a  single  week,  and  that  throughout  the  whole  of 
the  eighteenth  century  the  arrival  of  two  or  three  in  a  day  was  not  uncom- 
mon. This  stream  of  Scotch-Irish  settlers  flowed  first  westward,  then 
south,  following  the  eastern  border  of  the  mountain  range  which  divides 
the  Atlantic  coast  from  the  Mississippi  Valley.  Flocking  into  Western 
Virginia,  they  formed  almost  its  entire  population.  The  Scotch-Irish  Puri- 
tans, like  their  brothers  in  New  England,  came  of  a  fighting  stock.  In 
the  Colonial  wars  their  section  furnished  most  of  the  soldiers  of  Virginia." 


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VIRGINIA    NOTES 

(Written  years  ago  by  Dr.  Archibald  Hopkins,  of  Harrisonburg,  Va., 
for  his  son,  Dr.  William  Davis  Hopkins.  Dr.  Archibald  Hopkins  was  a 
grandson  to  "Ercebald"  Hopkins.) 

"A  family  of  Hopkins  emigrated  from  the  north  of  Ireland  to  this  coun- 
try many  years  before  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  landed  first  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.  How  long  they  remained  there  is  not  known.  This  family  con- 
sisted of  a  man,  his  second  wife,  and  three  sons  by  his  first  wife.  Owing 
to  some  difficulty  between  the  sons  and  their  step-mother,  either  at  Albany, 
N.  Y.,  or  Baltimore,  Md.  (where  we  hear  of  them  next),  the  three  sons 
deserted  the  family  roof  and  retired  to  the  valley  of  Virginia.  This  was 
then  almost  a  wilderness.  They  traveled  up  the  valley  as  far  as  Green- 
briar  County,  where  they  settled,  and  remained  but  a  short  time.  Being 
attacked  by  Indians,  and  driven  away  from  Greenbriar  County,  they  re- 
turned to  Rockingham  County,  which  was  then  included  in  Augusta 
County,  and  settled  in  the  western  part,  on  Muddy  Creek.  (Braddock's 
defeat  occurred  on  July  9,  1755.  The  consternation  was  universal,  and 
many  of  the  settlers  on  the  western  frontier  fled  across  the  Blue  Ridge, 
and  even  as  far  north  as  Virginia.)  The  names  of  these  three  broth- 
ers were  John,  William,  and  Archibald,  or  "Ercebald,"  as  spelled  in  an  old 
deed.  They  sang  the  psalms  as  they  were  written  in  the  Old  Testament, 
and  would  not,  in  that  day,  tolerate  innovations  in  the  shape  of  modern 
rhymes.  They  were  amongst  the  founders,  or  first  members,  of  Cook's 
Creek,  or,  as  it  is  now  called,  the  New  Erection  Church.  Their  nearest 
neighbors  were  the  Shanklins,  Loves,  Baxters,  Gordons,  Bryans,  Rices, 
Ralstons,  etc.,  with  whom  they  and  their  descendants  married  and  inter- 
married. An  old  deed,  now  in  the  possession  of  Miss  Ruth  Hopkins,  of 
Harrisonburg,  Va.,  from  William  Castleberry  and  wife  to  Ercebald  Hopkins, 
conveying  three  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  land  lying  in  the  county  of 
Augusta,  on  Muddy  Creek,  for  the  sum  of  five  shillings,  current  money  of 
Virginia,  is  witnessed  by  Pat  Cunningham,  Abraham  Bird,  and  John 
Pirkins,  and  was  admitted  to  record  at  a  court  held  for  Augusta  County, 
on  the  i6th  of  March,  1757,  John  Madison  being  clerk  of  the  court.  This 
is  the  place  where  Archibald  settled,  and  his  descendants  have  owned  the 

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place  until  1875,  when  it  was  sold  to  William  Chrisman.  John  Hopkins 
settled  at  the  Neff  place,  about  two  miles  west  of  Archibald.  William 
settled  five  miles  north  of  the  other  two.  There  is  in  Richmond,  Va., 
the  record  of  a  patent  made  by  'George  the  Second,  by  the  Grace  of  God, 
of  Great  Britain,  France,  and  Ireland  King,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  etc.,' 
to  Ephraim  Love  and  William  Hopkins  for  204  acres  in  the  County  of 
Augusta,  on  the  head  branches  of  Muddy  Creek,  between  the  lands  Jacob 
Dye  lives  on  and  the  mountains,  described  by  meets  and  bounds,  as  usual 
with  all  other  wording  of  those  old  patents,  executed  by  'Thomas  Lee, 
president  of  our  council  and  Commander-in-chief  of  our  Colony,  etc.' 
(Dated  5th  of  September,  1749.)  In  connection  with  Ephraim  Love,  they 
surveyed  the  land  for  which  this  patent  was  issued." 


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From  the  time  of  the  first  settlements  till  1734,  it  was  all  one  county, 
called  Spotsylvania  County.  In  1734  Orange  County  was  formed  from 
the  western  portion,  including  all  of  Virginia  west  of  the  Blue  Ridge.  It 
was  called  Orange  County  because  of  the  color  of  the  soil. 

The  act  of  the  Assembly,  constituting  Augusta  and  Frederick  Counties, 
was  passed  November  i,  1738,  but  the  business  of  the  people  of  Augusta 
County  was  transacted  at  Orange  Court  House  till  December,  1745,  when 
the  court  of  Augusta  was  organized.  In  the  meantime,  all  persons  in  the 
valley  having  suits  to  prosecute,  or  any  law  business  to  transact,  had  to 
take  the  long  trip  on  horseback,  through  the  gaps  in  the  mountains,  and 
by  bridle-paths  to  Orange,  spending  two  or  three  days  on  the  way.  More- 
over, as  there  was  no  minister  for  the  Established  Church  in  the  valley 
until  1747,  all  couples  wishing  to  be  married  had  to  travel  across  the  Blue 
Ridge  to  Orange,  or  elsewhere,  in  search  of  a  minister  authorized  by  law 
to  perform  the  ceremony.  Until  October,  1780,  no  minister,  except  of  the 
Church  of  England,  had  authority  to  celebrate  marriage  except  by  dispen- 
sation of  the  governor.  In  October,  1780,  by  an  act  of  the  legislature,  all 
ministers  of  the  gospel  were  authorized  to  celebrate  the  rites  of  matrimony 
on  and  after  January  i,  1781,  but  dissenting  ministers,  not  exceeding  four 
of  each  sect  in  any  county,  were  to  be  specially  licensed  by  the  County 
Courts.  Ministers  of  the  Established  Church  were  authorized,  ex  officio, 
to  perform  the  service.  Notwithstanding  a  large  majority  of  the  people 
had  become  Dissenters  long  before  this,  the  legislature  elected  by  the  free- 
holders clung  to  the  establishment,  and  it  was  not  until  October,  1784, 
that  all  ministers  were  put  on  an  equal  footing  in  respect  to  this  matter. 
The  first  court  house  in  Augusta  County  was,  no  doubt,  like  those  on  the 
frontier,  a  log-cabin.  A  carpenter's  bench  with  half  a  dozen  chairs  upon  it 
served  as  the  judgment  seat,  and  though  the  house  was  barely  sufficient  to 
contain  the  bench,  bar,  jurors,  and  constables,  the  occasion  of  the  first 
court  must  have  brought  the  whole  population  to  town. 

The  system  of  two  distinct  courts,  one  of  law  and  the  other  of  chancery, 
continued  until  1831. 

Peyton,  in  his  history  of  Augusta  County,  says:  "The  first  Augusta 
County  settlers  were,  for  the  most  part,  the  descendants  of  the  ancient  Cal- 

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edonians,  who  boasted  that  they  had  never  been  subject  to  the  law  of  any 
conqueror.  They  belonged  to  various  highland  clans,  and  were  strongly 
imbued  with  the  prejudices,  feelings,  and  sentiments  of  their  pecuh'ar  clan. 

Each  clan  bore  the  name  of  their  hereditary  chief,  and  were  supposed 
to  be  allied  to  him  in  different  degrees  by  ties  of  blood.  Every  individual 
sought  to  show  his  attachment  to  his  leader  as  the  head  of  his  family. 
This  feeling  strongly  exhibited  itself  in  the  Augusta  County  colony,  which, 
from  intermarriages,  soon  assumed  something  of  the  character  of  a  numer- 
ous and  increasing  family." 

Early  in  1 740,  or  shortly  before,  there  was  a  great  influx  of  people  into 
the  valley.  On  May  22,  1740,  fourteen  heads  of  families  appeared  at 
Orange  Court  House  to  "prove  their  importation."  Among  these  families 
was  Robert  Poage,  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  and  his  children,  Margaret,  John, 
Martha,  Sarah,  George,  Mary,  Elizabeth,  William,  and  Robert.  The 
Hopkins  and  Poage  families  are  closely  related  by  many  marriages. 

The  first  reference  to  a  public  road  was  June,  1739,  "John  Poage, 
David  Davis,  and  George  Hutchinson  having,  according  to  an  order  of 
court,  viewed  and  laid  off  the  road  from  Beverly  Manor,  etc.,  it  is  ordered 
that  the  road  be  cleared  from  John  Young's,  at  the  North  Mountain,  to 
the  top  of  Blue  Ridge,  to  the  bonds  of  Goochland  Co." 

On  November  18,  1773,  it  was  determined  to  build  a  chapel  in  the 
neighborhood  of  Cook's  Creek.  This  was  the  first  building  of  the  Cook's 
Creek  church.  When  it  became  necessary  to  build  a  new  church,  they 
chose  a  different  location,  and  called  it  the  "New  Erection." 

The  members  of  this  church  were  Dissenters,  or  Seceders.  They  sang 
psalms,  and  were  very  strict  about  Sabbath  keeping  and  attendance  at 
the  communion  service.  The  book  containing  the  records  of  this  church 
from  1759  to  1835  is  st^  ^n  existence.  It  is  called  "The  Session  Book  of 
Cook's  Creek  and  Pyked  Mountain  Congregation." 

Rockingham  County  was  partitioned  off  from  Augusta  County  October, 
1777,  and  held  its  first  session  April  27,  1778.  It  is  the  central  county  of 
the  tier  of  counties  which  ranges  through  Shenandoah  Valley  from  the 
Potomac,  at  Harper's  Ferry,  to  Purgatory  Mount,  on  the  north  bank  of 
the  James  River.  Its  area  is  nine  hundred  square  miles.  Its  surface  is 
comparatively  level,  excepting  the  western  part,  where  it  is  broken  by  the 
projecting  spurs  of  the  north  range.  On  the  eastern  boundary  stands  the 
great  mountain  wall,  the  Blue  Ridge,  while  east  of  the  center  is  situated 
"The  Peake,"  the  southern  termination  of  the  Massanutten  Range.  It  is 
one  of  the  most  beautiful  spots  in  the  world,  and  those  early  settlers  must 
have  felt  the  inspiration  of  the  grand  old  mountains  about  them. 

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The  first  title  to  real  estate  put  on  record  in  Rockingham  County  was 
a  deed  of  bargain  and  sale  from  Robert  Shanklin  and  Rebecca,  his  wife, 
March  24,  1777. 

Land  office  treasury  warrant,  No.  832,  was  issued  to  John  Hopkins, 
Sr.,  for  1,537  acres,  April  2,  1782.  It  was  issued  to  authorize  him  to  take 
up  any  vacant  and  unappropriated  land  within  the  commonwealth  of  Vir- 
ginia. Four  hundred  and  thirty-seven  acres  were  taken  up  by  Rebecca 
and  Jane  Poage,  recorded  in  grant  book  44,  page  478;  159  acres  by  Rebecca 
and  Jane  Poage  in  Harrison  County,  book  53,  page  456.  In  1782 
the  largest  landowners  were  the  Chrismans,  Bears,  Gordons,  Hopkins, 
Hintons,  Ralstons,  Shanklins,  and  Scotts,  all  of  which  names  appear  many 
times  in  this  history. 

Andrew  Shanklin  was  sworn  Justice  February  23,  1782. 

From  1800  to  1860  emigration  and  immigration  were  the  order  of  the 
day.  The  sons  of  farmers  and  others,  descendants  of  early  settlers,  were 
enticed  away  by  the  low  price  of  rich  lands  in  the  West,  Kentucky,  Ohio, 
Indiana,  Illinois,  and  Missouri.  Often  whole  families  sold  out  and  left 
in  search  of  new  homes  near  the  frontier  of  civilization.  Sometimes  sev- 
eral families  went  together,  to  form  a  congenial  neighborhood.  Letters 
are  still  in  existence  that  were  written  by  Hopkins  people  who  had  settled 
in  Jessamine  and  Logan  Counties,  Kentucky,  to  their  old  friends  and  rela- 
tives in  Rockingham  County,  Virginia. 

These  emigrants  packed  in  wagons  their  provisions,  clothing,  bedding, 
and  such  cherished  articles  as  they  could  not  leave  behind,  and  spent  weeks 
on  the  road,  carrying  their  food  with  them,  and  camping  out  at  night. 
Some  of  these  family  flights  involved  much  hardship  and  suffering,  as  the 
way  was  rough,  roads  in  some  places  being  not  much  more  than  trails 
through  the  wilderness.  They  had  no  springs  to  their  wagons,  and  prob- 
ably the  most  comfortable  way  of  traveling  was  horseback.  Many  a 
woman  has  gone  hundreds  of  miles  in  the  saddle,  carrying  her  baby  in  her 
lap,  through  heat  and  cold,  rain  and  snow,  with  clothing  that  we  would 
think  utterly  insufficient;  crossing  rivers  and  climbing  mountains,  and  yet 
living  to  tell  her  children  and  grandchildren  of  the  pleasures  and  perils 
of  the  journey.  Until  within  a  few  years  there  were  those  who  remembered 
"the  log  cabins,  the  linsy-woolsy,  the  short  gowns,  the  hunting  shirts,  the 
moccasins,  the  pack-horses,  the  simple  living,  the  shoes  and  stockings  for 
winter  and  state  occasions,  the  deer  and  the  rifle,  the  fields  of  flax  and  the 
spinning-wheel,  and  the  wool  and  loom,  and  with  them  the  strict  attention 
to  religious  concerns,  the  catechising  of  children,  the  regular  going  to  church, 
the  reading  of  the  Bible,  and  keeping  Sabbath  from  the  beginning  to  the 


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end,  the  singing  of  the  psalms  —  all  blending,  presented  a  beautiful  pic- 
ture of  enterprise,  economy,  and  religion  in  laying  the  foundation  of  society." 
At  last  a  tardy  recognition  is  being  made  of  the  sterling  character  and 
worth  of  those  pioneers.  They  fought  the  same  battles,  and  stood  for  the 
same  principles,  as  the  Pilgrims.  Stern  and  uncompromising  in  matters 
of  conscience,  yet  they  were  never  guilty  of  persecuting  those  who  did  not 
believe  as  they  did.  Thankful,  indeed,  may  they  be  who  have  in  their 
veins  the  splendid  old  Scotch-Irish  blood. 


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THE   VALLEY 

"  'The  Valley,'  as  the  expression  is  understood  by  those  who  live  in  it, 
denotes  the  tract  of  country  in  Virginia  bounded  on  the  east  by  the  Blue 
Ridge  and  on  the  west  by  a  parallel  ridge  called,  in  most  of  its  extent, 
the  North  Mountain.  It  is  a  fine  agricultural  district,  presenting  the  ad- 
vantages which  result  from  a  soil  generally  fertile,  hills  and  vales,  number- 
less springs  of  pure  water  that  never  fail,  streams  of  various  sizes  that  never 
go  dry,  luxuriant  forests,  a  climate  suited  to  grains  and  grasses  in  great 
variety,  and  eminently  favorable  to  health.  Its  scenery  is  not  surpassed  in 
variety,  beauty,  or  grandeur  by  many  districts  in  America.  From  the  tops 
of  its  mountains  the  eye  rests  on  landscapes  lovely  beyond  description. 
Here  may  be  seen,  in  one  view,  the  mountain,  the  hill,  the  valley,  the  forest, 
the  meadow,  the  cliffs,  the  stream,  the  farm,  the  farm-house,  the  village, 
the  school-house,  and  the  church.  A  moral,  industrious,  contented  popula- 
tion dwell  here ;  intelligent,  yet  unostentatious  in  their  habits  and  manners, 
and  to  a  great  extent  the  descendants  of  those  who  settled  in  this  region 
when  it  was  a  wilderness,  and  who,  while  contending  with  the  savage  for  this 
fine  country,  laid  the  foundation  of  literary  institutions,  and  formed  the 
churches  which  have  contributed  largely  to  make  the  population  what  it  is. 

"Manya  dweller  in  other  sections  of  our  happy  country  turns  his  thoughts 
to  a  region  far  from  his  home,  and  to  other  days,  and  exclaims,  'The  Valley ! 
I  love  it!  It  was  the  home  of  my  youth,  and  in  it  are  the  graves  of  my 
fathers!'  Peace  to  their  memory.  They  were  a  God-fearing  and  law- 
abiding  people,  because  they  strictly  kept  the  Sabbath  holy  and  reverenced 
the  sanctuary.  Dangers  they  met  with  undaunted  firmness,  hardships 
and  privations  with  unrepining  endurance.  The  right  to  worship  God 
according  to  the  dictates  of  their  own  conscience,  and  the  advantages  of 
education,  they  prized  above  any  other  blessings  which  earth  could  give. 
To  secure  the  first  they  sought  a  dwelling-place  in  the  wilderness  far,  far 
from  their  fatherland;  and  for  the  second,  they  relied  on  their  own  exertions 
under  the  blessing  of  God. 

"The  first  settlers  in  this  valley,  with  few  exceptions,  were  from  the  north 
of  Ireland.  They  were  the  descendants  of  the  Scotch,  who,  for  various 
reasons,  had  emigrated  to  this  country,  and  had  taken  with  them  the  kirk 
and  the  school.  They  were  decided  Presbyterians.  Deep  abhorrence  of 

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Popery  and  a  strong  dislike  to  Episcopacy  were  to  be  expected  amongst 
those  whose  fathers  had  felt  the  oppressions  and  cruelties  of  Claverhouse, 
and  whose  friends  had  suffered  and  fought  and  died  at  Londonderry." 
#  $  $  $  #  # 

"In  passing  from  Staunton  to  Lexington  along  the  road  leading  through 
Brownsburg,  about  twenty-two  miles  from  Staunton,  the  traveler  will  notice 
a  brick  church  a  few  hundred  yards  on  his  right,  and  near  it  a  large  grave- 
yard, almost  filled  with  graves  of  the  generations  who,  for  more  than  a 
century,  have  assembled  there  from  Sabbath  to  Sabbath  to  worship  God. 
The  house  that  is  now  occupied  is  the  third  in  which  the  congregation  of 
New  Providence  have  worshiped.  The  first  was  a  wooden  structure,  and 
stood  a  short  distance  east  of  where  the  road  to  the  church  crosses  the  creek. 
The  second  was  of  stone,  and  occupied  in  part  the  ground  that  is  covered 
by  the  present  building.  This  house  was  built  either  in  1745  or  1746.  It  was 
an  era  of  no  little  consequence,  and  a  work  of  no  little  difficulty  to  the  people 
who  accomplished  it.  Some  of  the  traditions  of  the  congregation  will  illus- 
trate this.  At  that  time  there  was  but  one  vehicle  that  moved  on  wheels  in 
the  congregation,  and  it  was  a  one-horse  cart.  The  heavy  timbers  for  the 
roof  and  galleries  were  dragged  to  the  place  with  one  end  resting  on  the  axle 
of  the  cart  and  the  other  on  the  ground.  The  wheels  gave  way  under  the 
weight  of  the  last  one,  and  the  people  collected  and  carried  it  nearly  a  mile. 

"It  is  said  that  in  the  year  the  church  was  built  the  pastor,  in  visiting 
through  his  charge,  took  dinner  on  one  occasion  with  a  family  by  no  means 
amongst  the  poorest  in  the  congregation.  When  all  were  seated  at  the 
table,  it  was  seen  that  there  was  not  both  a  knife  and  fork  for  each  plate. 
The  mother  of  the  family  in  making  an  apology,  told  him  that  they  had 
saved  money  to  buy  a  set  of  knives  and  forks;  but  since  the  church  was 
commenced  they  had  given  to  that  object,  and  must  do  without  them  till 
the  next  year. 

"The  sand  used  in  plastering  the  house  was  carried  in  sacks  on  horse- 
back about  ten  miles,  and  this  was  done  chiefly  by  the  girls  of  the  congre- 
gation. There  are  those  now  living  who  know  that  their  grandmothers 
assisted  in  this.  There  was  then  no  committee  on  church  extension  to 
aid  feeble  congregations  in  building  houses  of  worship,  and  with  the  spirit 
which  animated  these  people  few  churches  of  our  country  would  ask  for  aid. 

"The  people  of  that  period  were  not  unfrequently  disturbed  by  alarms  of 
Indians,  and  the  whole  of  a  family  would  go  to  church  on  a  Sabbath  be- 
cause they  dared  not  leave  any  at  home.  The  father  and  sons  carried  their 
weapons  with  them,  prepared  to  defend  their  lives,  and  a  large  number 
of  armed  men  were  frequently  seen  at  the  church." 

From  "The  Captives  of  Abb's  Valley." 
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"Pride  in  ancestry  which  endured  the  hardships  of  an  ocean  voyage  of 
several  weeks  in  a  small  sailing  vessel,  which  built  log  cabins  on  the  borders 
of  the  primeval  forest,  which  turned  the  virgin  sod  with  the  clumsy  plow 
of  two  centuries  ago,  which  bled  from  the  wounds  of  the  stone  weapons  of 
the  Indians,  which  dressed  in  homespun,  and  was  ignorant  of  the  luxuries 
of  the  present  day  —  such  pride  is  not  a  dangerous  thing  to  instill  into 
the  veins  of  an  American  citizen." 


NOTES   FROM   THE    SESSION    BOOK   OF    COOK'S 
CREEK  AND   PYKED    MOUNTAIN    CONGRE- 
GATIONS, 1759-1835 


Reed  for  on  account  of  bank 

Pds.  S.  D. 

Thomas  Shanlin o  3  o 

John  Hopkins,  Sr o  3  o 

Darby  Magan o  3  o 

David  Ralston o  3  o 

Benj.  Hinton o  3  o 

John  Curry o  3  o 

Archibald  Hopkins o  3  o 

Ephraim  Lane    o  3  o 


June  i4th,  1784.  At  a  Sacrament  the  collection  reed,  was  three  pounds, 
sixteen  shillings.  Cr.  same  day  paid  Thomas  Scott  for  the  wine,  i  Pd.,  o  s. 

Same  day  Miss  Hopkins  for  bread,  o  pds.  n/6,  the  remaining  Ball, 
of  Pd.  i,  S.  16,  D.  76.  left  in  the  hands  of  John  Hardiman,  Senr. 


1794,  Dr.  Wm.  Thomas  Shanklin L.  s.  p. 

June  16,  To  cash  left  in  yr  hands i  2  2 

At  a  sacrament  held  at  Harrisonburgh  in 

the  hands  of  Thomas  Shanklin.                               .  i  2  6 


May  1 8,  1795,  Cash  in  the  hands  of  Thomas  Shanklin  Bu 
Church  money o 


May,  3 1 , 1 796,  Cash  left  in  the  hands  of  Thomas  Shanklin  .2  12  o 

June  1 9th,  1786.  CR.  L.  s.  p. 

June  19,  1786,  By  cash  to  Thomas  Shanklin  on  account  of 

James  Linison    2  12  o 

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June  4th,  1789,  Lodge  in  the  hand  of  John  herdman  the 
sum    of    sixteen    shillings    of    collection 

money   o          16 

Some  time  tres't,  7/6 7  6 


1793.                                                                                       P.  s.  p. 

June  3,  By  cash  for  wine    o  17  6 

June  3,  By  the  depreciation  of  cut  mony  left  in  his  hands 

in  June,  1792    o  4  6 

By  mystake o  o  ir 


May  xoth,  1795.  Paid  out  of  the  Publick  money  for 
Table  linen  for  the  use  of  the  congrega- 
tion by  Thomas  Shanklin 4  12 

out  of  the  collection  of  the  year,  1794. 


A  copy  of  North  Mountain  subscription  for  the  Revt.  Benj'n,  Ewin,  for 
the  year  90,  from  May,  1790. 

L.  s.  d. 

George  Baxter    i  4  ° 

Archibald  Hopkins o  9  o 

John  Hopkins o  15  o 

Thomas  Shanklin,  Jr o  9  o 

Thomas  Shanlin,  Sr i  o  o 

James  Shanklin o  6  o 

James  Henton o  6  o 

Ephriham  Hopkins o  10  o 

Elizabeth  Shanklin o  6  o 

Thomas  Gordon o  12  o 

David  Berry o  9  o 

John  Berry o  12  o 

William  Rolston o  15  o 

David  Rolston o  12  o 

Benjamin  Henton o  15  o 

David  Rolston,  Sr o  12  o 


Among  the  names  of  members  belonging  to  the  congregations  of  Harri- 
sonburgh  and  Cook's  Creek  in  1810  and  1811,  we  notice  the  following: 
Joseph  Baxter,  mother,  Daughter  Sarah, 

John  Baxter  sister,  Anne, 

and  wife,  Mrs.  Ann  Hopkins,          Wm.  Chrisman, 

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Thomas  Hopkins, 
wife, 


Davis  Ralston, 
wife, 


Mrs.  John  Hopkins, 
Jenny  Hopkins, 
Ellj.  Cratzer. 
Later  in  the  book  we  find  the  following  names  under  the  heading, 

"From  the  year  of  our  Lord  1780  until  181 1,  found  on  record,  with  additions 

to  1828." 


Joseph  Baxter, 
Mrs.  Baxter,  his  wife, 
Phebe  Ewin,  wid. 
Mrs.  Baxter,  wid. 
David  Rolstons,  snr. 
Mrs.  Scott,  wid. 
John  Hopkins,  senr. 
Joseph  Henton, 
Mrs.  Henton,  his  wife, 
Mrs.  Catherine  Gordon, 

wid. 

Jesse  Ralston, 
Jane  Rolston, 
Archibald  Rolston, 
Elizabeth  Rolston, 
M.  Ann  Gordon, 

Polly  Gordon, 


10  br.  i2th,  1759. 
John  Hopkins, 
Jean  Gordon, 


April  1 6,  1760. 

Skidmore  Monsy, 
Mary  Scott. 


Sally  Gordon, 
Jane  Gordon, 
Ruth  Gordon, 
John  Gordon, 
and  wife  Haney, 
William  Dunlap, 
Archibald  Hopkins, 
Mrs.  Hopkins,  his  wife, 
John  Henton, 

David  Henton, 
Jane  Henton, 
Esther  Henton, 
Peggy  Henton, 
John  H.  Rolston, 
Mrs.  Mary  Rclston,  his 

wife, 
David  Scott, 


Jane  Henton, 
Martha  M.  Baxter, 
Mary  Rice, 
George  Baxter, 
Sarah  Ann  Hopkins, 
Ethel  Henton, 
Elizabeth  Ann  Hopkins, 
David  Bear, 
John  Bear, 

Elizabeth  Baxter, 
Samuel  Bear, 
Robert  Rice, 
Andrew  Bear, 
John  Rice, 

Mrs.  J.  Bear, 
Sarah  Rice, 
Sarah  Rolstone. 


MARRIAGES. 

Septbr.  1 5th,  1760. 

Christopher  Armentroute, 
Susanna  Powers. 


10  br.  29,  1762. 
George  Braxter, 
Mary  Love. 


Janr. 
May 
7  br. 


BAPTISMS. 
1762. 

Feby.     Samuel  Irwin,      Aug.  26,  Marg't  Irwin 
Septr.     Wm.  Ralston.       Mch.        John  Irwin. 
Novbr   Eliz.  Hopkins, 
John  Hopkin.        Novbr    Ephriam  Hopkin. 
Sarah  Hopkins.     June  24jean  Scott. 

29 


1760. 
Mary  Hopkin. 

1761. 
Eliz.  Ralston, 


The  minutes  of  the  meetings  are  not  recorded  until  1812.  Entries, 
containing  names  familiar  to  this  history,  are  as  follows: 

1812.  Cooks  Creek  Meeting  house  May  1812.  Were  added  to  the 
church,  Jesse  Ralston,  Archabal  Ralston,  Polly  Gordon,  Polly  Baxter. 


Departed  this  life  Anne  Hopkins  29  of  May,  1812. 


At  a  sacrament  held  in  Harrisonburgh  13  of  June,  1813,  four  members 
were  added  to  the  church,  viz: — Jacob  Parrot  and  wife,  Elizabeth  Hopkins 
etc. 

baptized  same  time  Polly  Anne  Hazle,  Ann  Hopkins  Beard,  Benjamin 
Henton  Ralston,  and  Elizabeth  Mary  Baxter,  all  infants. 


2nd  of  April  1814.     Departed  this  life  Thomas  Gordon. 


Departed  this  life  Elizabeth  Hopkins,  Wife  of  John  Hopkins,  22nd.  of 
April,  1814. 


Baptized  on  Monday  the  3oth.  of  May,   1814,  Ann  Jane  Hopkins, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Hopkins. 


Departed  this  life  Mrs.  Jane  Hopkins,  August  28th,  1814. 


Baptized  at  Cooks  Creek  meeting  by  the  Rev'd  John  Ewing  Sarah  Ann 
and  Thomas  G.  Hopkins  children  of  Archibald  Hopkins,  i7th  of  August, 
1815. 


Baptized  same  time  Pheby  Ann  Ewing  daughter  of  William  Ewing, 
Sarah  Ralston  and  Anna  Liza  Ralston  daughter  of  Jesse  Ralston,  Martha 
Hall  Baxter  and  Samuel  Clark  Hazle  son  of  James  Hazle. 

February  22nd.  1817,  Departed  this  life  Mrs.  James  Herron. 

About  the  same  time  Mrs.  Hannah  Chrisman. 

10  of  September,  1817. 

Removed  from  out  of  the  bounds  of  the  Congregation  of  Cooks  Creek 
and  Harrisons  Burgh  Tomas  Hopkins  and  Wife  sarah,  his  two  sons,  John 
and  Frances  and  sister  Ruth. 


14  of  December,  1817,  Baptized  by  the  Rev't  Conrad  Spean  at  Cooks 
Creek  Meeting  house,  Benjamin  Briant  Ewing  son  of  Wm.  Ewing,  John 
Hopkins  son  of  A.  Hopkins. 

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At  a  Presbytery  held  in  Harrisonburgh,  commencing  March  5,  1818, 
the  Rev'd  Daniel  Baker  was  ordained  and  installed  the  Pastor  of  the  United 
Congregations  of  Cooks  Creek  and  Harrisonburgh. 

Were  added  to  the  Church  the  same  time  Henton  Ralston  and  Wife 
Mrs.  Henneberger  and  Kinly  Berry. 


At  a  sacrament  held  at  Harrisonburgh  October,  1818,  were  added  to 
the  Church  to  wit — Joseph  Baker,  John  Baker,  Betsy  Sites,  Mrs.  Sprinkle 
Mrs.  Bruffy — Mrs.  Wm.  Hopkins,  Deborah  Butler,  and  Mrs.  Thos.  Logan. 


At  a  sacrament  held  at  Cooks  Creek  Meeting  house,  on  Sabbath  nth. 
of  April,  1819,  15  were  added  to  the  church  to  wit; — Henry  Smith,  Archi- 
abald  Hopkins,  Elenor  Chrisman,  Ruth  Gordon,  Jane  Gordon,  Lidia  Et- 
inger,  Nancy  Swartz,  Polly  Herron,  Adelia  Ewing,  Lidia  Etinger,  Rebecca 
Langly  and  James  Brown  with  Thomas,  Ketty  and  Lucy  people  of  color. 


Baptized  same  time  6  adults  and  5  infants  to  wit  —  Nancy  Swarz,  Ledia 
Etinger,  and  Rebecca  Langly  Thomas,  Ketty  and  Lucy  adults,  also 
Ester  Moffet  daughter  of  David  Beard,  John  Hopkins  Ralston,  Peggy  Ann 
Berry,  Henry  Alexander  Christman,  and  Samuel  Miller,  infants. 


At  a  sacrament  held  at  Harrisonburgh 1819,  were  added  to  the 

Church  on  examination  8,  to  wit — Mrs.  Miller,  Mrs.  Polly  Gordon,  Eliza 
Herron,  Sarah  Like,  Johana  Scot,  James  Mallory,  David  Yakle,  and  Mrs. 
Hannah  Davis,  by  certificate. 

Baptized  same  time  3  adults  to  wit  —  Sarah  Like,  Elizabeth  Henneber- 
ger, Ester  Hopkins. 


At  a  sacrament  held  at  Cooks  Creek  Meeting  house  October,  1819,  10 
were  added  to  the  church,  to  wit  -  -  Jacob  Bear,  Tinkle  Rachel  Gamble, 
Nancy  Harrison,  Nancy  Maker,  John  Blair,  Elizabeth  Blair,  Hannah 
Mallory,  Ruth  Henton. 


At  a  sacrament  held  at  Cooks  Creek  meeting  house  Mrs.  Nail  joined 
herself  to  the  Church,  Baptized  ten  to  wit  —  Agnus  Jane  Hopkins,  Samuel 
D.  Baxter,  John  Rodgers,  Jesse  Ralston,  (Sarah  Ellen,  Elizabeth,  Mary, 
John  and  Andrew  Cougler,)  John  Berry. 


Mr.  Thomas  Scot  departed  this  life  12  of  May,  1822. 


Saturday,  August  21  1822  Archibald  Hopkins,  John  W.  Ralston,  John 


Scott,  and  Robert  Herron,  were  ordained  to  the  office  of  Ruling  Elders 
in  the  united  congregations  of  Cooks  Creek,  and  Harrisonsburgh. 

Baptized  same  time. 

Rev'nd  Joseph  Smiths,  daughter  Elizabeth  Hill. 

Jesse  Ralstons,  do.      Lucritia, 

David  Beards,  do.      Margarit  Martha, 


At  a  sacrament  held  at  Cooks  Creek  meeting  house  9  were  added  to  the 
church  to  wit: — (27  September,  1823). 

John  Gordon,  Margaret  Beard,  Malinda  E.  Ralston. 

Nancy  Gordon.  Anna  Snyder.  Catharene  Snyder. 

Rebeccah  Longly,  William  Ralston  and  Edith  a  colored  woman,  be- 
longing to  William  Hopkins. 

At  a  sacrament  held  at  New  Erection  Sept.  25,  1825,  were  added  to 
the  communion  of  the  Church  the  following,  viz: — Mrs.  Devier.  Mrs. 
Carrier.  Mrs.  R.  Rankin.  Mrs.  Hetty  Rankin.  Miss  McAmie.  Miss.  Char- 
lotte Canmbell.  Baptized.  Malinda  J.  Ralston.  John  M.  Gordon. 

At  a  sacrament  held  in  Harrisonburg,  May  7th.  1825,  was  received  to 
communion  of  the  church. 

On  examination.  Baptized. 

Milanda  Hinton.  John  Bill  Smith. 

Died  during  the  month  of  April,  1825,  Mrs.  Kratzer  Mrs.  Brian,  & 
Mrs.  Higgins. 


At  a  sacrament  held  at  Cooks  Creek  meeting  house,  November  4th. 
1826,  James  Hopkins  joined  himself  with  the  Church. 


gth.  March  1828.  The  session  of  C.  C.  &  H.  met  at  New  Erection; 
opened  with  prayer.  Present  Rev.  A.  W.  Kilpatrick,  Mod.  Mesrs.  Wm. 
Ewin,  Jepe  Ralston,  Archibald  Ralston.  Archibald  Hopkins.  &  John  H. 
Rolston,  elders. 


April  6,  1828. 

Mr.  Archibald  Hopkins,  was  appointed  to  attend  the  Preby.  at  the  com- 
ing Spring  session.  The  session  then  adjourned  to  meet  at  this  place  on 
the  igth  Inst.,  at  2  O'clock,  P.  M.  concluded  with  prayer. 


Deaths  of  Church  members. 
1831.     Ruth  Henton. 
1834.     Mrs.  Cathrn.  Gordon,  died  Jan. 
1833.     Mrs.  Nancy  Bear,  died  in  Oct. 

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June  ayth.  1831,  Sacrament  N.  Erection,  Received  on  certificate  Mrs. 
Agathy  W.  Thornton,  on  examination,  George  Baxter,  Nathaniel  Ervin, 
Sary  Ann  Hopkins,  Esther  Henton  Solome  Neff,  Matilda  Anderson,  Sarah 
Limerman,  Mrs.  Catherine  MCartney,  Elizabeth  Ann  Hopkins. 


May.  roth  1834. 

The  session  of  the  H.  &  Cooks  met  according  to  appointment  Opened 
with  prayer,  Present  A.  W.  Kilpatrick,  Moderator,  Elders,  Present,  Wm. 
Ewing,  A.  Hopkins,  I.  H.  Rolston. 


Members  added  to  the  Church. 
Nov.  1826.     James  Hopkins,  on  Exam. 


New  Erection  sacrament  administered  Lord's  Day  May  4th.  no  addi- 
tions 1833.     Infants  baptized. 

Parents  names 

James  Anderson Wm.  D.  Bears. 

Margaret  E G.  Baxters. 

Ann  Elizabeth Arch.  Hopkins 

Abner  W.  Kilpatrick, 


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How  dimly  conscious  of  heroic  action 

Those  hardy  leaders  in  a  nation's  van ! 
As  dim  their  vision  of  the  coming  grandeur 

That  in  the  pathos  of  their  lives  began. 

Not  stalwart  men  alone,  but  babes  and  women, 

Not  scores  and  hundreds, —  in  thin  ranks  they  come, 

By  single  families, —  few  friends,  few  neighbors, — 
To  cheer  their  outlook  with  a  kindred  home. 

Behind  them  all  they  loved,  a  haunting  picture, 
The  fireside  joys,  their  kindred,  altars,  graves, 

Before  them  naught  but  the  mysterious  riddle 

Solved  by  time  alone,  that  which  destroys  or  saves. 

Wisely  they  builded,  not  alone  the  cabin, 

Not  for  self  only  and  the  world  of  sight ; 
With  church,  with  school,  the  Bible,  and  the  Sabbath, 

They  reared  their  hamlet  —  God  its  life  and  light. 

Rise  up,  O  children !     Call  your  mothers  blessed ! 

Give  honor  to  your  fathers  while  you  may ; 
There's  a  glory  that  abides  forever ! 

There's  a  kingdom  not  to  pass  away ! 

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JOHN   HOPKINS,   PIONEER 

John  Hopkins,  with  his  brothers,  Archibald  and  William,  came  to  the 
Shenandoah  Valley  some  time  before  1749.  We  find  in  the  old  "Session 
Book  of  Cook's  Creek  and  Pyke  Mountain  Congregation"  the  record  of 
his  marriage  on  October  12,  1759,  to  Jean  Gordon.  He  settled  at  the 
"Neff  place"  two  miles  west  of  Archibald  Hopkins,  near  the  mountain. 
This  and  the  Gordon  farm  were  the  first  two  settlements  in  that  locality. 
T.  M.  Gordon  says,  "I  can  remember  seeing  the  mounds  of  an  old  fort  on 
my  father's  farm  where  they  protected  themselves  from  the  Indians,  and 
the  place  goes  by  the  name  of  Fort  Spring  to  this  day."  Jean  Gordon 
Hopkins  is  said  to  have  been  a  good  shot  and  often  stood  guard  over  her 
husband,  protecting  him  with  her  rifle  while  he  worked.  It  was  here  at 
the  foot  of  North  Mountain,  with  the  wonderfully  beautiful  scenery  of  the 
Blue  Ridge  always  in  sight  that  John  and  Jean  Gordon  Hopkins  made 
their  home  and  reared  their  family.  They  built  a  substantial  brick  house. 
James  M.  Rice,  of  Peoria,  111.,  says,  "When  I  visited  in  Rockingham,  Va,. 
in  1876, 1  saw  the  old  house  built  about  1760,  not  far  from  the  time  Archibald 
Hopkins  was  born,  which  house  was  still  in  good  order,  two  stories  high, 
with  four  big  fire  places  in  it,  two  up  stairs  and  two  down.  One  of  them  I 
measured  down  stairs,  was  ten  feet  and  eight  inches  across  from  the  outside 
of  the  jamb  on  one  side  to  the  outside  of  the  jamb  on  the  other.  There 
was  a  nice  spring  house  by  the  residence  with  a  large  spring  of  cold  crystal 
water  and  in  front  of  the  house  was  a  row  of  willow  trees,  I  should  think 
about  three  feet  or  three  and  a  half  in  diameter  when  I  saw  them  a  little 
more  than  twenty-five  years  ago."  This  house  must  have  been  the  scene 
of  many  merry  times  and  many  sad  partings  for  ten  children  played  out 
their  childhood,  grew  to  manhood  and  womanhood,  married,  said  good- 
bye to  the  old  fireside  and  went  to  far-off  places  to  make  themselves  new 
homes.  These  homes  were  "far  off"  not  so  much  on  account  of  distance 
as  because  of  the  lack  of  means  of  communication,  in  those  days,  be- 
tween separated  localities.  It  is  no  wonder  that  these  brothers  and 
sisters  knew  but  little  of  each  other  and  in  some  cases  lost  track  entirely 
of  the  whereabouts  of  the  next  generation,  and  that  to-day  it  is  a  difficult 
matter  to  trace  them  in  their  life  histories. 

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John  Hopkins  died  before  June  4,  1791,  as  a  letter  from  the  old  Cook's 
Creek  church,  bearing  this  date,  speaks  of  Jane  Hopkins  as  the  "daughter 
of  John  Hopkins,  disceased." 

We  know  that  he  made  a  will  for  we  find  in  an  old  legal  paper  these 
words,  "  Whereas  the  Commonwealth  of  Virginia  did  grant  and  convey  to 
John  Hopkins,  senior,  a  certain  Tract  of  Land  formerly  in  Harrison 
County  now  in  the  County  of  Lewis,  aforesaid  lying  on  the  Hilly  upland 
run,  a  Branch  of  Stone  coal  Creek,  Containing  800  acres  which  patent  is 
dated  the  28th  day  of  August,  1787,  as  by  said  patent  will  appear,  and 
where-as  the  said  John  Hopkins  since  died,  having  first  made  and  published 
his  last  Will  and  Testament  and  therein  and  thereby  given  and  bequeathed 
the  above  Tract  of  Land  to  three  of  his  daughters  to  wit:  Hannah,  Ruth, 
and  Ann  as  by  said  Will  and  Testament  doth  more  fully  appear." 

He  must  have  had  other  lands  than  those  spoken  of  in  this  quotation  for 
we  find  that  "Land  office  Treasury  Warrant  No.  8321  was  issued  to  John 
Hopkins,  Sr.  for  1537  acres  of  land  April  12, 1782.  It  was  issued  to  author- 
ize him  to  take  up  any  vacant  and  unappropriated  land  within  the  common- 
wealth of  Virginia.  437  acres  were  taken  up  by  Rebecca  and  Jane  Poage, 
recorded  in  Grant  Book  44,  page  478  (in  Harrison  County);  159  acres  by 
Rebecca  and  Jane  Poage  in  Harrison  County  in  Grant  Book  53,  page  456." 

There  is  a  tradition  that  John  Hopkins  served  in  the  Revolutionary 
War  under  General  Washington  and  was  in  the  siege  of  Yorktown. 

In  a  letter  written  December  7,  1876,  by  Cyrus  Hopkins,  of  Uppertract, 
Pendleton  Co.,  Va.,  a  grandson  of  John  Hopkins,  the  pioneer,  he  says, 
"John  Hopkins  lived  in  Rockingham  County  and  was  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolutionary  War.  He  also  represented  his  country  in  the  Legislature." 
We  also  have  this  from  the  War  Department,  military  secretary's  office,  at 
Washington:  "The  records  of  this  office  show  that  one  John  Hopkins 
served  as  a  private  in  Captain  David  Stephenson's  Company,  8th  Virginia 
Regiment,  commanded  by  Colonel  Abraham  Bowman,  Revolutionary  War. 
He  enlisted  February  21,  1778,  to  serve  three  years.  He  was  transferred 
to  Captain  William  Croghan's  Company,  4th,  8th,  and  i2th  Virginia 
Regiment,  commanded  by  Colonel  James  Wood,  in  June,  1778;  to  Captain 
William  Croghan's  Company,  4th  Virginia  Regiment,  commanded  by 
Colonel  John  Nevill,  in  September,  1778,  and  to  Captain-Lieutenant 
Leonard  Cooper's  Company,  same  regiment,  in  May,  1779.  His  name 
last  appears  on  the  roll  dated  December  9,  1779,  without  special  remark 
relative  to  his  service." 

We  find  in  Henning's  Statutes  at  Large,  Volume  VII.,  page  179,  the 
following:  "To  the  Militia  of  the  Co.  of  Augusta  and  for  provisions  fur- 
nished by  sundry  inhabitants  of  said  Co.  viz. — 

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To  Archibald  Hopkins,  John  shanklin, 

355.  each   L3,  s.  10, 

"    Lieutenant  John  Hopkins, "  2,  "  14. 

In  Volume  XLI.,  page  95,  we  find: 

"  Be  it  therefor  enacted  that  it  shall  and  may  be  lawful  for  any  person, 
chargeable  with  any  part  of  the  half  tax,  for  the  year  1785,  to  make  pay- 
ment of  any  part,  not  exceeding  two  thirds  thereof,  in  certificates  issued, 
or  to  be  hereafter  issued,  by  John  Hopkins,  Esq.,  Commissioner  of  the 
Continental  Loan  Office  in  this  state,  for  interest  due  on  loan  office  certi- 
ficates, etc." 

Volume  XI.,  page  309: 

"Act  for  surveying  the  lands  given  by  law  to  officers  and  soldiers  on 
continental  and  state  establishments  and  for  other  purposes  *  *  *  Be  it 
enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  that  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  deputations 
of  officers  consisting  of, — 

Major  General  Muglenburg, 

"  "       Chas.  Scott, 

"  "       Geo.  Weeden, 

Brigadier  General    Dan'l  Morgan, 

"  "         Jas.  Wood, 

Colonel William  Heth, 

Lieutenant  Colonel Towles, 

"  "         Hopkins, 

"         Clark,  etc., 

of  the  Continental  line  *  *  *  to  appoint  superintendents  for  the  pur- 
pose of  regulating  the  survey  of  lands  appropriated  by  law  as  counties, 
etc." 

The  receipt  here  reproduced  may  add  another  bit  of  testimony. 

Aprail  7th,  1781. 

Reed,  of  Thomas  Gordon  Twentie  two  pounds  twelve  shillings  it 
being  his  part  in  order  to  raise  clothes  and  provisions  agreeable  to  an  Act 
of  Assembly  passed  for  that  purpose. 

JOHN  HOPKINS. 

I,  James  M.  Rice,  a  great  grandson  of  said  John  Hopkins  and  a  great 
great  grandson  of  said  Thomas  Gordon,  do  hereby  certify  that  the  above 
is  a  full  true  correct  and  literal  copy  of  an  orginal  receipt  now  in  my  pos- 
session, it  is  written  on  a  piece  of  paper  that  had  been  cut  out  of  some  old 
letter  or  other  document  and  it  has  some  parts  of  some  of  the  original  writ- 
ing on  the  back  yet.  It  came  to  me  as  being  the  great  great  grandson  of 
said  Thomas  Gordon. 

April  30,  1895.  JAMES  M.  RICE. 

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/.    JOHN  HOPKINS  (the  pioneer)  was  married  Oct.  12, 
*759  t°  Jean  Gordon,  sister  oj  Thomas  Gordon. 

CHILDREN. 

ARCHIBALD,     born,  1760. 
SARAH, 
MARY, 

JANE,  1767. 

HANNAH,  1769. 

RUTH, 

THOMAS,  "      1773. 

JOHN,  1776. 

ANN,  "      1780. 

Name  of  tenth  child  not  known. 

Home,   Rockingham,   Virginia,   near  Harrisonburg.     Business,   Agri- 
culture. 


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"The  first  thought  of  the  man  who  has  just  discovered  the  name  of 
his  grandfather's  grandfather,  is  that  he  belongs  to  an  old  and  superior 
family,  and  he  is  apt  to  put  on  airs  in  the  presence  of  one  who  has  only  a 
grandfather  of  his  own." 


THE   RED   OAK,   OHIO,  FAMILY 

WRITTEN  BY  THE   LATE  REV.  T.  M.  HOPKINS,  OF  DENVER,  COLORADO 

II.  Archibald  Hopkins,  first  child  of  John  Hopkins  and  Jean  Gordon, 
was  born  in  Rockingham  County,  Virginia,  near  Harrisonburg,  in  1760. 
His  father  and  mother,  John  and  Jean  Gordon  Hopkins,  were  Scotch-Irish. 
He  grew  up  to  manhood  in  the  beautiful  Shenandoah  Valley  under  the 
shadow  of  North  Mountain,  always  in  sight  of  the  wonderful  haze  of  the 
Blue  Ridge  mountains.  He  was  short  of  stature,  a  great  talker,  and  very 
energetic. 

He  was  married  about  1785  to  Elizabeth  Poage.  They  made  their 
home  near  the  parental  roof.  To  them  were  born  six  children,  William, 
John,  Jane,  Mary,  Sarah,  and  Robert.  These  children  were  all  somewhat 
under  medium  size.  Elizabeth  Poag  Hopkins  must  have  died  soon  after 
the  birth  of  Robert,  for  Archibald  Hopkins  married  a  second  wife,  Mar- 
garet Shanklin,  and  her  first  child,  Gordon,  was  only  three  years  younger 
than  Elizabeth's  last  child,  Robert.  By  his  second  wife,  Archibald  had 
ten  children,  Gordon,  Benjamin,  Thomas,  Elizabeth,  Elijah,  James,  Har- 
riet, Archibald,  Edwin,  and  Gracy  Ann.  These  were  all  larger  and  more 
robust  than  the  others.  In  1804  he  moved  from  Virginia  to  Mayslick, 
Mason  County,  Kentucky,  where  his  sister,  Jane  Hopkins  Pogue,  the  wife 
of  General  Robert  Pogue,  had  lived  for  about  thirteen  years.  He  did  not 
like  the  conditions  he  found  there  and  slavery  troubled  him  so  he  went 
into  Ohio,  prospecting.  At  Red  Oak,  Brown  County,  he  met  the  Rev. 
James  Gilliland  and  seems  to  have  formed  for  him  a  strong  attachment. 
Returning  to  Kentucky,  he  told  his  wife  he  had  found  his  preacher  any 
way.  Very  soon  after,  in  1805,  he  went  with  his  family  to  Red  Oak,  Ohio. 
He  is  said  to  have  crossed  the  Ohio  River  at  Ripley  with  wagons  in  which 
were  his  wife  and  twelve  children,  his  household  possessions,  and  a  barrel 
of  whiskey.  One  of  the  great  grandsons  says  he  remembers  hearing  the 
old  folks  tell  of  the  hardships  they  had  to  endure  on  the  road  to  Ohio. 
They  tied  logs  to  the  backs  of  the  wagons  to  help  in  holding  back  in  going 
down  steep  hills.  It  was  still  harder  to  climb  those  hills.  They  carried 
chunks  of  wood  or  stones  to  block  the  wheels  to  let  the  horses  rest.  It  is 
also  said  that  during  these  resting  times  the  whiskey  was  passed  around  to 
refresh  the  weary  pilgrims. 

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Elizabeth  Shanklin,  Archibald  Hopkin's  second  wife,  was  a  large,  fine 
looking  woman.  One  of  her  grandchildren  remembers  her  as  a  "  glorious 
old  woman."  Four  children  were  born  after  reaching  Ohio,  making  a  family 
of  sixteen,  all  but  one  of  whom  (Elijah)  grew  to  maturity,  married,  and  had 
families.  At  Red  Oak,  three  miles  north  of  Ripley,  Archibald  obtained 
land,  and  in  this  fertile  but  heavily  timbered  country  he  proceeded  to  make 
a  home.  With  great  energy  and  perseverence  he  and  his  sons  removed  a 
portion  of  the  heavy  forest  and  erected  a  comfortable  house  and  barn. 
The  house  was  built  of  brick,  two  stories  high,  a  hall  through  the  middle, 
and  two  windows  on  each  side  of  the  front  door.  This  house  was  the  pride 
of  all  his  grandchildren.  The  barn  was  built  of  logs  and  plastered  so  as 
to  hold  flaxseed.  He  also  built  a  flaxseed-oil  mill,  which  he  operated.  He 
soon  saw  his  rich  acres  graced  with  abundant  crops,  and  prosperity  within 
his  borders.  He  and  his  sons  were  excellent  horse  trainers  and  kept  the 
finest  horses  in  all  that  region.  At  that  time,  transportation  of  all  kinds 
was  by  horse  and  wagon  and  they  were  often  called  upon  by  their  neigh- 
bors for  help  with  their  magnificent  teams. 

The  little  boys,  of  whom  I  was  one,  were  very  proud  of  the  Hopkins 
teams.  As  his  ten  sons,  one  by  one,  married  some  excellent  maiden,  al- 
ways a  member  of  the  church,  he  was  settled  in  the  neighborhood  on  a 
farm  of  his  own,  usually  not  less  and  generally  more  than  a  hundred  acres. 

I  do  not  think  there  was  a  house  in  all  that  reigon  on  the  floor  of  which 
there  was  anything  nicer  than  a  rag  carpet.  Everything  was  home  made. 
The  women  spun  and  wove  flannel  for  dresses  and  blue  jeans  for  the  men's 
clothes.  A  young  girl  with  a  red  flannel  dress,  cut  and  made  so  as  to 
economize  material,  was  just  as  attractive  then  as  the  most  fashionably 
dressed  lady  of  to-day.  Shoes  were  valuable  in  those  days.  The  farmer 
killed  a  beef,  took  the  hide  to  a  tannery  (many  went  to  General  Grant's 
father  at  Georgetown),  and  got  half  of  the  hide  in  return  for  leather.  Out 
of  this  he  made  his  own  harness  and  shoes.  I  remember  one  winter  day  I 
sat  patiently  watching  my  father  as  he  cut  and  made  a  pair  of  shoes  for 
my  youthful  feet.  Some  excellent  women,  who  walked  two  miles  or  more 
to  church,  carried  their  shoes  and  stockings  until  near  the  church,  then 
retired  to  the  woods,  completed  their  toilet,  and  came  into  the  church  with 
all  the  dignity  of  queens. 

The  farm  of  John  Hopkins,  second  child  of  Archibald,  was  near  the 
church.  The  spring  from  which  the  congregation  drank  during  the  recess 
in  the  church  service  was  on  his  farm.  John  had  six  sons,  each  of  whom 
was  six  feet  tall,  and  each  of  whom  became  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  He  was  said  to  have  raised  thirty-six  feet  of  "Elder  timber." 

Gordon  lived  for  many  years  in  a  two-story  brick  house  about  two  miles 

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from  the  church,  on  the  Russelville  road.  His  sons  were  famous  as  good 
farmers  and  fine  horsemen.  Probably  no  family  in  the  neighborhood  was 
more  popular.  For  many  years  Gordon  was  superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
School.  He  and  Robert  were  the  two  most  acceptable  men  in  offering 
public  prayer  that  I  ever  knew.  Mose  Kimball  once  said,  "Robert  Hopkins 
was  the  best  man  that  ever  lived."  William,  Archibald's  first  child,  lived 
near  his  father  on  a  fine  farm  with  an  excellent  orchard.  He  had  a  nice 
two-story  house  in  the  hills. 

All  these  homes  were  on  the  hilltops,  giving  magnificent  views  from 
every  window.  But  the  hills  had  their  drawbacks  and  one  of  the  grand- 
sons said,  "  There  was  not  a  spot  on  the  farm  of  Robert,  Archibald's  sixth 
child,  where  a  wagon  could  stand  without  being  blocked."  Robert  had  but 
one  son.  His  wife  and  daughters  were  very  domestic,  seldom  going  away 
from  home.  They  and  many  other  women  of  the  church  knit  socks  for 
the  missionaries.  It  was  quite  common  for  the  women  of  the  church  to 
promise  socks  and  stockings  for  the  missionaries. 

Grandfather  was  an  earnest  protestant  and  a  devout  Presbyterian. 
Family  prayers  were  always  observed,  and  the  candle  needed  for  the  read- 
ing of  the  Scriptures  was  blown  out  during  the  prayers,  the  great  open  fire 
furnishing  sufficient  light  for  that  part  of  the  service.  That  grandmother 
tried  to  make  Sunday  attractive  for  the  children  is  proved  by  the  fact  that 
she  always  had  preserves  for  breakfast  on  Sunday  morning.  Grandfather 
was  the  patriarch  of  all  these  families  with  their  growing  children.  When 
William  returned  from  Illinois,  in  1833,  where  he  had  gone  looking  for  a 
new  home,  his  father  went  to  see  him  and  hearing  his  plans  said,  "  Tut,  tut, 
William,  this  will  never  do.  We  have  lived  here  together  so  long  and  we  are 
not  going  to  be  separated  now."  They  always  obeyed  "Old  Archie"  and 
for  two  years  William  waited  for  his  father's  consent.  When  one  of  the 
younger  sons  was  married,  his  bride  referred  to  her  husband  as  "Mr. 
Hopkins."  Grandfather  overheard  her  and  said,  "Tut,  tut,  there  is  only 
one  Mr.  Hopkins  in  this  family.  I'm  Mr.  Hopkins."  He  visited  all  the 
families  to  see  that  they  attended  to  their  religious  duties,  that  they  paid 
the  minister,  that  they  had  family  worship,  and  that  they  greased  their 
shoes  on  Saturday  night  ready  for  the  Sabbath  service.  My  belief  is  that 
all  the  Hopkins  families  were  very  faithful  in  attending  to  family  prayers 
morning  and  evening,  and  in  teaching  the  Catechism  on  Sunday  afternoon. 
I  think  this  was  true  also  of  the  majority  of  the  neighborhood.  The  Pres- 
byterian Church  of  Red  Oak  was  for  about  three  decades  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  influential  in  the  entire  state  of  Ohio.  It  was  organized  in  the 
year  1789.  The  social  life  of  the  whole  community  was  intimately  con- 
nected with  the  church  life.  Members  could  visit  before  and  after  the 

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service  and  during  the  intermission.  The  young  men  had  a  chance  to 
show  their  gallantry  by  stepping  down  to  the  spring  and  bringing  water 
in  tin  cups  for  the  young  women.  They  were  very  strict  Sabbath  observers 
and  the  bearing  of  the  young  men  to  the  young  women  was  of  the  greatest 
propriety,  yet  human  nature  asserted  itself  so  far  as  to  establish  acquaint- 
ances which  ultimately  resulted  in  happy  marriages  and  the  founding  of 
excellent  families.  A  singing  school  and  an  occasional  wedding,  an  ordi- 
nary social  gathering  or  a  blackberrying  party  furnished  abundant  oppor- 
tunities for  fanning  the  flame  that  the  mischievious  cupid  had  ignited  at 
the  church.  If  any  of  the  congregation  were  ill  or  in  trouble,  the  entire 
company  would  learn  of  it  and  all  the  news  of  the  countryside  could  be 
heard  there. 

The  church  was  located  in  a  beech  wood.  Only  one  or  two  of  these 
magnificent  trees  are  left.  Under  the  shadow  of  the  church  is  the  grave- 
yard where  many  of  our  dearest  are  buried.  The  congregation  came 
from  all  points  of  the  compass,  many  walking,  more  on  horseback.  For 
years  there  was  but  one  carriage  in  the  community  and  that  was  hung  on 
straps  for  springs.  All  around  the  church  for  a  radius  of  a  half-mile  or 
more  horses  were  tied.  Each  man  had  his  own  limb  on  some  grand  old 
beech  to  which  his  horse  was  tied  during  the  three  or  four  hours'  service. 
The  shade  was  so  perfect  that  the  animals  could  afford  to  be  patient.  For 
many  years  the  service  began  at  twelve  o'clock.  The  first  sermon  was 
often  an  hour  long,  and  then  came  a  recess  of  fifteen  minutes,  after  which 
there  was  a  second  sermon.  It  was  not  until  some  time  in  the  forties  that 
the  Sunday  School  was  organized.  In  1817  the  congregation  built  the  old 
stone  church  which  now  stands.  The  roof  sloped  four  ways  and  was  sup- 
ported by  two  huge  posts  or  columns  painted  sky-blue.  The  double  doors 
were  on  the  side  where  the  second  and  fifth  windows  from  the  left  now  are. 
They  had  no  chimney  because  they  had  no  fire.  The  pews  were  high  with 
doors.  The  pulpit  was  a  high,  large,  box-shaped  affair  painted  snow- 
white  and  the  minister  shut  himself  in  with  a  door.  The  clerk's  desk  faced 
it  and  was  like  it,  only  smaller.  It  would  accommodate  just  two  persons 
who  led  the  congregation  in  the  song  service.  The  whole  houseful  of  peo- 
ple joined  in  the  grand  old  tunes.  The  communion  table  ran  the  whole 
length  of  the  aisle  with  seats  running  the  entire  length  of  each  side.  A  clean 
linen  cloth  was  spread  over  this  table  and  it  usually  required  three  sittings 
to  accommodate  the  communicants. 

In  1806  the  Rev.  James  Gilliland  became  pastor  of  this  church,  retain- 
ing the  position  thirty-six  years.  He  was  in  some  respects  a  remarkable 
man.  He  left  a  large  church  in  South  Carolina  because  he  was  opposed  to 
slavery  and  settled  here,  in  the  woods,  where  his  salary  never  exceeded  three 
hundred  dollars  a  year.  He  was  fifty  years  in  advance  of  his  time  on  the 

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question  of  slavery  and  the  use  of  intoxicating  liquors.  All  through  Ohio 
the  farmers  owned  their  stills  and  a  good  still  was  sometimes  worth  more 
than  the  farm.  They  raised  good  corn  but  could  not  market  it.  A  horse 
or  mule  could  carry  twenty  bushels  of  corn  when  distilled  into  liquor,  but 
only  six  or  seven  when  in  the  grain,  so  distilling  seemed  a  necessity.  Mr. 
Gilh'land  organized  in  his  church  both  a  temperance  and  an  anti-slavery 
society.  The  anniversary  of  one  was  always  held  on  New  Year's  Day 
and  the  other  on  Christmas  Day.  We  often  had  the  finest  orators  in  the 
country  to  address  us  on  these  occasions.  In  the  old  record  book  of  this 
church  is  this  resolution,  which  was  passed  by  the  session  December  i,  1832, 
"  Whereas,  in  the  judgment  of  the  session,  the  common  use  of  ardent  spirits 
is  not  merely  useless  but  has  long  been,  and  still  is,  one  of  the  most  fruitful 
sources  of  crime,  misery,  and  death,  and  that  those  who  continue  to  coun- 
tenance and  encourage  the  practice,  are  guilty  of  a  heinous  sin  and  deeply 
partake  of  the  sin  of  others,  especially  in  this  day  when  so  much  light  is 
thrown  on  the  subject  and  so  many  benevolent  efforts  are  made  to  arrest 
the  destructive  evil,  therefore 

Resolved,  that  church  members  who  continue  to  distill  ardent  spirits,  to 
use  them,  to  buy  them,  to  sell,  or  give  them  to  others  except  for  medicinal 
or  mechanical  purposes,  are  guilty  of  a  great  sin  and  bring  scandal  on  the 
church  for  which  they  ought  to  be  dealt  with  in  the  same  manner  as  for 
other  scandalous  crime."  All  obeyed  but  one  member  whom  they  excom- 
municated. 

Grandfather  had  always  furnished  whiskey  for  barn  raisings,  log  roll- 
ings, and  in  harvest.  One  day  Mr.  Gilliland  talked  with  him  about  the 
harm  of  it  and  asked  him  if  he  could  not  do  without  it.  After  that  he  had 
no  whiskey.  This  perhaps  accounts  for  the  fact  that  all  his  sons  and 
nearly  all  his  grandsons  were  temperate  men.  Very  soon  after  he  came  to 
Red  Oak  he  was  made  ruling  elder  in  the  church.  The  following  record 
is  on  the  church  books  for  November  4,  1808,  "Session  met  agreeably  to 
appointment.  Constituted  with  prayer.  Members  all  present.  Archi- 
bald Hopkins  having  been  duely  elected  by  the  congregation  to  the  office 
of  ruling  elder  on  ye  23rd.  of  May  last,  now  appears  and  takes  his  seat  in 
session,  having  been  formally  ordained  as  appears  from  his  certificate." 
This  position  he  held  for  forty  years.  He  always  stood  by  his  minister.  A 
daughter  of  Mr.  Gilliland  once  laughingly  said,  "  Mr.  Hopkins  always  con- 
sults father  about  everything,  even  the  marriage  of  his  children." 

Now  think  of  my  experience  when  a  youth.  Each  family  had  a  pew, 
shut  in  by  doors  securely  buttoned.  Among  the  families  who  came  to  the 
church  on  Sundays,  were  the  Salsburys,  the  Dunlaps,  the  Kinkaids,  the 
Pangburns,  the  Gillilands,  and  the  numerous  Hopkins  families.  There 
were  grandfather  and  grandmother  with  faithful  Aunt  Harriet,  who  stood 

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by  them  until  they  went  to  their  long  home.  There  was  Uncle  William,  his 
head  always  shaking  a  little  with  palsy.  I  remember  seeing  his  sons  Joel 
and  John,  young  men  over  six  feet  tall.  There  was  my  father,  John, 
with  his  eight  children  and  mother  all  packed  into  one  pew.  Discipline 
was  nearly  perfect  in  his  household.  Children  were  to  be  seen  and  not 
heard.  When  any  one  of  his  children  got  a  little  restless  under  the  one- 
hour  sermon,  a  single  glance  from  the  head  of  the  family  was  sufficient  to 
allay  all  disturbance.  The  little  ones  would  often  look  into  mother's  face 
and  ask,  "When  will  it  be  through?"  and  her  kind  voice  would  respond, 
"Before  long."  Aunt  Mary  Pogue  was  there,  short,  active,  red-headed, 
quick  of  step.  She  was  proud  of  her  noble  husband,  Colonel  John  Craw- 
ford Pogue,  who  was  every  inch  a  gentleman.  They  had  no  children. 
Then  came  Uncle  Robert,  with  so  much  reverence  in  his  heart  that  he 
showed  it  in  his  step.  His  wife  was  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  James  Gilliland. 
They  had  four  daughters  and  one  son.  Uncle  Gordon  was  there,  large  and 
stately  in  his  movements,  with  his  wife  who  was  always  cheery  and  bright, 
and  a  pew  full  of  children.  Aunt  Elizabeth  Kinkaid  was  not  behind  any, 
in  the  numbers  nor  the  attractiveness  of  her  household.  Uncle  Archibald 
came  too.  He  was  large  and  rather  solemn  and  brought  his  beautiful  wife 
and  little  ones  with  him.  Then  came  Uncle  Edwin  with  his  young  wife 
and  little  children,  and  Aunt  Grace  Dunlap,  the  youngest,  and  one  of  the 
handsomest  of  the  tribe,  bringing  her  family.  Aunt  Jane  had  married  Mr. 
John  Hopkins  Pogue  and  moved  to  Crawfordsville,  Indiana.  Aunt  Sarah 
had  married  Rev.  A.  B.  Gilliland  and  gone  to  Venice,  Butler  County,  Ohio. 
Uncle  Benjamin  had  died  and  Uncle  Thomas  and  Uncle  James  had  gone 
to  Ripley  where  they  were  engaged  in  business.  Hence  they  were  not 
present  in  the  church  as  I  remember  it. 

Grandfather  thought  all  his  farmer  boys  needed  was  to  learn  to  read, 
write,  and  cipher  to  the  "rule  of  three."  I  believe  that  my  father,  John, 
was  the  only  one  of  the  sons  who  disregarded  this  rule  so  far  as  to  send  his 
children  away  to  school.  However,  grandfather's  sons  were  naturally  so 
capable  that  the  most  of  them  were  at  some  time  elected  elders  in  the  Pres- 
byterian Church,  and  none  of  them  ever  took  a  second  place  in  his  influence 
for  truth  and  right. 

When  grandfather  was  quite  an  elderly  man  he  slipped  on  some  ice  on 
his  porch  and  fell,  hurting  his  hip  so  that  afterwards  he  rode  horseback  on 
a  side-saddle.  His  saddle  horse,  Bonny,  a  beautiful  dapple  gray,  took 
him  everywhere,  up  and  down,  over  and  through  places  that  people  would 
not  now  attempt.  All  the  last  years  of  his  life,  his  daughter,  Harriet,  ac- 
companied him,  she  too  riding  horseback  and  sitting  as  firmly  and  riding 
as  fearlessly  as  her  father. 

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ITEMS   COPIED    FROM   THE    SESSION   BOOK   OF 
THE  OLD  STONE  CHURCH  AT  RED  OAK 

In  the  list  of  church  members,  October  i,  1807,  the  names  of  Archibald 
Hopkins  and  wife,  William  Hopkins,  and  Polly  Hopkins  appear. 

Archibald  Hopkins  was  elected  ruling  elder  May  23,  1808. 

Nov.  4,  1808.  Red  Oak.  "Session  met  agreeably  to  appointment. 
Constituted  with  prayer.  Members  all  present.  Archibald  Hopkins 
having  been  duly  elected  by  the  congregation  to  the  office  of  Ruling  Elder 
on  ye  23rd  of  May  last,  now  appears  and  takes  his  seat  in  session,  having 
been  formally  ordained  as  appears  from  his  certificate." 

They  formed  a  "Corporation"  which  William  Hopkins  joined  on 
December  19,  1814;  John  Hopkins  joined  on  December  4,  1815;  Archibald 
Hopkins  was  elected  trustee  December  4,  1815.  Names  of  Hopkins  mem- 
bers of  "Corporation"  were  Archibald  Hopkins,  John  Hopkins,  Robert 
Hopkins,  J.  M.  Hopkins,  Archibald  Hopkins,  Jr.,  William  W.  Hopkins, 
Gordon  Hopkins,  and  Gordon  Hopkins,  Jr.  John  C.  Poage  was  elected 
treasurer  and  Gordon  Hopkins  a  trustee  of  the  "Corporation."  John 
Hopkins,  son  of  Archibald,  was  treasurer  of  the  church  from  December  i, 
1818,  to  1822. 

"  Feb.  19, 1817 — The  society  proceeded  to  the  consideration  of  a  place  on 
which  to  build  a  meeting  house."  The  old  stone  church  was  built  in  1817. 

Resolution  on  temperance.     December  i,  1832. 

"Whereas  in  the  judgment  of  the  session,  the  common  use  of  ardent 
spirits  is  not  merely  useless,  but  has  long  been  and  still  is  one  of  the  most 
fruitful  sources  of  crime,  misery  and  death  and  that  those  who  continue 
to  countenance  and  encourage  the  practice  are  guilty  of  a  heinous  sin  and 
deeply  partake  of  the  sin  of  others,  especially  in  this  day  when  so  much 
light  is  thrown  upon  the  subject  and  so  many  benevolent  efforts  are  made 
to  arrest  the  destructive  evil,  therefore 

Resolved,  that  church  members  who  continue  to  distill  ardent  spirits, 
to  use  them,  to  buy  them,  to  sell  or  give  them  to  others,  except  for  medical 
or  mechanical  purposes  are  guilty  of  a  great  sin  and  bring  scandal  on  the 
church  for  which  they  ought  to  be  dealt  with  in  the  same  manner  as  for 
other  scandalous  crime." 

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Nov.  4:  1808.  Red  Oak.  "John  Hopkins  and  Sally  Hopkins  applied 
for  admission  to  communion  and  on  examination  were  admitted.  Adj. 
Concluded  with  prayer." 

"April  14:  1813.  Robert  Hopkins  applied  for  membership  to  the 
church  and  was  admitted." 

"Oct.  29:  1817.  Gordon  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Hopkins  admitted 
on  examination  to  the  church." 

"Jan.  i,  1819.  Benjamin  Hopkins  admitted  on  examination  to  the 
church." 

"Aug.  22,  1820.  Thos.  Hopkins  applied  for  admission  to  church,  was 
admitted." 

"Oct.  5:  1821.  James  Hopkins  applied  for  admission  to  the  com- 
munion and  on  examination  was  admitted." 

"Mch.  12:  1823.  Harriet  Hopkins  was  admitted  to  the  communion  on 
examination." 

"Sept.  30,  1828.  Gracy  Ann,  Arch,  and  Edwin  Hopkins  were  ad- 
mitted to  ch.  membership." 

"Aug.  22:  1832.     Robert  Hopkins  admitted  to  church." 

"  April  2, 1835.    Fidelia  Hopkins  granted  a  letter  to  join  Ripley  church." 

"Jan.  18,  1837.    James  Hopkins  admitted  to  the  church." 

"Sept.  8:  1838.     Elizabeth  Hopkins  admitted  to  the  church." 

"Died. 

Polly  Hopkins  Aug.  15,  1822 
Benjamin   "     Aug  —   1827 


Baptisms,  copied  from  the  Session  Book  of  the  Red  Oak  Church. 
Oct.  i;  1808,  for  Arch.  Hopkins  one  infant. 
No  baptisms  are  recorded  after  this  date  until 
Jan.  27;  1822.     Elizabeth  daughter  of  Robert  and  Fanny  Hopkins. 
Feb.  23;  1823.     Wm.  R.  son  of  Gordon  and  Ann  Hopkins. 
Aug.  15;  1824.     John  son  of  Benjamin  and  Fidelia  Hopkins. 
Mch.  26;  1825.     George  Burder  son  of  William  and  Jane  Hopkins. 
July  31 ;  1825.     Mary  Jane  daughter  of  Robert  and  Fanny  Hopkins. 
Aug.  14;  1825.     Thomas  Scott  son  of  Gordon  and  Ann  Hopkins. 
Oct.  30;  1825.    Wm.  Williamson  son  of  John  and  Nancy  Hopkins. 
Feb.  5;  1826.     Elizabeth  A.  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Fidelia  Hopkins. 
July  8;  1827.     Margaret  daughter  of  William  and  Jane  Hopkins. 
Oct.  28;  1827.     Amanda  daughter  of  Robert  and  Fanny  Hopkins. 
Jan.  5;  1828.     Thomas  Mayse  son  of  John  and  Nancy  Hopkins. 
Mch.  28;  1829.     Archibald  son  of  Gordon  and  Ann  Hopkins. 
July  1830.     John  M.  and  Archibald  sons  of  John  and  Nancy  Hopkins. 
July  3;  1831.     Melinda  daughter  of  William  and  Jane  Hopkins. 
Nov.  13;  1831.     Nancy  Ann  daughter  of  Gordon  and  Ann  Hopkins. 
June  3;  1832.     Elizabeth  Jane  daughter  of  John  and  Nancy  Hopkins. 
Apr.  20;  1843.    James  Alexander  son  of  Robert  and  Fanny  Hopkins. 
May  31 ;  1834.     Eleanor  Jane  daughter  of  Gordon  and  Ann  Hopkins. 
May  31;  1834.     Harriet  Ann  daughter  of  John  and  Nancy  Hopkins. 
Jan.  14;  1837.     Alonzo  A.  son  of  Edwin  and  Keziah  Hopkins. 
Nov.  10;  1836.     Frances  H.  daughter  of  Robert  and  Fanny  Hopkins. 
Nov.  25;  1839.     Amanda  daughter  of  Archibald  and  Rachel  Hopkins. 
May  30;  1840.     Albert  M.  son  of  Gordon  and  Ann  Hopkins. 


Inscriptions  on  the  stones  in  the  old  churchyard  at  Red  Oak,  Ohio. 

Elijah 
Son  of  Archibald  and  Margaret 

Hopkins. 

Died  Nov.  16,  1819,  aged  17  yrs 
9  mo.  and  26  days. 


Polly  G.  Hopkins 

aged  25 
Died  Aug.  the  i5th  1822. 


Benjamin  Hopkins 
Born  Aug.  i,  1799 
Died  July  20,  1827 


Thomas  H. 
Infant  son  of  Benj.  and  Fidelia 

Hopkins 
aged  5  mo.  and  16  days. 


Elizabeth  A.  Hopkins 
Born  Dec.  i,  1825. 
Died  Oct.  28,  1872. 
"  Lizzie,  thou  wast  mild  and  lovely. 

Here  thy  loss  we  deeply  feel; 
But  'tis  God  who  has  bereft  us, 
He  can  all  our  sorrows  heal." 
"Blessed  are  the  dead  who  die  in  the  Lord." 


Fidelia  Hopkins 

Born  May  1800; 

Died  June  25,  1882. 


A  small  monument  marks  the  graves  of  Benjamin  Hopkins'  family  and 
they  are  all  inclosed  in  an  iron  fence. 

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HOPKINS  GRAVES  IN  OLD  RED  OAK  (OHIO)  CEMETERY 


Sacred  to  the  Memory  of 

Edwin  Hopkins 

Born  Sept.  30,  1810; 

Died  July  10,  1846, 

aged  35  yrs  &  20  days. 

(This  stone  is  the  largest  and  handsomest  of  the  family  stones,  and  is 
most  beautifully  lettered.) 


Archibald  Hopkins. 

Died  Jan.  25,  1848 

in  the  88th  year  of  his  age. 


There  is  no  memorial  stone  for  Rev.  Robert  Hopkins  in  this  cemetery. 
His  daughter  is  buried  here  and  her  stone  has  this  inscription: 

Nancy  Ann 

Daughter  of  Robert  and  A.  C.  J.  Hopkins, 

Missionaries  to  the  Dakota  Indians. 

Died  Nov.  14,  1849,  aged  2  years. 


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A  small  monument  inclosed  by  an  iron  railing  marks  the  resting-place 
of  Rev.  James  G.  Hopkins  and  his  two  children. 

Rev.  James  G.  Hopkins. 

Died  June  29,  1851,  aged  30  yrs. 

10  mo.  &°  13  days,  and  in  the  fifth  year  of  his  ministry  in 

the  Presbyterian  Church. 
"  No  pain,  no  grief,  nor  anxious  care, 

Invade  thy  bounds  —  nor  mortal  woes 
Can  reach  the  peaceful  sleeper  here, 
While  angels  watch  his  soft  repose." 


Agnes  Johnston, 

Daughter  of  Rev.  Jas.  G.  &  Ann  K.  Hopkins 
Died  Nov.  20,  1851,  aged  i  yr. 

7  mo.  &  15  days. 
"  This  lovely  bud  so  young  and  fair, 

Called  hence  by  early  doom, 
Just  came  to  show  how  sweet  a  flower 
In  paradise  would  bloom." 


Mary  Kelly, 

Daughter  of  Rev.  Jas.  G.  &  Ann  K.  Hopkins. 
Died  June  12,  1854,  aged  13  yrs. 

9  mo.  and  9  days. 
"  Beautiful,  lovely, 

She  was  but  given, 
A  fair  bud  to  earth, 
To  blossom  in  Heaven." 


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Nancy  C.  M. 
Wife  of  John  Hopkins. 
Born  in  Union  Co.,  South  Carolina, 
Dec.  27,  1788.     Died,  Aug.  i,  1851. 


Margaret, 

Wife  of  Archibald  Hopkins. 

Died  March  9,  1854  in  the  84th 

year  of  her  age. 


John  Hopkins. 

Died  Feb.  19,  1872 

in  the  84th  year  of  his  age. 


The  original  quaint  stones  to  the  memory  of  Robert  and  Fanny  (Gilli- 
land)  Hopkins  were  two  slabs  of  marble  mounted  on  the  same  base.  They 
have  been  taken  away  since  the  death  of  the  two  daughters  and  replaced 
by  a  simple  monument  which  bears  the  following  words: 

Robert  Hopkins 

1794-1874. 
Fannie,  his  wife. 

1799-1869. 
Amanda  Hopkins, 

1827-1903. 

Harriet  Hopkins. 

1838-1903. 


Milton  McPherson,  grandson  of  Robert  and  Fannie,  died  in  August, 
1904. 

These  four  graves  are  in  the  new  cemetery. 


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"The  old  divines  did  well  in  calling  this  life  a  school  of  probation.     We 
are  all  at  school  and  are  one  day  going  home." 

PARSON  FRANK. 


OLD  LETTER  WRITTEN  BY  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS 
OF  RED  OAK  BEFORE  HE  LEFT  VIRGINIA 

Rockingham  County,  April  i6th,  1793. 

My  Beloved  friend;  We  are  absent  in  Body,  but  if  this  finds  you  in  Time, 
far  as  we  are  distant,  we  must  shortly  meet,  and  O ;  what  a  solemn  meeting 
is  approaching,  alas;  that  I  can  be  so  insensible,  so  little  conserned  about 
the  one  thing  needful,  daily  acknowledging  myself  to  be  a  candidiate  for 
Eternity,  and  that  I  expect  to  be  rewarded  according  to  the  things  done  in 
the  Body  whether  they  be  good  or  evil,  and  yet  no  more  conserned,  so  de- 
lighted with  these  perishing  time-things,  such  warm  affections  for  Creature 
objects,  and  so  Cold  and  insensible  for  the  God  that  made  me,  and  ever  since 
supported  me  and  has  laid  such  an  Angel  Astonishing  plan  of  Salvation  for 
my  redemption,  Alas  that  we  can  be  so  ungratefull  whare  the  interest  is 
our  own.  I  think  if  I  am  not  decived ;  I,  the  longer  I  am  acquainted  with 
my  own  Heart  and  the  lives  of  my  fellow  mortals,  the  more  I  see  of  that 
lamentable  situation  that  man  is  falling  into.  The  Crown  is  falling  from 
our  heads,  for  we  have  sinned.  We  have  had  since  I  seen  you  a  Number 
of  the  warmest  Gospel  sermons  that  ever  I  have  heard,  but  it  appears  to 
be  in  vain  O  alas;  Alas;  What  a  Deep  sleep  is  fallen  on  professors  of  religion 
in  this  part.  Neither  his  judgments  awaken  us,  nor  his  mercies  invites 
us,  but  we  are  a  saying  by  our  conduct,  "  we  will  not  have  him  to  be  Lord 
over  us."  We  have  been  making  an  attempt  to  settle  with  Mr.  Ervine  for 
time  that  is  past.  We  fall  considerable  in  Debt  and  I  think,  that  if  it  was 
not  for  a  very  few,  he  would  be  turned  off  without  recompense  at  all.  I 
received  yours  by  Mr.  Shanklin  which  affords  matter  of  both  rejoicing  and 
mourning.  You  say  you  have  found  an  Acquaintance  you  hope  with  a 
member  of  the  Lords  people  in  that  Country,  but  they  are  thinly  scattered, 
and  chiefly  middle  aged,  and  elderly  people.  These  are  the  people  that 
must  support  the  Gospel  and  it  it  to  be  expected  that  they  will  endeavor 
to  keep  the  Church  pure  and  encourage  the  spirit  of  religion  and  if  they  are 
Dissiples  indeed  they  will  cry  mightily  for  A  time  of  refreshment  from  the 
Spirit  of  the  Lord,  and  when  religion  is  encouraged,  by  elderly  people,  it  is 
a  great  encouragement  for  youth.  Then  the  Lord  is  pleased  to  revive  his 
works  and  to  give  his  word  success.  But  what  a  cause  of  lamentation  is 
it  that  youth  will  not  serve  the  Lord  when  common  experience  gives  us  so 

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many  examples  of  the  uncertainty  of  our  lives,  and  they  that  seek  me 
early  shall  find  me.     Some  time  last  fall  one  of  the  Widow  Bells  sons  went 
out  to  hunt  and  shot  a  Dear,  it  was  a  wet  Day  and  he  only  wounded  it  and 
he  ran  till  he  was  very  hot  and  got  wet,  came  home  took  sick  and  died 
bidding  adue  to  tune  and  all  its  enjoyments  in  a  few  days.     In  a  short  time 
after,  one  of  her  Daughters  Departed  this  life,     What  loud  Preachers  these 
things  ought  to  be,  if  only  these  youth  had  been  zealously  engaged  about 
Religion.     Minding  scarcely  any  thing  else  at  all,  the  Men  of  the  world 
would  soon  have  said,  "  that  wont  do,  how  will  these  people  live  ?  why  they 
are  a  going  mad ! "     But  what  a  pitty  it  is,  that  we  think  so  much  more 
about  how  we  shall  live,  than  how  we  shall  Die.    We  promise  ourselves  a 
long  time  to  live  here.     But  when  I  take  a  serious  View  of  myself,  and 
Consider  the  Days  past,  how  short  and  how  triffling  they  have  been  spent, 
and  to  put  the  matter  to  the  long  period  that  I  can  be  of  any  service  either 
to  my  Master  or  my  fellow  mortals,  what  is  it  ?    Why  if  we  ware  to  live  as 
long  again  as  we  have  lived,  to  look  before  us  it  would  look  a  great  while, 
but  when  it  is  once  gone,  it  is  as  a  tale  what  is  told.     But  Me  thinks  I  hear 
the  reador  a  saying  now  is  the  acepted  time  and  now  is  the  Day  of  Salva- 
tion and  you  an  me  is  perhaps  verry  verry  near  our  home,  and  that  it  is  high 
time  for  us  to  awake,  for  our  Salvation  is  nearer  now  than  when  we  Believed, 
and  not  to  be  Conformed  to  this  world,  but  to  be  transformed  by  the  re- 
newing of  our  mind  that  we  may  prove  what  is  that  good  and  acceptable 
will  of  God,  and  what  a  triffling  thing  it  is  that  we  cant  deny  ourselves  and 
take  up  our  Cross  and  follow  the  once  despised,  But  the  now  exalted  Lamb 
of  God,  since  he  has  said,  "learn  of  me  for  I  am  meek  and  lowly  and  you 
shall  find  rest  unto  your  Souls,  for  my  yoke  is  easy  and  my  burden  is  Light." 
You  Desired  me  before  I  would  Write  to  you  to  converse  with  Mr.  Ervine 
on  that  sentence  in  my  former  letter.     I  had  not  an  opportunity,  and  I 
am  verry  well  satisfied  that  he  does  not  hold  it  necessary  that  our  first 
thoughts  should  be  the  sins  of  the  world.     Far  be  that  from  him,  and  he  is 
far  from  being  satisfied  to  think  that  we  should  be  contented  in  this  day 
when,  iniquity  abounds,  and  the  love  of  many,  waxes  cold,  when  thare  is 
so  few  if  any,  in  these  parts  that  is  Conserned  about  the  Cause  of  Zion. 
The  Last  Sermon  that  was  preacht  at  the  new  Erection  was  from  these 
words,  "Let  God  Arise,  let  his  enemys  be  scattered;  let  them  also  that  hate 
him  flee  before  him."     psalm  68  -  i  and  i  and  I  think  of  all  Days  that  I 
have  heard  or  seen,  I  never  heard  Mr.  Ervine  Preach  with  as  much  fervor, 
and  encourage  as  much  for  Christians  to  Pray  for  a  revival,  to  plead  the 
promises  of  the  Lord  for  there  is  surely  to  be  a  day  as  has  never  yet  been 
seen.     Did  any  of  us  believe  that  Jesus  had  seen  enough  to  satisfy  him  for 
his  Blood,  and  that  his  Converts  had  yet  surpast  the  Drops  of  Dew  from 

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the  womb  of  the  morning,  or  that  the  Knowledge  of  him  had  covered  the 
Earth  as  the  waters  covered  the  sea  ?  Did  we  believe  that  he  had  got  the 
Heathen  for  his  inheritance  and  the  utmost  parts  of  the  earth  for  his  pos- 
session ?  Well  all  these  then  is  promist  to  him  of  his  father  and  what  are 
we  a  doing,  are  we  a  giving  him  no  rest,  are  we  a  Crying  mightily  for  a  day 
of  his  power,  that  his  enemies  might  flee  Before  him,  the  plagues  of  our 
hearts  might  be  subdued  and  every  thing  that  exalted  should  be  abased, 
and  those  that  would  not  be  abased  should  be  obliged  to  flee,  that  Religious 
Conversation  might  become  so  universal  that  those  that  hate  it  would  be 
obliged  to  flee  before  it.  May  this  be  the  earnest  prayer  of  you,  my  fellow 
mortal,  and  of  me  and  every  Creature  that  names  the  Name  of  Christ. 
I  am  yours 

Arch.  Hopkins, 
Addressed  to 

Mr.  John  Boyd 

Mercer  County 

Letter  from  Archibald  Hopkins  to  Col.  Robt.  Pogue,  Staunton,  Va. 
Owned  by  Jno.  T.  Shanklin,  Johnson's  Junction,  Ky. 

(No  date.) 

Dr  Sir,  I  will  just  inform  you  that  I  have  wrote  to  Thomas  Hopkins 
that  you  are  in  Virginia  and  if  he  gets  his  letter  I  make  no  doubt  but  he  will 
go  and  see  you  but  if  he  should  not  come,  I  will  take  it  as  a  verry  great 
favour  if  you  will  go  and  see  him,  I  expect  he  will  have  some  money,  and  I 
am  in  so  much  need  of  money  as  I  ever  was  since  I  have  anny  use  for  it  I 
expect  you  have  seen  Mr  Bodly  since  I  have  and,  it  is  probable  you  had 
some  conversation  on  my  Business  and  is  acquainted  with  how  it  stands, 
and  if  you  go  and  Mr  Parrots  have  not  paid  in  the  money  agreeable  to 
promise  I  have  wrote  to  Thomas  Hopkins  that  they  must  expect  to  pay  me 
for  my  trouble  and  expence  for  I  dont  know  but  I  will  be  obliged  to  send 
for  it  and  I  know  of  not  other  opportunity  of  getting  it  Brough  out  to  me  I 
am  Sir  your  friend  and  humble  Servant 

Archibald  Hopkins 
Robert  Pogue. 
Addressed  to 

Col  Robert  Poague 

To  the  Mail  in 

Stantion  Virginia. 
Written  on  the  back, 

Joseph  &  Tom  Baxter  Ex.  apointed  by  will  the  will  not  signed 
but  agreed  to  by  the  Legatees. 

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Letter  from  Archibald  Hopkins,  Red  Oak,  to  Col.  Robert  Pogue. 
Owned  by  Jno.  T.  Shanklin,  Johnson's  Junction,  Ky. 

Cleremont  County  July  8  1807 

Dr  Sir  I  expect  Mr.  Scott  will  be  with  me  before  long  and  he  will  expect 
some  money,  and  all  my  expectation  is  from  you  I  wish  you  to  let  Mr.  Gamble 
know,  that  I  am  in  want  of  money,  and  cant  do  with  out  it  and  that  I  will 
be  under  the  disagreeable  necesity  of  pushing  for  it  and  all  that  is  due  in 
Kentuckey  our  situation  is  such,  that  I  wish  to  put  off  going  to  Virginia 
this  fall  if  I  can,  I  want  to  know  when  David  Hinton  goes  to  Virginia,  I 
wish  to  write  by  him  to  Thomas  Hopkins  to  know  if  my  business  really 
called  for  me  thare  if  Hinton  dont  return  in  time  for  me  to  get  an  answer 
from  Virginia,  so  that  if  I  must  go.  I  would  have  time  before  it  would  be 
too  late  in  the  season  I  would  take  as  a  great  favour  if  you  have  an  oper- 
tunity  of  writing  to  Virginia,  and  desire  an  answer  to  know  whether  it  is 
my  duty  to  go  to  Virginia  or  not  till  another  season,  and  if  you  write  let  him 
know  that  I  want  as  much  of  my  money  as  can  be  got,  and  it  is  likely  that 
some  opertunity  of  bringing  it  may  offer  we  are  all  well  give  my  Love  to 
all  my  friends  in  Mason 

Arch  Hopkins 
Robert  Pogue 
Addressed  on  back, 

A  Hopkins      letter 

to 
Col.  Robert  Pogue 


Date  8th  July  1807 


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HOUSE  BUILT  BY  II.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,   RED  OAK,  OHIO. 


WILL  OF  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  RED  OAK,  OHIO 

I,  Archibald  Hopkins,  of  Brown  County,  in  the  State  of  Ohio,  do  make 
and  publish  this  my  last  will  and  testament  in  manner  and  form  following 
that  is  to  say;  First,  it  is  my  will  that  all  my  just  debts  and  funeral  expenses 
be  fully  paid.  I  give  and  devise  and  bequeath  to  my  beloved  wife,  Mar- 
garet Hopkins,  in  lieu  of  her  dower,  one  equal  undivided  third  part  of  all 
my  lands,  the  west  end  of  my  house  including  the  kitchen,  also  an  equal 
interest  in  the  entry  and  in  the  lumber-room  above  the  entry,  during  her 
natural  life,  and  her  riding  mare  saddle  and  bridle,  her  choice  of  three 
cows,  one-fourth  of  the  sheep,  one-hundred  and  fifty  dollars  in  money,  a 
sufficient  stock  of  provisions  for  herself  and  family,  and  for  her  creatures 
for  one  year  after  my  decease,  and  all  my  household  and  kitchen  property 
except  what  is  here-in-after  bequeathed  to  some  else  of  my  family,  all  my 
books  to  remain  with  my  wife  while  she  lives  and  after  her  death  my  will 
and  desire  is  that  my  children  shall  divide  them  equally  among  them.  I 
give  and  bequeath  to  my  sons  William,  John,  Robert,  Gordon,  Thomas, 
James,  and  Edwin  Hopkins,  each  five  dollars,  to  the  heir  of  my  son  Benja- 
min Hopkins,  deceased,  five  dollars,  and  to  my  daughters,  Jane  Poage, 
Mary  Poage,  Sarah  Gilleland,  Elizabeth  Kinkaid,  and  Gracy  Ann  Dunlap, 
each  five  dollars,  and  to  my  daughter  Harriet  Hopkins,  Eight-hundred 
dollars.  The  above  legacies  bequeathed  to  my  children,  I  will  shall  be 
paid  by  my  son  Archibald  Hopkins  to  them  in  one  year  after  my  decease, 
except  the  last  half  of  the  legacy  bequeathed  to  my  daughter  Harriet  which 
shall  be  paid  to  her  as  follows,  one  hundred  in  two  years  after  my  decease, 
one  hundred  in  three  years,  one  hundred  in  four  years,  and  one  hundred 
in  five  years.  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  son  Archibald  Hopkins,  my 
clock  after  the  decease  of  my  said  wife,  Margaret  Hopkins,  I  further  give 
and  bequeath  to  my  said  daughter,  Harriet,  two  beds  and  bedding  and 
bed-steads,  and  one  side-saddle  and  one  bureau  and  bridle.  And  further 
I  give  unto  my  said  daughter  Harriet  Hopkins,  the  room  in  the  West  end 
of  my  house,  including  the  kitchen,  and  the  cellar  under  the  same,  and  the 
privilege  of  a  pass  way  in  the  entry,  and  to  the  said  cellar  after  the  decease 
of  my  said  wife  Margaret  Hopkins,  if  the  said  Harriet  is  then  an  unmarried 
woman,  to  her  to  have  and  to  hold  as  long  as  she  remains  a  single  woman 
but  no  longer,  and  it  is  my  will  and  desire  that  my  son  Archibald  Hopkins 

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shall  find  and  keep  my  said  daughter  Harriet  in  a  suitable  riding  creature 
after  my  decease  and  so  long  as  she  remains  a  single  woman  and  shall  after 
the  death  of  my  said  wife  Margaret  Hopkins,  find  and  keep  the  said  Harriet 
in  a  milch  cow  and  is  to  find  her  in  provisions  and  fire-wood  and  twenty 
pounds  of  wool  in  the  grease,  a  year,  as  long  as  she  remains  an  unmarried 
woman  and  no  longer.  I  give  and  devise  to  my  said  son  Archibald  Hop- 
kins, the  farm  on  which  I  now  reside  subject  to  the  encumbrances  before 
mentioned  and  legacies  bequeathed  for  him  to  pay,  situate  and  being  in 
Union  township,  in  the  County  and  State  aforesaid  being  part  of  a  tract  of 
Sixteen-hundred  and  sixty-six  and  two-thirds  acres,  pattended  in  the  name 
of  Andrew  Lewis  and  bounded  as  follows  to  wit — Beginning  at  a  beech 
and  white  walnut  near  a  hollow ;  thence  North  one  hundred  and  sixty  poles 
to  a  locust,  ash  and  buckeye;  thence  East  two  hundred  poles  to  two  buck- 
eyes and  a  hickory;  thence  South  one  hundred  and  twenty  poles  to  a  lynn 
and  beech;  thence  West  one  hundred  and  seventy  four  poles  to  a  sugar 
tree  and  buckeye;  thence  South  thirty  three  degrees  West  forty  nine  poles 
to  the  beginning,  containing  one  hundred  and  fifty  three  acres  more  or  less 
to  him  the  said  Archibald  Hopkins  and  to  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever. 
And  further  it  is  my  will  and  desire  that  my  executors  shall  as  soon  as  they 
can  after  my  decease  sell  at  private  sale  the  following  described  tract  of 
land  adjoining  the  above  described  tract  to  wit;  Beginning  at  a  beech 
thence  South  eighty  degrees  West  ninety  two  poles  to  a  buckeye  and  elm; 
thence  South  fifteen  degrees  East  two  hundred  and  three  poles  to  a  stake; 
thence  North  seventy  six  poles  to  a  buckeye;  thence  East  fifteen  poles  to 
a  beech;  thence  North  one  hundred  and  fourteen  poles  to  the  beginning, 
and  the  money  arising  therefrom  shall  go  to  the  payment  of  my  just 
debts,  funeral  expenses  and  for  executing  this  my  last  will  and  testa- 
ment. The  balance  including  any  money  I  may  have  and  that  may  arise 
from  the  sale  of  any  personal  property  that  I  may  then  have,  shall  go  to 
the  payment  of  the  legacy  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  to  my  said 
wife,  the  remainder  shall  then  be  divided  into  four  equal  parts  and  I  give 
and  bequeath  to  the  Bible  society  of  Brown  County  one  part  and  to  the 
Missionary  society  of  the  said  county  one  part  and  to  the  Abolition  society 
of  said  County  one  part  and  to  the  Tract  society  one  part  and  lastly  I  hereby 
constitute  and  appoint  my  said  sons  John  Hopkins,  Robert  Hopkins,  and 
Gordon  Hopkins,  executors  of  this  my  last  will  and  testament  revoking  and 
annulling  all  former  wills  by  me  made  and  ratifying  and  confirming  this 
and  no  other  to  be  my  last  will  and  testament.  In  testimony  whereof  I 
have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  seal  this  sixth  day  of  April  in  the  year  1839. 

ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS. 


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//.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  first  child  0}  Jean  Gordon 
and  John  Hopkins,  was  married  about  1785  to  Elizabeth  Poage. 
CHILDREN  : 

WILLIAM,  born  Jan.   29,  1786;  died  Sept.  16,  1848. 

JOHN,       born  Oct.  24,  1787;  died  Feb.  19,1872. 

JANE,        born  Apr.     7,  1789;  died    Apr.  22, 1863. 

MARY,      born  Aug.     7, 1790;  died  Mar.  15,  1872. 

SARAH,      born  June  10,  1792;  died  in  the  sixties. 

ROBERT,   born  May  14,1794;  died  Sept.    9,1874. 

Elizabeth  Poage  died  some  time  in  1794. 

ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  was  married  for  a  second  time  to  Margaret 
Shanklin. 

CHILDREN: 

GORDON,  born  May  24,  1797;  died  Jan.   28,  1869. 

BENJAMIN,  born  Aug.     i,  1799;  died  July  20,1827. 

THOMAS,  born  Aug.     i,  1799;  died  Jan.    18,  1892. 

ELIZABETH,  born  Sept.  28,  1800;  died  Jan.     i,  1871. 

ELIJAH,  born  Jan.   20,  1802;  died  Nov.  16,  1819. 

JAMES,  born  Aug.  23,  1803;  died  Feb.  19,  1887. 

HARRIET,  born  Dec.  31,  1805;  died  Sept.  23,  1873. 

ARCHIBALD,  born  Oct.         1808;  died  Mar.  26,  1874. 

EDWIN,  born  Sept.  30,  1810;  died  July   10,  1846. 

GRACY  ANN  born  Sept.  27, 1812;  died  June  18,  1882. 

ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  died  January  25,  1848,  in  his  eighty-sixth 

year.     Margaret  Shanklin  died  March  9,  1854,  in  her  eighty-fourth  year. 

They  are  buried  side  by  side  in  the  old  churchyard  at  Red  Oak,  Ohio. 

III.  WILLIAM  HOPKINS  was  the  first  of  Archibald's  children  to 
come  to  Illinois.  He  left  Red  Oak  early  in  September,  1835,  with  his  wife, 
nine  children,  ten  head  of  cattle,  and  thirty  head  of  sheep.  One  big  four- 
horse  prairie  schooner  carried  the  household  effects,  and  a  two-horse 
spring-wagon,  then  an  object  of  curiosity  in  the  neighborhood,  made  a 
comfortable  place  for  the  wife  and  little  ones.  At  Funk's  Grove,  near  the 
present  site  of  Bloomington,  111.,  they  were  delayed  for  some  time  by  high 

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water.  William  and  a  part  of  the  family  finally  moved  on  leaving  the 
older  boys  with  the  stock  to  follow  as  soon  as  they  could.  A  Sunday  came, 
and  grass  for  the  cattle  had  given  out.  The  boys  thought  it  necessary  to 
move  to  pastures  new  and  did  so,  but  with  condemning  consciences  and  a 
feeling  that  if  their  father  had  been  there  he  would  not  have  allowed  it. 
Reaching  their  new  possessions,  they  lived  in  the  wagons  until  a  rude  cabin 
could  be  built.  That  same  fall  a  better  cabin  was  erected  and  the  first 
was  used  for  a  stable.  After  a  few  years  a  frame  house  was  built.  This 
was  moved  away  in  1845,  when  a  much  larger  and  better  house  took  its 
place. 

Archibald,  William's  eldest  son,  ran  a  store  in  Hennepin,  in  partner- 
ship with  his  Uncle  George  Willis.  He  was  ambitious  and  had  entered 
considerable  government  land.  While  attending  school  at  Jacksonville, 
111.,  he  spent  his  vacations  working  at  the  Willis'  Mill  (known  later  as 
McManis'  Mill). 

He  died  of  typhoid  fever  before  his  plans  were  perfected. 

Joel,  the  second  son,  in  his  early  manhood  clerked  in  his  Uncle  Thomas 
Hopkins's  general  store  at  Ripley,  Ohio,  but  came  with  his  parents  to  Illinois 
and  helped  make  the  new  home,  remaining  with  them  and  caring  for  them 
in  their  old  age.  He  was  a  man  of  unusual  strength  and  endurance.  He 
was  six  feet  and  four  inches  tall  and  weighed  one  hundred  ninety  pounds. 

Elizabeth  was  a  woman  of  most  cheery  temper  and  great  patience.  She 
married  J.  W.  Margrave,  a  man  of  unusual  talents.  He  spent  much  of  his 
time  and  energy  teaching  and  working  in  the  church,  Sunday  school,  and 
choir  in  the  many  communities  where  he  made  his  home.  He  was  choir 
leader  and  elder  in  many  of  these  places. 

John  lived  at  first  near  his  parents;  with  the  forty-niners  went  to  Cali- 
fornia, but  finally  settled  on  a  farm  at  Marshalltown,  Iowa.  He  was  a 
deacon  in  the  church  and  leader  of  the  singing  for  many  years. 

Martha  was  for  a  dozen  years  the  mother  to  Joel  W.  Hopkins's  chil- 
dren; later  married  Deacon  McCord  and  lived  in  Granville. 

Stephen  Dawse,  a  fine,  tall,  largely  built  man  of  muscular  strength, 
but  an  epileptic  from  young  manhood,  lived  at  home  until  after  his  father's 
death,  when  he  was  taken  by  his  brother  Joel  to  his  home,  where  he  and 
his  sister  Martha  took  care  of  the  invalid  with  unbounded  patience,  and 
at  a  great  personal  sacrifice,  until  his  death. 

George  Burder  made  his  home  on  a  farm  near  his  father's.  He  was  a 
man  of  strong  opinions  and  great  thrift.  He  held  the  positions  of  deacon 
in  the  church  and  trustee  of  Wheaton  College. 

Margarette,  an  unselfish,  helpful,  wholesome,  and  jovially  natured 
woman,  was  a  public  school-teacher  and  lived  with  her  parents.  She  took 

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a  prominent  part  in  all  muscial  affairs  in  the  church.  She  was  a  large 
woman,  of  dark  complexion  and  fine  figure. 

Malinda  was  a  fine-appearing  young  woman  and,  like  her  sister,  a  good 
singer  and  an  able  church  worker.  She  married  Abbott  Barker,  a  car- 
penter by  trade,  and  later  a  farmer  at  Mazon,  111.  He  was  a  sterling 
Christian,  deacon  in  the  church,  and  for  many  years  choir  leader.  Malinda 
is  buried  at  Granville,  111. 

In  all  these  homes  family  worship  was  faithfully  maintained. 

Gordon  and  Archibald,  William's  brothers,  came  to  Illinois  later,  and 
settled  near  Aurora,  Kendall  County,  111. 


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///.  WILLIAM  HOPKINS,  the  first  child  of  II.  Archi- 
bald Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Poag,  was  married  March  jp, 
1812,  to  Jane  Wilson  Willis,  who  was  born  January  22,  1790, 
and  died  December  21,  1857. 

CHILDREN  : 

ARCHIBALD  WILSON,  born  Dec.  28,  1812;  died  Dec.  17,  1839. 

JOEL  WILLIS,  born  July    29,  1814;  died  Feb.   16,  1902. 

ELIZABETH,  born  Jan.    28,  1816;  died  May  24,  1892. 

JOHN  CRAWFORD,  born  Feb.  25,  1818. 

MARTHA,  born  June  20,1820;   died  June  24,1881. 

STEPHEN  DA WSE,  born  Sept.  19,  1822;   died  Jan.    10,1867. 

GEORGE  BURDER,  born  Nov.    8,1824;   died  May  30,1904. 

MARGARET,  born  Apr.     2,1827;   died  Nov.  16,1857. 

MELINDA,  born  May     1,1831;   died  May  22,1865. 

III.  WILLIAM  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Archibald  Hopkins  and 
Elizabeth  Poag,  was  a  medium-sized  man,  five  feet  ten  inches  tall,  had  a 
sandy  complexion,  was  nervous,  wiry,  quick  in  his  movements,  and  pal- 
sied somewhat  in  later  life,  hands  and  head  shaking.  He  was  a  very 
strong  man,  and  used  an  axe  well.  He  always  attended  the  "raisings," 
and  carried  a  corner  up  alone.  He  came  to  Illinois  in  1833  on  a  prospect- 
ing tour,  and  made  a  claim  near  Florid.  He  went  home,  intending  to 
move  his  family  West,  but  his  father,  Archibald  Hopkins,  heard  of  his 
plans,  and  said,  "Tut,  tut,  William,  this  will  never  do."  They  always 
obeyed  "Old  Archie,"  and  for  two  years  William  waited.  He  then 
returned  to  Illinois  and  bought  the  claim  of  Alexander  Laughlin,  entering 
the  land  east  of  Granville,  111.,  where  his  grandson,  A.  W.  Hopkins,  now 
lives.  He  shortly  afterwards  brought  his  family  to  the  new  home,  where 
he  lived  and  died.  He  is  buried  in  the  Granville  cemetery. 

Jane  Willis,  wife  of  William  Hopkins,  was  a  large  woman,  with  dark 
hair,  probably  blue  eyes,  deliberate  in  her  movements,  and  of  good  judg- 
ment. Her  son  Joel  said,  "After  she  had  had  nine  children,  she  beat 
Amaziah  Baird,  a  seventeen-year-old  lad,  in  a  foot-race."  The  children 
inherited  their  mother's  physique,  were  unusually  large,  finely  built, 
strong,  and  of  good  carriage.  They  always  had  family  prayers  twice  a  day 

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IV.     JOEL   WILLIS    HOPKINS. 


at  William's  home,  as  they  had  had  in  their  father's  home.  A  letter  written 
to  Joel  Hopkins,  March  13,  1898,  by  Adeline  M.  Weed,  Berkeley,  Cal., 
says:  "I  remember  I  was  quite  impressed  by  the  stately  dignity  of  your 
mother,  my  Aunt  Jane.  I  told  my  mother  I  would  like  to  live  to  be  old  if 
I  could  have  the  fine  bearing  of  Aunt  Jane.  I  think  she  was  sixty-three, 
but  that  seemed  like  old  age  to  me  then."  Of  their  children,  Joel  and 
John  were  sandy,  all  the  rest  had  brown  hair  and  gray  eyes. 

IV.  ARCHIBALD  WILSON  HOPKINS,  first  child  of 
III.  William  Hopkins  and  Jane  Wilson  Willis,  died  at  twenty- 
seven  years  of  age. 

He  was  attending  school  at  Illinois  College,  Jacksonville,  111.,  and  Joel 
W.  Hopkins  remembered  going  to  Jacksonville  to  get  his  books  after  his 
death.  He  is  buried  in  the  Granville  Cemetery. 


IV.  JOEL  WILLIS  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  William 
Hopkins  and  Jane  Wilson  Willis,  was  married  December  10, 
184.0,  to  Eleanor  Jane  Harrison,  who  was  born  February  23, 
1820. 

CHILDREN  : 

EVELINE  WINSLOW,    born  Nov.    6,  1841;  died  Jan.  5,  1848. 

HELEN  DE  ARMOND,  born  June  22,  1843. 

ARCHIBALD  WILSON,  born  Jan.     4,  1845. 

MARY  HARRISON,       born  Dec.  30,  1846. 

ELEANOR  JANE,          born  Feb.  13,  1849;  died  Jan.  25,  1858. 

Eleanor  Jane  Harrison  Hopkins  died  February  20,  1849. 

IV.  JOEL  WILLIS  HOPKINS  was  married  second,  January  31, 
1862,  to  Mrs.  Sarah  Smith  Harrison,  who  was  born  June  7,  1823,  and 
died  June  27,  1897. 

CHILDREN  : 

MARTHA  BELLE,  born  May  22,  1863. 

IV.  JOEL  WILLIS  HOPKINS  was  active  in  the  public  affairs  of  his 
county,  state,  and  nation.  No  history  of  Putnam  County  could  be  written 
without  taking  into  account  his  great  influence  in  molding  the  character 
of  its  people,  shaping  their  policy  and  promoting  their  interests  in  lines  of 
progress,  good  order,  moral,  and  religious  development.  At  one  time  he 

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was  a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the 
Republican  National  Convention  at  Cincinnati  that  nominated  Hayes  for 
President,  a  member  of  the  26th  General  Assembly,  and  County  Judge.  In 
business  he  was  unusually  wise  and  successful.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
he  was  president  of  the  Peru  National  Bank,  the  Putnam  County  Bank, 
and  the  Granville  Bank,  and  left  a  large  estate,  chiefly  in  farm  lands. 

In  his  character  there  was  an  unusual  combination  of  qualities.  To  the 
world,  the  church,  his  neighbors,  and  friends,  he  was  a  tower  of  strength; 
to  his  family,  all  of  that,  and  a  world  of  tenderness  besides.  He  was  at 
ease  in  the  presence  of  the  highest  dignitaries  in  the  land,  and  so  simple  and 
kind  that  no  one,  however  humble,  ever  felt  abashed  in  his  presence.  At 
his  death  it  was  said  of  him,  "Know  ye  not  that  there  is  a  prince  and  a 
great  man  fallen  this  day  in  Israel  ?" 


F.  EVELINE  WIN  SLOW  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Joel 
Willis  Hopkins  and  Eleanor  Jane  Harrison,  died  at  seven  years 
of  age,  and  is  buried  in  the  Granville  cemetery. 

V.  HELEN  DE  ARMOND  HOPKINS,  second   child 
of  Joel  Willis  Hopkins  and  Eleanor  Jane  Harrison,  was  mar- 
ried September  3,  1867,  to  Robert  L.  McCord,  who  was  born 
August  7,  1830. 

CHILDREN  : 

JOEL  HOPKINS,  born  Sept.  24,  1868. 

JAMES  BENNET,          born  Apr.     5,  1870. 

MARY  ELEANOR,         born  May  14,  1872;  died  Feb.  n,  1900. 

ROBERT  LEIGH,          born  Mar.  13,  1875. 

ARCHIBALD  WILSON,  born  Feb.     6,  1878;   died  Sept.  24,  1902. 

WILLIAM,  born  Nov.   6,1879;    died  Nov.  6,1879. 

Home,  Lake  City,  Iowa;  Business,  clergyman. 

VI.  JOEL  HOPKINS  McCORD,  first  child  of  Helen 
De  Armond  Hopkins  and  Robert  L.  McCord. 

Graduated  from  Oberlin  College,  Oberlin,  Ohio,  class  of  1891. 
Home,  Sioux  Rapids,  Iowa;  business,  president  Sioux  Rapids  State  Se- 
curity Bank. 

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VI.  JAMES  BENNET  McCORD,  second  child  of 
Helen  De  Armond  Hopkins  and  Robert  L.  McCord,  was  married 
August  14.,  1895,  t°  Margaret  Mellen,  who  was  born  Novem- 
ber 9,  1870. 

CHILDREN: 

JESSIE  FAIRBANK,       born  July  12,  1897. 

MARY  HELEN,  born  Jan.  19,  1899. 

ROBERT,  born  May   5,  1900. 

Margaret  Mellen  is  the  daughter  of  a  missionary  of  the  American  Board, 
and  was  born  in  Africa.  She  graduated  from  Oberlin  College  in  the  class 
of  1893. 

VI.  JAMES  BENNET  McCORD  graduated  from  Oberlin  College 
in  the  class  of  1891,  and  from  the  Northwestern  Medical  College,  Chicago, 
111.,  class  of  1894.  He  practiced  medicine  at  Lake  City,  Iowa,  until  the 
fall  of  1899,  when  he  received  an  appointment  from  the  American  Board 
of  Commissioners  of  Foreign  Missions  to  join  the  Zulu  Mission  as  medical 
missionary.  He  sailed  from  Boston  October  n,  1899.  His  station  is  at 
Durban,  Natal,  South  Africa.  About  the  time  of  his  going  to  Africa,  the 
Natal  government  had  passed  a  law  requiring  of  doctors  practicing  in 
Natal,  an  English  diploma.  To  save  the  expense  of  a  journey  to  England 
and  the  time,  the  American  Board  wrote  to  Mr.  Chamberlain,  secretary 
for  foreign  affairs,  to  procure  for  Dr.  McCord  a  license  to  practice  in  Eng- 
lish territory.  Mr.  Chamberlain  accordingly  wrote  to  the  Natal  govern- 
ment recommending  that  he  be  permitted  to  take  an  examination  in  Natal, 
but  all  plans  failed,  and  he  was  obliged  to  go  to  England  and  enter  the  Uni- 
versity in  London.  He  studied  a  year  and  took  the  examinations  with  the 
class  in  July,  1902,  receiving  a  membership  in  the  Royal  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  the  Royal  College  of  Surgeons.  He  returned  to  his  work  in  the 
Zulu  mission  in  August.  He  is  now  laboring  to  establish  a  dispensary 
and  hospital  at  Durban. 

VI.  MARY  ELEANOR  McCORD,  third  child  of  Helen 
De  Armond  Hopkins  and  Robert  L.  McCord,  was  married  June 
27,  1895,  to  Ralph  Larkin,  who  was  born  June  29,  1870. 

CHILDREN: 

ROBERT  EDGAR,  born  Oct.  i,  1897;  died  Sept.  24,  1899. 

VI.  MARY  ELEANOR  McCORD  was  born  in  Toulon,  111.,  removing 
to  New  Windsor  with  the  family  in  her  seventh  year,  to  Lyonsville,  when 


she  was  ten  years  old,  and  to  Sheffield  when  she  was  fourteen.  From  here 
she  went  to  Oberlin  College  for  four  years,  graduating  in  the  class  of  1894, 
after  which  she  taught  in  Toulon  one  year  and  in  Lake  City,  Iowa,  for  two 
years,  and  spent  one  year  in  the  Moody  Bible  Institute.  She  was  married 
in  the  summer  of  1895,  and  in  the  following  September  went  with  her 
husband  to  Turkey,  under  the  A.  B.  C.  F.  M.  Because  of  frequent  mas- 
sacres in  the  interior,  they  spent  one  year  in  Beirut,  Syria,  studying  Arabic, 
and  reached  their  destination,  Mardin,  October,  1896.  In  October,  1897, 
her  little  son  was  born,  and  a  few  months  later  she  was  taken  with  a  severe 
sickness,  from  which  she  never  recovered.  They  returned  to  America  in 
the  summer  of  1898,  and  spent  the  last  year  of  her  life  in  Colorado.  Little 
Robert  died  September  24,  1899,  and  the  mother  followed  February  n, 
1900.  The  predominant  trait  of  her  Christian  character  was  her  unwaver- 
ing faith.  When  starting  out  across  the  country  for  Turkey  in  the  times  of 
the  terrible  massacres,  she  wrote:  "God  calls  us  to  go,  we  cannot  hesi- 
tate. He  will  lead  us.  If  he  should  take  us  home,  it  would  be  our  great 
gain.  You  must  not  grieve."  And  in  Colorado,  during  the  last  bright 
days  of  her  life,  she  prayed  for  grace  to  live  or  die  just  as  God  willed. 
Faith  gave  her  the  victory.  Her  death  was  a  triumph. 

Ralph  Larkin  graduated  from  Knox  College,  Galesburg,  111.,  class  1892, 
and  from  the  Congregational  Theological  Seminary,  Chicago,  111.,  class  of 
1895. 

Home,  Ontario,  Cal.;  business,  clergyman. 

VI.  ROBERT  LEIGH  McCORD,  fourth  child  of  Helen 
De  Armond  Hopkins  and  Robert  L.  McCord,  studied  at  Oberlin, 
in  1891  and  i8g2. 

He  graduated  from  the  Iowa  University,  class  of  1896,  and  from  its 
law  department  in  1899.  While  studying  law  in  Iowa  University  in  1898) 
he  enlisted  in  the  6th  battery,  Iowa  Volunteers,  Light  Artillery,  as  corporal. 
The  battery  went  into  camp  in  Des  Moines,  in  July,  but  were  never  called 
to  active  service.  He  was  mustered  out  in  September  as  "An  efficient  drill- 
master,  and  a  soldier  who  can  intelligently  handle  a  body  of  men." 

VI.  ARCHIBALD  WILSON  McCORD,  fifth  child  of 
Helen  De  Armond  Hopkins  and  Robert  L.  McCord,  was  born  in 
Toulon,  III.,  February  6,  1878. 

He  studied  at  Oberlin,  Ohio,  and  at  Grinnell,  Iowa,  and  afterward 
took  a  commercial  course  at  Capital  City  Commercial  College,  Des  Moines, 

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V.     ARCHIBALD    WILSON    HOPKINS. 


Iowa.  His  ambition  lay  along  business  lines.  Nothing  better  presenting 
itself,  he  accepted  a  clerkship  in  a  store,  and  worked  so  hard  and  faithfully 
that  he  is  still  the  merchant's  standard  of  faithful  service.  Wishing  to 
make  banking  his  life  work,  he  worked  for  a  few  months  in  the  Lake  View 
State  Bank,  and  later  in  the  law  office  of  his  brother  in  Sac  City.  It  was 
here  that  he  became  acquainted  with  Judge  Goldsmith,  who,  recognizing 
his  sterling  qualities,  sent  him  to  Salem,  S.  D.,  as  a  clerk  in  his  bank  there. 
He  had  been  there  but  a  few  weeks,  when  the  manager  of  the  bank  became 
ill,  and  he  assumed  the  direction  of  the  business  in  his  absence.  He  filled 
the  place  with  so  much  ability  and  fidelity  that  the  directors  of  the  Early 
State  Bank,  at  Early,  Iowa,  made  him  cashier  and  a  director  in  their  bank. 
Few  young  men  in  business  have,  by  the  force  of  merit  alone,  risen  so 
rapidly,  or  won,  in  so  short  a  time,  so  much  respect  and  friendship.  He  was 
stricken  with  typhoid  fever  early  in  September,  1902,  and  after  a  brave  and 
determined  fight,  died  like  a  Christian,  recognizing  God's  will  as  "all  right." 

VI.  WILLIAM  McCORD,  sixth  child  of  Helen  De  Armond 
Hopkins  and  Robert  McCord,  died  the  day  he  was  born.  He 
was  buried  in  the  Granville  cemetery. 

V.  ARCHIBALD  WILSON  HOPKINS,  third  child  of 
Joel  Willis  Hopkins  and  Eleanor  Jane  Harrison,  was  married 
April  14.  1898,  to  Cara  L.  McVay,  who  was  born  October  17, 
1861.  She  is  a  graduate  of  the  "Western,"  at  Oxford,  Ohio. 

CHILDREN  : 

ELEANOR  JANE,  born  Feb.  15,  1899. 
JOEL  WILLIS,  born  Sept.  19,  1902. 
Home,  Granville,  111. 

V.  ARCHIBALD  WILSON  HOPKINS,  the  only  son  of  Joel  Willis 
Hopkins  and  Eleanor  Jane  Harrison,  was  born  and  has  always  lived  at 
the  old  homestead  at  Granville,  111.  He  studied  for  a  short  time  at  Oberlin 
College,  then  went  to  Hillsdale,  Mich.,  where  he  graduated  with  the  class 
of  1870.  From  that  time  until  the  death  of  his  father,  February  16,  1902, 
he  was  associated  with  him  in  business,  along  the  lines  of  farming,  stock- 
raising,  and  kindred  interests.  For  years  he  was  a  director  of  the  Peru 
National  Bank,  and  at  his  father's  death  became  president  of  both  the  Gran- 
ville bank  and  the  Putnam  County  bank,  at  Hennepin,  111.  He  has  been 
quite  a  traveler  in  both  the  Old  and  New  World.  He  served  the  Republican 
party  as  a  member  of  the  37th,  38th,  and  4ist  General  Assemblies  of  Illinois. 

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V.  MARY  HARRISON  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Joel 
Willis  Hopkins  and  Eleanor  Jane  Harrison,  was  married  May 
19,  1875,  to  William  W.  Wright,  who  was  born  September  10, 
184.2. 

CHILDREN  : 

ELEANOR  MATILDA,  born  May  30,  1877. 

WILLIAM  W.,  born  Aug.  12,  1878. 

MARY  AMELIA,          born  Nov.    6,  1880;    died  July  30,  1881. 

HELEN  GERTRUDE,  born  July  22,  1884. 

V.  MARY  HARRISON  HOPKINS  graduated  from  the  musical  de- 
partment of  Rockford  College  in  1865.     She  then  studied  two  years  at 
Oberlin  College  and  one  year  at  the  New  England  Conservatory,  Boston, 
Mass. 

William  W.  Wright  is  a  lawyer  and  has  served  Stark  County,  Illinois, 
six  years  as  master  in  chancery,  and  afterwards  twenty-five  years  as  judge. 
He  was  a  delegate  from  the  Peoria  district  to  the  National  Republican 
Convention  which  met  in  Chicago  in  1884.  He  stands  high  as  a  lawyer, 
and  has  been  connected  with  many  prominent  cases. 

VI.  ELEANOR  MATILDA    WRIGHT,  first   child   of 
Mary  Harrison  Hopkins  and  William  W.  Wright. 

Graduated  from  the  Toulon,  111.,  High  School,  class  of  1894,  and  from 
the  Toulon  Academy  in  1897.  She  is  at  the  Toulon  home  with  her  parents. 

VI.  WILLIAM  W.  WRIGHT,  second  child  of  Mary 
Harrison  Hopkins  and  William  W.  Wright. 

Studied  in  the  schools  of  Toulon  until  1897,  when  he  went  to  Wooster, 
Mass.,  and  afterwards  to  the  University  of  Illinois,  where  he  graduated 
from  the  law  department  in  1904.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Arkansas 
in  1902  and  in  Illinois  in  1904.  Is  associated  in  business  with  his  father 
in  Toulon,  111. 

VI.  MARY  AMELIA  WRIGHT,  third  child  of  Mary 
Harrison  Hopkins  and  William  W.  WTright,  died  a  baby,  and 
is  buried  in  the  Granville  Cemetery. 


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VI.  HELEN  GERTRUDE  WRIGHT,  the  fourth  child  of 
Mary  Harrison  Hopkins  and  William  W.  Wright. 

Graduated  from  the  Toulon  Academy  in  1902.  She  studied  at  Welles- 
ley  one  year,  and  is  in  the  University  of  Illinois,  Champaign,  111.,  class  of 
1905. 

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V.  MARTHA  BELLE  HOPKINS,  child  of  Joel  W. 
Hopkins  and  Mrs.  Sarah  S.  Harrison,  was  married  March  3, 
1898,  to  Sidney  Whitaker,  who  was  born  December  20,  1859. 

CHILDREN: 

SIDNEY  HOPKINS,  born  Mar.  13,  1899. 

JOHN  HOPKINS,  born  June  22,  1900. 

JOEL  HOPKINS,  born  Aug.  22,  1901. 

SARAH  HYDE,  born  May  24,  1903. 

WlLHELMINA  SCHOETLER,  bom  Sept.    I,  1904. 

V.  MARTHA  BELLE  HOPKINS,  child  of  Joel  W.  Hopkins  and  Mrs. 
Sarah  S.  Harrison,  was  in  the  High  School  at  Ottawa,  111.,  1880  and  1881, 
and  studied  at  Wellesley  College  from  1882  to  1885.  Just  before  her  grad- 
uation she  was  called  home  by  the  illness  of  her  mother.  She  spent  the 
year  1888-89  traveling  in  Europe.  Her  home  is  "just  over  the  way"  from 
the  old  homestead. 

Home,  Granville,  111. ;  business,  agriculture. 


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IV.  ELIZABETH   HOPKINS,    third  child  of  William 
Hopkins  and  Jane  Wilson  Willis,  was  married  February  8, 
1838,  to  James  Willis  Margrave,  who  was  born  in  Kentucky, 
August  16,  1814.. 

CHILDREN  : 

THOMAS  EWING,  born  Sept.    3,  1839. 

JANE  WILSON,      born  Sept.    6,  1841;    died  Mar.  24,  1866. 

CHARLES  T.,        born  Sept.  20,  1843. 

WILLIAM  A.,         born  May     i,  1845. 

MILISSA,  born  Sept.    4,  1847. 

SUSAN  G.,  born  Jan.    20,  1849. 

LAURA  H.,  born  June  19,  1850;    died  Feb.  10,  1873. 

MARTHA  ELLEN,  born  Feb.  20,  1857. 

The  first  home  of  IV.  Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  J.  W.  Margrave  was  at 
Granville,  111.  About  1844  they  went  to  Marion,  Iowa,  and  later  to  Hia- 
watha, Kansas.  Of  their  children,  Jane  was  born  in  her  grandmother's 
old  home  at  Granville,  111.;  William  in  Peoria,  111.;  Martha  and  Ellen  in 
Platteville,  Wis. ;  and  the  rest  in  Iowa.  Elizabeth  Hopkins  Margrave  died 
May  21,  1892,  and  is  buried  at  Hiawatha,  Kansas. 

Home,  Hiawatha,  Kansas;  business,  proprietor  Hiawatha  Greenhouses. 

V.  THOMAS  E.   MARGRAVE,   first  child  of  Elizabeth 
Hopkins  and  J.  W.  Margrave,  was  married  April  18,  1864.,  to 
Hannah  Henderson,  who  was  born  in  Concord.  Ohio, 

CHILDREN: 

MARGARET  W.,  born  Mar.  12,  1865;   died  Dec.  19,  1896. 

GEORGE  H.,       born  Jan.    26,  1867. 

JENNIE  R.,         born  Oct.      2,  1868. 

ALFRED  W.,       born  Aug.  28,  1870. 

MARY  E.,  born  Jan.      6,  1872. 

ANNIE,  born  Apr.     8,  1874;    died  Aug.  n,  1874. 


V.  Thomas  E.  Margrave  enlisted  in  Company  H,  2oth  Illinois  Infantry, 
Volunteers,  on  June  13,  1861,  and  was  mustered  out  June  13,  1864.     He 
was  in  the  battles  of  Frederickstown,  Mo.,  in  1861;  Fort  Henry,  1862; 
Fort  Donaldson,  1862;  Pittsburg  Landing,  1862;  Siege  of  Corinth,  1862; 
Brittan's  Lane,  1862;  Port  Gibson,  1862;  Raymond,  1863. 

Home,  Gordon,  Sheridan  County,  Neb.;  business,  lumber  merchant. 

VI.  MARGARET  W.  MARGRAVE,  first  child  of  Thomas 
E.  Margrave  and  Hannah  Henderson,  was  married  April  15, 
1886,  to  Samuel  B.  Frye,  who  was  born  in  Michigan. 

CHILDREN  : 

MATTIE  E.,  born  Nov.  26,  1888. 
LESLIE  E.,  born  Jan.  6, 1892. 
JENNIE,  born  Apr.  16,  1895. 

MARGARET  H.,  born  Dec.     2,  1897. 

Home,  Reserve,  Kan.;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  GEORGE  H.  MARGRAVE,  second  child  of  Thomas 
E.  Margrave  and  Hannah  Henderson,  is  not  married. 
Home,  Gordon,  Neb.;  business,  ranchman. 

VI.  JENNIE  R.  MARGRAVE,  third  child  of  Thomas 
E.  Margrave  and  Hannah  Henderson,  was  married  March  2, 
1896,  to  E.  R.  Pyle,  who  was  born  in  Nebraska. 

CHILDREN: 

MARGARET  E.,  born  Apr.  20,  1897. 
HANNAH  M.,  born  Mar.  31,  1898. 

Home,  Reserve,  Kan. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  ALFRED  W.  MARGRAVE,  fourth  child  of  Thomas 
E.  Margrave  and  Hannah  Henderson,  is  not  married. 
Home,  Gordon,  Neb. ;  business,  ranchman. 

VI.  MARY  E.  MARGRAVE,  fifth  child  of  Thomas  E. 
Margrave  and  Hannah  Henderson,  was  married  May  /, 
to  Fred.  C.  Duerfeldt,  who  was  born  in  New  York. 

CHILDREN  : 

GEORGE  H.,  born  Jan.  3,  1896. 

Home,  Gordon,  Neb. ;  business,  ranchman. 

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VI.  ANNIE  MARGRAVE,  sixth  child  of  Thomas  E. 
Margrave  and  Hannah  Henderson,  died  when  four  months 
old,  and  is  buried  at  Ashland,  Neb. 

V.  JANE  WILSON  MARGRAVE,  second  child  of  Eliz- 
abeth Hopkins  and  J.  W.  Margrave,  died  March  24.,  1866,  in 
St.  Joseph,  Mo. 

She  was  on  her  way  home  from  Dr.  Jackson's  Sanitarium,  "  Our  Home 
on  the  Hillside,"  N.  Y.,  where  she  had  been  for  treatment  for  consump- 
tion. She  was  twenty-five  years  old. 

V.  CHARLES  T.  MARGRAVE,  third  child  of  Elizabeth 
Hopkins  and  J.  W.  Margrave,  was  married  September  19, 
1868,  to  Agnes  Whillans,  who  was  born  in  Canada. 

CHILDREN: 

ELIZABETH  CECILIA,  born  Jan.     2,  1870. 

EDITH  L.,  born  Dec.     6,  1871;  died  July     2,  1873. 

JAMES  W.,  born  June    7,  1877;  died  Jan.   30,  1878. 

ANNA  M.,  born  July   27,  1880. 

NELLIE  A.,  born  Dec.  13,  1883. 

Home,  Gordon,  Sheridan  County,  Neb. ;  business,  ranchman. 

Mrs.  and  Mr.  Charles  Margrave  lived  first  in  Brown  County,  Kan.,  and 
then  Richardson  County,  Neb.,  where  they  were  among  the  first  settlers. 
In  1885,  they  moved  to  Sheridan  County,  Neb.  They  now  live  at  304  Pine 
Street,  Gordon,  Neb.,  still  owning  the  ranch  where  Charles  spent  so  much 
of  his  time. 

VI.  ELIZABETH  CECILIA    MARGRAVE,  first  child 
of  Charles  T.  Margrave  and  Agnes  Whillans,  was  married  No- 
vember 25,  1891,  to  Clarence  E.  Park,  who  was  born  in  Sarpy 
County,  Neb. 

CHILDREN  : 

BETH  EVA,  born  Oct.     7,  1892. 

SARAH  AGNES,  born  Dec.  15,  1893. 
MARGARET  ANNA,  born  Dec.  23,  1895. 
EMMA  JEANNETTE,  born  Sept.  i,  1898. 
Albany,  Neb. ;  business,  ranchman. 

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VI.  EDITH  L.  MARGRAVE  and  JAMES  W.  MAR- 
GRAVE, second  and  third  children  of  Charles  T.  Margrave 
and  Agnes  Whillans,  died  when  babies,  and  are  buried  at  Salem, 
Neb. 

VI.  ANNA  M.  MARGRAVE,  fourth  child  of  Charles  T. 
Margrave  and  Agnes  Whillans,  graduated  from  Bellevue  Col- 
lege, 1903,  A.  B. 

VI.  NELLIE  A.  MARGRAVE,  fifth  child  of  Charles  T. 
Margrave  and  Agnes  Whillans,  graduated  from  the  Gordon 
schools  in  1903,  and  is  studying  at  Bellevue  College,  class  of  1907. 

V.  WILLIAM  A.  MARGRAVE,  fourth  child  of  Elizabeth 
Hopkins  and  J.  W.  Margrave,  was  married  January  13, 
1867,  to  Margaret  Rubeti,  who  was  born  in  184.8. 

CHILDREN  : 

JULIA  E.,  born  June    2,  1869. 

MARGARET  LUNETTE,  born  Apr.  13,  1873;  died  Mar.  31,  1875. 

WILLIAM  C.,  born  June  27,  1876. 

JAMES  T.,  born  June  28,  1880. 

EARL  IRVIN,  born  Jan.   31,  1883. 

Home,  Reserve,  Kan. ;  business,  ranchman. 

Margaret  Rubeti  was,  by  her  mother,  a  member  of  the  Sac  tribe  of 
Indians.  Her  father  was  a  Canadian  Frenchman,  whose  education  was 
commenced  with  a  view  to  his  becoming  a  Roman  Catholic  priest.  This 
plan  he  abandoned,  and  going  to  the  West,  was  employed  by  the  American 
Fur  Company.  In  1851  Margaret  was  left  an  orphan.  The  Rev.  S.  M. 
Irvin  took  her  to  his  home  in  the  "Iowa  and  Sac  Mission"  and  brought 
her  up  and  educated  her  as  though  she  were  his  own  child.  She  taught 
the  first  school  on  the  Reservation,  and  still  remembers  her  trying  experi- 
ences when  her  pupils  could  talk  no  English  and  she  could  talk  no  Indian. 
The  home  at  Reserve,  Kan.,  is  one  that  the  Hopkins  clans  may  well  covet. 

V.  WILLIAM  A.  MARGRAVE,  beginning  with  nothing  has  added 
acre  to  acre  till  he  owns  large  tracts  of  land  at  Reserve,  Kan.  His  son 
James  T.  Margrave  manages  his  estates  at  Gordon,  Neb. 


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VI.  JULIA  E.  MARGRAVE,  first  child  of  Margaret 
Rubeti  and  William  A.  Margrave,  was  married  February.  14, 
1888,  to  George  LeClire,  who  was  born  January  18,  1865. 

CHILDREN  : 

RUBIE,  born  Dec.     2, 1889. 

STEWART,         born  Sept.  16,  1893;  died  July  16,  1896. 

MARGARETTE,  born  Aug.  27,  1896. 

WALTER,          born  June  20,  1900. 

Home,  Reserve,  Kan.;  business,  ranchman. 

VI.  MARGARET  LUNETTE  MARGRAVE,  second 
child  of  Margaret  Rubeti  and  William  Margrave,  died  at 
five  years  of  age. 

VI.  WILLIAM  C.  MARGRAVE,  third  child  of  Margaret 
Rubeti  and  William  Margrave,  was  married  March  17,  1897, 
to  Mary  Julia  Walter,  who  was  born  Aug.  28,  1877. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  C.,  born  June    8,  1898;  died  Feb.  5,  1899. 

HOWARD  JOSEPH,  born  Sept.  15,  1900. 
JULIA,  born  Sept.  12,  1903. 

Home,  Reserve,  Kan.;  business,  ranchman. 

VI.  JAMES  T.  MARGRAVE,  fourth  child  of  Margaret 
Rubeti  and  William  Margrave,  was  married  December  24,  1901, 
to  Mary  Etta  Honstedt. 

Home,  Gordon,  Neb. 

VI.  EARL  IRVIN  MARGRAVE,  fifth  child  of  Margaret 
Rubeti  and  William  Margrave,  is  studying  at  Manhattan  Ag- 
ricultural College. 


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V.  MELISSA  MARGRAVE,  fifth  child  of  Elizabeth  Hop- 
kins and  T.  W.  Margrave,  was  married  May  26, 1872,  to  Deloss 
A.  Tisdel,  who  was  born  February  29,  1827,  and  died  May  13, 
1898. 

CHILDREN  : 

MARY,  born  Nov.  20,  1875. 
WILLIS  DELOSS,  born  Feb.  13,  1877. 

BELLE,  born  Mar.  26,  1881. 

MYRON,  born  Oct.     4,  1883. 

ARTHUR  LEE,  born  Apr.     8,  1885. 

GURNEY,  born  July   21,  1890;  died  Apr.  4, 1892. 

All  the  children  were  born  on  a  farm  in  Salem,  Richardson  County,  Neb. 
Home,  Reserve,  Brown  County,  Kan. 

VI.  MARY  TISDEL,  first  child  of  Melissa  Margrave  and 
Deloss  A.  Tisdel. 

Has  been  a  very  successful  teacher.  Her  health  required  a  vacation, 
and  she  is  in  the  home  at  Reserve,  Kan. 

VI.  WILLIS  DELOSS  TISDEL,  second  child  of  Melissa 
Margrave  and  Deloss  A.  Tisdel. 

Is  in  the  restaurant  business,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

VI.  BELL  TISDEL,  third  child  of  Melissa  Margrave  and 
Deloss  A .  Tisdel. 

Is  in  the  home,  Reserve,  Kan. 

VI.  MYRON  TISDEL,  fourth  child  of  Melissa  Margrave 
and  Deloss  A .  Tisdel. 

Is  employed  in  a  large  grocery  house  in  Santa  Barbara,  Cal.  His 
future  prospects  are  very  bright. 

VI.  ARTHUR  LEE  TISDEL,  fifth  child  of  Melissa  Mar- 
grave and  Deloss  A .  Tisdel. 

Is  in  the  home,  Reserve,  Kan. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  GURNEY  TISDEL,  sixth  child  of  Melissa  Margrave 
and  Deloss  A .  Tisdel,  died  when  twenty  months  old,  and  is  buried 
at  Reserve,  Kan. 

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V.  SUSAN  G.  MARGRAVE,  sixth  child  of  Elizabeth 
Hopkins  and  J.  W.  Margrave. 

Has  given  all  of  her  best  days  to  her  father's  family.  She  closed  out 
her  millinery  business  to  care  for  her  mother  during  her  last  illness,  and 
since  then  has  been  her  father's  right  hand.  Writing  of  her  he  says,  "  I 
cannot  estimate  her  worth." 

Home,  Hiawatha,  Kan.;  business,  florist. 

V.  LAURA  H.  MARGRAVE,  seventh  child  of  Elizabeth 
Hopkins  and  J.   W.   Margrave,  was  married  March,   1872, 
to  James  McCullough,  who  was  born  in  Pennsylvania. 

CHILDREN  : 

ROBERT  BENTON. 
MILLIE. 

Two  other  children  were  born  to  Laura  H.  Margrave  and  James 
McCullough,  who  died  in  infancy  and  are  buried  at  Salem,  Neb. 

VI.  ROBERT  BENTON  McCULLOUGH,  first  child  of 
Laura  H.  Margrave  and  James  McCullough. 

Is  in  Arkansas  City,  in  the  dray  business. 

VI.  MILLIE  McCULLOUGH,  second  child  of  Laura  H. 
Margrave  and  James  McCullough. 

Makes  her  home  with  her  grandfather,  J.  W.  Margrave,  in  Hiawatha, 
Kan. 

V.  MARTHA  ELLEN  MARGRAVE,  eighth  child  of 
Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  J.  W.  Margrave,  was  married  April  13, 
1881,  to  Walter  Stewart  Hermon,  who  was  born  in  Ohio,  February 
6, 1859. 

CHILDREN  : 

HAROLD  CLYDE,  born  Feb.  18,  1882. 
MABEL,  born  Oct.  22,  1884. 

ROY,  born  Oct.   15,  1887. 

DOROTHY,  born  Aug.    2,  1892. 

Home,  Reserve,  Kan. ;  business,  agriculture. 


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IV.     JOHN    CRAWFORD    HOPKINS. 


IV.  JOHN  CRAWFORD  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of 
William  Hopkins  and  Jane  Wilson  Willis,  was  married  May 
5,  184.5,  t°  Sarah  Richey,  who  was  born  January  5, 1825,  and 
died  February  p,  1888. 
CHILDREN: 

GEORGE  HENRY,  born  Nov.  14,  1846;  died  Mar.  1,1896. 

WILLIAM  OTIS,  born  Aug.  28,  1849. 

ARATHUSA  ELIZABETH,  born  Feb.  19, 1851. 

NATHANIEL  RICHEY,     born  Oct.  13, 1854. 

SARAH  JANE,  born  Mar.  29,  1857. 

MARGARET  SUSANNA,     born  Mar.  27,  1859. 

JOHN  CHARLES,  born  Jan.   16,  1862;  died  Oct.  23,  1862. 

FREDERICK  WADE,         born  May    i,  1864. 

Home,  Green  Mountain,  Iowa;  business,  agriculture. 

George  Henry  Hopkins  was  six  feet  and  one  inch  tall  and  weighed  two 
hundred  and  twenty  pounds.  Brown  hair  and  dark  eyes. 

Fred.  W.  Hopkins  weighs  two  hundred  and  ten  pounds  and  has  a  dark 
complexion. 

William  Otis  Hopkins  is  six  feet  and  one  inch  tall  and  weighs  two 
hundred  and  sixty  pounds,  has  brown  hair  and  eyes. 

Nathaniel  R.  Hopkins,  the  "Goliath"  of  the  Hopkins  tribe,  is  six  and 
a  half  feet  tall  and  has  brown  hair  and  eyes. 

IV.  JOHN  CRAWFORD  HOPKINS  went  to  Iowa  in  May,  1855, 
and  has  lived  in  Marshall  County  ever  since.     He  was  one  of  the  charter 
members  of  the  church  at  Green  Mountain,  was  chosen  deacon  June  6, 1857, 
and  has  held  the  office  ever  since.     He  is  the  only  one  of  the  original  mem- 
bers now  living.     Because  of  his  blindness,  he  cannot  officiate  at  the  com- 
munion service.     He  was  for  eleven  years  superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
school,  and  has  always  been  ready  for  any  service  for  the  "Master."     At 
eighty-six  he  is  the  last  one  left  of  his  father's  family. 

V.  GEORGE  HENRY  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  John 
C.  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Richey,  was  married  November  13, 
1873,  to  Alice  E.  Croxton. 

CHILDREN  : 

SUSAN,  born  Jan.    3,  1875. 

HELEN  ELVIRA,  born  June  24,  1880. 
JOHN  CROXTON,  born  July  20,  1886. 
Home,  Canal  Dover,  Ohio. 

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V.  GEORGE  HENRY  HOPKINS  was  superintendent  of  the  J.  B. 
Plow  Manufacturing  Co.  at  New  Comerstown,    Ohio.     He  came  home 
from  his  business  late  one  evening,  seemingly  well  and  in  good  spirits. 
His  wife  was  out,  so  he  went  to  bed.     When  she  came  in  later  she  found 
him  asleep,  and  in  the  morning  she  was  unable  to  arouse  him.     Investiga- 
tion proved  that  he  had  died  in  the  night,  making  no  sign.     Physicians 
pronounced  it  heart  failure. 

VI.  SUSAN   HOPKINS,  first  child   oj   George   Henry 
Hopkins  and  Alice  Croxton. 

Is  at  home,  Canal  Dover,  Ohio. 

VI.  HELEN  ELVIRA  HOPKINS,  second  child  of 
George  Henry  Hopkins  and  Alice  Croxton,  was  married  No- 
vember 13,  i go i,  to  John  Alvin  Vinton. 

Home,  Canal  Dover,  Ohio. 

VI.  JOHN    CROXTON    HOPKINS,  third    child    of 
George  Henry  Hopkins  and  Alice  Croxton. 
Is  at  home,  Canal  Dover,  Ohio. 


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V.  WILLIAM  OTIS  HOPKINS,  second  child  oj  John  C. 
Hopkins  and  Sarah  Rickey,  was  married  December  27,  /#77,  to 
Jane  B.  Gowdy  who  was  born  December  8,  1856. 

CHILDREN  : 

JAMES  HARRY,  born  Nov.  8,  1878. 
JOHN  Ross,  born  Sept.  18,  1880. 
Jane  B.  Gowdy  Hopkins  died  July  26,  1882. 

V.  WILLIAM  OTIS  HOPKINS  was  married  second,  May  2,  1892,  to 
Amelia  Clark,  who  was  born  July  10,  1861,  and  died  April  22,  1900. 

Home,  Columbia  Falls,  Montana;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  JAMES  HARRY  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  William 
Otis  Hopkins  and  Jane  B.  Gowdy,  was  married  September  2, 

1903,  to  Emma  Schr eider. 
Home,  Melbourne,  Iowa. 

VI.  JOHN  ROSS  HOPKINS,  second  child  oj  William 
Otis  Hopkins  and  Jane  B.  Gowdy,  was  married  September  21, 

1904,  to  Meta  Strau. 
Home,  Melbourne,  Iowa. 

V.  ARATHUSA  ELIZABETH  HOPKINS,  third  child 
of  John  C.  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Rickey. 

Cares  for  her  father  at  Green  Mountain,  Iowa. 

V.  NATHANIEL  RICHEY  HOPKINS,  fourth  child 
of  John  C.  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Rickey,  was  married  December 
9,  1888,  to  Alice  Clayton  Clark,  who  was  born  June  17,  1867. 

CHILDREN: 

OTIS  LAUNCELOT,  born  May  17,  1890. 
HAZLE  ARATHUSA,  born  May  22,  1897. 

V.  NATHANIEL  RICHEY  HOPKINS  and  Alice  Clayton  Clark  ran 
away  to  be  married,  her  parents  objecting  because  of  the  difference  in 
their  ages.  Alice  Clayton  Clark  and  Amelia  Clark  (Mrs.  William  Otis 
Hopkins)  were  sisters. 

Home,  Canastota,  South  Dakota. 

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V.  SARAH  JANE  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  John  C, 
Hopkins  and  Sarah  Rickey,  was  married  January  5,  1881,  to 
Harvey  Hazlehurst,  who  was  born  September  9,  1856. 
CHILDREN: 

MAGGIE  ALICE,  born  Nov.    11,1882. 

EVELYN  Lois,  born  Oct.       3,  1884. 

THADDEUS  HOPKINS,  born  Nov.  21,  1886. 
BOYD  LESLIE,  born  Nov.  29,  1888. 

PAUL  FENTON,  born  Nov.    25,  1890. 

NINA  ARATHTJSA,  born  May  9,  1893. 
HARRY  HOBART,  born  July  17,1896. 
GLENN  CRAWFORD,  born  Sept.  21,  1898. 
Home,  Milford,  Iowa;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  MAGGIE   ALICE   HAZLEHURST,  first   child   of 
Sarah  Jane  Hopkins  and  Harvey  Hazlehurst,  was  married 
April  6,  1904,  to  T.  A.  Lenon. 

Home,  Columbia  Falls,  Montana. 

VI.  EVELYN  LOIS  HAZLEHURST,  second  child  of 
Sarah  Jane  Hopkins  and  Harvey  Hazlehurst,  was  married 
September  9,  1903,  to  K.  S.  Myers. 

Home,  Milford,  Iowa. 

V.  MARGARET  SUSANNA  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of 
John  C.  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Rickey,  was  married  November 
14.,  1890,  to  John  H.  McAfee,  who  was  born  January  18,  1859. 
CHILDREN: 

BLANCHE,  born  Dec.  15,  1891. 

Home,  Columbia  Falls,  Montana;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  JOHN  CHARLES  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  of  John 
C.  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Rickey,  died  a  baby  and  is  buried  at 
Green  Mountain,  Iowa. 

V.  FREDERICK  WADE  HOPKINS,  eighth  child  of 
John  C.  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Rickey,  was  married  September 
26, 1895,  to  Luella  Jane  Bovee,  who  was  born  December  15, 1867. 

Home,  Green  Mountain,  Iowa:  business,  agriculture. 

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IV.  MARTHA  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  William  Hopkins 
and  Jane  Wilson  Willis. 

When  twenty-nine  years  of  age,  went  into  the  home  of  her  brother 
Joel  Willis  Hopkins  to  mother  his  motherless  little  children,  and  to  assist 
him  in  the  care  of  their  invalid  brother  Stephen  Dawse  Hopkins.  For 
thirteen  years  she  gave  herself  without  stint  to  these  loved  ones,  when  the 
marriage  of  her  brother  in  1862  relieved  her  somewhat  of  these  cares,  and 
Oct.  15,  1867,  she  was  married  to  James  B.  McCord.  For  seven  years 
her  home  was  in  the  village  of  Granville.  In  August,  1874,  her  husband 
died,  and  she  went  to  Toulon,  Illinois,  to  make  her  home  with  her  niece 
Mrs.  Mary  H.  Hopkins  Wright,  where  for  seven  years  she  was  surrounded 
by  all  the  comforts  that  loving  hearts  could  devise.  She  died  at  Toulon, 
Illinois,  June  24,  1881,  and  is  buried  in  the  cemetery  at  Granville,  111. 


IV.  STEPHEN   DAWSE    HOPKINS,  sixth   child    of 
William  Hopkins  and  Jane  Wilson  Willis,  was  never  married. 

He  was  a  life-long  invalid,  and  lived  and  died  in  the  home  of  his  brother 
Joel  Willis  Hopkins.     He  is  buried  in  the  cemetery  at  Granville,  111. 


IV.  GEORGE  BURDER  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  of 
William  Hopkins  and  Jane  Wilson  Willis,  was  married  April 
2,  1850,  to  Rachel  Catherine  Brando,  who  was  born  May  18, 
1825,  and  died  September  17,  1892. 

CHILDREN: 

GUSTAVE  WADE,      born  Jan.   13,  1851;  died  Mar.  12,  1852. 
WILLIAM  K.,  born  Jan.  27,1853; 

MARY  EVA,  born  Feb.    4,  1855;  died  July     3,  1902. 

HENRY  MILES,         born  Feb.    7,  1857. 
ALBERT  WADE,        born  Feb.  27,  1859. 
MARGARETTE  ANN,  born  April   2,  1861. 
GEORGE  LEWIS,       born  April  17,  1863;  died  Feb.   20,  1865. 
KITTY,  born  April  27,  1866;  died  Oct.    27,1866. 

RACHEL  MELINDA,  born  Mar.    9,  1868. 
GEORGE  B.,  born  Feb.  20,  1871. 

Home,  Granville,  111. ;  business,  agriculture. 

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V.  GU STAVE  WADE,  first  child  of  George  Burder  Hop- 
kins and  Rachel  Catherine  Brando,  died  a  year  and  a  half  old, 
and  is  buried  in  the  Granville  Cemetery. 

V.  WILLIAM  K.,  second  child  of  George  Burder  Hopkins 
and  Rachel  Catherine  Brando,  was  married  February  19,  1878, 
to  Clara  A.  Barnard,  who  was  born  September  i,  1854.. 

CHILDREN: 

MABEL  K.,  born  Nov.  n,  1878. 

WADE  BARNARD,  born  June  14,  1884;  died  May  21,  1887. 

Home,  since  1879,  Crete,  Neb.;  business,  agriculture. 

Clara  A.  Barnard  graduated  from  the  Vermont  State  Normal  School, 
Randolph,  Vt.,  Class  of  1875.  William  K.  Hopkins  studied  at  Wheaton 
College,  Wheaton,  111.,  1869-1871. 

VI.  MABEL  K.  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  William  K. 
Hopkins  and  Clara  A.  Barnard. 

Graduated  from  the  Crete  High  School,  Class  of  1897,  and  from  Doane 
College,  Class  of  1900. 

VI.  WADE  BARNARD  HOPKINS,  second  child  of 
William  K.  Hopkins  and  Clara  A.  Barnard,  died  when  three 
years  old,  and  is  buried  at  Crete,  Neb. 

V.  MARY  EVA  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  George 
Burder  Hopkins  and  Rachel  Catherine  Brando. 

Was  two  years  at  Wheaton  College.  She  went  to  Chicago  in  January, 
1887,  and  engaged  in  Bible  work  with  Miss  Dyer,  where  she  stayed  until 
April,  1892,  when  she  was  called  home  by  the  serious  illness  of  her  mother. 
To  her  she  gave  a  daughter's  most  devoted  care  until  her  death,  September, 
1892.  She  then  kept  the  old  homestead  bright  and  homelike  for  her 
father,  always  ready  with  a  glad  welcome  for  the  children  and  grand- 
children, until  the  spring  of  1902,  when  a  mortal  malady  shut  her  in  with 
pain,  for  which  no  remedy  was  found.  She  died  July  3,  1902,  and  is  buried 
in  the  Granville  cemetery.  She  left  a  legally  adopted  daughter,  Madelene, 
born  September  22,  1898. 


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V.  HENRY  MILES  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  George 
Burder  Hopkins  and  Rachel  Catherine  Brando,  was  married 
December  20,  1881,  to  Mary  M.  Nutten,  who  was  born  May  2, 
1854. 

CHILDREN: 

EDITH  ALICE,  born  Oct.  2,  1882. 
GEORGIA  BETH,  born  Jan.  24.  1884. 
IRMA  ADA,  born  Sept.  16,  1887. 

ALBERTIS  LYNN,  born  Feb.  ig,  1890. 
CARL  NUTTEN,  born  Mar.  i,  1903. 
Home,  Vilisca,  Iowa;  business,  fuel  and  feed  store. 

V.  HENRY  MILES  HOPKINS  studied  at  Wheaton  College,  Wheaton, 
111.,  1875-76,  and  later  at  Hillsdale,  Mich.,  1876-77. 

Mary  M.  Nutten  graduated  from  Hillsdale  College,  Hillsdale,  Mich., 
in  the  class  of  1877,  received  the  degree  of  B.  A.  She  took  the  degree  of 
M.  A.  in  1880. 

VI.  EDITH  ALICE  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Henry 
Miles  Hopkins  and  Mary  M.  Nutten. 

Graduated  from  the  Vilisca  High  School,  Iowa,  with  the  class  of  1900; 
studied  at  Wheaton  College,  Wheaton,  111. ;  and  took  one  year  in  a  business 
course  at  Tarkio,  Mo. 

She  is  at  home  at  Vilisca,  Iowa. 

VI.  GEORGIA  BETH  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  Henry 
Miles  Hopkins  and  Mary  M.  Nutten. 

Studied  at  Tarkio,  Mo.,  two  years,  and  graduated  from  the  Schoemaker 
School  of  Oratory,  May,  1904. 
She  is  at  home,  Vilisca,  Iowa. 

VI.  IRMA  ADA  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  Henry  Miles 
Hopkins  and  Mary  M.  Nutten. 

Is  in  the  Vilisca  High  School,  class  of  1907. 

VI.  ALBERTIS  LYNN  and  VI.  CARL  NUTTEN,  the 
fourth  and  fifth  children  of  Henry  Miles  Hopkins  and  Mary  M. 

Nutten. 

Are  in  the  home,  Vilisca,  Iowa. 


V.  ALBERT  WADE  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  George 
Burder  Hopkins  and  Rachel  Catherine  Brando,  was  married 
February  27,  1883,  to  Louisa  Virginia  Martin,  who  was  born 
October  2, 1860. 

CHILDREN  : 

K.  MARTIN,  born  Apr.  13,  1884. 

PAUL  ELLSWORTH,  born  Feb.  20,  1886. 

LEWIS  STORY,          born  Feb.    2,  1888. 

Of  these  three  boys,  their  mother  says,  "We  find  them  alike  in  the 
traits  which  they  have  inherited  from  a  common  ancestry,  and  unlike  in 
an  individuality,  which  belongs  to  each  human  being.  For  the  present 
they  are  boys,  boys  with  the  virtues  and  faults,  the  likes  and  dislikes, 
which  belong  to  boyhood.  They  like  some  work  and  a  great  deal  of  play, 
and  in  God's  good  time  will  doubtless  marry  and  carry  forward  the  name 
and  race,  let  us  hope,  not  unworthily." 

V.  ALBERT  WADE  HOPKINS  went  with  his  brother  William  to 
Nebraska  in  1879,  where  he  remained  until  1883.     He  was  then  married 
and  returned  to  Illinois,  living  on  a  farm  in  LaSalle  County  until  1887, 
when  he  moved  to  Crete,  Neb.     In  1895  he  moved  to  Vilisca,  Iowa,  where 
his  home  now  is. 

Louisa  Virginia  Martin  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Nebraska  City. 
She  taught  from  1877  to  1883,  when  she  was  married.  She  is  a  story  writer 
of  some  merit  many  periodicals  having  published  the  work  of  her  pen. 

Home,  Vilisca,  la.;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  K.  MARTIN  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Albert  Wade 
Hopkins  and  Louisa  Virginia  Martin. 

Graduated  from  the  Vilisca  High  School,  la.,  in  1904,  and  is  taking 
the  electrical  course  of  study  at  Ames,  la. 

V.  MARGARETTE  ANN  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  0} 
George  Burder  Hopkins  and  Rachel  Catherine  Brando,  was 
married  on  June  27, 1883,  to  Baxter  French,  who  was  born  May 
22, 1859. 

CHILDREN: 

FLORENCE  SARAH,  born  Apr.  7,  1884. 
RACHEL  CATHERINE,  born  July  24,  1886. 
GRETCHEN  HOPKINS,  born  Dec.  2,  1888. 
AMOS  ZENO,  born  Sept.  27,  1890. 

EVA  HOPKINS,  born  Oct.     18,  1892. 

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V.  MARGARETTE  ANN  HOPKINS  studied  at  Wheaton  College, 
Wheaton,  111.  Baxter  French  studied  at  Oberlin  College,  Oberlin,  O. 
They  lived  on  the  old  French  farm  at  Granville,  111.,  until  1890,  when 
they  moved  to  Sioux  City,  la.  From  there  they  moved  to  Castona,  la. 
where  Baxter  French  died.  Since  then  Margarette  A.  Hopkins  French 
and  her  family  have  lived  at  Wheaton,  111.,  where  her  children  are  in  school. 

V.  GEORGE  LEWIS,  the  seventh,  and  V.  KITTY,  the 
eighth  child  of  George  B.  Hopkins  and  Rachel  Catherine  Brando, 
died  when  children,  and  are  buried  in  the  Granville  Cemetery. 

V.  RACHEL  MELINDA  HOPKINS,  ninth  child  oj 
George  Burder  Hopkins  and  Rachel  Catherine  Brando,  was 
married  March  28,  1892,  to  Ellsworth  Edgerley,  who  was  born 
April  4, 1 86 1. 

CHILDREN  : 

KENNETH  HOPKINS,  born  Jan.  n,  1895. 
NEVA  MARGARETTE,  born  June    i,  1898. 

V.  RACHEL  MELINDA  HOPKINS  studied  music  at  Oberlin  1884- 
1886.  Since  her  marriage  her  home  was  at  Clarion,  la.,  until  the  death 
of  her  sister,  Mary  Eva  Hopkins,  when  she,  with  her  family,  returned  to 
the  old  homestead  at  Granville,  111.,  to  be  with  her  father,  where  she  still 
makes  her  home. 

Home,  Granville,  111. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  GEORGE  B.  HOPKINS,  tenth  child  oj  George  Burder 
Hopkins  and  Rachel  Catherine  Brando,  was  married  June  2, 
1892,  to  Emma  Carl,  who  was  born  July  12,  1873. 

CHILDREN  : 

MARGARETTE  EMMA,  born  July  19,  1893. 
ARVILLA  FAY,  born  Jan.    3,  1895. 

OPAL  RUTH,  born  Oct.    4,  1898. 

George  B.  Hopkins  attended  Oberlin  1886-87. 
Home,  Cimmeron,  Kan.;  business,  stock  raising. 

IV.  MARGARET  HOPKINS,  eighth  child  of  William 
Hopkins  and  Jane  Wilson  Willis,  was  not  married. 

She  was  a  tall  woman  with  a  dark  complexion,  and  quite  vivacious. 
She  was  a  good  singer.  She  made  her  home  with  her  brother  Joel  Willis 


Hopkins,  at  Granville,  111.,  where  she  died,  and  is  buried  in  the  cemetery 
at  Granville. 

IV.  MELINDA  HOPKINS,  ninth  child  of  William  Hop- 
kins and  Jane  Wilson  Willis,  was  married  in  the  home  of  her 
brother  Joel  Willis  Hopkins,  March  5,  1856,  to  Abbott  Barker, 
who  was  born  January  12, 1823. 

CHILDREN: 

HANNAH  JANE,  born  Jan.  16,  1857. 
JOEL  HOPKINS,  born  Jan.  31,  1860. 

The  children  were  both  born  at  Granville,  Putnam  County,  111.  The 
family  moved  to  Mazon,  111.,  April,  1861.  Here  Melinda  Hopkins  Barker 
died,  and  was  buried  in  the  cemetery  at  Granville,  111.  Abbott  and  Melinda 
Hopkins  Barker  were  charter  members  of  the  Wauponsie  Grove  Congre- 
gational Church,  which  was  organized  May  6,  1864  (now  Park  Street 
Church,  Mazon).  Of  this  church  Abbott  Barker  has  been  both  deacon 
and  trustee  for  many  years. 

Home,  Mazon,  111.;  business,  agriculture  (carpenter  by  trade). 

V.  HANNAH  JANE  BARKER,  first  child  of  Melinda 
Hopkins  and  Abbott  Barker,  was  married  December  28,  1876, 
to  Albert  Denmon  Beckhart,  who  was  born  October  8,  184.7. 

CHILDREN  : 

MABEL  GRACE,  born  Nov.  28,  1877. 

GEORGE  NEWPORT,  born  Mar.  27,  1879. 

CHARLES  ABBOTT,  born  Dec.    3,  1880. 

EARL  ALBERT,  born  Jan.    28,  1888. 

CLARENCE  HOPKINS,  born  Sept.    8,  1889. 

FLORENE  MELINDA,  born  Sept.  30,  1897. 

Albert  Denmon  Beckhart  is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Illinois, 
Class  of  1875.  He  was  married  to  Hannah  Jane  Barker  at  Cerro  Gordo, 
111.,  where  he  was  principal  of  the  public  school.  In  the  fall  of  1877  he 
took  charge  of  the  school  at  Buffalo,  111.,  where  Mabel  Grace  was  born. 
The  next  spring  he  supplied  the  Methodist  Episcopal  pulpit  at  Mechanics- 
burg.  This  finally  resulted  in  his  leaving  school  work  and  devoting  him- 
self entirely  to  the  ministry.  He  held  charges  at  Raymond,  111.,  where 
George  Newport  was  born,  at  Auburn,  111.,  where  the  churches  had  great 
revivals,  and  at  Nilwood,  111.,  where  Charles  Abbott  was  born.  In  the 

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fall  of  1882  he  took  what  is  called  in  conference  language  a  "location," 
and  moved  to  Kansas  onto  a  farm,  in  order  to  give  his  father  a  home. 
Here  he  stayed  for  five  years,  when  his  father  died.  He  then  took  charge 
of  the  city  schools  of  Belleville,  Kan.,  where  Earl  Albert  was  born.  Still 
the  pulpit  called  him,  and  he  accepted  a  charge  at  St.  Francis,  Kan., 
where  three  new  churches  were  built,  and  many  added  to  the  membership. 
This  was  a  mission  field.  Then  followed  a  charge  at  Phillipsburg,  Kan., 
where  Clarence  Hopkins  was  born.  Another  mission  field  at  Hill  City, 
Kan.,  followed  this,  and  then  came  a  charge  at  Ellsworth,  Kan.  In  1893 
the  family  visited  the  World's  Fair  at  Chicago.  In  1894  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  work  in  Iowa,  and  stationed  first  at  Oakland,  then  at  Anita, 
where  Florence  Melinda  was  born,  then  at  Macedonia,  after  which  he  was 
recalled  to  Oakland.  At  the  close  of  his  work  here  he  retired  from  active 
work,  and  went  onto  a  farm  near  Atlantic,  la.  Since  1889  he  has  been  a 
trustee  of  the  Kansas  Wesleyan  University  at  Salina,  Kan. 
Home,  Atlantic,  la.;  business,  clergyman. 

VI.  MABEL  GRACE  BECKHART,  first  child  of  Hannah 
Jane  Barker  and  Albert  Denmon  Beckhart. 
Is  at  home  with  her  parents,  Atlantic,  la. 

VI.  GEORGE  NEWPORT  BECKHART,  second  child 
of  Hannah  Jane  Barker  and  Albert  Denmon  Beckhart,  was 
married  December  17,  7902,  to  Bess  Ashley,  who  died  April  6, 
1904. 

Home,  Atlantic,  la.;  business,  insurance  solicitor. 

VI.  CHARLES  ABBOTT  BECKHART,  third  child  of 
Hannah  Jane  Barker  and  Albert  Denmon  Beckhart,  was  married 
February  19, 1901,  to  Grace  Herbert,  who  was  born  at  Atlantic, 
Iowa,  November  15,  1883. 
CHILDREN  : 

MARGERY  ELLEN,  born  July  31,  1902. 
LILLIAN  GRACE,  born  June  21,  1903. 
WILLIAM  BRUCE,  born  June  21,  1904. 
Home,  Wiota,  la.;  business,  agriculture. 


V.  JOEL  HOPKINS  BARKER,  second  child  of  Abbott 
Barker  and  Melinda  Hopkins,  was  married  September  21,  1886, 
to  Hettie  F.  Robinson.,  who  was  born  March  15,  1862,  and  died 
October  24.,  1887.  Joel  Hopkins  Barker  was  married  a  second 
time,  December  18,  1889,  to  Maud  E.  Robinson  (sister  of  his 
first  wife). 

CHILDREN: 

BYRL  ABBOTT,          born  June  5,  1892. 

HELEN  MARGARET,  born  June  8,  1897. 

ERNEST  CLYDE,        born  Aug.  1,1900. 

RUTH  MELINDA,      born  May  8,  1903. 

V.  JOEL  HOPKINS  BARKER  attended  the  Morris  Normal 
School,  Morris,  111.,  1878-79.  He  owns  a  farm  of  rich  land  near  Mazon, 
111.  He  has  been  superintendent  of  the  Wauponsie  Grove  and  Mazon 
Congregational  Sunday  schools  for  fifteen  years. 

Home,  Mazon,  111.;  business,  agriculture,  stock  raising. 


///.  JOHN  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  Archibald  and 
Elizabeth  Poage  Hopkins,  was  born  in  Rockingham  County, 
Va.,  in  1805. 

After  his  marriage  he  went  onto  a  farm  near  the  old  Red  Oak  church, 
where  he  lived  and  died.  Each  of  his  six  sons  was  nearly  or  quite  six 
feet  tall,  and  each  of  them  was  made  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church. 
Some  one  once  said  that  "John  Hopkins  raised  thirty-six  feet  of  elder 
timber."  He  believed  in  educating  his  children,  and  each  child,  the 
daughters  as  well  as  the  sons,  was  sent  to  the  neighboring  academy.  They 
went  on  horseback  across  the  hills,  carrying  all  baggage  in  saddle-bags. 
Some  of  them  were  pretty  homesick,  but  they  improved  their  opportu- 
nities, as  they  have  shown  by  their  lives.  Thomas  left  home  early  in  the 
forties  to  attend  the  academy  in  South  Salem,  O.,  a  distance  of  fifty  miles. 
When  the  midwinter  vacation  came,  he  was  so  homesick  that  he  made 
up  his  mind  to  go  home.  The  roads  were  wretchedly  muddy,  and  he 
arrived  the  evening  of  the  second  day,  long  after  every  one  had  gone  to 
bed.  He  was  nearly  exhausted,  and  thoroughly  chilled  with  the  cold, 
but  he  was  at  home.  Six  of  the  children  attended  this  school.  There 
were  two  terms  a  year.  In  March  of  1852  the  last  one  bid  a  final  farewell 
to  Salem  Academy.  Robert  and  James  both  attended  Hanover  College, 
in  Indiana.  Robert  did  not  finish  the  course,  but  James  graduated.  He 
then  attended  Lane  Theological  Seminary,  Cincinnati,  O.,  one  year,  and 
afterwards  studied  privately  with  Samuel  Crothers,  D.D.,  of  Greenfield,  O. 

Archibald  Hopkins,  of  Red  Oak,  O.,  remembers  that  when  his  father 
was  somewhat  advanced  in  years,  he  said,  "I  used  to  say  'Come,  boys'; 
now  I  say  'Go,  boys.'  "  He  often  quoted  the  words  of  Solomon,  "The 
King  himself  is  served  by  the  field."  He  died  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty- 
five,  and  is  buried  with  his  kin  in  the  churchyard  at  Red  Oak,  O. 

III.  JOHN  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  Archibald  Hopkins  and  Eliz- 
abeth Poag,  was  married  June  7,  1815,  to  Polly  Gilliland,  who  was  born 
February  3,  1797. 

CHILDREN  : 

ROBERT,     born  May  23,  1816;  died  July    4,  1851. 
JAMES  G.,  born  Aug.  16,  1820;  died  June  29,  1851. 
Polly  Gilliland  Hopkins  died  August  14,   1822,  and  is  buried  in  the 
churchyard  at  Red  Oak,  O. 

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III.  JOHN  HOPKINS  was  married  a  second  time  October  28,  1824, 
to  Nancy  Mayes,  who  was  born  in  South  Carolina,  December  27,  1788. 
She  was  the  adopted  daughter  of  her  uncle,  Colonel  John  Means.     She  died 
August  i,  1851,  and  is  buried  in  the  churchyard  at  Red  Oak,  O. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  WILLIAMSON,  born  Sept.  26,  1825;  died  Sept.  26,  1880. 

THOMAS  MAYES,  born  Nov.  24,  1827;  died  May  17,  1901. 

JOHN  MEANS,  born  May    9,  1830.    ) 

ARCHIBALD  NEWTON,     born  May    9,  1830.    )  J 

ELIZABETH  JANE,  born  Mar.  18,  1832;  died  July     5,  1869. 

HARRIET  ANN,  born  May    9,  1834. 

IV.  ROBERT  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  John  Hopkins 
and  Polly  Gilliland,  was  married  August  23,  1842,  to  Agnes  C. 
Johnson. 

CHILDREN  : 

MARY  FRANCES,       born  Sept.  10,  1843. 

WILLIAM  JOHNSON,  born  Nov.  6,  1845. 

NANCY  MAYES,        born  July  15,  1847;  died  Nov.    14,1849. 

SARAH  JANE,  born  Mar.  23,  1849. 

ANN  KELLY,  born  May  15,  1851;  died  July  18,  1852. 

After  their  marriage,  Robert  and  Agnes  Johnson  Hopkins  went  as 
missionaries  to  the  Dakota  Indians.  Robert  had  not  completed  his  college 
course,  but  was  licensed  and  ordained  by  the  Presbytery,  of  which  Dr.  Riggs 
and  Dr.  Williamson  were  the  leading  members.  When  Robert  and  his 
wife  went  to  their  fields  there  were  no  railroads  beyond  Galena,  111.  They 
took  a  common  road-wagon  and  a  two-horse  team  and  traveled  with  them 
to  Fort  Snelling.  Passing  that  point  on  their  way  to  Laque  Parle,  where 
Dr.  Williamson  was  located,  they  met  some  hostile  Chippewa  Indians,  one 
of  whom  leveled  his  gun  on  Robert,  but  the  old  flint-lock  did  not  come  to 
time  and  no  damage  was  done.  Another  was  more  successful,  and  struck 
the  little  black  mare  Robert's  father  had  given  him,  on  the  shoulder,  inca- 
pacitating her  for  service.  The  company  now  walked  in  the  blazing  sun, 
with  the  temperature  at  a  hundred  degrees.  Mrs.  Hopkins  did  not  recover 
from  the  effects  of  this  walk  for  years.  Robert  Hopkins's  work  was  the 
founding  of  a  mission  station  on  the  Minnesota  River,  not  far  from  where 
St.  Peter  now  is.  He  and  Mr.  Alexander  Huggins  built  homes  for  them- 
selves and  began  their  self-denying  work.  The  Indians  often  went  on 
hunting  expeditions  in  mid-winter.  Robert  would  take  his  tent  and  snow- 

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shoes  and  follow  them,  living  with  them,  and  eating  the  unwholesome  food 
which  they  gave  him.  It  would  have  given  mortal  offense  had  he  returned 
any  portion  uneaten.  He  did  so  much  hard  work  that  the  relatives  fancied 
when  he  visited  them  that  he  was  bent  as  a  man  accustomed  to  bear  heavy 
burdens.  When  asked  why  he  went  on  these  trips  with  the  Indians,  he 
said,  "  If  I  did  not,  I  would  lose  so  much  time  from  my  life  work,  which  is 
to  carry  the  Gospel  to  the  Dakotas."  His  mantle  has  fallen  on  three 
grandchildren,  Harley  S.  Parker  and  Agnes  and  Clarissa  Pond,  who  have 
all  served  in  home  mission  fields.  Robert  and  Agnes  Hopkins  worked 
seven  years  with  the  Dakota  Indians,  then  returned  to  Ohio  with  four 
children,  for  a  visit.  One  of  the  children  died  November  14,  1849,  during 
this  visit,  and  is  buried  at  Red  Oak.  Robert  Hopkins  and  his  brother 
James  were  very  dear  to  each  other,  and  when  the  time  came  for  Robert 
to  return  to  his  field  of  labor,  each  felt  the  sorrow  of  the  parting  very 
keenly.  It  was  but  a  few  months  before  James  was  taken  sick,  and  after 
some  days  of  suffering  died,  June  30,  1851.  On  the  following  Friday, 
July  4,  1851,  Robert  was  drowned  in  the  Minnesota  River,  on  the  bank  of 
which  his  mission  was  stationed.  Neither  of  the  brothers  knew  that  the 
other  had  left  the  earthly  life  until  they  met  in  their  "  Father's  house." 

IV.  JAMES  HOPKINS  is  buried  in  the  old  churchyard  at  Red  Oak, 
Ohio. 

IV.  ROBERT  HOPKINS'S  body  lies  in  a  little  cemetery  near 
St.  Peter,  Minn.,  among  other  missionaries  to  the  Dakotas  and  members 
of  their  families. 

Agnes  C.  Johnson  Hopkins  was  married  a  second  time  to  Gideon  H. 
Pond.  Home,  Bloomingtcn,  Minn.  After  the  death  of  Robert  Hopkins, 
Agnes  C.  Johnson  Hopkins  went  to  South  Salem,  O.,  where  her  baby,  Ann 
Kelly,  died.  Gideon  H.  Pond  was  also  a  missionary  to  the  Indians.  His 
wife  had  died  and  left  him  six  children  to  care  for.  He  persuaded  Mrs. 
Hopkins,  with  her  three  children,  to  go  back  with  him  to  the  Dakotas  as 
his  wife. 


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V.  MARY  FRANCES  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Robert 
Hopkins  and  Agnes  C.  Johnson,  was  married  July  28,  1864.,  to 
Edward,  R.  Pond,  son  of  Gideon  H.  Pond. 

CHILDREN  : 

AGNES  POAGE,  born  May  19,  1865. 

GEORGE  JUDSON,  born  Aug.       6,  1867;  died  Jan.  16,  1900. 

FANNY  WILSON,  born  Aug.  26,  1869. 

SARAH  CLARISSA,  born  Oct.  12,  1871. 

JEANNETTE  HINE,  born  June  25,  1873. 

EDWARD  ROBERT,  born  May       6,  1876. 

ARCHIE  HOPKINS,  born  May  23,  1879;  died  June  28,  1879. 

HAROLD  HOLLISTER,  born  Dec.  3,  1881. 

Home,  Bloomington,  Minn. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  AGNES  POAGE  POND,  first  child  0}  Mary  Frances 
Hopkins  and  Edward  R.  Pond. 

Is  a  matron  in  the  Presbyterian  Mission  School  at  Good  Will,  So.  Dak. 

VI.  GEORGE  JUDSON  POND,  second  child  of  Mary 
Frances  Hopkins  and  Edward  R.  Pond,  died  at  twenty-three, 
and  is  buried  at  Bloomington,  Minn. 

VI.  FANNY  WILSON  POND,  third  child  of  Mary 
Frances  Hopkins  and  Edward  R.  Pond,  was  married  October 
f,  1808,  to  Thomas  C.  Williamson. 

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CHILDREN: 

MARGARET  OLIVE,  born  July  13,  1899. 

Home,  Greenwood,  So.  Dak.;  business,  bookkeeper. 

VI.  SARAH  CLARISSA  POND,  fourth  child  of  Mary 
Frances  Hopkins  and  Edward  R.  Pond. 

Has  been  assistant  matron  at   Good  Will,  So.  Dak.,  for  three  years. 
She  is  now  at  home  in  Bloomington,  Minn. 

VI.  JEANNETTE  HINE,  VI.  EDWARD  ROBERT, 
and  VI.  HAROLD  HOLLISTER,  the  fifth,  sixth  and  eighth 
children  of  Mary  Frances  Hopkins  and  Edward  R.  Pond. 

Are  at  home,  Bloomington,  Minn. 

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VI.  ARCHIE  HOPKINS  POND,  the  seventh  child  of 
Mary  Frances  Hopkins  and  Edward  R.  Pond,  died  a  baby,  and 
is  buried  at  Bloomington,  Minn. 

V.  WILLIAM  JOHNSON  HOPKINS,  second  child  oj 
Robert  Hopkins  and  Agnes  C.  Johnson,  was  married  September 
5,  1870,  to  Charlotte  Harrison,  who  was  born  at  Wolf  Island, 
Can.,  July,  184.9. 

CHILDREN: 

ANNIE,  born  Jan.    22,1872. 

MERLE  ROBERT,  born  May  3,  1874. 
LEIGH  HARRISON,  born  Mar.  25,  1876. 
JOSEPH  IR WIN,  born  Aug.  11,1878. 
CHARLOTTE,  born  Dec.  9,  1880. 

MARK  LUMAN,  born  Oct.  6,  1883. 
RACHEL  FRANCES,  born  July  29,  1887. 
WILLIAM  JOHNSON,  born  June  10,  1890. 
Home,  Bloomington,  Minn. 

VI.  ANNIE  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  William  Johnson 
Hopkins  and  Charlotte  Harrison,  is  a  dentist. 

Home,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

VI.  MERLE  ROBERT  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  Wil- 
liam Johnson  Hopkins  and  Charlotte  Harrison,  was  married 
May  20,  1902,  to  O.  M.  Pond. 

Home,  Elkton,  S.  D. ;  business,  dentist. 

VI.  LEIGH  HARRISON  HOPKINS,  third  child  of 
William  Johnson  Hopkins  and  Charlotte  Harrison,  is  a  loco- 
motive fireman. 

Home,  Huron,  S.  D. 

VI.  JOSEPH  IRWIN  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Wil- 
liam Johnson  Hopkins  and  Charlotte  Harrison. 

Is  a  student  at  the  University  of  Minnesota. 
Home,  Bloomington,  Minn. 

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VI.  CHARLOTTE   HOPKINS,  fifth  child   of   William 
Johnson  Hopkins  and  Charlotte  Harrison. 
Is  a  music  teacher,  residing  in  Esterline,  S.  D. 

VI.  MARK  LUMAN,  VI.  RACHEL  FRANCES,  and 
VI.  WILLIAM  JOHNSON,  the  sixth,  seventh,  and  eighth 
children  of  William  Johnson  Hopkins  and  Charlotte  Harrison. 

Are  in  their  home,  Bloomington,  Minn. 

V.  NANCY  MAYES  HOPKINS  and  ANN  KELLY 
HOPKINS,  the  third  and  fifth  children  of  Agnes  C.  Johnson 
and  Robert  Hopkins,  died  when  little  children. 

V.  SARAH  JANE  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Robert 
Hopkins  and  Agnes  C.  Johnson,  was  married  July  2,  1872, 
to  Harleigh  S.  Parker. 

CHILDREN  : 

OWEN  ROBERT,  born  June  12,1873. 

HARLEIGH  SAGE,         born  June  14,  1875. 

GUY  CLEMENT,  born  Feb.   16,  1878. 

FRANK  GILBERT,         born  Nov.    2,  1879;  died  Jan.  10,  1882. 

MABEL  MARCELLA,     born  Dec.  n,  1881. 

LUCINDA  AGNES,         born  Dec.     8,  1883. 

RALPH  SETH,  born  Feb.     7,  1886. 

JOHN  PAUL,  born  Feb.   20,  1888. 

SARAH  FRANCES,         born  Mar.  10,  1890. 

ELIZABETH  HOPKINS,  born  Aug.    4,  1894. 

Home,  Bloomington,  Minn. ;  business,  millwright. 

VI.  OWEN  ROBERT  PARKER,  first  child  of  Sarah  Jane 
Hopkins  and  Harleigh  S.  Parker,  married  in  1901,  Myrtle 
Drew  of  Newton,  Iowa. 

CHILDREN: 

ROBERT  MORRIS,  born  May  22,  1902. 

Home,  Minneapolis,  Minn.;  business,  employed  in  a  clothing  house. 

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VI.  HARLEIGH  SAGE  PARKER,  second  child  of  Sarah 
Jane  Hopkins  and  Harleigh  S.  Parker,  was  married  in  IQOO 
to  Elizabeth  Chambers. 

Home,  Flambeau,  Wis.;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  GUY  CLEMENT  PARKER,  third  child  of  Sarah 
Jane  Hopkins  and  Harleigh  S.  Parker. 

Is  a  teacher. 

Home,  Bloomington,  Minn. 

VI.  FRANK  GILBERT  PARKER,  fourth  child  of  Sarah 
Jane  Hopkins  and  Harleigh  S.  Parker,  died  a  baby. 

VI.  MABEL  MARCELLA  PARKER,  fifth  child  of  Sarah 
Jane  Hopkins  and  Harleigh  S.  Parker. 

Graduated  from  the  high  school  in  June,  1903,  and  is  now  a  teacher. 
The  rest  of  the  children  are  at  home,  attending  the  schools  at  Bloom- 
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IV.  JAMES  G.  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  John  Hopkins 
and  Polly  Gilliland,  was  married  October  22,  184.6,  to  Ann 
Kelly. 

CHILDREN  : 

MARY  KELLY,     born  Sept.  3,  1847;  died  June  12,  1851. 
AGNES  JOHNSON,  born  April  5,  1850;  died  Nov.  20,  1851. 

Mrs.  Ann  Kelley  Hopkins  was  married  a  second  time  to  James  McJ. 
Gillespie. 

IV.  JAMES  G.  HOPKINS  graduated  from  Hanover  College,  Ind.  He 
afterwards  studied  at  Lane  Seminary,  Cincinnati,  O.,  and  then  studied 
privately  with  Samuel  Crothers,  D.D.,  at  Greenfield,  O.  He  was  pastor 
for  five  years  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Washington  Court  House,  O. 
He  died  in  his  father's  house  June  29,  1851.  One  of  his  children  had  died 
only  a  few  days  before  this,  and  the  other  died  only  a  few  months  after. 
All  are  buried  in  the  old  churchyard  at  Red  Oak,  O. 

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IV.  WILLIAM  WILLIAMSON  HOPKINS,  third  child 
of  John  Hopkins  and  first  child  of  Nancy  Mayes,  was  married 
April  3,  1851,  to  Mary  Ann  Shields,  who  was  born  March  14., 
1830,  and  died  April  20,  1892. 

CHILDREN  : 

STUART  NEVIN,  born  Sept  27,  1852. 

JOHN  THOMAS,  born  May    2,  1855. 

WILLIAM  M.,  born  Feb.  16,  1858. 

CORNELIA  JANE,  born  Sept.  n,  1862;  died  Dec.  8,  1862. 

ARCHIBALD  ELMER,  born  June  12,  1864. 

LUTHER  SHIELDS,  born  Jan.   17,  1866. 

IV.  WILLIAM  WILLIAMSON  HOPKINS  lived  in  Brown  County, 
O.,  until  1870,  then  removed  to  Van  Buren,  and  later  to  Jefferson  County, 
la.     He  died  in  Jefferson  County,  in  1879,  and  is  buried  at  Fairneld,  la. 

V.  STUART  NEVIN  HOPKINS,  first  child  oj  William, 
Williamson  Hopkins  and  Mary  Ann  Shields,  was  married 
November  8, 1885,  to  Kate  Doyle,  who  was  born  December  9, 1858. 

CHILDREN: 

EARL,      born  Dec.  8,  1886. 
MURIEL,  born  June  5,  1888. 

V.  STUART  NEVIN  HOPKINS  is  a  graduate  of  the  State  Normal 
School  at  Kirkville,  Mo.  He  is  superintendent  of  public  instruction,  and 
ex  officio  auditor  of  Oklahoma. 

Home,  Guthrie,  Okla. 

V.  JOHN  THOMAS  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  William 
Williamson  Hopkins  and  Mary  Ann  Shields,  was  married  May 
15,  1884.,  to  May  Irene  Hymer,  who  was  born  May  17,  1860, 

CHILDREN: 

MARIE  ALICE,  born  Apr.  7,  1885. 
CHARLES  HAROLD,  born  Dec.  15,  1887. 
JOHN  JAY,  born  Oct.  15,  1893. 

ROBERT  JAMES,  born  July  27,  1895. 
HELEN  LOUISE,  born  July  8,  1897. 

V.  JOHN  THOMAS  HOPKINS  is  a  graduate  of  the  classical  course 
of  Parson's  College,  Fairfield,  la.,  Class  of  1881,  and  of  McCormick  Sem- 
inary, Chicago,  111.,  Class  of  1884.  He  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the 
Presbytery  of  Iowa,  April,  1884,  and  ordained  by  the  Presbytery  of  Kear- 

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ney,  October,  1886.    He  is  now  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church  at 
Indianola,  la. 

VI.  MARIE  ALICE  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  John 
Thomas  Hopkins  and  May  Irene  Hymer. 

Graduated  from  the  classical  course  at  the  high  school  of  Indianola, 
la.,  in  May,  1902,  and  entered  the  Simpson  M.  E.  College,  Indianola, 
la.,  in  September  of  the  same  year. 

The  other  children  are  attending  the  public  schools  at  Indianola,  la. 

V.  WILLIAM  M.  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  William 
Williamson  Hopkins  and  Mary  Ann  Shields. 

Left  home  at  the  age  of  twenty,  and  has  not  been  heard  from  since. 

V.  CORNELIA  JANE  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of 
William  Williamson  Hopkins  and  Mary  Ann  Shields,  died  a 
baby,  and  is  buried  at  Red  Oak  Cemetery,  Brown  County,  Ohio. 

V.  ARCHIBALD  ELMER  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of 
William  Williamson  Hopkins  and  Mary  Ann  Shields,  was 
married  June  2,  1887,  to  Luella  Belle  Simmons,  who  was  born 
October  17, 1864. 

CHILDREN  : 

EDITH  MARIE,         born  May  10,  1888. 

HARRY  EUGENE,      born  May  28,  1889. 

MARK  ARCHIBALD,  born  Feb.  28,  1891. 

EARL  EDWIN,  born  Mar.  18, 1893. 

EDNA  BERNICE,       born  July  22,  1900. 

V.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  is  a  mechanical  engineer.  He  studied 
at  Parsons  College,  Fairfield,  la.  The  older  children  attend  the  public 
schools  of  Dixon. 

Home,  Dixon,  111. 

V.  LUTHER  SHIELDS  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of 
William  Williamson  Hopkins  and  Mary  Ann  Shields,  was 
married  September  17,  1896,  to  Cora  May  Briggs. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  BRIGGS,  born  Apr.  i,  1898. 
MARION,  born  Sept.  4,  1899. 

ROBERT  SHIELDS,  born  Apr.  n,  1901. 
Home,  Dubuque,  la.;  business,  jeweler. 

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IV.  THOMAS  MA  YES  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  John 
Hopkins  and  second  child  of  Nancy  Mayes,  was  married  May 
12,  1851,  to  Cornelia  Lewis,  who  was  born  September  17,  1837, 
and  died  January  8, 1860. 

IV.  THOMAS  MAYES  HOPKINS  was  married  a  second  time, 
February  28,  1861,  to  Louise  Morgan,  who  was  born  October  14,  1833, 
in  Westfield,  Chatauqua  County,  N.  Y. 

CHILDREN  : 

JAMES  GILLILAND,  born  Dec.     2,  1861. 

CAROLINE  DIXON,  born  Nov.  26,  1863. 

EDWIN  KIRKWOOD,  born  Mar.  19,  1866. 
ADDISON  ALEXANDER,  born  Apr.  17,  1868. 

THOMAS  MAYES,  born  Mar.  24,  1871. 

LOUISE  MORGAN,  born  June    i,  1873. 

WILBUR  LEWIS,  born  Oct.     i,  1875. 

IV.  THOMAS  MAYES  HOPKINS,  son  of  John  and  Nancy  Mayes 
Hopkins,  was  born  November  24,  1827,  at  Red  Oak,  Brown  County,  O. 
He  made  a  public  confession  of  his  faith  in  Christ  in  the  Presbyterian 
church  at  Red  Oak  at  the  age  of  fifteen.  His  preparatory  studies  were 
pursued  in  the  South  Salem  Academy,  Ross  County,  O.,  and  he  grad- 
uated from  Hanover  College  in  1852.  As  was  often  the  custom  in  those 
times,  he  studied  theology  privately  for  a  year  with  Rev.  Samuel  Crothers, 
D.D.,  of  Greenfield,  O.,  the  Rev.  Hugh  Fullerton,  of  South  Salem,  O., 
and  the  Rev.  G.  P.  Vandyke,  of  Red  Oak,  O.  He  entered  the  theological 
seminary  at  Princeton  in  1853,  where  he  graduated  in  1855.  He  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  June  6,  1855, 
and  ordained  by  the  Presbytery  of  Miami,  Ohio,  May  13,  1856,  being  at 
the  same  time  installed  pastor  of  the  church  at  Pleasant  Valley,  O.,  which 
he  had  been  serving  since  his  graduation.  In  1859  he  became  pastor  at 
Bloomington,  Ind.,  where  he  remained  for  ten  years. 

He  was  pastor  at  Piqua,  O.,  1869-1876,  where,  aside  from  his  pastoral 
work,  he  was  active  in  the  temperance  movement,  which  was  at  that  time 
agitating  the  state  of  Ohio.  The  excitement  was  so  high  that  he  was  at 
one  time  "egged."  He  was  instrumental  in  starting  a  newspaper  for 
the  advancement  of  temperance  principles  and  politics.  He  was  pastor 
at  Xenia,  O.,  1876-80,  and  in  the  Third  Church,  Cincinnati,  O.,  1884-1886. 
In  1886  he  removed  to  Denver,  Colo.,  and  served  as  pastor  of  the  Capital 
Avenue  Church  until  1891,  when  he  resigned  to  accept  the  presidency 
of  Westminster  University.  He  took  a  leading  part  in  the  organization 

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of  this  university  and  the  securing  of  funds  to  build  the  structure  at  West- 
minster Heights,  north  of  Denver;  but  the  panic  of  1893  occurred  just 
when  his  plans  appeared  ready  for  fruition,  and  the  project  was  suspended. 
During  the  present  year  (1903)  efforts  have  been  made  to  revive  the  work, 
and  it  is  hoped  that  the  institution  may  open  its  doors  to  pupils  in  Sep- 
tember of  1904. 

In  1895  Dr.  Hopkins  organized  the  York  Street  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Denver,  Colo.  For  two  years  he  preached  in  a  tent  and  raised  the 
money  to  pay  for  the  lots.  Then  the  little  chapel  was  put  up,  and  the  con- 
gregation is  now  a  thriving  one.  One  of  the  officers  of  the  church  re- 
marked to  him  not  three  hours  before  the  fatal  stroke  came,  "Doctor, 
that  church  will  be  a  monument  to  you  long  after  the  rest  of  us  are  laid 
under  the  sod." 

He  was  stricken  with  apoplexy  while  engaged  in  watering  the  lawn  of 
the  church,  a  labor  of  love  on  his  part.  This  was  on  May  10,  1901,  and 
he  died  with  all  his  family  about  him  at  midnight,  May  17,  1901.  He 
was  buried  in  the  Fairmount  Cemetery,  Denver,  Colo. 

He  received  the  honorary  degree  of  D.  D.  from  Hanover  College  in 
1885.  He  was  commissioner  to  the  General  Assembly  at  Philadelphia  in 
1 86 1,  when  the  Southern  church  seceded,  also  at  Cleveland  in  1875,  and 
at  Philadelphia  in  1888,  which  was  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  the 
organization  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
America.  He  was  an  earnest  and  forceful  preacher  and  fruitful  pastor, 
and  was  greatly  beloved  by  those  among  whom  he  labored.  He  took 
special  interest  in  practical  works  of  reform,  even  to  the  extent  of  accepting 
political  duties,  which  are  sometimes  denied  to  ministers. 

V.  JAMES  GILLILAND  HOPKINS,  first  child  of 
Thomas  Mayes  Hopkins  and  Louise  Morgan,  is  a  graduate  of 
Gross  Medical  College,  Denver,  Colo.  He  is  not  married. 

Home,  Pueblo,  Colo. ;  business  physician. 

V.  CAROLINE  DIXON  HOPKINS,  second  child  of 
Thomas  Mayes  Hopkins  and  Louise  Morgan. 

Graduated  from  Cooper  Academy,  Dayton,  O.,  class  of  1885.  She 
is  a  teacher  in  West  Denver  High  School. 


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V.  EDWIN  KIRKWOOD  HOPKINS,  third  child  of 
Thomas  Mayes  Hopkins  and  Louise  Morgan,  was  married 
March  25,  1896,  to  Alba  Leeper,  who  was  born  November  19, 
1871. 

CHILDREN: 

HAROLD  DUNBAR,  born  Dec.  25,  1896. 
ALBA  KIRKWOOD,  born  Mar.  26,  1898. 
CARL  MORGAN,  born  Sept.  22,  1901. 

Home,  Idaho  Springs,  Colo.;  business,  mining  interests. 

V.  ADDISON  ALEXANDER  HOPKINS,  fourth  child 
of  Thomas  Mayes  Hopkins  and  Louise  Morgan,  was  married 
November  29,  1900,  to  Nellie  B.  Parker. 

CHILDREN  : 

HELEN  ELIZABETH,  born  Jan.  22,  1902. 
Home,  Pueblo,  Colo.;  business,  law. 

V.  ADDISON  ALEXANDER  HOPKINS  graduated  from  Lake 
Forest  College,  Lake  Forest,  111.,  Class  of  1893. 

V.  THOMAS  MA  YES  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  Thomas 
Mayes  Hopkins  and  Louise  Morgan. 

Graduated  from  the  Denver  High  School  class  of  1892.  He  studied 
at  Lake  Forest  University  and  at  Denver  University,  graduating  from 
the  medical  department  of  Denver  University,  Class  of  1901. 

Home,  Denver,  Colo. 

V.  LOUISE  MORGAN  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of  Thomas 
Mayes  Hopkins  and  Louise  Morgan. 

Is  a  graduate  of  the  preparatory  department  of  Denver  University. 
She  studied  at  Lake  Forest,  111.,  from  1892  to  1893.  She  is  a  teacher  in 
the  ward  schools  of  Denver,  Colo. 

V.  WILBUR  LEWIS  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  of  Thomas 
Mayes  Hopkins  and  Louise  Morgan. 

Is  in  Denver,  Colo. 

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IV.  JOHN  MEANS  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  John 
Hopkins  and  third  child  of  Nancy  Mayes,  was  married  Decem- 
ber 18, 1856,  to  Lizzie  Kinkaid,  who  was  born  May  15, 1831. 

CHILDREN  : 

WILLIAM  ARCHIBALD,  born  June  12,  1865;  died  Oct.  14,  1899. 
ELIZABETH  MARY,       born  Apr.  13,  1868. 
Lizzie  Kinkaid  Hopkins  died  April  21,  1868. 

IV.  JOHN  MEANS  HOPKINS  was  married  a  second  time,  October 
13,  1870,  to  Almira  McKibben,  who  was  born  April  2,  1836. 

CHILDREN: 

WALTER  SCOTT,  born  Apr.  10,  1874. 
Home,  Matoon,  111.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  WILLIAM  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  first  child  of 
John  Means  Hopkins  and  Lizzie  Kinkaid,  was  married  Decem- 
ber 28,  1887,  to  Harriet  Newell  Martin,  who  was  born  August 
26, 1867. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  HENRY,  born  June  29,  1889. 
CHARLES  EARLE,  born  Sept.  27,  1892. 

Home,  Mattoon,  111.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  ELIZABETH  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  John  Means 
Hopkins  and  Lirzie  Kinkaid. 

Lives  at  her  father's  home,  Mattoon,  111.,  "a  comfort  to  all." 

V.  WALTER  SCOTT  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  John 
Means  Hopkins  and  first  child  of  Almira  McKibben,  was  married 
January  i,  1900,  to  Nellie  Decker  Millar,  who  was  born  Febru- 
ary 27, 1877. 

CHILDREN  : 

HELEN  MILLAR,  born  Oct.  20,  1900. 
PAULINE  MCKIBBEN,  born  Dec.  17,  1904. 
Home,  Mt.  Carmel,  111.;  business,  agriculture. 

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V.  ARCHIBALD  NEWTON  HOPKINS,  sixth  child 
oj  John  Hopkins  and  Polly  Gilliland,  was  married  November 
26,  1874.,  to  Harriet  Martin,  who  was  born  May,  1832. 

Home,  Red  Oak,  O. ;  business,  agriculture. 


V.  ELIZABETH  JANE  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  of 
John  Hopkins  and  fifth  child  of  Nancy  Mayes,  was  married 
November  2,  1854,  to  William  A.  Gilliland,  who  was  born  April 
20, 1829. 

CHILDREN  : 

FRANK,  born  Sept.    4,  1855. 

HARRIET. 

ANNA  MARY. 

LIZZIE,  born  Jan.   20,  1861;  died  a  baby. 

ELIZABETH  NORA. 

JAMES  HOPKINS,     born  July     4,  1863. 

JEANETTE. 

ALTHEA. 

William  A.  Gilliland  was  married  a  second  time,  August  4,  1870,  to 
V.  Harriet  Ann  Hopkins,  eighth  child  of  John  Hopkins,  and  sixth  child 
of  Nancy  Mayes,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife. 

Home,  on  one  of  the  beautiful  hills  of  Red  Oak,  O.,  not  far  from  the 
old  church.  The  daughters  Harriet  and  Althea  with  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Gilliland,  make  the  spacious  old  home  a  restful  spot  to  the  wanderers  who 
come  their  way.  Books  and  papers  testify  to  their  love  for  literature, 
and  their  contact  with  the  world  by  travel  make  them  interesting  com- 
panions. 

The  daughters  of  Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  W.  A.  Gilliland  had  each  a 
year's  schooling  at  "  The  Western,"  at  Oxford,  Ohio.  Later  Lizzie  studied 
at  Lebanon,  O.,  and  Jeanette  and  Althea  at  Hanover  College,  Ind.  James 
also  studied  at  Lebanon,  O.,  and  was  for  a  while  in  business  in  Minneapolis, 
Minn.  After  a  severe  illness  there  he  returned  to  Ohio,  and  for  four  years 
conducted  a  shoe  store  in  Ripley.  In  1898  he  went  to  Chicago. 

As  a  family  the  Gillilands  are  simple  in  their  tastes,  fond  of  books  and 
music.  The  married  members  are  devoted  to  the  care  of  their  households 
and  families. 


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OLD  BEECH  TREE  NEAR  RED  OAK  CHURCH,  21   FT.  6  IN.  IN  CIRCUMFERENCE. 
FOOT-BRIDGE  NEAR  OLD  RED  OAK  (OHIO)  CHURCH. 

RED  OAK  CHURCH,  FROM  WILLIAM  GILLILAND'S. 


VI.  FRANK  GILLILAND,  first  child  of  Elizabeth  Jane 
Hopkins  and  William  A.  Gilliland,  was  married  February  13, 
1879,  to  Mary  Kirkpatrick,  who  was  born  April  17,  1856. 

CHILDREN  : 

JAMES  ARCHIBALD,  born  Dec.  26,  1882. 

CHARLES  ALBERT,  born  Jan.  31,1884. 

WILBUR  LEO,          born  Sept.    7,  1886. 

EARNEST,  born  July     5,  1890. 

LAURA  CHRISTINE,  born  Oct.   iq,  1896. 

Home,  Red  Oak,  O.;  business,  agriculture. 

Frank  Gilliland  is  an  elder  in  the  old  Red  Oak  church. 

VI.  HARRIET  GILLILAND,  second  child  of  Elizabeth 
Jane  Hopkins  and  William  A .  Gilliland. 

Studied  at  "The  Western,"  Oxford,  O.  She  has  traveled,  and  is  a 
student  of  nature,  people,  and  books.  She  is  in  the  old  home  at  Red 
Oak,  O. 

VI.  ANNA  MARY  GILLILAND,  third  child  of  Elizabeth 
Jane  Hopkins  and  William  A.  Gilliland,  was  married  April 
18,  1882,  to  Steward  Kincaid,  who  was  born  October  28,  1858. 

CHILDREN  : 

IRENE,  born  Nov.  30,  1887. 

WILLIAM  WALTER,  born  Oct.  27,  1889. 

Home,  Russelville,  O. 

Stewart  Kincaid  is  an  elder  in  the  Russelville  church. 

VI.  LIZZIE  GILLILAND,  jourth  child  of  Elizabeth  Jane 
Hopkins  and  William  A .  Gilliland,  died  a  baby,  and  is  buried 
at  Red  Oak,  Ohio. 

VI.  ELIZABETH  NORA  GILLILAND,  fifth  child  of 
Elizabeth  Jane  Hopkins  and  William  A .  Gilliland,  was  married 
July  25,  1886,  to  Dr.  S.  L.  McKreight. 

CHILDREN  : 

ALTHEA,  born  Jan.  24,  1892;  died  Apr.  5,  1897. 
MARION,  born  Feb.  20,  1896. 

Home,  311  Wesley  Avenue,  Oak  Park,  111.;  business,  physician. 
Dr.  S.  L.  McKreight  is  an  elder  at  Oak  Park,  111. 

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VI.  JAMES  HOPKINS  GILLILAND,  sixth  child  oj 
Elizabeth  Jane  Hopkins  and  William  A .  Gilliland,  is  unmarried. 
And  is  in  Chicago,  111.,  with  Swift  &  Stroker,  real  estate  agents. 

VI.  JEANETTE  GILLILAND,  seventh  child  oj  Elizabeth 
Jane  Hopkins  and  William  A.  Gilliland,  was  married  October 
3, 1889,  to  Chambers  Baird. 

CHILDREN  : 

HAROLD  CHAMBERS,    born  Dec.  25,  1890. 
FLORENCE  JEANETTE,  born  Mar.    5,  1896. 

Home,  Ripley,  O.;  business,  law. 

VI.  ALTHEA  GILLILAND,  eighth  child  of  Elizabeth 
Jane  Hopkins  and  William  A .  Gilliland. 

Studied  at  "The  Western,"  Oxford,  O.  She  greatly  enjoys  everything 
progressive  and  literary,  and  is  an  important  factor  in  the  good  times  in 
her  father's  house  at  Red  Oak,  O. 

V.  HARRIET  ANN  HOPKINS,  eighth  child  of  John 
Hopkins  and  sixth  child  of  Nancy  Mayes,  was  married  August 
5,  1870,  to  William  A.  Gilliland. 

She  was  a  sister  of  Elizabeth  Ann  Hopkins,  Mr.  Gilliland's  first  wife. 
Mr.  Gilliland  studied  medicine,  but  never  practiced. 
Home,  Red  Oak,  O. 


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///.  JANE  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  Archibald  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Poag,  was  married  in  1806  to  John  Hopkins 
Pogue  (cousin  0}  John  Crawford  Pogue}.  He  was  born  March 
15,  1783,  in  Bath  County,  Va.,  and  died  in  1876. 

CHILDREN  : 

SILAS,  born  Nov.  n,  1808;  died  Feb.      i,  1893. 

ELIZABETH,  born  Nov.  21,  1809. 

MARY  ISABELLA,  born  Jan.     5,  1811;  died  Dec.     1,1891. 

ROBERT  ELNATHAN,  born  June  14,  1812. 

ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  born  Dec.  17,  1813;  died  Nov.  14,  1900. 

SARAH  AMANDA,  born  Nov.    3,  1815;  died  Nov.  13,  1867. 

HANNAH  SOPHIA,  born  Apr.     9,1817. 

WILLIAM  ALFRED,  born  Mar.    8,  1819. 

CYNTHIA  ANN,  born  Dec.  29,  1820. 

SAMUEL,  born  Apr.  19,  1822;  died  in  infancy. 

HARRIET  JANE,  born  Oct.   12,  1823;  died  Sept.  18,  1895. 

MARGARET,  born  June    i,  1825;  died  Apr.  26,1894. 

SAMUEL  McYouEL,  born  June    2,  1827. 

After  the  marriage  of  John  Hopkins  Pogue  and  Jane  Hopkins  they 
must  have  lived  for  a  time  in  Kentucky,  as  Silas  was  born  in  Kentucky, 
in  1808. 

Mrs.  Hannah  Sophia  Pogue  Youel  writes,  "  My  Grandmother  Hopkins's 
given  name  was  Elizabeth,  Grandmother  Pogue's  name  was  Mary,  and  her 
husband  was  designated  as  Colonel  Robert  Pogue,  Greenup  County,  Ky. 
The  wife  of  General  Robert  Pogue,  of  Mason  County,  was  Jane,  and 
Hannah  Shanklin  was  her  sister.  They  all  had  the  name  of  being  grand 
women.  I  knew  my  Grandmother  Mary  Hopkins  Pogue  and  Aunt  Jane 
Pogue.  They  were  both  good  and  smart,  and  Aunt  Hannah  Shanklin 
was  extolled  by  the  whole  kin.  I  have  heard  Aunt  Mary  Pogue  and  mother 
talk  about  Aunt  Ruth  Hopkins  and  Uncle  and  Aunt  Hinton,  but  where 
they  come  in  I  do  not  know."  Mrs.  Youel  says  John  Hopkins  Pogue 
was  born  in  Bath  County,  Va.  He  was  a  brother  of  George  Pogue,  of 
Ripley,  O.  He  died  in  Montgomery  County,  Ind. 

Home,  Crawfordsville,  Ind.;  business,  agriculture. 


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IV.  SILAS  POGUE,  first  child  of  Jane  Hopkins  and  John 
Hopkins  Pogue,  was  married  November  8,  1833,  t°  Elizabeth 
Crawford,  who  was  born  August  n,  1810,  and  died  September 
n,  1890. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  CRAWFORD,  born  Dec.  10,  1834. 

JOHN  HOPKINS,  born  Aug.    1,1836. 

MARGARET  J.,  born  Jan.     2,  1840;  died  Aug.    2,  1857. 

REBECCA  ANN,  born  Jan.  12,  1848;  died  Dec.  13,  1900. 

Home,  Mace,  Montgomery  County,  Ind. 

V.  WILLIAM  CRAWFORD  POGUE,  first  child  of  Silas 
Pogue  and  Elizabeth  Crawford,  was  married  June  14.,  1865, 
to  Mary  A.  Crawford,  who  was  born  March  27,  184.5,  a^  Knox- 
ville,  III. 

CHILDREN  : 

JOHN  CRAWFORD,  born  Mar.  28,  1866;  died  Feb.,  1868. 

EDNA  POGUE,        born  Sept.  29,  1868. 

Mary  A.  Crawford  Pogue  died  August,  1896. 

Home,  Northville,  Tenn. ;  business,  gardener  and  beekeeper. 

V.  JOHN  HOPKINS  POGUE,  second  child  of  Silas 
Pogue  and  Elizabeth  Crawford,  was  married  June  6,  1865,  to 
Mary  Peter  sort,  who  was  born  June  6,  184.1. 

CHILDREN  : 

EDMUND  O.,  born  May  13,  1866. 
CHARLES  M.,  born  May  27,  1868. 
LOUISA,  born  Apr.  6,  1875. 

Home,  Mace,  Ind. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  JOHN  HOPKINS  POGUE  served  in  the  Civil  War,  Company  B, 
roth  Reg.  Indiana  Volunteers. 

VI.  EDMUND  O.  POGUE,  first  child,  and  CHARLES 
M.  POGUE,  second  child  of  John  Hopkins  Pogue  and  Mary 
Peterson,  are  with  their  father. 

Home,  Mace,  Ind.;  business,  agriculture. 

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VI.  LOUISA  POGUE,  third  child  of  John  Hopkins  Pogue 
and  Mary  Peterson,  was  married  April  j,  1895,  to  Alvin  I. 
Stout. 

CHILDREN  : 

KENNETH  POGUE,  born  Dec.    8,  1900. 
WALLACE  I.,  born  Sept.  23,  1902. 

Home,  Crawfordsville,  Ind. 

V.  MARGARET  J.  POGUE,  third  child  of  Silas  Pogue 
and  Elizabeth  Crawford,  died  when  seventeen  years  of  age. 

V.  REBECCA  ANN  POGUE,  fourth  child  of  Silas  Pogue 
and  Elizabeth  Crawford,  was  married  to  John  Wilson  Hogsett, 
who  was  born  November  8,  1835. 
CHILDREN  : 

ADA  MAY,  born  Oct.  28,  1869. 

CASPER  WILSON,  born  Nov.  20,  1870. 

DAISY  EDITH,      born  Feb.  15,1872. 

SHERMAN,  born  May    9,  1873. 

Home,  Brownell,  Kan.;  business,  physician. 

V.  REBECCA  ANN  POGUE  died  December  13,  1899,  and  is  buried 
in  the  Brownell  cemetery. 

VI.  ADA  MAY  HOGSETT,  first  child  of  Rebecca  Ann 
Pogue  and  John  Wilson  Hogsett,  married  -         -  McCandless. 

Home,  Sterling,  Kan. 

VI.  CASPER    WILSON    HOGSETT,    second   child   of 
Rebecca  Ann  Pogue  and  John  Wilson  Hogsett,  is  married. 
And  lives  at  Brownell,  Kan. 

VI.  DAISY  EDITH  HOGSETT,  third  child  of  Rebecca 
Ann  Pogue  and  John   Wilson  Hogsett,  married 
Dillon. 

Home,  Sterling,  Kan. 

VI.  SHERMAN  HOGSETT,  fourth  child  of  Rebecca  Ann 
Pogue  and  John  Wilson  Hogsett,  is  unmarried. 

Home,  Brownell,  Kan. 

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IV.  ELIZABETH  POGUE,  second  child  of  Jane  Hopkins 
and  John  Hopkins  Pogue,  married Boyd. 

CHILDREN  : 

ELIZABETH,  who  married  Alexander  Garvin. 
Lives  at  St.  Charles,  Mo. 

IV.  MARY  ISABELLA  POGUE,  third  child  of  Jane 
Hopkins  and  John  Hopkins  Pogue,  was  married  November 
25,  1830,  to  James  Cuthbert  Scott,  who  was  born  in  Virginia, 
November  25, 1806. 

CHILDREN: 

CUTHBERT  ALEXANDER,  born  Oct.   19,  1831. 

JOHN  THOMAS,  born  Apr.   16,  1833. 

JAMES  SAMUEL,  born  May  28,  1834. 

FRANCES  JANE,  born  Jan.  26,  1836. 

ELIZABETH  ANN,  born  Oct.     7,  1837;  died  Sept.  29,  1838. 

SARAH  AMANDA,  born  Aug.  10,  1839;  died  Aug.  16,  1866. 

ROBERT  WILLIAM,  born  Mar.    4,  1840. 

CHARLES  WAUGH,  born  Sept.  29,  1842;  died  Nov.    6,  1850. 

HARRIET  SOPHIA,  born  Mar.  29,  1845. 

HENRY  HOPKINS,  born  May    7,  1847. 

James  Cuthbert  Scott  was  a  physician  of  no  small  ability.  After  his 
marriage  he  moved  to  Indiana.  He  died  at  New  Orleans  of  cholera, 
May  25,  1849.  It  ig  rather  a  notable  fact  that  he  was  born,  married,  and 
died  on  the  25th  of  the  month. 

IV.  MARY  ISABELLA  POGUE  SCOTT  was  born  in  Kentucky; 
she  died  and  was  buried  at  Laporte,  Ind. 

V.  CUTHBERT  ALEXANDER  SCOTT,  first  child  of 
Mary  Isabella  Pogue  and  James  Cuthbert  Scott,  was  married 
at  Rob  Roy,  Ind.,  October  9,  1852,  to  Martha  Robb,  who  was 
born  December  8, 1834. 

CHILDREN: 

EVA,  born  Dec.  8,  1853. 

Home,  1019  Sixth  Avenue,  Council  Bluffs,  la. 

V.  CUTHBERT  ALEXANDER  SCOTT  enlisted  in  the  First 
Nebraska,  Company  F,  as  first  lieutenant,  and  was  afterwards  promoted 
to  captain.  He  resigned  in  June,  1861,  and  afterwards  raised  Company  B, 

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35th  Missouri,  at  St.  Joseph,  Mo.  He  was  one  of  the  staff  officers  of 
General  Totten,  and  near  the  close  of  the  war  was  honorably  discharged, 
after  which  he  went  into  the  hardware  business  at  Golden,  Colo.,  where  he 
died,  July  5,  1881,  and  is  buried. 

VI.  EVA  SCOTT,  child  of  Cuthbert  Alexander  Scott  and 
Martha  Robb,  was  married,  June  24.,  1884.,  to  Frederick  Wil- 
liam Lyon,  who  was  born  January  19,  1853- 

VI.  EVA  SCOTT  LYON  is  a  director  of  one  of  the  public  school 
kindergartens. 

Home,  1019  Sixth  Avenue,  Council  Bluffs,  la.;  business,  freight  clerk, 
Union  Pacific  Transfer  Station. 

V.  JOHN  THOMAS  SCOTT,  second  child  of  Mary 
Isabella  Pogue  and  James  Cuthbert  Scott,  was  married  about 
1850,  to  Amanda  Craig  of  Warrensburg,  Mo. 

CHILDREN: 
CRAIG. 

KATIE,  died  in  infancy. 

V.  JOHN  THOMAS   SCOTT  was  born  in  Indiana,  and  died  near 
Clarinda,  la.,  May  8,  1863. 

VI.  CRAIG  SCOTT,  first  child  of  John  Thomas  Scott  and 
Amanda  Craig,  unre ported. 

VI.  KATIE  SCOTT,  second  child  of  John  Thomas  Scott 
and  Amanda  Craig,  died  in  infancy. 

V.  JAMES  SAMUEL  SCOTT,  third  child  of  Mary  Isa- 
bella Pogue  and  James  Cuthbert  Scott,  was  married  to  Nancy 
Nixon. 

CHILDREN  : 

ALBERT  HENRY,    born  1856. 

ROBERT  MILTON,  born  1857. 

FLORENCE,  born  Sept.  5,  1859;  died  Apr.,  1902. 

EDA. 

FRANK. 

Home,  West  Jordan,  Utah. 


V.  JAMES  S.  SCOTT  was  instrumental  in  pushing  the  Union  Pacific 
R.  R.  on  the  plains,  and  many  of  the  incidents  and  dangers  he  encoun- 
tered should  be  matter  for  history. 

VI.  ALBERT  HENRY   SCOTT,  first  child   of   James 
Samuel  Scott  and  Nancy  Nixon,  was  born  at  Clarinda,  Iowa. 

Home,  3246  Curtice  Street,  Denver,  Colo.;  business,  railroad  engineer. 

VI.  ROBERT  MILTON  SCOTT,  second  child  of  James 
Samuel  Scott  and  Nancy  Nixon. 

Was  an  engineer,  and  was  fatally  injured  when  about  twenty-one. 

VI.  FLORENCE  SCOTT,  third  child  of  James  Samuel 
Scott  and  Nancy  Nixon,  was  married  to  Martin  York. 

CHILDREN: 
ALICE. 
Home,  Denver,  Colo.;  business,  baggage  master. 

VI.  FLORENCE  SCOTT  YORK  died  at  Springfield,  Utah,  April, 
1902. 

VII.  ALICE  YORK,  child  of  Florence  Scott  and  Martin 
York. 

Lives  with  her  aunt  at  Clinton,  O. 

VI.  EDA  SCOTT,  fourth  child  of  James  Samuel  Scott  and 
Nancy  Nixon,  was  married  to  C.  I.  Benford. 

Home,   511   Seventh   Avenue,   Clinton,   la.;  business,   secretary  Fish 
Wagon  Co. 

VI.  FRANK  SCOTT,  -fifth  child  of  James  Samuel  Scott 
and  Nancy  Nixon,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Duluth,  Minn. 


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V.  FRANCES   JANE   SCOTT,  fourth    child   of   Mary 
Isabella   Pogue  and  James  Cuthbert  Scott,    was  married    to 
Captain  G.  W.  Tool. 

CHILDREN  : 

FLORA  SCOTT,  born  Dec.  10,  1866. 
GEORGE  SCOTT,  born  Jan.  9,  1869. 
MARY  McKiNNEY,  born  Mar.  17,  1871. 
HATTIE  SCOTT,  born  Apr.  7,  1874. 
Home,  Napa,  Napa  Valley,  Cal. 

V.  FRANCES  JANE  SCOTT  began  teaching  when  fourteen  years 
old.     She  taught  and  went  to  school  until  she  had  attained  several  degrees 
at  Cornell  College,  Mt.  Vernon,  la. 

VI.  FLORA  SCOTT  TOOL,  first  child  of  Frances  Jane 
Scott  and  G.  W.  Tool,  was  married  to  Willey  Dudley. 

CHILDREN: 

WARREN,  born  1891. 
HAROLD,  born  1895. 

Willey  Dudley  is  a  Methodist  minister  located  at  Shenandoah,  la.     He 
is  a  lecturer  at  Chautauqua  Associations. 

VI.  FLORA  SCOTT  TOOL  DUDLEY  is  an  enthusiastic  worker 
in  missionary  lines.     It  is  said  that  nature  reasserted  herself  and  gave  to 
this  woman  the  beautiful  Hopkins's  red  hair — abundant,  long,  glossy,  and 
smooth,  just  like  her  great-grandmother's  (Jane  Hopkins),  and  not  another 
red  head  in  two  generations  in  this  branch  of  the  family. 

VI.  GEORGE  SCOTT   TOOL,  second  child  of  Frances 
Jane  Scott  and  G.  W.  Tool,  is  unmarried. 

VI.  MARY  McKiNNEY  TOOL,  third  child  of  Frances 
Jane  Scott  and  G.  W.  Tool,  married  Albert  Keplinger. 
Home,  South  Auburn;  business,  harness. 

VI.  HATTIE  SCOTT  TOOL,  fourth  child  of  Frances 
Jane  Scott  and  G.  W.  Tool,  married  to  Charles  Hood. 

Home,  212  N.  8th  Street,  Council  Bluffs,  la. 

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V.  ELIZABETH  ANN  SCOTT,  fifth  child  0}  Mary 
Isabella  Pogue  and  James  Cuthbert  Scott,  died  a  year  old. 

V.  SARAH  AMANDA  SCOTT,  sixth  child  of  Mary 
Isabella  Pogue  and  James  Cuthbert  Scott,  was  married  Novem- 
ber, 1863,  to  John  Fullinwider. 

CHILDREN  : 

HARRY  CLAYTON,  born  June  12,  1865. 
Home,  Cedar  Rapids,  la. 

VII.  HARRY  CLAYTON  FULLINWIDER,  child  of 
Sarah  Amanda  Scott  and  John  Fullinwider,  married  Ruby  Chew. 

V.  ROBERT  WILLIAM  SCOTT,  seventh  child  of  Mary 
Isabella  Pogue  and  James  Cuthbert  Scott,  is  unmarried. 

He  is  a  mine  prospector. 

Home,  512  E.  Case  Avenue,  Cripple  Creek,  Colo. 

V.  CHARLES  WAUGH  SCOTT,  eighth  child  of  Mary 
Isabella  Pogue  and  James  Cuthbert  Scott,  died  when  eight  years 
old. 

V.  HARRIET  SOPHIA  SCOTT,  ninth  child  of  Mary 
Isabella  Pogue  and  James  Cuthbert  Scott,  was  married  Novem- 
ber 14,  1865,  to  William  A.  Thompson. 

CHILDREN: 

WENDELL  T.,  born  Apr.  23,  1867. 

SAMUEL  GRIFFIN,     born  Oct.     8,  1869. 

MARY  LUCILE,          born  Apr.     7,1871. 

WILL  SCOTT,  born  Feb.     3,  1874. 

FULTON  CUTHBERT,  born  Nov.  17,  1876. 

BRUCE  PIGOT,  born  Sept.  13,  1880;  died  July  2,  1899. 

William  A.  Thompson  enlisted  in  Company  D,  Eighth  Iowa  Infantry 
Volunteers;  was  a  non-commissioned  officer  and  a  prisoner,  spent  the  last 
year  of  service  in  an  Invalid  Corps.  He  went  to  Dakota  on  a  farm  in  1881. 
His  health  is  fairly  good  for  one  of  his  age. 


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VI.  WENDELL  T.  THOMPSON,  first  child  of  Harriet 
Sophia  Scott  and  William  A.  Thompson,  was  married  April  2, 
1897,  to  Adele  A.  Youel. 

CHILDREN: 

MARION  ELSIE,  born  Dec.  6,  1898. 

VI.  SAMUEL  GRIFFIN  THOMPSON,  second  child  of 
Harriet  Sophia  Scott  and  William  A .  Thompson,  was  married 
September  27,  1899,  to  Sarah  Murvaine. 

CHILDREN  : 

SCOTT  GERALD,  born  Mar.  9,  1901. 
WILLIAM  EDWARD,  born  Sept.  13,  1902. 
MARGARET  IRENE,  born  Sept.  10,  1903. 

VI.  MARY  LUCILE,  third  child  of  Harriet  Sophia  Scott 
and  William  A.  Thompson,  unreported. 

VI.  WILL  SCOTT  THOMPSON,  fourth  child  of  Harriet 
Sophia  Scott  and  William  A.  Thompson,  unreported. 

VI.  FULTON  CUTHBERT  THOMPSON,  fifth  child 
of  Harriet  Sophia  Scott  and  William  A.  Thompson,  unreported. 

VI.  BRUCE  PIGOT  THOMPSON,  sixth  child  of  Harriet 
Sophia  Scott  and  William  A.  Thompson,  died  when  nineteen 
years  of  age. 

V.  HENRY  HOPKINS  SCOTT,  tenth  child  of  Mary 
Isabella  Pogue  and  James  Cuthbert  Scott,  was  married  February 
14.,  1883,  to  Lizzie  Fritz. 

CHILDREN  : 

EVA  BELL,  born  Nov.,  1883. 
Home,  La  Porte,  la. 

VI.  EVA  BELL  SCOTT,  first  child  of  Henry  Hopkins 
Scott  and  Lizzie  Fritz. 

Graduated  from  the  high  school  at  La  Porte,  la.,  June,  1904. 

IV.  ROBERT  ELNATHAN  POGUE,  fourth  child  of 
Jane  Hopkins  and  John  Hopkins  Pogue,  died  unmarried. 

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IV.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  POGUE,  fifth  child  of 
Jane  Hopkins  and  John  Hopkins  Pogue,  was  married  Septem- 
ber 15,  1836,  to  Ann  Robbins. 

CHILDREN  : 

ELIZABETH  SOPHIA,  born  Oct.  28, 1837. 

SARAH  ANN,  born  Feb.     2,  1839;  died  1873. 

Ann  Robbins  Pogue  died  March  25,  1839. 

IV.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  POGUE  married  for  his  second  wife 
Eliza  Ann  Young. 
CHILDREN: 

JAMES  ROBERT,  born  1841. 
HARRIET,  born  1844. 

JOHN  C.,  born  1847. 

CHARLES  A.,      born  1858. 
Home,  Burbank,  Cal. 

IV.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  POGUE  died  November  14,   1900, 
and  Eliza  Ann  Young,  April  18,  1898.     Both  are  buried  at  Burbank,  Cal. 

V.  ELIZABETH  SOPHIA  POGUE,  first  child  of  Archi- 
bald Hopkins  Pogue  and  Ann  Robbins,  was  married  December 
20,  /#55,  to  Elijah  C.  Mount. 

CHILDREN: 

MARCUS  AURELIUS,    born  Nov.  14,  1856;  died  Mar.  10,  1880. 
WILLIAM  BRAINARD,  born  May  28, 1858. 
JAMES  EDGAR,  born  Dec.    4,  1862. 

FINLEY  POGUE,  born  Nov.  26,  1866. 

Home,  New  Ross,  Ind. 

VI.  MARCUS  AURELIUS  MOUNT,  first  child  of  Eliza- 
beth Sophia  Pogue  and  Elijah  C.  Mount,  died  unmarried,  at 
twenty-four  years  of  age. 

VL  WILLIAM  BRAINARD  MOUNT,  second  child  of 
Elizabeth  Sophia  Pogue  and  Elijah  C.  Mount.  Not  Reported. 

VI.  JAMES  EDGAR  MOUNT,  third  child  of  Elizabeth 
Sophia  Pogue  and  Elijah  C.  Mount.  Not  Reported. 

Home,  Dubuque,  la. ;  business,  General  Agent  International  Hornston 
Company  of  America. 

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VI.  FINLEY  POGUE  MOUNT,  fourth  child  of  Elizabeth 
Sophia  Pogue  and  Elijah  C.  Mount,  was  married  June  9,  1896, 
to  Henrietta  Allen. 

Home,  Crawfordsville,  Ind. ;  business,  law. 

V.  SARAH  ANN  POGUE,  second  child  of  Archibald 
Hopkins  Pogue  and  Ann  Robbins,  was  married  April  20,  1856, 
to  John  H.  Shaver. 

CHILDREN: 

MARY  JANE,  born  1856;  died  1861. 

CHARLES. 

ALMA. 

RICHARD  ALFONSO,  born  1868. 

John  H.  Shaver  died  in  1869. 

V.  SARAH  ANN  POGUE  SHAVER  married  second  Merret  Hendrick. 
CHILDREN: 
IDA. 
JOHN. 

V.  JAMES  ROBERT  POGUE,  third  child  of  Archibald 
Hopkins  Pogue  and  first  child  of  Eliza  Ann  Young,  was  married 
October  25,  1866,  to  Mary  Keith,  who  was  born  May,  1845. 

CHILDREN  : 

ALLEN,  born  Aug.  20,  1867;  died  Feb.  20,  1870. 

WILLIAM,        born  Dec.  10,  1868;  died  Mar.    2,  1870. 
ELLA,  born  Mar.  13, 1871;  died  Sept.  29,  1887. 

INFANT  SON,  born  Aug.  19,  1873;  died  Sept.  30,  1873. 
Mary  Keith  Pogue  died  September  14,  1874. 

V.  JAMES  ROBERT  POGUE  married  second  October  7,  1875, 
Lizzie  Crawford,  who  was  born  March  28,  1850. 

CHILDREN  : 

EDITH,  born  Aug.  7,  1876. 
HATTIE,  born  Sept.  19,  1878. 
Home,  Burbank,  Cal. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  JAMES  ROBERT  POGUE  enlisted  in  the  United  States  Army 
August  20,  1862,  and  was  discharged  July  20,  1865. 

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The  first,  second  and  fourth  children  of  James  Robert  Pogue 
and  Mary  Keith  died  in  infancy.  Ella  Pogue,  third  child  of 
James  Robert  Pogue  and  Mary  Keith,  died  at  sixteen  years  of  age. 

VI.  EDITH  POGUE,  fifth  child  of  James  Robert  Pogue 
and  first  child  of  Lizzie  Crawford,  was  married  to  Cecil  Lock- 
wood. 

CHILDREN: 
SON. 

Home,  1261  E.  56th  Street,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. ;  business,  employed  by 
the  Transfer  Company. 

VI.  HATTIE  POGUE,  sixth  child  of  James  Robert  Pogue 
and  second  child  of  Lizzie  Crawford,  was  married  to  Harry 
Ludlow. 

CHILDREN  : 
SON. 
Home,  Burbank,  Cal. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  HARRIET  POGUE,  fourth  child  of  Archibald  Hopkins 
Pogue  and  second  child  of  Eliza  Ann  Young,  was  married  in 
1865,  to  Larkin  Buckles. 

CHILDREN: 
NETTIE. 
CHARLES. 

Home,  Long  Beach,  Cal. 

V.  JOHN  C.  POGUE,  fifth  child  of  Archibald  Hopkins 
Pogue  and  third  child  of  Eliza  Ann  Young,  married  Ida  Dick- 
er son. 

Home,  Landors,  Wyo. 

V.  CHARLES  A.  POGUE,  sixth  child  of  Archibald  Hop- 
kins Pogue  and  fourth  child  of  Eliza  Ann  Young,  was  married 
to  Sarah  Edmonds. 

Home,  Burbank,  Cal. 


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IV.  SARAH  AMANDA    POGUE,  sixth  child  of  Jane 
Hopkins  and  John  Hopkins  Pogue,  was  married  November  15, 
1832,  to  Samuel  Voris,  who  was  born  March  /j,  1805,  and  died 
May  10, 1880. 

CHILDREN: 

MARY  JANE,  born  Oct.     7,  1833;  died  Feb.   12,  1901. 

WILLIAM  McQuEARY,  born  July     i,  1835;  died  July     2,  1863. 

MARGARET  ELIZABETH,  born  Sept.  17,  1838;  died  July     9,  1898. 

HARRIET  AMELIA,  born  Mar.  29,  1841. 

SARAH  ABBIE,  born  Feb.     9,  1843. 

NANCY  ANN,  born  Aug.     i,  1845;  died  Mar.  30,  1846. 

JOHN  CRAWFORD  POGUE,  born  Aug.  n,  1849. 

HANNA  BELL,  born  Sept.  15,  1853. 

SAMUEL  HOPKINS,  born  Feb.  11,1865. 

V.  MARY  JANE  VORIS,  first  child  of  Sarah  Amanda 
Pogue  and  Samuel  Voris,  was  married  September  14.,  1852,  to 
Ephriam  Preston  McCreight,  who  was  born  April  25,  1825, 
and  died  December  16,  1895. 

CHILDREN  : 

SARAH  ALICE,         born  July   15,  1853;  died  Sept.  14,  1893. 

SAMUEL  GILBERT,  born  Nov.  13,  1854. 

MARY  BELL,  born  Aug.  16,  1856;  died  Nov.  10,  1902. 

INFANT  SON,  born  Sept.  29,  1858;  died  Sept.  29,  1858. 

LUELLA  JANE,         born  Nov.  20,  1859. 

WILLIAM  VORIS,      born  Apr.  25,  1862. 

MARGARET  POAGE,  born  July     2,  1864;  died  Oct.   28,  1878. 

EVA  IRENE,  born  Sept.  15,  1866;  died  Apr.     2,  1891. 

JOHN,  born  May     5,  1869. 

JAMES,  born  May     i,  1871;  died  July   12,1880. 

LESTER  HARVEY,    born  Mar.  23,  1875;  died  Aug-  n,  1880. 

HATTIE,  born  May  14,  1878;  died  July   25,  1880. 

Home,  Soldier,  Kan. 

Ephraim  Preston  McCreight  is  buried  at  Aroca,  Kan. 


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VI.  SARAH  ALICE  McCREIGHT,  first  child  of  Mary 
Jane   Voris  and  Ephriam  Preston  McCreight,  was  married 
December  25,  1873,  to  J.  A.  Cranston. 

CHILDREN  : 

BERT  ALLEN,          born  June  29, 1876. 

ARCHIE  PRESTON,  born  Dec.     5,  1877. 

LEROY  JAMES,         born  Jan.  30,  1879. 

ELLA  FLORENCE,     born  Jan.   17, 1881. 

ETHEL  MAY,  born  Dec.  31,  1883. 

CLIFFORD  EARL,     born  July   15,  1885. 

CHARLES  LEWIS,    born  Aug.  n,  1887. 

JOHN  RAY,  born  Aug.    i,  1889. 

LESLIE  VERL,          born  Sept.  n,  1893. 

Home,  Odebolt,  la. ;  business,  agriculture. 

J.  A.  Cranston  is  a  brother  of  W.  C.  Cranston  who  married  Mary  Bell 
McCreight.  The  brothers  married  sisters.  Sarah  Alice  McCreight  died 
September  14,  1893,  and  is  buried  at  Odebolt,  la. 

VII.  BERT  ALLEN  CRANSTON,  first  child  of  Sarah 
Allen  McCreight  and  J.  A.  Cranston,  was  married  January 
12, 1898,  to  Berdina  A .  Traver,  who  was  born  January  6,  iSjf. 

CHILDREN: 

LEE  ALLEN,  born  Dec.  22,  1898. 
WARREN  EVERT,  born  Oct.  22,  1900. 
Home,  Odebolt,  la. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VII.  ARCHIE  PRESTON  CRANSTON,  second  child  of 
Sarah  Alice  McCreight  and  J.  A.  Cranston,  was  married  Feb- 
ruary 5,  1902,  to  Grace  E.  Traver,  who  was  born  November  6, 
1882.  ' 

Bert  Allen  Cranston  and  Archie  Preston  Cranston  married  Berdina  A. 
Traver  and  Grace  E.  Traver,  who  were  sisters. 

VII.  LEROY  JAMES  CRANSTON,  third  child  of  Sarah 
Alice  McCreight  and  J.  A.  Cranston,  is  helping  on  the  home 
farm.  He  is  unmarried. 

Home,  Odebolt,  la. 

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VII.  ELLA  FLORENCE  CRANSTON,  fourth  child  of 
Sarah  Alice  McCreight  and  J.  A.  Cranston,  is  keeping  house 
for  her  father. 

Home,  Odebolt,  la. 

VII.  ETHEL  MA  Y  CRANSTON,  CLIFFORD  EARL, 
CHARLES  LEWIS,  JOHN  RA  Y,  and  LESLIE  VERL,  the 

fifth,  sixth,  seventh,  eighth,  and  ninth  children  of  Sarah  Alice 
McCreight  and  J.  A.  Cranston,  are  all  in  school,  Odebolt,  la. 

VI.  SAMUEL  GILBERT  McCREIGHT,  second  child  of 
Mary  Jane  Voris  and  Ephriam  Preston  McCreight,  was  mar- 
ried February  4.,  1880,  to  Jennie  Youel,  who  was  born  September 
3,  1860. 

CHILDREN: 

ELTON,  born  May  17, 1881. 

FRANK,  born  Aug.  19, 1882. 

BLANCH,  born  Feb.  26,  1884. 

RAY,  born  Apr.  28,  1886. 

VERL,  born  Aug.  20,  1889. 

CLARENCE,  born  June  27,  1892. 
Home,  Soldier,  Kan. ;  business,  farming. 

VII.  ELTON  McCREIGHT,  first  child  of  Samuel  Gilbert 
McCreight  and  Jennie  Youel,  unreported. 

VII.  FRANK  McCREIGHT,  second  child  of  Samuel  Gil- 
bert McCreight  and  Jennie  Youel,  unreported. 

VII.  BLANCHE  McCREIGHT,  third  child  of  Samuel 
Gilbert  McCreight  and  Jennie  Youel,  was  married  September 
18,  1901,  to  Pearl  Ditch,  who  was  born  January  15,  1879. 

One  child. 

VII.  RAY  McCREIGHT,  VII.  VERLE,  and  VII. 
CLARENCE,  the  fourth,  fifth,  and  sixth  children  of  Samuel 
Gilbert  McCreight  and  Jennie  Youel,  are  at  home,  Soldier,  Kan. 

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VI.  MARY  BELL  McCREIGHT,  third  child  oj  Mary 
Jane   Voris  and  Ephriam  Preston  McCreight,  was  married 
September  10,  1878,  to  William  C.   Cranston,  who  was  born 
April  19,  1849. 

CHILDREN  : 

WILLIAM  R.,  born  Aug.  24,  1879. 

SON,  who  died  Oct.  10,  1881. 

ARTHUR  A.,  born  Sept.  24,  1882. 

ORR  B.,         born  Dec.  28,  1884. 

MAY  C.,         born  Jan.    19,  1886. 

RAY  P.,          born  Sept.  20,  1889. 

FLORENCE  B.,  died  Jan.  13,  1895. 

SON,  who  died  Dec.  2,  1896. 

Home,  Lenora,  Okla. 

One  of  the  last  letters  Mrs.  Mary  Bell  McCreight  Cranston  wrote  was 
the  one  giving  the  above  dates.  After  her  death,  the  letter  was  sent  on  by 
her  daughter,  who  added  a  postscript  saying  that  the  hands  which  had 
written  it  had  been  folded  in  their  last  rest  for  two  months.  She  is  buried 
at  Riley,  Okla. 

W.  C.  Cranston  is  a  brother  of  J.  A.  Cranston  who  married  Sarah  Alice 
McCreight.  The  brothers  married  sisters. 

VL  LUELLA  JANE  McCREIGHT,  fifth  child  of  Mary 
Jane  Voris  and  Ephriam  Preston  McCreight,  was  married 
April  5, 1 88 1,  to  Henry  Page,  who  was  born  May  4, 1855. 

CHILDREN  : 

LAURA  M.,  born  Jan.  6,  1882. 
WALTER  J.,  born  June  15,  1883. 
MAUD  B.,  born  Sept.  25,  1885. 
ALBERT  S.,  born  Sept.  i,  1890. 
STELLA  M.,  born  Nov.  29,  1895. 
HARRY,  born  Aug.  10,  1898. 

INFANT  SON,  born  May  7,  1901. 
Home,  Holdenville,  I.  T. ;  business,  plasterer. 

VII.  LAURA  M.  PAGE,  first  child  of  Luella  Jane  Mc- 
Creight and  Henry  Page,  was  married  December  15,  1900,  to 
Louis  Bleecker. 

Home,  Holdenville,  I.  T. ;  business,  lather. 

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VII.  WALTER  J.  PAGE,  second  child  of  Luella  Jane  Mc- 
Cr  eight  and  Henry  Page. 

Is  a  plasterer. 

Home,  Oklahoma  City,  Okla. 

VII.  MAUD  B.,  ALBERTS.,  STELLA  M.,  and  HARRY, 

the  third,  fourth,  fifth,  and  sixth  children,  are  at  home,  Holden- 
ville,  I.  T. 

VII.  The  seventh  child  of  Luella  Jane  McCreight  and 
Henry  Page  died  a  baby. 

VI.  WILLIAM  VORIS  McCREIGHT,  sixth  child  of  Mary 
Jane  Voris  and  Ephriam  Preston  McCreight,  was  married 
November  29, 1891,  to  Delia  Calef,  who  was  born  May  8, 1872. 

CHILDREN  : 

MARY,  born  Oct.   27,  1894. 

MAGGIE,  born  Oct.   27,  1894. 

ARTHUR,  born  Apr.  20,  1897. 

CHARLES,  born  May  15,  1899. 

ETHEL,  born  Aug.    8,  1900. 
Home,  Soldier,  Kan. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  MARGARET  POAGE  McCREIGHT,  seventh  child 
of  Mary  Jane  Voris  and  Ephriam  Preston  McCreight,  died 
at  fourteen  years  of  age,  and  is  buried  at  Glenwood,  Iowa. 

VI.  EVA  IRENE  McCREIGHT,  eighth  child  of  Mary 
Jane  Voris  and  Ephriam  Preston  McCreight,  was  married 
in  1890  to  William  Brakey. 

VI.  EVA  IRENE  McCREIGHT  BRAKEY  died  April  2,  1891. 

VI.  JOHN  McCREIGHT,  ninth  child  of  Mary  Jane  Voris 
and  Ephriam  Preston  McCreight,  was  married  April  7,  1897, 
to  Laura  Corcoran,  who  was  born  December  4, 

CHILDREN  : 

HAZEL  IRENE,  born  Mar.  13,  1898. 
ANNIE  MILDRED,  born  July  2,  1899. 
LULU  MARCIA,  born  Apr.  10,  1901. 
MARY  ALICE,  born  Aug.  12,1904. 
Home,  Carl,  Kan. ;  business,  agriculture. 

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VI.  JAMES,  VI.  LESTER,  and  VI.  HATTIE  Me- 
CREIGHT,  tenth,  eleventh,  and  twelfth  children  of  Mary 
Jane  Voris  and  Ephriam  Preston  McCreight,  died  July  12, 
August  n,  and  July  25,  1880,  of  scarlet  fever.  They  are 
buried  at  Buck's  Grove,  Kan. 

V.  WILLIAM  McQUEARY  VORIS,  second  child  of  Sarah 
Amanda  Pogue  and  Samuel  Voris,  was  married  November  /, 
1854,  to  Margaret  Miller. 

WILLIAM  McQUEARY  VORIS  enlisted  in  the  Seventh  Illinois 
Regiment  when  the  Civil  War  broke  out.  After  two  years  he  was  made 
second  lieutenant  of  United  States  Volunteers.  He  died  of  fever  at  Milli- 
kens'  Bend,  July  2,  1863,  and  is  buried  at  Bird's  Point,  La.,  thirty  miles 
from  Vicksburg,  Miss.  Margaret  Miller  Voris  died  at  Ukiah,  Cal. 

V.  MARGARET  ELIZABETH  VORIS,  third  child  of 
Sarah  Amanda  Pogue  and  Samuel  Voris. 

Went  to  California  in  1875  where  she  lived,  on  account  of  her  health, 
the  rest  of  her  life.  She  taught  school  as  long  as  her  health  permitted. 
She  made  her  home  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Milton  Wambolt  at  Lakeport,  Cal. 

V.  HARRIET  AMELIA  VORIS,  fourth  child  of  Sarah 
Amanda  Pogue  and  Samuel  Voris,  was  married  December  29, 
1838,  to  Samuel  McCreight,  who  was  born  November  16,  1835, 
and  died  May  8,  1902. 

Samuel  McCreight  and  Ephriam  Preston  McCreight  were  brothers. 
CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  CYRUS,        born  Sept.  23,  1859;  died  Dec.    6,  1862. 

ALMA  FLORENCE,        born  Aug.  27,  1865;  died  May  23,  1892. 

FRANCES  BELLE,         born  Dec.  14, 1868. 

SARAH  EDITH,  born  June    9,  1873. 

ELIZABETH  MYRTLE,  born  Feb.     2,  1875. 

RALPH  VORIS,  born  Nov.  20,  1876. 

JOHN  HOPKINS,  born  Mar.  25,  1880. 

HARRY  CUMMINGS,     born  Sept.  15,  1881. 

HATTIE  MAY,  born  Mar.  19,  1883;  died  Aug.  12,  1883. 

Home,  Aledo,  111. ;  business,  agriculture. 

Samuel  McCreight  served  in  the  Civil  War.  He  was  second  lieutenant 
in  Company  A,  Thirtieth  Illinois  Regiment. 

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VI.  WILLIAM  CYRUS  McCREIGHT,  first  child  of 
Harriet  Amelia  Voris  and  Samuel  McCr eight,  died  a  little 
child,  and  is  buried  at  Sunbeam,  III. 

VI.  ALMA  FLORENCE  McCREIGHT,  second  child  of 
Harriet  Amelia  Voris  and  Samuel  McCreight,  was  married 
March  25,  1885,  to  Henry  Emerson  Wood,  who  was  born 
September  16,  1855. 

Home,  Viola,  111. ;  business,  merchant. 

ALMA  FLORENCE  McCREIGHT  WOOD  died  May  23,  1892, 
and  is  buried  at  Aledo,  111. 

VI.  FRANCES  BELLE  McCREIGHT,  third  child  of 
Harriet  Amelia  Voris  and  Samuel  McCreight. 

Was  a  teacher  for  five  years.  She  now  makes  her  home  with  her 
mother  at  Aledo,  111. 

VI.  SARAH  EDITH  McCREIGHT,  fourth  child  of 
Harriet  Amelia  Voris  and  Samuel  McCreight,  was  married 
April  9,  i go 2,  to  Louis  William  Elhart,  who  was  born  January 
30,  1872. 

Home,  Joy,  111.,  five  and  a  half  miles  from  Aledo;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  SARAH  EDITH  McCREIGHT  graduated  from  the  high  school 
of  Aledo  in  1892  and  taught  in  the  high  schools  of  Aledo  and  Millersberg 
for  six  successive  years. 

VI.  ELIZABETH  MYRTLE  McCREIGHT,  fifth  child 
of  Harriet  Amelia  Voris  and  Samuel  McCreight. 

Graduated  from  the  Aledo  High  School  in  1895.     She  has  taught  for 
six  years  and  is  now  teaching  in  Aledo,  111. 
Home,  with  her  mother  in  Aledo. 

VI.  RALPH  VORIS  McCREIGHT,  sixth  child  of  Harriet 
Amelia  Voris  and  Samuel  McCreight. 

Lives  at  Sunbeam,  111.     He  is  a  successful  farmer. 

VI.  JOHN  HOPKINS  McCREIGHT,  seventh  child  of 
Harriet  Amelia  Voris  and  Samuel  McCreight. 

Is  at  home  with  his  mother  in  the  winter,  Aledo,  111.;  business,  agri- 
culture. 

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VI.  HARRY  CUM  MINGS  McCREIGHT,  eighth  child  of 
Harriet  Amelia  Voris  and  Samuel  McCr eight. 

Is  a  clerk  in  a  grocery  store,  Aledo,  111. 
Home,  with  his  mother,  Aledo.,  111. 

VI.  HA  TTIE  MA  Y  McCREIGHT,  ninth  child  of  Harriet 
Amelia  Voris  and  Samuel  McCreight,  died  a  baby,  and  is 
buried  at  Sunbeam,  III. 

V.  SARAH  ABBIE  VORIS,  fifth  child  of  Sarah  Amanda 
Pogue  and  Samuel  Voris  McCreight. 

Was  a  successful  teacher  at  Benton  County,  111.,  for  about  ten  years. 
After  her  mother's  death  she  kept  house  for  her  father  until  1880,  when  he 
died.  She  then  went  to  Texas  where  she  remained  seventeen  years.  In 
the  spring  of  1901,  she  came  to  Aledo,  111.,  where  she  now  lives  with  her 
brother,  John  Crawford  Pogue  Voris. 

V.  NANCY  ANN  VORIS,  sixth  child  of  Sarah  Amanda 
Pogue  and  Samuel  Voris,  died  a  baby,  and  is  buried  at  Red 
Oak,  Ohio. 

V.  JOHN  CRAWFORD  POGUE  VORIS,  seventh  child 
of  Sarah  Amanda  Pogue  and  Samuel  Voris,  was  married 
November  30,  1876,  to  Hadessa  Ross. 

CHILDREN: 

ALICE  M.,  born  Aug.  23,  1877;  died  Jan.  9,  1881. 

SAMUEL  POGUE,    born  Mar.    9,  1880. 

CLIFFORD  JOHN,    born  Nov.    8,  1881. 

MORRIS,  born  Mar.  14,  1883;  died  1883. 

EARL  CRAWFORD,  born  Feb.  u,  1885;  died  Aug.    3,  1893. 

HADESSA  MAY,     born  Nov.    6,  1887. 

Home,  three  and  one-half  miles  west  of  Aledo,  111. ;  business,  agriculture. 
The  children  are  all  in  the  home. 


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V.  HANNAH  BELLE   VORIS,  eighth  child  of  Sarah 
Amanda  Pogue  and  Samuel  Voris,  was  married  November  15, 
1876,  to  John  Clark  Cranston,  who  was  born  April  13,  1854. 

CHILDREN: 

ANNA  MABEL,  born  Oct.   15,  1877. 

CHARLES  ORIEN,  born  Jan.   12,  1879. 

Louis  VORIS,  born  Jan.   13,  1881. 

HUGH  IRVIN,  born  Aug.    5,  1883. 

RALPH  EMERSON,  born  Jan.    17,1885. 

LEILA  FLORENCE,  born  June    5,  1889. 

MYRTLE  LEONE,  born  Nov.  28,  1893. 
Home,  Huron,  S.  D. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  CHARLES  ORIEN  CRANSTON,  second  child  of 
Hannah  Belle  Voris  and  John  Clark  Cranston. 

Has  taken  up  a  homestead  ten  miles  from  Steel,  N.  D.  The  other 
children  are  in  the  home  with  their  parents. 

V.  SAMUEL  HOPKINS  VORIS,  ninth  child  of  Sarah 
Amanda  Pogue  and  Samuel  Voris,  was  married  November  18, 
1888,  to  Phoebe  Styles. 

CHILDREN: 

SARAH  ALMA,  born  Jan.  31,  1890. 

Home,  Elma,  Howard  County,  la. ;  business,  carpenter. 

IV.  HANNAH  SOPHIA  POGUE,  seventh  child  of  Jane 
Hopkins  and  John  Hopkins  Pogue,  was  married  December 
13,  1837,  to  James  Youel,  who  was  born  December  8,  1816, 
and  died  October  6,  1896. 

CHILDREN  : 

ELIZABETH  JANE,  born  Jan.   25,  1839. 

AMANDA,  born  Aug.        1840;  died  1887. 

MARY  S.,  born  Nov.  25,  1845. 

CHARLOTTE,  born  1847. 

MARGARET,  born  Aug.  29,  1849. 

RACHEL  FRANCES,  born  1853. 

WILLIAM  HOPKINS,  born  1859. 

James  Youel  was  born  in  Rockingham  County,  Va.,  and  died  in  Sac 
County,  la. 


V.  ELIZABETH  JANE  YOUEL,  first  child  of  Hannah 
Sophia  Pogue  and  James  Youel,  was  married  August  23,  1862, 
to  Aaron  Giles  Barnell,  who  was  born  May  20,  1839. 

CHILDREN: 

VIOLA,  born  May  n,  1866. 

YUILL  GORDON,  born  Sept.    4, 1867. 
ESTALENE,  born  Nov.  15,  1868. 

AVA  H.,  born  July   20,  1874. 

D WIGHT  K.,        born  Mar.  15,  1877. 
JAMES  EARL,        born  Jan.    18, 1881. 

Three  infant  children  are  buried  at  Parkers'  Grove,  fourteen  miles  north 
of  Cedar  Rapids.  Aaron  Giles  Barnell  has  held  several  township  offices 
and  has  been  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church  for  twenty  years.  He 
served  three  years  in  the  Civil  War. 

Home,  Cedar  Rapids,  la. ;  business,  retired  farmer  and  stock  raiser. 

VI.  VIOLA  BARNELL,  first  child  of  Elizabeth  Jane  Youel 
and  Aaron  Giles  Barnell,  was  married  September,   1887,   to 
Frank  Emory  Bowe,  who  was  born  January  24.,  1867. 

CHILDREN  : 

MYRLE  CORNELIA,  born  May  28, 1888. 

HAROLD  GILES,  born  May  29,  1890. 

CLAIRE  SAVANT,  born  May    2,  1892. 
BERNICE  ELIZABETH,  born  Dec.     i,  1896. 

FOREST  BARNELL,  born  Apr.  18,  1899. 

Home,  Everton,  Mo. ;  business,  agriculture  and  horticulture. 

VI.  YUILL  GORDON  BARNELL,  second  child  of  Eliz- 
abeth Jane  Youel  and  Aaron  Giles  Barnell,  is  unmarried. 

He  has  charge  of  the  farm  department  of  Malcolm  V.  Bolton  &  Co.'s 
real  estate  business,  Cedar  Rapids,  la. 


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VI.  ESTALENE  BARNELL,  third  child  of  Elizabeth  Jane 
Youel  and  Aaron  Giles  Barnell,  was  married  February  u,  1892, 
to  Harry  L.  Jones,  who  was  born  in  1869. 

CHILDREN  : 

IRVING,  born  Jan.      7,  1893. 

GLADYS,  born  Jan.     6,  1895. 

HAROLD  BARNELL,  born  July  20,  1896. 

CLARENCE  CECIL,  born  Jan.   31,  1898. 

FOREST,  born  Apr.  15,  1899. 

ELAINE,  born  Feb.     8,  1901. 

Home,  Austin  Minn.;  business,  agriculture  and  stock  raising. 

VI.  AVA  H.  BARNELL,  fourth  child  of  Elizabeth  Jane 
Youel  and  Aaron  Giles  Barnell,  was  married  May  22,  1895, 
to  Henry  Fisher,  who  was  born  September  4,  1868. 

CHILDREN  : 

FERN  FRANCES,  born  Apr.  12,1896. 
VICTOR  BARNELL,  born  Mar.  17,  1898. 
Home,  Cedar  Rapids,  la.;  business,  commercial  traveler. 

VI.  DWIGHT  K.  BARNELL,  fifth  child  of  Elizabeth  Jane 
Youel  and  Aaron  Giles  Barnell,  is  not  married. 
Home,  Athens,  la.;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  JAMES  EARL  BARNELL,  sixth  child  of  Elizabeth 
Jane  Youel  and  Aaron  Giles  Barnell,  is  not  married. 

He  attended  Coe  College,  Cedar  Rapids,  la.,  and  is  now  city  shipper 
for  Warfield,  Pratt  &  Howell,  Cedar  Rapids,  la. 

VI.  AMANDA  YOUEL,  second  child  of  Hannah  Sophia 
Pogue  and  James  Youel,  unreported. 


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V.  MARY  S.  YOU  EL,  third  child  of  Hannah  Sophia  Pogue 
and  James  Youel,  was  married  May  22,  1867,  to  Morgan  San- 
ford  Pratt,  who  was  born  June  26,  184.3. 

CHILDREN: 

BERTHA,                born  July  22,  1868. 

CLARA,                   born  Dec.  10,  1869. 

FRANK  EDWIN,      born  Aug.  6,  1874. 

THOMAS  ALBERT,  born  Jan.  30,  1877. 

MAY  EDITH,          born  Apr.  3,  1882. 

JAMES  WILLIAM,    born  Jan.  22,  1885. 

ALICE  SOPHIA,       born  Oct.  17,  1887. 
Home,  Shellsburg,  la. 

Morgan  S.  Pratt  enlisted  in  the  Fifth  Iowa  Veteran  Infantry,  Company 
C,  July  1 6,  1 86 1.  He  was  in  the  service  nearly  five  years,  fighting  in  the 
battles  of  Inka,  Corinth,  Raymond,  Jackson,  Champion  Hills,  siege  of 
Vicksburg,  and  Mission  Ridge,  where  he  was  taken  prisoner  and  brought 
to  Richmond,  Va.  He  was  in  the  Libby  Prison  for  a  short  time  and  was 
then  taken  to  Belle  Island,  where  he  stayed  three  months,  then  to  Anderson- 
ville  where  he  stayed  six  months,  then  to  Millen,  Ga.,  where  he  stayed 
three  months  and  was  exchanged  at  Savannah.  While  at  Belle  Island, 
he  suffered  terribly  from  the  cold.  He  was  removed  to  Andersonville  in 
the  spring.  There  were  thirteen  captured  out  of  the  same  company,  but 
only  five  lived  to  get  home.  He  was  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  at  the  time  the 
troops  were  reviewed  and  was  mustered  out  of  service  November  24,  1864. 

VI.  BERTHA  PRATT,  first  child  of  Mary  S.  Youel  and 
Morgan  San  ford  Pratt. 

Graduated  from  the  Iowa  State  Normal  School  and  is  teaching  in 
Estherville,  la. 

VI.  CLARA  PRATT,  second  child  of  Mary  S.  Youel  and 
Morgan  San  ford  Pratt. 

Is  a  teacher  in  Butler  County,  la. 

VI.  FRANK  EDWIN  PRATT,  third  child  of  Mary  S. 
Youel  and  Morgan  San  ford  Pratt. 
Is  a  drug  clerk  in  Cedar  Rapids,  la. 

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VI.  THOMAS  ALBERT  PRATT,  fourth  child  of  Mary 
S.  Youel  and  Morgan  Sanford  Pratt. 
In  Sac  City,  la. 

VI.  MARY  EDITH  PRA TT,  fifth  child  of  Mary  S.  Youel 
and  Morgan  Sanford  Pratt,  was  married  September  16,  1902, 
to  Everett  Elson,  who  was  born  October  27,  1881. 

VI.  MARY  EDITH  PRATT  studied  at  Coe  College,  Cedar  Rapids,  la. 

VI.  JAMES  WILLIAM  PRATT,  the  sixth,  and  VI. 
ALICE  SOPHIA  PRATT,  the  seventh,  children  of  Mary  S. 
Youel  and  Morgan  Sanford  Pratt. 

Are  in  the  home  with  their  parents,  Shellsburg,  la. 

V.  CHARLOTTE  YOUEL,  fourth  child  of  Hannah  Sophia 
Pogue  and  James   Youel,  was  married  October  19,  1870,  to 
William  Long  Masson,  who  was  born  September  18,  1844,  in 
Champlain  County,  Ohio. 

CHILDREN  : 

THOMAS  CLAYTON,  born  June  i,  1872. 
JAMES  CLARENCE,  born  June  i,  1872. 
ADA  HANNAH,  born  Mar.  6,  1874. 
JOHN  EMORY,  born  Dec.  29,  1875. 

MARY  JANE,  born  Nov.  26,  1879. 

Home,  Sac  City,  la. ;  business,  agriculture. 

William  Long  Masson  served  three  years  in  the  Civil  War.  He  died 
May  18,  1892,  and  is  buried  at  Huron,  S.  D. 

VI.  THOMAS    CLAYTON    MASSON,    first    child  of 
Charlotte    Youel   and   William   Long   Masson,    was   married 
November  2g,  1898,  to  Ida  May  Morton,  who  was  born  May 
20,  1872. 

CHILDREN  : 

CHARLES  EUGENE,  born  Oct.  16,  1900. 

Home,  Sac  City,  la. ;  business,  employed  in  an  elevator  and  feed  store, 
Sac  City,  la. 

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VI.  JAMES   CLARENCE   MASSON,  second   child  0} 
Charlotte    Youel   and   William   Long   Mas  son,    was   married 
March  8,  1897,  to  Minnie  Ella  Van  Vleet,  who  was  born  April 
23,  1870. 
CHILDREN  : 

WILLIAM  JOHN,  born  Jan.   17,1898. 

FLOYD  EMORY,    born  June    7,  1899. 

Home,  Sac  City,  la. 

VI.  ADA  HANNAH  MASSON,  third  child  of  Charlotte 
Youel  and  William  Long  Masson,  was  married  December  31, 
1805,  to  James  A .  Duboy,  who  was  born  September  25,  1868. 

CHILDREN: 

ESTHER  AMELIA,  born  Nov.  8,  1896. 
WILLIAM  ABNER,  born  Aug.  5,  1898. 
MARY  HELEN,  born  Feb.  26,  1900. 

Home,  Sac  City,  la. 

VI.  JOHN  EMORY  MASSON,  fourth  child  of  Charlotte 
Youel  and  William  Long  Masson,  was  married  February  28, 
i goo,  to  Grace  Myric,  who  was  born  April  9,  1881. 

VI.  MARY  JANE  MASSON,  fifth  child  of  Charlotte  Youel 
and  William  Long  Masson. 
Is  a  dressmaker  in  Sac  City,  la. 

V.  MARGARET  YOUEL,  fifth  child  of  Hannah  Sophia 
Pogue  and  James  Youel,  was  married  March  i,  1870,  to  Clay- 
bourn  David  Worrell,  who  was  born  January  i,  184.8. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  YOUEL,  born  Aug.  9,  1871. 
HARRY  ELSWORTH,  born  Mar.  30,  1874. 
JAMES  WALTER,  born  July  21,1875. 
CHARLES  MORTON,  born  June  8,  1878. 
JOHN  ARTHUR,  born  June  18,  1880. 

Home,  Alpena,  S.  D. 

Claybourn  David  Worrell  has  been  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  Church 
for  several  years.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  General  Assembly  in  1894. 

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VI.  WILLIAM  YOUEL  WORRELL,  first  child  of  Mar- 
garet Youel  and  Claybourn  David  Worrell,  was  married  May 
30,  1899,  to  Anna  Rose  Wilson. 

CHILDREN: 

DWIGHT  EVERETT,  born  Mar.  9,1901. 
MARGARET  ISABELLA,  born  Jan.  27,  1902. 
Home,  Huron,  S.  D. 

VI.  HARRY  ELSWORTH  WORRELL,  second  child  of 
Margaret  Youel  and  Claybourn  David  Worrell,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Huron,  S.  D. 

VI.  JAMES  WALTER  WORRELL,  third  child  of  Mar- 
garet Youel  and  Claybourn  David  Worrell,  was  married  October 
29,  1902,  to  Janet  Smith,  of  Huron,  S.  D. 

Home,  Sheridan,  Wyo. ;  business,  bookkeeper  in  First  National  Bank. 

VI.  CHARLES  MORTON  WORRELL,  fourth  child  of 
Margaret  Youel  and  Claybourn  David  Worrell. 
Is  at  Alpena,  S.  D. 

VI.  JOHN  ARTHUR  WORRELL,  fifth  child  of  Margaret 
Youel  and  Claybourn  David  Worrell. 
Is  at  Alpena,  S.  D. 

VI.  RACHEL  FRANCES  YOUEL,  sixth  child  of  Hannah 
Sophia  Pogue  and  James  Youel,  is  unmarried. 
Makes  her  home  with  her  mother,  at  Niobara,  Neb. 

IV.  WILLIAM  HOPKINS  YOUEL,  seventh  child  of 
Hannah  Sophia  Pogue  and  James  Youel,  was  married  Decem- 
ber 27,  1880,  to  Jannet  Hailstone,  of  Edinboro,  Scotland. 

CHILDREN: 

CHALMERS  JAMES,  born  Apr.  16,  1882. 
CLAYBOURN  ELTON,  born  Apr.  i,  1884. 
Govrs  ARTHUR,  born  Sept.  25,  1887. 

Jannet  Hailstone  Youel  died  April  19,  1889. 


IV.  WILLIAM  HOPKINS  YOUEL  was  married  second,  March  15, 
1894,  to  Jessie  Gordon,  who  was  born  January  12,  1860. 

CHILDREN  : 

ELLEN  SOPHIA,  born  May  18,  1895. 
GEORGE  EMERY,  born  Mar.  14,  1897. 
Home,  Niobrara,  Neb. 

V.  CHALMERS  JAMES  YOUEL,  first  child  of  William 
Hopkins  Youel  and  Jannet  Hailstone,  unre  ported. 

V.  CLAYBOURN  ELTON  YOUEL,  second  child  of 
William  Hopkins  Youel  and  Jannet  Hailstone,  unreported. 

V.  ELLEN  SOPHIA  YOUEL  and  GEORGE  EMERY 
YOUEL,  fourth  and  fifth  children  of  William  Hopkins  Youel 
and  the  first  and  second  children  of  Jessie  Gordon. 

Are  in  the  home  with  their  parents. 


IV.  WILLIAM  ALFRED  POGUE,  eighth  child  of  Jane 
Hopkins  and  John  Hopkins  Pogue. 
Has  not  been  heard  from  for  years. 

IV.  CYNTHIA    ANN   POGUE,  ninth  child  of   Jane 
Hopkins  and  John  Hopkins  Pogue,  was  married  to  Smith  Mc- 
Cullough. 

CHILDREN  : 
MARY  JANE. 

V.  MARY   JANE   McCULLOUGH,  child   of   Cynthia 
Ann  Pogue  and  Smith  McCullough,  was  married  to  - 
Coldwell. 

Home,  Corvallis,  Ore. 


IV.  SAMUEL  POGUE,  tenth  child  of  Jane  Hopkins  and 
John  Hopkins  Pogue,  died  in  babyhood. 

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IV.  HARRIET  JANE  POGUE,  eleventh  child  of  Jane 
Hopkins  and  John  Hopkins  Pogue,  was  married  November 
27,  1845,  to  John  Marland  Sellar,  who  was  born  February  3, 
1823,  and  died  September  23,  1897. 

CHILDREN: 

HENRY  CLAY,  born  Jan.     i,  1848. 

ROBERT  MARSHALL,  born  Jan.    12,  1849;  died  Apr.         1898. 

JAMES  EDGAR,  born  Aug.  21,  1850. 

JOHN  THOMAS,           born  Feb.  29,  1852;  died  Sept.    5,  1881. 

MARY  JANE,  born  Mar.  31,  1854;  died  Sept.  29,  1875. 

WILLIAM  ALFRED,     born  June     i,  1860. 

Home,  Darlington,  Ind. 

V.  HENRY  CLAY  SELLAR,  first  child  of  Harriet  Jane 
Pogue  and  John  Marland  Sellar,  was  married  January  28, 1874. 

CHILDREN: 

BENJAMIN  MORELAND,  born  Mar.  14,  1875;  died  Apr.  5,  1901. 
CLARA  JANE,  born  Apr.  3,  1879. 

Home,  Huron,  S.  D. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  BENJAMIN  MORELAND  SELLAR,  first  child  of 
Henry  Clay  Sellar, 

Went  with  the  Fifty-first  Iowa  Regiment  to  the  Philippines.     He  died 
at  twenty-six  years  of  age,  and  is  buried  at  Woonsocket,  S.  D. 

V.  ROBERT  MARSHALL  SELLAR,  second  child  of  Har- 
riet Jane  Pogue  and  John  Moreland  Sellar,  is  unmarried. 
Business,  plumber. 

V.  JAMES  EDGAR  SELLAR,  third  child  of  Harriet  Jane 
Pogue  and  John  Moreland  Sellar,  was  married  March  5,  1878. 

CHILDREN: 

ROBERT  EVERETT,  born  Oct.  10,  1881. 
WILLIAM  EARL,  born  July,  13  1885. 
Home,  Spencer,  la. ;  business,  agent. 

V.  JOHN  THOMAS  SELLAR,  fourth  child  of  Harriet 
Jane  Pogue  and  John  Moreland  Sellar,  was  married  June  29, 
He  was  a  physician,  and  died  September  5,  1881. 


V.  MARY  JANE  SELLAR,  fifth  child  of  Harriet  Jane 
Pogue  and  John  Moreland  Sellar,  died  at  twenty-one  years  of 
age,  and  is  buried  at  Darlington,  Ind. 

V.  WILLIAM  ALFRED  SELLAR,  sixth  child  of  Harriet 
Jane  Pogue  and  John  Moreland  Sellar,  was  married  at  Shells- 
burg,  la.,  March  7,  1888,  to  Ella  A.  Weyer,  who  was  born 
October  12,  1862. 

CHILDREN  : 

HARRIET  ANN,  born  May  3,  1890. 
MARY  ALICE,  born  Dec.  9,  1895. 
Home,  Darlington,  Ind. 

IV.  MARGARET  POGUE,  twelfth  child  of  Jane  Hopkins 
and  John  Hopkins  Pogue,  was  married  February  25,  184.7,  to 
Daniel  Skinner  Lams  on,  who  was  born  September  10,  1825, 
and  died  January  22,  1873. 

CHILDREN  : 

JOHN  THOMAS,  born  Mar.  27,  1848. 

JAMES  E.,  born  Aug.    3,  1849. 

WILLIAM  ALBERT,  born  Oct.  29,  1854. 

ANNA  JANE,  born  Jan.     8,  1860;  died  Nov.    4,  1897. 

HARRIET  MAY,  born  Sept.  15,  1867;  died  Oct.  23,  1870. 

A  few  days  after  their  marriage,  Margaret  Pogue  and  Daniel  Skinner 
Lamson  went  to  the  forests  of  Howard  County,  Ind.,  to  make  themselves  a 
home,  the  husband  taking  all  their  effects  in  a  two-horse  wagon,  the  bride 
accompanying  him  on  horseback,  a  distance  of  more  than  fifty  miles.  In 
June,  1851,  they  removed  to  the  prairie  country  of  Rensselaer,  Jasper 
County,  Ind.,  and  bought  three  eighty-acre  tracts  of  land  from  the  govern- 
ment at  $1.25  an  acre.  They  were  located  south  of  the  county-seat  on  the 
Iroquois  River.  This  is  "  Riverside,"  the  Lamson  home  of  to-day.  Daniel 
S.  Lamson  was  an  influential  and  useful  man.  He  faithfully  read  his  Bible, 
kept  the  Sabbath,  and  attended  public  worship.  He  was  of  the  Presby- 
terian faith,  though  not  a  church  member  until  a  few  years  before  his  death. 
The  death  of  a  beloved  little  daughter  brought  him  into  the  church.  In 
the  fall  of  1872  his  health  began  to  fail,  and  he  left  the  two  older  boys  on 
the  farm  and  went  to  Rensselaer,  where  he  died,  January  22, 1873,  and  his 
body  was  laid  to  rest  in  the  Egypt  Cemetery  near  his  home. 

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V.  JOHN  THOMAS  LAMSON,  first  child  of  Margaret 
Pogue  and  Daniel  Skinner  Lamson,  was  married  April  n, 
1875,  to  Rebecca  Elizabeth  Smith,  who  was  born  June  21,  184.9. 
She  was  a  descendant  on  the  maternal  side  of  General  Braddock. 

CHILDREN  : 

LEVI  ERNEST,  born  May  8,  1878. 

Home,  Rensselaer,  Ind. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  JOHN  THOMAS  LAMSON  was  born  in  Howard  County,  Ind., 
and  went  with  his  parents  to  Rensselaer  when  three  years  old.  Here  he 
grew  to  manhood,  assisting  his  father  on  the  farm  in  summer  and  going 
to  school  in  winter. 

LEVI  ERNEST  LAMSON,  first  child  of  John  Thomas 
Lamson  and  Rebecca  Elizabeth  Smith. 

Took  a  four  years'  course  at  Indiana  State  Normal  School  at  Terre 
Haute,  Ind.  He  is  in  the  State  University,  Class  1905,  Bloomington,  Ind. 

V.  JAMES  E.  LAMSON,  second  child  of  Margaret  Pogue 
and  Daniel  Skinner  Lamson,  was  married  in  Newton  County, 
Ind.,  February  19,  1873,  to  Susan  A.  Blankenbaker,  who  was 
born  in  Boon  County,  Kentucky,  March  13,  184.9. 

CHILDREN  : 

HARLEY  HARPER,  born  Oct.  17,  1875. 

Susan  A.  Blankenbaker  Lamson  died  July  8,  1879,  and  is  buried  at 
Rensselaer,  Ind. 

V.  JAMES  E.  LAMSON  was  married  second,  July  20,  1881,  to  Anna 
Laura  McCoy,  who  was  born  September  3,  1852. 

CHILDREN: 

HAZLE  McCov,  born  Mar.  27,  1883. 
HELEN  LOUZAINE,  born  July  16,  1886. 
LEON,  born  Nov.  5,  1888. 

Home,  Rensselaer,  Ind.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  JAMES  E.  LAMSON  was  born  in  Howard  County,  Ind.,  and 
when  nearly  two  years  old  came  with  his  parents  to  Rensselaer  where  he 
still  lives  in  the  old  homestead,  "Riverside." 

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VI.  BARLEY  HARPER  LAMSON,  first  child  of  James 
E.  Lamson  and  Susan  A.  Blankenbaker,  was  married  April  16, 
1896,  to  Mary  Babcock,  who  was  born  September  2,  1875. 

CHILDREN  : 

CHARLES,  born  Nov.  17, 1896. 

ALFRED  JAMES,  born  Sept.  20, 1898. 
RUTH  ANNA,  born  July  17,  1900. 
Home,  Rensselaer,  Ind. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  HAZLE  McCOY  LAMSON,  second  child  oj  James 
E.  Lamson  and  first  child  of  Anna  Laura  McCoy. 

Graduated  from  the  Rensselaer  High  School  in  1902.  She  is  a  student 
at  the  State  Normal  School,  Terre  Haute,  Ind. 

VI.  HELEN   LOUZAINE   LAMSON,  third   child   of 
James  E.  Lamson  and  second  child  of  Anna  Laura  McCoy. 
Graduates  from  the  Rensselaer  High  School  in  1905. 

VI.  LEON  LAMSON,  fourth  child  of  James  E.  Lamson 
and  third  child  of  Anna  Laura  McCoy. 
Is  a  student  in  the  Rensselaer  High  School. 

V.  WILLIAM  ALBERT  LAMSON,  third  child  of  Mar- 
garet Pogue  and  Daniel  Skinner  Lamson,  was  married  to 
Mary  Peacock. 

CHILDREN  : 
CLAUDE. 
EARL. 
FLOY. 

Home,  Elm  Creek,  Buffalo  County,  Neb.;  business,  hardware. 

V.  WILLIAM  ALBERT  LAMSON  was  born  at  the  Lamson  home- 
stead near  Rensselaer,    Ind.,  and  received  his    education    in    the  local 
schools.     After   his   marriage  he  lived  for  a  few  years  on  a  farm  joining 
his  father's  and  later  went  to  Elm  Creek,  Neb.,  where  he  still  is. 

VI.  CLAUDE  LAMSON,  first  child   of  William  Albert 
Lamson  and  Mary  Peacock,  not  reported. 

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VI.  EARL  LAMSON,  second  child  oj  William  Albert 
Lamson  and  Mary  Peacock,  was  married  March,  1900,  to  Nellie 
Robins,  who  was  born  in  1876. 

CHILDREN: 

DONALD  KARL. 
Home,  Rensselaer,  Ind. 

VI.  FLOY  LAMSON,  third  child  oj  William  Albert 
Lamson  and  Mary  Peacock. 

Is  a  teacher.     She  lives  with  her  parents  at  Elm  Creek,  Neb. 

V.  ANNA  JANE  LAMSON,  fourth  child  of  Margaret 
Pogue  and  Daniel  Skinner  Lamson,  was  married  at  Craw- 
fordsville,  Ind.,  September  29,  1879,  to  Millard  F.  Kaesner, 
who  was  born  at  Foster's  Crossing,  Ohio,  March  5,  1856. 

CHILDREN  : 

A  DAUGHTER,  born  and  died  Jan.  10,  1881. 

WILLIAM  EARL,  born  Jan.     8, 1882. 

ALONZO,  born  June    8,  1883. 

WALTER  DANIEL,  born  Nov.  u,  1884. 

GROVER  ANDREW,  born  Aug.    9,  1886. 

DAISY  MAY,  born  Feb.  24,  1888. 

OMAR,  born  Oct.         1889. 

IRENE,  born  Mar.    9,  1892. 

CHARLES,  born  Jan.   27,  1894. 

CATHERINE  CLYDE,  born  Oct.  30, 1895. 

MARGARET,  born  Sept.    5,  1897. 

V.  ANNA  JANE  LAMSON  died  November  4,  1897,  and  is  buried  in 
Evergreen  Cemetery,  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 

Millard  F.  Kaesner  was  married  second,  November  30,  1898,  to  Mrs. 
Josephine  Morgan  Gross  of  Blue  Island,  111. 

Home,  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. ;  business,  in  the  refining  mills. 

In  the  spring  of  1885,  they  moved  from  Ohio  to  Morton  County,  Kan., 
and  later  to  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,  where  they  are  now. 

VI.  The  first  child  of  Anna  Jane  Lamson  and  Millard  F. 
Kaesner  died  the  day  she  was  born,  and  is  buried  in  the  Weston 

Cemetery. 

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VI.  WILLIAM  EARL  KAESNER,  second  child  of  Anna 
Jane  Lamson  and  Millard  F.  Kaesner,  died  of  malignant  small- 
pox in  the  hospital  in  Omaha,  Neb.,  May  5,  1904.,  and  is  buried 
in  the  hospital  cemetery. 

VI.  ALONZO   KAESNER,   third   child  of   Anna   Jane 
Lamson  and  Millard  F.  Kaesner. 
Is  in  business  in  Idaho. 

VI.  WALTER  DANIEL  KAESNER,  fourth  child  of 
Anna  Jane  Lamson  and  Millard  F.  Kaesner. 

Enlisted  November  8,  1902,  on  the  United  States  Transport  Hancock, 
at  Mare  de  Lang,  CaL,  and  has  made  two  trips  nearly  half-way  around 
the  world.  He  has  been  transferred  to  the  United  States  ship  Alabama. 

VI.  GROVER  ANDREW  KAESNER,  fifth  child  of  Anna 
Jane  Lamson  and  Millard  F.  Kaesner. 
On  a  ranch  in  Colorado. 

VI.  DAISY  MAY  KAESNER,  sixth  child  of  Anna  Jane 
Lamson  and  Millard  F.  Kaesner. 

On  July  4,  1904,  while  on  a  picnic  with  her  parents  and  neighborhood 
friends,  fell  from  a  precipice  in  Cheyenne  Canyon,  one  hundred  and  fifty 
feet.  She  was  taken  to  a  hospital  in  Colorado  Springs,  where  she  died  July 
8,  1904,  and  is  buried  at  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.  She  was  sixteen  years 
of  age. 

VI.  OMAR  KAESNER,  seventh  child  of  Anna  Jane  Lam- 
son and  Millard  F.  Kaesner. 

Is  with  his  father  in  the  refining  mills  of  Colorado  City,  Colo. 
The  other  children  of   Anna  Jane  Lamson  and  Millard  F.  Kaesner 
are  in  the  schools  of  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 

V.  HARRIET  MA  Y  LAMSON,  fifth  child  of  Margaret 
Pogue  and  Daniel  Skinner  Lamson,  died  when  three  years 
old,  and  is  buried  in  the  Egypt  Cemetery,  Rensselaer,  Ind. 

IV.  SAMUEL  McYOUEL,  thirteenth  child  of  Jane  Hop- 
kins and  John  Hopkins  Pogue,  not  reported. 

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///.  MARY  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Archibald  Hop- 
kins and  Elizabeth  Poag,  was  married  to  John  Crawford  Pogue  (a 
cousin  of  the  John  Hopkins  Pogue  that  her  sister  Jane  married). 

They  had  no  children,  but  adopted  Sarah  Amanda,  the  seventh  child  of 
Jane  Hopkins  (her  sister)  and  John  Hopkins  Pogue,  and  cared  for  her 
as  their  own  child.  The  last  days  of  Mary  Hopkins  Pogue  were  spent  in 
the  home  of  this  adopted  daughter.  She  was  a  "little  woman  with  blue 
eyes  and  red  hair.  She  was  quick  in  motion,  would  fly  about  her  work, 
was  a  great  helper  in  time  of  need,  as  many  can  testify."  She  was  a  great 
hand  to  ride  horseback  and  could  ride  anything.  Her  husband  died  about 
1837,  and  was  buried  at  Red  Oak.  In  their  early  married  life  they  lived 
at  Ripley,  Ohio.  Then  they  moved  onto  a  farm  near  Red  Oak,  Ohio, 
where  John  ran  a  fulling  mill.  In  1853  Mary  Hopkins  Pogue  went  with 
her  adopted  daughter,  Amanda  Pogue  Voris,  and  her  husband,  Samuel 
Voris,  to  Aledo,  111.,  In  1864  they  moved  to  Benton  County,  la.,  where 
Mary  Hopkins  Pogue  died,  February,  1873.  She  is  buried  near  Parker's 
Grove,  Shellsburg,  la.  Samuel  Voris  and  his  wife,  Sarah  Amanda  Pogue 
Voris,  are  also  buried  there. 


///.  SARAH  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  Archibald  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Poag,  was  married  February  7,  1822,  to  Adam 
B.  Gilliland,  who  was  born  January  22, 1794,  and  died  January 
5,  1885. 

CHILDREN: 

NANCY  JANE,  born  Feb.     9,  1823;  died  May  29,  1899. 

AMANDA,  born  Dec.  12,  1824;  died  June  22,  1899. 

JAMES  ALEXANDER,  born  Nov.  16,  1826;  died  Aug.  n,  1857. 

FANNY  MARY,  born  June  24,  1828;  died  Nov.  12,  1886. 

BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN,  born  Apr.  13,  1830;  died  May  31,  1875. 

SARAH  ELIZABETH,  born  Jan.   18,  1832;  died  Aug.    8,1857. 

ARCHIBALD  LUTHER,  born  Mar.  26,  1834. 

Home  was  at  different  places  where  Mr.  Gilliland  preached  in  Ohio, 
Hillsboro,  Bethel,  Riely,  Venice.  Sarah  Hopkins  Gilliland  and  Adam 
B  Gilliland  are  buried  at  Venice,  O. 

III.  SARAH  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  Archibald  Hopkins  and  Eliza- 
beth Poag,  was  a  lovely,  modest,  gentle  woman,  rather  tall  and  slender, 
and  graceful,  with  black  hair  and  blue  eyes.  She  was  said  to  have  been  a 
very  pretty,  stylish  young  woman.  She  was  a  fine  horsewoman,  sitting 
the  most  spirited  horse  with  perfect  ease.  She  possessed  a  fine  voice, 
and  my  grandfather  used  to  love  to  hear  her  sing  "Counter,"  a  rare  ac- 
complishment in  those  days.  She  was  domestic  in  her  tastes,  and  given 
to  hospitality.  She  did  her  full  share  in  helping  grandfather  in  assisting 
slaves  to  the  Canadian  border.  Many  a  time  grandfather  came  home 
and  found  grandmother  cooking  doughnuts  and  hard  biscuit,  while  a 
black  man  was  safely  hid  in  the  loft  of  the  cabin,  or  in  the  hay-mow.  As 
soon  as  it  was  dark  grandfather  hitched  up,  and  took  the  slave  to  the 
next  station,  driving  like  Jehu  so  as  to  make  the  return  trip  before  day- 
light. This  night  march  was  usually  made  endurable  by  grandmother's 
doughnuts  and  biscuits.  Sometimes  on  arriving  at  home  in  the  morning 
he  would  find  grandmother  hiding  another  poor  fellow,  and  would  have 
to  repeat  his  night  ride.  Grandmother  made  her  trip  from  Virginia 
on  horseback  with  her  father,  she  having  remained  there  several 
years  after  the  rest  of  the  family  had  moved  to  Ohio.  We  have  in  our 
possession  a  corner  of  a  linen  tablecloth,  with  knotted  fringe,  which  she 

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III.      SARAH    HOPKINS    (ilLLILAND. 


spun  and  wove  before  she  left  Virginia.  We  also  have  a  piece  of  em- 
broidery which  she  made  after  she  was  sixty  years  old,  showing  her  to  be 
a  skillful  needle  woman.  There  is  in  the  family  a  blue  and  white  wool 
and  linen  coverlet  which  she  spun  and  wove.  Though  over  ninety  years 
old,  it  is  in  good  condition.  We  have  a  piece  of  her  wedding  petticoat,  of 
fine  corded  dimity,  and  a  piece  of  her  wedding  dress,  which  was  of  thin 
white  goods,  with  ten  rows  of  trimming  around  the  skirt  woven  into  the 
goods.  Another  heirloom  which  we  prize  very  highly  is  a  piece  of  fine 
linen  toweling,  with  knotted  fringe,  spun  and  woven  by  Elizabeth  Poag, 
our  great-grandmother,  Archibald  Hopkins's  (Red  Oak,  Ohio)  first  wife. 
Adam  Baird  Gilliland  graduated  from  Jefferson  College,  Penn.,  in 
1831.  He  studied  theology,  as  he  once  said,  "with  the  apostle  Paul," 
his  own  father,  the  Rev.  James  Gilliland,  of  Red  Oak,  O.  He  was  licensed 
to  preach  April  24,  1824,  and  spent  the  summer  as  missionary  in  the  then 
thinly  settled  Scioto  Valley.  In  the  fall  he  took  his  family  to  Hillsboro, 
where  he  was  ordained  to  preach,  and  installed  as  pastor  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church,  with  a  salary  of  three  hundred  dollars  a  year,  one 
hundred  to  be  paid  in  money,  and  the  rest  in  produce.  He  taught  a  private 
school  for  young  ladies  in  order  to  eke  out  this  small  salary.  In  1828  he 
went  to  Bethel,  where  he  learned  the  cabinet  maker's  trade,  and  a  number 
of  pieces  of  furniture  in  the  family  bear  testimony  to  his  taste  and  skill. 
Adam  Wade,  of  Venice,  O.,  has  a  beautiful  black  walnut  sideboard,  with 
a  black  marble  top.  Mrs.  Anna  B.  Folson  has  a  cherry  bureau.  Miss 
Sarah  Anderson  has  a  bureau,  stand,  and  breakfast-table  that  were  made 
for  his  daughter,  Nancy  Jane,  to  go  to  housekeeping  with.  He  was  stated 
supply  at  Venice  from  1839  to  1859.  At  one  time  he  had  a  very  urgent 
call  to  become  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Dayton,  O. 
While  debating  it  he  happened  to  go  to  the  cemetery  at  that  place,  and 
immediately  declined  the  offer,  saying,  "There  are  too  many  small  graves 
there,  I  cannot  bring  my  little  ones  to  so  sickly  a  place."  He  was  for  the 
most  part  an  extemporaneous  speaker,  rarely  taking  anything  into  the  pulpit 
except  a  small  piece  of  paper  with  the  heads  of  his  sermon  upon  it.  Often 
in  preparing  his  sermon ;  the  only  books  he  used  were  his  Bible  and  con- 
cordance. He  was  an  able  and  successful  preacher.  He  had  deep  sym- 
pathies and  tender  feelings,  which  were  hidden  by  an  abrupt,  severe  man- 
ner. He  was  occasionally  witty,  sometimes  sarcastic.  He  was  very  enter- 
taining socially,  and  told  a  story  well.  In  the  presbytery  he  was  very 
influential,  frequently  turning  the  vote  of  that  body  at  the  last  moment 
by  a  few  terse  and  clear-cut  sentences.  This  influence  was  always  on  the 
side  of  what  he  believed  was  right,  personal  sympathies  having  no  part 
in  his  decision.  Sometimes  he  took  advantage  of  an  unguarded  expression 


of  a  brother  in  presbytery  and  threw  the  entire  body  into  a  fit  of  laughter, 
while  he  sat  down  with  a  face  as  innocent  as  a  child.  He  was  always  a 
stanch  Republican,  and  a  ranting  Abolitionist.  He  was  a  lover  of  music, 
possessing  a  fairly  good  voice,  and  played  the  violin  so  that  "you  wanted 
to  dance."  His  favorite  hymns  were  "I  would  not  live  always,"  "Nearer, 
my  God,  to  Thee,"  "Home,  sweet  home,"  and  "Suanee  River."  At 
Venice,  one  of  the  most  beautiful  spots  on  the  Ohio  River,  in  sight  of  the 
church  he  served  and  helped  to  build,  rests  his  body.  His  wife,  three 
daughters,  three  sons-in-law,  and  ten  grandchildren  lie  near  him,  waiting 
the  resurrection  morn.  MARY  LIZZIE  ANDERSON,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

IV.  NANCY  JANE  GILLILAND,  first  child  of  Sarah 
Hopkins  and  Adam  B.  Gilliland,  was  married  December  28, 
1842,  to  Ichabod  Fergus  Anderson,  who  was  born  November 
26,  1820,  and  died  May  4,  i&73- 
CHILDREN: 

ADAM  WILLIS,  born  Mar.  29,  1844. 
ELLA  FRANCES,  born  Oct.  7,  1845. 
CLARA  AMANDA,  born  July  16,  1848. 
SARAH  CORDELIA,  born  Jan.  21,  1851. 
MARY  LIZZIE,  born  Aug.  5,  1856. 
EFFIE  JANE,  born  Feb.  19,  1860. 

Home,  Venice,  Lebanon,  and  Dayton;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  NANCY  JANE  GILLILAND  ANDERSON  belonged  to  that 
generation  fast  passing  away  who  began  housekeeping  in  log  cabins, 
cooked  by  the  open  fire,  spun  the  yarn  and  knit  the  stockings  of 
the  family,  cut  and  made  all  garments,  did  their  own  scrubbing, 
baking,  and  washing,  and  with  all  this  found  time  to  help  a  sick 
neighbor,  to  read  and  keep  abreast  of  the  times,  and  to  dispense 
a  hospitality  that  puts  ours  to  shame.  She  possessed  a  lively,  kind 
disposition,  and  was  much  admired  and  respected.  Like  her  father, 
Adam  B.  Gilliland,  she  was  a  person  of  strong  convictions.  Dur- 
ing the  presidential  campaign  in  1880,  Robert  G.  Ingersoll  was  to  deliver 
a  speech  before  the  Republicans  at  the  fair  grounds  at  Dayton,  O.  Grand- 
father was  very  anxious  about  the  election,  and  wanted  very  much  to  hear 
Ingersoll  speak.  Mother  objected  to  his  going  to  hear  Ingersoll,  because 
he  was  an  infidel,  and  young  men  seeing  these  two  preachers  attending 
his  political  speech  might  go  to  hear  his  infidel  lectures,  and  so  be  led 
astray.  They  argued  the  question  pro  and  con  for  some  time,  both  of 
them  getting  warmer  and  warmer.  At  last  grandfather,  with  considerable 

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irritation,  said,  "Jane,  I  suppose  if  your  house  was  on  fire  and  the  devil 
came  along  and  wanted  to  help  you  put  it  out,  you  would  not  let  him." 
"  Oh  yes,"  she  said,  "  he  might  throw  water,  but  he  should  not  talk  to  my 
boys."  This  of  course  was  followed  by  a  laugh,  and  grandfather  went 
to  the  speech,  but  he  did  not  stay  long. 

Ichabod  Fergus  Anderson  was  appointed  by  Grant  as  "  United  States 
gauger."  He  was  ruling  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church  for  years. 
He  and  his  wife,  Nancy  Jane  Gilliland  Anderson,  are  buried  in  the  cemetery 
at  Woodland,  Dayton,  O.  MARY  LIZZIE  ANDERSON,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

V.  ADAM  WILLIS  ANDERSON,  first  child  0}  Nancy  J. 
Gilliland  and  Ichabod  Fergus  Anderson,  was  married  September 
16,  1869,  to  Mary  F.  Bundy,  who  was  born  August  i,  184.7. 

CHILDREN: 

EDITH  JANE,  born  May  3,  1871. 

Mary  E.  Bundy  died  Oct.  26,  1872,  and  is  buried  in  Woodland  Ceme- 
tery, Dayton,  O. 

V.  ADAM  WILLIS  ANDERSON  was  married  second,  March   21, 
1878,  to  Eliza  Ellen  Osborn,  who  was  born  September  17,  1848. 

CHILDREN: 

HARRIETS.,    born  July  27,1880. 

LUELLA,  born  Dec.  22,  1883. 

JEANETTE,       born  Feb.    7,  1886;  died  Mar.  7,  1886. 

ANNA  MARIE,  born  Apr.  22,  1890. 

Home,  Dayton,  O.;  business,  superintendent  of  Dayton  &  Xenia 
Traction  Road.  Adam  Willis  Anderson  served  in  the  Civil  War  in 
Company  A,  i46th  Regt.,  from  May  8,  1864,  to  September  5,  1864. 

VI.  EDITH  JANE  ANDERSON,  first  child  of  Adam 
Willis  Anderson  and  Mary  F.  Bundy. 

Graduated  from  the  Dayton  High  School,  Class  1890,  and  the  Dayton 
Normal  School,  Class  1891.  She  is  a  teacher  in  the  Dayton  ward  schools. 

VI.  HARRIET  E.  ANDERSON,  second  child  oj  Adam 
Willis  Anderson  and  first  child  of  Eliza  Ellen  Osborn. 

Graduated  from  the  Dayton  High  School,  Class  1899,  and  the  Dayton 
Normal  School,  Class  1901. 

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VI.  LUELLA  ANDERSON,  third  child  of  Adam  Willis 
Anderson  and  second  child  of  Eliza  Ellen  Osborn. 

Graduated  from  the  Steel  High  School,  Dayton,  O.,  Class  of  1902. 
She  has  a  beautiful  voice,  and  sings  in  the  First  Baptist  Church,  Dayton,  O. 

VI.  JEANETTE  ANDERSON,  fourth  child  of  Adam 
Willis  Anderson  and  third  child  of  Eliza  Ellen  Osborn,  died 
in  infancy,  and  is  buried  at  Woodland  Cemetery,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

VI.  ANNA  MARIE  ANDERSON,  fifth  child  of  Adam 
Willis  Anderson  and  Eliza  Ellen  Osborn. 
Is  attending  school  in  Dayton,  O. 

V.  ELLA    FRANCES    ANDERSON,   second    child    of 
Nancy  J.  Gilliland  and  Ichabod  Fergus  Anderson,  was  married 
October  30,  1867,  to  Andrew  J.  Kendall,  who  was  born  April 
10,  1839. 

CHILDREN: 

ANNA  MAUD,  born  Feb.  15,1873. 

EFFIE  AMELIA,  born  July  31,1878. 

CLIFFORD  NEWTON  ANDERSON,  born  Sept.    6,  1880. 

Home,  Dayton,  O.;  business,  millwright. 

Andrew  J.  Kendall  traveled  extensively  in  the  United  States,  and  spent 
six  months  in  China  in  the  interests  of  the  Stillwell,  Bierce,  Smith,  Vaile 
Co.  He  served  in  the  Civil  War,  Company  C,  2d  Regiment,  Missouri 
Cavalry,  from  September  8,  1861,  to  September  4,  1864.  He  died  August 
4,  1900,  and  is  buried  at  Dayton,  O. 

VI.  ANNA    MAUD    KENDALL,    first    child    of   Ella 
Frances  Anderson  and  Andrew  J.  Kendall. 

Studied  at  The  Western,  Oxford,  O.,  1890-1893.  She  graduated  from 
the  Ada  Normal  School,  Ada,  O.,  1894.  She  is  employed  by  the  National 
Cash  Register  Co.,  Dayton,  O. 

VI.  EFFIE  AMELIA  KENDALL,  second  child  of  Ella 
Frances  Anderson  and  Andrew  J.  Kendall. 

Graduated  from  the  Steel  High  School,  Dayton,  O.,  class  of  1897. 
She  is  a  teacher  at  Phillipsburg,  O. 

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VI.  CLIFFORD  NEWTON  ANDERSON  KENDALL, 

third  child  of  Ella  Frances  Anderson  and  Andrew  J.  Kendall. 
Is  employed  on  the  Dayton  &  Xenia  Traction  Road. 

V.  CLARA    AMANDA    ANDERSON,    third   child   of 
Nancy  J.  Gilliland  and  Ichabod  Fergus  Anderson,  was  married 
June  28,  1870,  to  John  L.  Cook. 

CHILDREN: 

ANNA  BELLE,  born  Mar.  28,  1871;  died  Apr.  16,  1901. 

STELLA  ANDERSON,  born  Feb.     6,  1873;  died  June  26,  1880. 

MABEL  LOWES,        born  May    4,  1879. 

JENNIE  SCOTT,         born  June  12,  1882. 

MARY  ELLA,  born  May  31,  1886. 

Home,  Dayton,  O.;  business,  traveling  salesman  for  the  Gem  Shirt  Co. 

VI.  ANNA  BELLE  COOK,  first  child  of  Clara  Amanda 
Anderson  and  John  L.  Cook,  was  married  April  n,  1895,  to 
Clarence  Perry  Folson,  who  was  born  June  28,  1869. 

CHILDREN: 

MIRIAM,    born  Apr.  29,  1896. 
ELEANOR,  born  July  10,  1899. 

Clarence  Perry  Folson  is  a  hydraulic  engineer.  He  has  been  to  Jamaica, 
Brazil,  and  all  over  the  United  States  in  the  interests  of  the  Stillwell,  Bierce, 
Smith,  Vaile  Co. 

VI.  ANNA  BELLE  COOK  FOLSON  graduated  from  the  Dayton 
High  School,  Class  1891.     She  died  April  16,  1901,  and  is  buried  at  Wood- 
land, Dayton,  O.     She  was  a  beautiful,  accomplished  woman,  greatly  loved 
by  all  who  knew  her.  She  united  with  the  church  at  twelve  years  of  age,  was 
a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  school,  leader  in  the  choir,  and  active  in  all  church 
work  until  motherhood  occupied  her  in  the  home.     With  everything  to 
live  for  in  the  earthly  home,  she  has  been  transferred  to  the  eternal  home. 

VI.  STELLA  ANDERSON  COOK,  second  child  of  Clara 
Amanda  Anderson  and  John  L.  Cook,  died  a  little  child,  and 
is  buried  in  Woodland  Cemetery,  Dayton,  O. 


VI.  MABEL  LOWES  COOK,  third  child  oj  Clara  A. 
Anderson  and  John  L.  Cook. 

Is  a  music  teacher,  Dayton,  O.  She  plays  the  pipe  organ  in  the  Pres- 
byterian church,  Dayton,  O.  Graduated  from  the  Steel  High  School, 
Class  of  1897. 

VI.  JENNIE  SCOTT  COOK,  fourth  child  of  Clara 
Amanda  Anderson  and  John  L.  Cook. 

Graduated  from  the  Dayton  high  school  in  1901,  and  is  attending  the 
Dayton  Normal  School. 

VI.  MARY  ELLA  COOK,  fifth  child  oj  Clara  Amanda 
Anderson  and  John  L.  Cook. 

Is  attending  the  High  School  at  Dayton,  O. 

V.  SARAH  CORDELIA  ANDERSON,  V.  MARY 
LIZZIE  ANDERSON,  and  V.  EFFIE  JANE  ANDER- 
SON, fourth,  fifth,  and  sixth  children  of  Nancy  J.  Gilliland 
and  Ichabod  Fergus  Anderson. 

Make  their  home  together.  Sarah  Cordelia  is  a  dressmaker.  Effie 
Jane  is  a  teacher  in  the  ward  schools  of  Dayton.  Mary  Lizzie  also  taught 
in  the  county  schools  for  ten  years.  She  is  now  the  home  maker.  Their 
mother  was  with  them  in  this  home  until  May,  1899,  and  they  sorely  miss 
her  since  she  joined  the  dear  ones  in  the  heavenly  home. 

Home,  927  Home  Avenue,  Dayton,  O. 


IV.  AMANDA  GILLILAND,  second  child  of  Sarah  Hop- 
kins and  Adam  B.  Gilliland,  was  married  February,  1866,  to 
Samuel  D.  Anderson,  a  cousin  of  Ichabod  Fergus  Anderson. 

CHILDREN  : 

FRANK,  ) 

}•  twins,  born  in  1867,  and  lived  only  a  few  months. 
JENNIE,  j 

Home,  Hamilton,  O. 

Ah1  the  members  of  this  family  are  dead.     Samuel  Anderson  died  in  1873. 


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IV.  JAMES  ALEXANDER  GILLILAND,  third  child  0} 
Sarah  Hopkins  and  Adam  B.  Gilliland,  was  married,  1856,  to 
Jane  -  -,  in  Iowa  City. 

He  died  soon  after  the  marriage.  These  words  are  on  the  marble 
which  marks  his  grave:  "My  husband,  James  A.  Gilliland,  died  August 
i,  1857,  aged  31  years.  Amiable  and  beloved,  farewell.  Thy  years  were 
few,  but  thy  virtues  many.  They  are  recorded  not  on  perishable  stone, 
but  in  the  book  of  life,  and  the  hearts  of  thy  afflicted  friends." 


IV.  FANNY  MARY  GILLILAND,  fourth  child  of  Sarah 
Hopkins  and  Adam  B.  Gilliland,  was  married  September  29, 
184.7,  to  N.  C.  Wade,  who  was  born  August  15,  1826,  and  died 
October  28,  1890. 

CHILDREN  : 

ROBERT  GARY,         born  Sept.  10,  1848;  died  Mar.  15,  1882. 

NEHEMIAH  ADAM,  born  Aug.  10,  1850. 

ANNA  BELLE,  born  Nov.  10,  1851. 

MARY  ELLEN,          born  Mar.  26,  1853;  died  Aug.  14,  1858. 

SARAH  MARGARET,  born  July  28,  1855;  died  Aug.  17,  1858. 

LIZZIE  JANE,  born  Sept.  23,  1857. 

FANNIE,  born  Feb.     5,  1860;  died  Dec.     5,  1862. 

EDWARD,  born  Nov.    6,  1870. 

Home,  Venice,  O. 

IV.  FANNY  MARY  GILLILAND  died  November  12,  1886,  and  is 
buried  at  Venice,  O. 

N.  C.  Wade  was  a  ruling  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Ross,  O., 
for  twenty-seven  years. 


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V.  ROBERT  GARY  WADE,  first  child  of  Fanny  Mary 
Gilliland  and  N.  C.  Wade,  was  married  September  28,  1867, 
by  Rev.  I.  M.  Hughes,  to  Eliza  Toman,  who  was  born  December 
u,  184.9. 

CHILDREN: 

FREDERICK,  born  Sept.  17,  1870;  died  Apr.  24,  1882. 
BENJAMIN,    born  Aug.    4,  1877. 

V.  ROBERT  GARY  WADE  and  his  son  Frederick  died  within  a 
month  of  each  other,  and  are  buried  at  Venice,  O.     Eliza  Toman  Wade 
is  with  her  son,  Benjamin,  at  Millville,  O. 

VI.  BENJAMIN  WADE,  second  child  of  Robert  Gary 
Wade  and  Eliza  Toman,  was  married  to  Myrtle  Morris. 

CHILDREN: 

MORRIS,  born  Feb.  20,  1890. 
MILDRED,  born  Jan.  23,  1899. 
Home,  Millville,  O.;  business,  machinist. 

V.  NEHEMIAH  ADAM  WADE,  second  child  of  Fanny 
Mary  Gilliland  and  N.  C.  Wade,  was  married,  1883,  to  Nannie 
Sellers,  who  was  born  March  28,  1862. 

CHILDREN: 

JESSIE  M.,  born  Jan.  13,  1884. 

Home,  Ross,  O.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  ANNA  BELLE  WADE,  third  child  of  Fanny  Mary 
Gilliland  and  N.  C.  Wade.  Unmarrid. 

Home,  Millville,  O. 

V.  MAGGIE  and  V.  MARY  ELLA  WADE,  fourth  and 
fifth  children  of  Fanny  Mary  Gilliland  and  N.  C.  Wade,  died 
when  children,  within  a  few  days  of  each  other,  with  diphtheria. 


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V.  ELIZABETH  JANE  WADE,  sixth  child  of  Fanny 
Mary  Gilliland  and  N.  C.  Wade,  was  married  December  24., 
1879,  to  Andrew  J.  Marsh. 

CHILDREN: 

GEORGE,  born  Sept.  23,  1880. 

STANLEY,  born  Dec.     i,  1882. 

ANNA  FREEMAN,      born  Nov.  19,  1884. 

CHARLES  EDWARD,  born  Jan.    17,  1887. 

FLORENCE  BELLE,    born  Apr.  10,  1890. 

MARY  ELEANOR,      born  Apr.  10,  1890. 

Home,  841  Livingston  Street,  Cincinnati,  O.;  business,  lawyer. 

All  the  children  are  in  school. 

V.  FANNIE  WADE,  sixth  child  of  Fannie  Mary  Gilli- 
land and  N.  C.  Wade,  died  a  little  child,  and  is  buried  at 
Venice,  O. 

V.  EDWARD  WADE,  seventh  child  of  Fannie  Mary 
Gilliland  and  N.  C.  Wade,  was  married  to  Mattie  Dunn. 

CHILDREN: 
ROBERT. 
Home,  Barnsbury,  O. 


IV.  BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN  GILLILAND,  fifth  child 
of  Sarah  Hopkins  and  Adam  B.  Gilliland,  was  married  June 
27,  1854.,  to  Sarah  Johnson  Marsh,  who  was  born  April  25, 
1836. 

CHILDREN: 

HARRIET  FIDELLA,     born  May  28,  1855. 
INFANT  SON,  born  Dec.     2,  1857;  died  Jan.     5,  1858. 

INFANT  SON,  born  June  12,  1859;  died  June  13,  1859. 

GEORGE  EVERETT,  born  Oct.  8,  1860;  died  Jan.  27,  1887. 
SARAH  ELIZABETH,  born  Dec.  10,  1862. 
HANNAH  JOSEPHINE,  born  Aug.  30,  1865. 
HOSEA  FRANKLIN,  born  May  5,  1868. 
CHARLES  ADAM,  born  Apr.  22,  1871. 
SAMUEL  ARCHIBALD,  born  Apr.  19,1874. 

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IV.  BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN  GILLILAND  was  a  blacksmith,  at 
Venice,  Ohio.     He  went  from  there  to  Littleton,  111.,  and  built  a  cabin 
and  a  blacksmith's  shop  near  the  town.     Mrs.  Sarah  Hopkins  Gilliland 
then  went  out,  arriving  May  8,  1856,  the  day  of  "the  great  storm"  that 
blew  the  whole  town  away  except  one  log  cabin.      Twenty-five  were 
killed,  and  only  one  person  in  the  town  escaped  injury.     When  the  storm 
was  at  its  worst  Mrs.  Gilliland  was  in  a  stage-coach  on  her  way  to  Rush- 
ville,  111.,  to  meet  her  husband.     On  reaching  the  new  home  they  found 
it  nearly  all  blown  away.     Bravely  they  went  to  work  rebuilding  the 
demolished  houses,  living  on  coarse  corn  meal,  deer  and  buffalo  meat. 
In  1860  they  moved  to  La  Harpe,  111.,  where  Benjamin  Franklin  Gilliland 
died  and  is  buried.     His  wife  with  their  daughter  Josephine  and  son 
Samuel  Archibald  went  to  Beatrice,  Neb.,  in  1892,  where  they  now  live. 

V.  HARRIET  F.  GILLILAND,  first  child  of  Benjamin 
Franklin  Gilliland  and  Sarah  J.  Marsh,  was  married  Septem- 
ber 13,  1874,  to  Edwin  Coulson. 

CHILDREN: 

FANNIE  PEARL,         born  June  19,  1875. 

RUBIE  SARAH,           born  Nov.  20,  1876. 

MAGGIE  BELLE,        born  Oct.     8,  1878. 

INFANT  DAUGHTER,  born  June    2,  1880;  died  June    3,  1880. 

HENRY  FRANKLIN,    born  Apr.  27,  1881. 

EDWIN  CRANDALL,   born  Mar.  26,  1883. 

INFANT  SON,  born  July   10,  1884;  died  July  10,1884. 

BESSIE  ELLA,  born  Dec.     6,  1885;  died  Feb.  n,  1886. 

CLYDE  CLAIRE,         born  May    2,  1888. 

KARLE  FAY,  born  Apr.  16,  1896. 

Home,  Latham,  Butler  County,  Kan. 

VI.  FANNIE  PEARL  COULSON,  first  child   of  Har- 
riet F.  Gilliland  and  Edwin  Coulson,  was  married  October  75, 

to  Hollister  Fish. 
Home,  Idaho  Springs,  Colo. 


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VL  RUBIE  SARAH  COULSON,  second  child  of  Harriet 
F.  Gilliland  and  Edwin  Coulson,  was  married  March  12,  1896, 
to  Arza  W.  Shriver. 

CHILDREN  : 

HERCHEL,  born  Dec.  7,  1896. 

WILLIE  COULSON,  born  Aug.  3,  1901. 
OLIVER  W.,  born  Dec.  26,  1903. 

The  other  children  are  in  the  home. 

V.  The  second  and  third  children  of  Benjamin  Franklin 
Gilliland  and  Sarah  J.  Marsh  died  when  infants,  and  are  buried 
at  Littleton,  III. 

V.  GEORGE  EVERETT  GILLILAND,  fourth  child  of 
Benjamin  Franklin  Gilliland  and  Sarah  J.  Marsh,  was  not 
married.  He  died  at  twenty-seven  years  of  age,  and  is  buried 
at  La  Harpe,  III. 

V.  SARAH  ELIZABETH  GILLILAND,  fifth  child  of 
Benjamin  Franklin  Gilliland  and  Sarah  J.  Marsh,  was  married 
at  La  Harpe,  III.,  October  10,  1888,  to  Albertus  Homer  Kidd, 
who  was  born  in  Ada,  Ohio,  March  19,  1863. 

CHILDREN  : 

NORMA  JOSEPHINE,  born  Jan.  12,  1893. 
DORA  ALDONA,  born  Jan.  18,  1900. 
Home,  Beatrice,  Neb.;  business,  lawyer. 

V.  HANNAH  JOSEPHINE  GILLILAND,  sixth  child 
of  Benjamin  Franklin  Gilliland  and  Sarah  J.  Marsh. 

With  her  mother,  have  a  home  together  at  Beatrice,  Neb.  She  is  a 
stenographer. 


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V.  HOSEA  FRANKLIN  GILLILAND,  seventh  child 
of  Benjamin  Franklin  Gilliland  and  Sarah  J.  Marsh,  was 
married  November  19,  1896,  to  Mae  Freeman,  who  was  born 
in  Detroit,  Mich.,  September  25,  1873. 

CHILDREN: 

PERCY  CYRIL,   born  Nov.  3,  1898. 

PAUL  WESLEY,  born  Nov.  3,  1898;  died  Sept.  3,  1899. 

Home,  Riverside,  Cal.;  business,  druggist. 

V.  CHARLES  ADAM  GILLILAND,  eighth  child  of 
Benjamin  Franklin  Gilliland  and  Sarah  J.  Marsh,  is  not 
married. 

Home,  Neola,  la.;  business,  jeweler. 

V.  SAMUEL    ARCHIE    GILLILAND,  ninth   child    o] 
Benjamin  Franklin  Gilliland  and  Sarah  J.  Marsh. 
Court  stenographer,  Beatrice,  Neb. 


IV.  SARAH  ELIZABETH  GILLILAND,  sixth  child  oj 
Sarah  Hopkins  and  Adam  B.  Gilliland,  was  married  in  1856 
to  Isaac  Anderson,  a  cousin  of  Ichabod  Fergus  Anderson  and 
Samuel  D.  Anderson.  She  died  August  8,  1857,  and  is  buried 
at  Venice,  Ohio. 


IV.  ARCHIBALD  LUTHER  GILLILAND,  seventh  child 
of  Sarah  Hopkins  and  Adam  B.  Gilliland,  was  married,  1838, 
to  Lucy  Ann  Branough. 

CHILDREN  : 

JAMES. 

FRANK  ELMER. 
MARY  ELLA. 
GROVE  WESLEY. 
ADAM. 

HERBERT. 

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V.  JAMES  GILLILAND,  first  child  of  Archibald  Luther 
Gilliland  and  Lucy  Ann  Branough,  died  a  child,  and  is  buried 
at  Seneca,  Kan. 

V.  FRANK  ELMER  GILLILAND,  second  child  oj  Arch- 
ibald Luther  Gilliland  and  Lucy  Ann  Branough,  was  married 
to  Bell  Williams. 

CHILDREN: 

MARY  ERMA. 
STELLA  GLADYS. 

Home,  Council  Bluffs,  la. 

V.  MARY  ELLA  GILLILAND,  third  child  of  Archibald 
Luther  Gilliland  and  Lucy  Ann  Branough,  was  married  to 
Charles  McCutcheon. 

CHILDREN  : 
IRENE. 
Home,  Canton,  111. 

V.  GROVE  WESLEY  GILLILAND,  fourth  child  of 
Archibald  Luther  Gilliland  and  Lucy  Ann  Branough,  was 
married. 

CHILDREN  : 
HAZEL. 
Home,  Axtel,  Kan. 


///.  ROBERT  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of  Archibald  Hop- 
kins and  Elizabeth  Poag,  was  married,  in  1819,  to  Fanny  Gilli- 
land,  who  was  born  January  20,  1799,  and  died  July  23,  1869. 

CHILDREN  : 
LIZZIE. 

AMANDA,    born  1827;  died  1903. 
HARRIET,  born  1838;  died  1903. 
JAMES  A.,  born  Nov.  1837;  died  Aug.  27,  1890. 
JANE,        born 
Home,  Red  Oak,  O. 


IV.  ELIZABETH  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Robert  Hop- 
kins and  Fanny  Gilliland,  was  married  in  Union  Township, 
Brown  County,  Ohio,  by  Rev.  Hiram  Bingham,  November  9, 
184.3,  t°  James  McFerson. 

CHILDREN: 

FRANCES  ANN,          born  Oct.  29,  1844;  died  Sept.  22,  1866. 

ROBERT  HOPKINS,     born  Aug.  24,  1846;  died  Jan.    17,  1853. 

WILLIAM  ADAM,        born  Apr.  21,1848. 

LOUISA  JANE,  born  Apr.     9,  1850. 

MILTON  CAMPBELL,  born  Nov.  10,  1851. 

SAMUEL  LEWIS,        born  Mar.  14,  1854;  died  Aug.  14,  1881. 

AMANDA  AGNES,       born  June    6,  1856. 

DAVID  STEWART,      born  Jan.   19,  1862. 

EDWARD  PAYSON,     born  Jan.     5,  1864. 

Home,  Red  Oak,  O. 

V.  FRANCES  ANN  McFERSON,  first  child  oj  Elizabeth 
Hopkins  and  James  McFerson,  died  when  22  years  old. 

V.  ROBERT  HOPKINS  McFERSON,  second  child  of 
Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  James  McFerson,  died  when  seven 
years  old. 

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V.  WILLIAM  ADAM  McFERSON,  third  child  of  Eliz- 
abeth Hopkins  and  James  McFerson,  is  not  married. 
Home,  Red  Oak,  O. 

V.  LOUISA  JANE  McFERSON,  fourth  child  of  Eliz- 
abeth Hopkins  and  James  McFerson,  was  married  June  5, 
1888,  to  Joel  B.  Morrow,  who  was  born  August  15,  1850. 

CHILDREN: 

MARY,       born  Apr.    i,  1889. 

AUGIE  E.,  born  Dec.  13,  1890;  died  July  21,  1891. 

SON,  born   Jan.  i,  1894;  died  Jan.    i,  1894. 

Home,  Russelville,  O.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  MILTON  CAMPBELL  McFERSON,  fifth  child  of 
Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  James  McFerson,  was  married,  March 
23,  1880,  to  Hannah  Fenton. 

CHILDREN: 

MARY  MCFERSON,  born  Apr.  5,  1885. 
Home,  Red  Oak;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  SAMUEL  LEWIS  McFERSON,  sixth  child  of  Eliz- 
abeth Hopkins  and  James  McFerson,  died  unmarried. 

V.  AMANDA  AGNES  McFERSON,  seventh  child  of 
Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  James  McFerson,  was  married,  Jan- 
uary ij,  1878,  to  Edwin  Ackless  Culler. 

CHILDREN: 

JAMES  ALLEN,  born  June  14,  1879;  died  July    2,  1879. 

NELLIE  MAY,  born  June  16,  1880. 

GEORGE  EDWIN,       born  July     i,  1883. 

CHARLES  STEWART,  born  July  26,  1885;  died  Feb.  28,  1888. 

Home,  Russelville,  O.;  business,  liveryman. 

V.  DAVID    STEWART   McFERSON,   eighth  child  of 
Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  James  McFerson,  was  married,  May 
,  1891,  to  Ella  McCutcheon. 
Home,  Red  Oak,  O.;  business,  agriculture. 

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V.  EDWARD  PAY  SON  McFERSON,  ninth  child  of 
Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  James  McFerson,  was  married,  Sep- 
tember 75,  1892,  to  Amelia  Louise  Beatty. 

Home,  Chicago,  111.;  business,  with  John  V.  Farwell,  Chicago,  111. 


IV.  AMANDA  and  HARRIET  HOPKINS,  second  and 
third  children  0}  Robert  Hopkins  and  Fanny  Gilliland,  were 
unmarried. 

They  lived  and  died  in  the  old  home  near  Ripley,  O.  They  are 
buried  in  the  Red  Oak,  O.,  churchyard. 


V.  JAMES  A.  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Robert  Hopkins 
and  Fanny  Gilliland,  was  married,  October  7,  1862,  to  Mary 
Culler. 

CHILDREN  : 

EDWIN  CAREY,      born  Oct.   13,  1864. 

JENNIE  M.,  born  Mar.  24,  1867. 

SAMUEL  GORDON,  born  Oct.  17,  1873. 

FANNY,  born  June    7,  1876. 

V.  JAMES  A.  HOPKINS  died  August  27,  1890,  and  is  buried  at 
Paolo,  Kan.  None  of  his  children  are  married.  They  live  with  their 
mother  at  Paolo,  Kan.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  JANE  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  Robert  Hopkins  and 
Fanny  Gilliland,  was  married  to  Harry  Bennington. 

CHILDREN: 

THOMAS  NEWTON,  who  died  when  quite  young. 


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III.     THOMAS    HOPKINS. 

III.     GORDON    HOPKINS. 


///.  GORDON  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  o)  Archibald 
Hopkins,  and  first  child  of  Margaret  Shanklin,  was  married 
September  p,  1819,  to  Ann  Kinkead,  at  her  home  in  Ripley,  Ohio. 

CHILDREN: 

ELIJAH  A.,  born  July  22,  1820;  died  Mar.  14,  1900. 

WILLIAM  KINKEAD,  born  Oct.     5,  1822. 

THOMAS  SCOTT,  born  June  19,  1825;  died  Aug.    7,  1897. 

A  DAUGHTER,  born  Feb.  22,  1828;  died  a  baby. 

ARCHIBALD  G.,  born  Jan.  24,  1829;  died  May    7,  1851. 

NANCY  ANN,  born  Oct.  12,  1832;  died  May    3,  1833. 

ELLEN  JANE,  born  Apr.  19,  1834. 

CAREY  ALLEN,  born  Aug.  24,  1837. 

ALBERT  N.,  born  Apr.    6,  1840;  died  Jan.   22,  1868. 

V.  GORDON  HOPKINS  and  his  family  lived  in  Brown  County,  O., 
until  some  time  in  the  fifties.  They  then  came  to  Oswego,  Kendall  County, 
111.,  where  they  made  their  home  the  rest  of  their  lives.  He  and  his  wife 
are  buried  at  Oswego,  111. 

IV.  ELIJAH  A .  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Gordon  Hopkins 
and  Ann  Kinkead,  was  married  November  22,  184.2,  to  Eliz- 
abeth Gay,  of  Woodford  County,  Ky.,  who  died  April  8,  1862. 

CHILDREN: 

JAMES  WILLIAM,  born  Aug.    3,  1843;  died  1863. 

A  BABY,  who  died. 

ANNAB.,  born  June  18,  1847. 

JOHN  T.,  born  Feb.     6,  1850. 

AGNES,  born  Jan.    26.  1856. 

KATE  G.,  born  May  13,  1860. 

LIZZIE,  born  Mar.  30,  1862. 

IV.  ELIJAH  A.  HOPKINS  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Gay,  are  buried  at 
Oswego,  111.     Elijah  A.  Hopkins  was  a  great  lover  of  horses. 

V.  JAMES  WILLIAMS  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Elijah 
Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Gay. 

Enlisted  in  the  United  States  Army  in  the  fall  of  1861,  Company  C, 

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Fourth  Illinois  Cavalry,  Colonel  T.  L.  Dickey's  regiment  that  went  from  Ot- 
tawa, 111.  He  was  orderly  for  Colonel  Dickey,  and  for  Colonel  McCullough. 
The  latter  was  killed  at  Coffee  Mills  Springs,  Miss.  Will  Hopkins  was 
one  of  those  chosen  to  act  as  escort  with  the  body  to  Bloomington,  111. 
He  was  granted  a  furlough  at  this  time,  and  visited  the  home  folks  at 
Oswego.  It  was  his  last  home-coming.  He  was  killed  at  the  siege  of 
Vicksburg,  very  little  being  known  of  the  circumstances  of  his  death  or 
burial.  He  was  in  the  battle  at  Fort  Henry,  Fort  Donaldson,  and  other 
places. 

V.  The  second  child  of  Elijah  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Gay 
died  a  baby. 

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V.  ANNA  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  Elijah  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Gay,  was  married  March  23,  1876,  to  Victor 
Mather. 

Home,  Austin,  Tex. 

Victor  Mather  was  superintendent  of  the  waterworks.     Died  in  1901. 

V.  JOHN  T.  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Elijah  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Gay,  was  married  April,  1892,  to  Leauna  B. 
Davis. 

Home,  4311  Dodge  Street,  Omaha,  Neb.;  business,  real  estate  broker. 

V.  AGNES  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  Elijah  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Gay,  was  married  January  5,  1887,  to  James 
Richardson,  who  died  October  18,  1891. 

V.  AGNES  HOPKINS  RICHARDSON  was  married  again  October 
21,  1896,  to  Charles  C.  Risk,  who  was  born  November  16,  1839. 

Home,  Fairfield,  la.;  business,  dry  goods  merchant. 

V.  KATE  G.  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of  Elijah  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Gay,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Oswego,  111. 

V.  LIZZIE  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  of  Elijah  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Gay,  was  married  September  24.,  1884.,  to  W.  H. 

Winser. 
CHILDREN  : 

ROY  A.,  born  Mar.  3,  1886. 

Home,  Aurora,  111. ;  business,  train  dispatcher. 

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IV.  WILLIAM  KIN  READ  HOPKINS,  second  child  of 
Gordon  Hopkins  and  Ann  Kinkead,  was  married  October  14., 
184.7,  t°  Mary  Jane  Baird,  of  Brown  County,  Ohio,  who  died 
June  12,  1856. 

CHILDREN: 

DRUSILLA  FRANCES,    born  Oct.  11,1848. 

CORNELIA  ARABELLA,  born  Nov.  13,  1850;  died  Sept.  n,  1877. 

ROBERT  MARCELLUS,  born  Jan.     i,  1854;  died  Feb.     5,  1887. 

IV.  WILLIAM  KINKEAD  HOPKINS  owned  and  operated  a  woolen 
mill  in  Ohio  until  the  fall  of  1855,  when  he  moved  with  his  family  to  Ken- 
dall County,  111.     They  came  by  wagon.     His  wife,  Mary  Jane  Baird, 
died  the  next  summer,  and  is  buried  at  Oswego,  111. 

V.  DRUSILLA    FRANCES  HOPKINS,  first  child   of 
William  Kinkead  Hopkins  and  Mary  Jane  Baird,  was  married 
August  jo,  1880,  to  F.  W.  Clark. 

CHILDREN: 

CORNELIA  STELLA,     born  Apr.  12,  1881;  died  Feb.  16,  1884. 
WILLIAM  WINFIELD,  born  Dec.  12,  1884. 
HARRY  HOPKINS,       born  Jan.  25,  1889. 

V.  CORNELIA  ARABELLA  HOPKINS,  second  child  of 
William  Kinkead  Hopkins  and  Mary  Jane  Baird,  was  married 
December  28,  1875,  to  H.  C.  Kerr. 

CHILDREN  : 

HARRY  WALLACE,  born  Apr.  27,  1877. 
Home,  Hastings,  Neb.;  business,  real  estate. 

VI.  HARRY  WALLACE  KERR,  first  child  of  Cornelia 
Arabella  Hopkins  and  H.  C.  Kerr,  was  married  September  25, 
1896,  to  Amy  Morgan,  who  was  born  April  7,  1879. 

Home,  Little  Sioux,  la. ;  business,  manager  Review  Publishing  Co. 


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V.  ROBERT  MARCELLUS  HOPKINS,  third  child  of 
William  Kinkead  Hopkins  and  Mary  Jane  Baird,  was  married, 
in  1880,  to  Lizzie  M.  Copple. 

CHILDREN: 

LOTTIE  BELLE,  born  Jan.  17,  1881. 

JOHN  COPPLE,  born  July  19,  1882. 

CLARA  D.,          born  Jan.  22,  1886;  died  Oct.  22,  1886. 

V.  ROBERT  MARCELLUS  HOPKINS  and  his  wife  lived  in  Ohio 
on  a  farm.  He  is  buried  at  Oswego,  111.  Mrs.  Lizzie  M.  Copple  Hopkins 
has  made  her  home  in  Georgetown,  O.,  since  November,  1899. 

IV.  THOMAS  SCOTT  HOPKINS,  third  child  oj  Gordon 
Hopkins  and  Ann  Kinkead,  was  married  February,  1866,  to 
Lizzie  Macklin,  who  was  born  in  Ireland,  February  5,  1838, 
and  died  October  10,  1890. 

CHILDREN: 

NEWT  ROBERT,  born  Dec.  14,  1866. 

MARY  MAUD,  born  July   11,1871. 
GORDON  DEARMOND,  born  Oct.   13,  1874. 

THOMAS  SCOTT,  born  Apr.     5,  1877. 

GUY  HAMILTON,  born  June  10,  1879. 

HOY  BEVERIDGE,  born  Sept.  30,  1884. 

Lizzie  Macklin  was  a  milliner  in  Aurora  before  her  marriage.  She 
died  very  suddenly  in  Aurora  of  paralysis  of  the  brain.  She  is  buried 
at  Oswego. 

IV.  THOMAS  SCOTT  HOPKINS  was  born  in  Ripley,   O.    His 
home  for  twenty-five  years  or  more  was  at  Oswego,  111.,  on  a  farm  where 
his  children  were  all  raised.     He  sold  his  farm  in  1896,  and  went  to  Fruit- 
hurst,  Ala.,  where  he  died  in  1897  from  blood  poisoning  from  an  abscess. 
He  is  buried  at  Oswego,  111. 

V.  NEWT  ROBERT  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Thomas 
Scott  Hopkins  and  Lizzie  Macklin,  was  married  at  Yorkville, 
III.,  by  Rev.  J.  G.  Haige,  December  14,  1887,  to  Emma  L. 
Collins,  who  was  born  May  7,  1870. 

CHILDREN  : 

LIZZIE  E.,  born  Jan.  8,  1895. 
Home,  592  Douglas  Avenue,  Aurora,  111. 

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V.  MARY  MAUD  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  Thomas 
Scott  Hopkins  and  Lizzie  Macklin,  was  married  November  14., 
1895,  at  the  Palmer  House,  Chicago,  by  Rev.  Bass,  to  D.  W.  T. 
Putt. 

Home,  Fruithurst,  Ala. ;  business,  physician. 

V.  GORDON  DEARMOND  HOPKINS,  third  child  oj 
Thomas  Scott  Hopkins  and  Lizzie  Macklin,  is  unmarried. 
Lives  in  Aurora. 

V.  THOMAS  SCOTT  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Thomas 
Scott  Hopkins  and  Lizzie  Macklin,  was  married,  April  5, 1900, 
at  Yorkville,  III.,  to  Lydia  Biesemeyer. 

Home,  Rockford,  111.;  business,  brakeman  on  the  C.  B.  &  Q.  R.  R. 

V.  GUY  HAMILTON  HOPKINS  and  V.  HOY 
BEVERIDGE  HOPKINS,  fifth  and  sixth  children  of  Thomas 
Scott  Hopkins  and  Lizzie  Macklin. 

Live  in  Aurora,  111. 


IV.  The  fourth  child  of  Gordon  Hopkins  and  Ann  Kinkead 
was  a  daughter,  who  died  in  infancy. 


IV.  ARCHIBALD  G.  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  Gordon 
Hopkins  and  Ann  Kinkead,  died  in  California  at  the  age  of 
twenty-two.  He  is  buried  there. 


IV.  NANCY  ANN  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of  Gordon 
Hopkins  and  Ann  Kinkead,  died  less  than  a  year  old,  and  is 
buried  in  Ohio. 


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IV.  ELLEN  JANE  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  of  Gordon 
Hopkins  and  Ann  Kinkead,  was  married  June,  1855,  t°  Qv 
Wagner. 

CHILDREN  : 

CHARLES  HAMILTON,  born  June  6,  1856. 

MARGARET  ANN. 

SCOTT. 

GORDON. 

FRANK. 

ALBERT. 

LAURA. 

Home,  York,  York  County,  Neb. 

V.  CHARLES  HAMILTON  WAGNER,  first  child  of 
Ellen  Jane  Hopkins  and  Cy  Wagner,  was  married  February 
6,  1 88 1,  to  Lettia  M.  Beattie,  who  was  born  July  5, 1858. 
CHILDREN: 

SCOTT  B.,  born  Oct.  18,  1881. 
GRACE  L.,  born  June  25,  1884. 
MARY  W.,  born  Jan.  31,  1886. 
JOSEPHINE  E.,  born  Feb.  22,  1887. 
VIOLA,  born  Mar.  3,  1891. 

Home,  539  Lafayette  Street,  Aurora,  111. 

MARGARET   ANN    WAGNER,  second  child  of  Ellen 
Jane  Hopkins  and  Cy  Wagner,  was  married  to  S.  W.  Johnson. 
Home,  Yorkville,  111. 
No  further  report  obtained  of  this  family. 


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IV.  CAREY  ALLEN  HOPKINS,  eighth  child  of  Gordon 
Hopkins  and  Ann  Kinkead,  was  married  December  31,  1860, 
to  Mary  Jane  Cherry,  of  Naansay,  III. 

CHILDREN  : 

LIZZIE,  born  Nov.  15,  1861. 

MOSES  CHERRY,  born  May  10,  1866. 

Mary  Jane  Cherry  Hopkins  died  March  23,  1877,  and  is  buried  at 
Naansay,  111. 

Home,  511  Lafayette  Street,  Aurora,  111.;  business,  agriculture  (retired). 

IV.  CAREY  ALLEN  HOPKINS  has  been  an  elder  in  the  Presby- 
terian church  for  over  thirty  years. 

V.  LIZZIE  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Carey  Allen  Hopkins 
and  Mary  Jane  Cherry,  was  married  January  6,  1881,  by  the 
Rev.  T.  F.  Jessup,  to  Isaac  James  Beattie. 

CHILDREN  : 

CAREY  HOPKINS,  born  Jan.  27,  1882. 
JOSEPH  FRANKLIN,  born  Nov.  2,  1884. 
MURRAY  BULLARD,  born  Nov.  3,  1886. 
STELLA  MAY,  born  Mar.  7,  1889. 

Home,  since  1882,  near  Bradshaw,  York  County,  Neb.;  business, 
agriculture. 

VI.  CAREY  HOPKINS  BEATTIE,  first  child  of  Lizzie 
Hopkins  and  Isaac  James  Beattie. 

Graduated  from  the  Bradshaw  High  School,  Class  of  1898.  He  was 
valedictorian,  and  won  the  Doane  scholarship.  He  attended  York  College 
two  years,  and  spent  a  winter  at  the  State  Agricultural  College  of  Nebraska. 
He  owns  a  half  section  of  land  in  Hall  County,  Neb.,  which  he  expects 
to  cultivate  next  year  (1905). 

VI.  JOSEPH  FRANKLIN  BEATTIE,  second  child  of 
Lizzie  Hopkins  and  Isaac  James  Beattie. 

Graduated  from  the  Bradshaw  High  School,  Class  of  1901. 


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VI.  MURRAY  BULLARD  BEATTIE,  third  child  oj 
Lizzie  Hopkins  and  Isaac  James  Beattie. 

Graduated  from  the  High  School,  Bradshaw,  Neb.,  1903. 

VI.  STELLA  MAY  BEATTIE,  fourth  child  oj  Lizzie 
Hopkins  and  Isaac  James  Beattie. 

Graduated  from  the  High  School,  Bradshaw,  Neb.,  1904. 

V.  MOSES  CHERRY  HOPKINS,  second  child  oj  Carey 
Allen  Hopkins  and  Mary  Jane  Cherry,  was  married  December, 
1888,  to  Hattie  May  Rickertson. 

CHILDREN: 

BESSIE  MAY,  born  Nov.,  1889. 

Home,  Joplin,  Mo. ;  business,  manager  of  Joplin  Waterworks. 


IV.  ALBERT  N.  HOPKINS,  ninth  child  oj  Gordon 
Hopkins  and  Ann  Kinkead,  died  at  eighteen  years  oj  age,  and 
is  buried  at  Oswego,  III. 


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HOUSE  BUILT  BY  III.   BENJAMIN  HOPKINS,  RIPLEY    OHIO. 

GRAVE  OF  III.   ELIJAH  HOPKINS. 
THE  FIRST  HOPKINS  GRAVE  IN  OHIO. 


///.  BENJAMIN  HOPKINS,  eighth  child  of  Archibald 
Hopkins,  and  second  child  of  Margaret  Shanklin,  was  married 
1824.,  to  Fidelia  Campbell,  who  was  born  in  1801,  and  died 
June  25,  1882,  in  her  eighty-second  year. 

CHILDREN  : 

ELIZABETH  A.,  born  Dec.  i,  1825;  died  Oct.  28,  1872. 
THOMAS,  who  died  aged  five  months  and  sixteen  days. 

III.  BENJAMIN  HOPKINS  and  Fidelia  Campbell  lived  and  died 
at  Ripley,  O.  Benjamin  died  in  1827,  and  his  widow  and  daughter,  Eliz- 
abeth, lived  on  together  till  1872,  when  the  daughter  died.  After  this 
the  widow  lived  alone  until  her  death  in  1882.  The  old  home  still  stands 
in  Ripley,  O. 


///.  THOMAS  HOPKINS,  ninth  child  of  Archibald 
Hopkins,  and  third  child  of  Elizabeth  Shanklin,  was  married 
by  Rev.  John  Rankin,  in  1826,  to  Sarah  Johnston,  who  was 
born  May  24,  1806. 

CHILDREN  : 

ORLANDO  JOHNSTON,  born  Sept.    6,  1830. 

MARY,  born  Apr.     2,  1834. 

JOHN  THOMAS,  born  Mar.    9,  1836. 

MARGARET  ELLEN,  born  1838. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  HARRISON,  born  Sept.    9,  1840. 
HORACE  EVERETT,  born  Nov.  19,  1848. 

Home,  Ripley,  O.;  business,  merchant. 

III.  THOMAS  HOPKINS  left  the  farm  quite  early  in  life,  and  settled 
in  Ripley,  Brown  County,  O.,  where  he  engaged  in  the  dry  goods  business, 
which,  with  other  pursuits  afterwards  embarked  in,  became  extensive. 
For  many  years  he  owned  and  operated  the  "Franklin  Flouring  Mills," 
located  on  the  Ripley  and  Hillsboro  pike,  some  two  miles  from  Ripley. 
He  also  built  an  extensive  wharf  on  the  river  frontage  of  the  store  property, 
and  was  among  the  first  to  build  and  introduce  the  wharf  boat  for  the 
accommodation  of  steam  craft.  In  connection  with  the  wharf  he  erected, 
contiguous  to  the  wharf  property,  a  commodious  warehouse  for  the  storage 
of  merchandise,  which  remained  standing  until  within  a  few  years,  when 
it  was  dismantled. 

The  family  residence  built  by  him  was,  in  its  day,  regarded  one  of  the 
finest  houses  in  the  town,  and  is  still  standing  in  good  condition.  A  public- 
spirited  man,  of  wonderful  energy  and  activity,  his  labors  for  the  com- 
munity in  which  he  lived,  for  its  Avelfare  as  well  as  his  own,  were  not  ap- 
preciated as  they  should  have  been  in  the  days  of  his  prosperity,  but  in 
after  years,  when  reverses  had  overtaken  him  and  the  accumulations  of 
a  lifetime  had  been  swept  away,  there  were  those  who  bore  testimony  of 
his  indefatigable  enterprises  and  of  the  great  good  he  had  done  for  the 
benefit  of  those  who  followed.  He  was  ninety-three  years  old  when  he 
died. 

Sarah  Johnston  was  born  in  Brownsville,  Pa.,  but  was  living  in  Ripley, 

O.,  when  Thomas  Hopkins  met  her.     She  was  a  young  woman  of  local 

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distinction  and  popularity,  known  by  her  intimates  as  the  "  belle  of  Ripley." 
She  was  in  every  respect  a  true  woman,  of  fine  attainments.  She  was  an 
intimate  friend  of  the  Elaine  family,  and  recollected  well  the  birth  of 
James  G.  Elaine,  and  his  boyhood  in  their  native  town.  She  was  a  Pres- 
byterian, as  have  been  all  the  members  of  her  household. 

After  the  death  of  Joel  W.  Hopkins,  of  Granville,  111.,  the  following 
clipping  was  found  among  his  papers:  "Mrs.  Sarah  Hopkins,  wife  of 
Thomas  Hopkins,  died  yesterday  afternoon  at  five  o'clock,  at  her  home  on 
Mulbury  Street,  Jeffersonville,  Ind.,  of  old  age.  The  deceased  was  eighty- 
one  years  old,  and  had  long  been  a  resident  of  Jeffersonville.  Mrs.  Hop- 
kins was  an  intimate  acquaintance  of  the  Hon.  J.  G.  Elaine,  and  was 
familiar  with  many  of  the  celebrated  personages  of  other  years.  She  was 
one  of  the  committee  of  young  ladies  who  gave  a  reception  to  General 
Lafayette  upon  his  visit  to  this  country  in  1824."  Thomas  Hopkins 
and  Sarah  Johnston  Hopkins  are  buried  at  Jeffersonville,  Ind. 


IV.  ORLANDO  JOHNSTON  HOPKINS,  first  child 
of  Thomas  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Johnston,  was  married  at 
Felicity,  Ohio,  October  12,  1853,  to  Malissa  Ruhama  Sargent, 
who  was  born  at  Felicity,  Clermont  County,  Ohio,  October  i, 
1831. 

CHILDREN  : 

EMMA  FLORENCE,  born  Feb.    8,  1855;  died  Oct.  27,  1855. 

MINNIE  BLANCHE,  born  Oct.  n,  1857. 

NANNIE  ELOISE,  born  Feb.  27,  1860;  died  Oct.  18,  1883. 

ALICE,  born  Apr.    5,  1864. 

RILEY,  born  Feb.  10,  1866;  died  June  24,  1867. 

ORLANDO  JOHNSON,  born  Dec.  29,  1874;  died  July  26,  1876. 

IV.  ORLANDO  JOHNSTON  HOPKINS  volunteered  as  a  private 
soldier  of  the  United  States  Army  at  Ripley,  Brown  County,  O.,  September 
12,   1861.     He  was  commissioned  by  the  government  of  Ohio  as  first 
lieutenant,  Company  A,  5Qth  Regiment  Ohio  Infantry.     After  the  battle 
of  Shiloh,  in  1863,  he  was  commissioned  by  President  Lincoln  as  captain 
and  commissary  of  subsistence,  U.  S.  A.,  at  Jeffersonville,  Ind.      After 
Sherman's  march  to  the  sea  he  was  ordered  to  Fort  Riley,  Kan.,  where 
he  was  honorably  mustered  out  of  the  service.     He  has  lived  in  Kansas 
twenty  years,  and  twenty-three  years  in  Denver,  his  present  home. 

V.  EMMA  FLORENCE  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Or- 
lando Johnston  Hopkins  and  Malissa  Ruhama  Sargent,  died 
when  only  a  few  months  old. 

V.  MINNIE  BLANCHE  HOPKINS,  second  child  of 
Orlando  Johnston  Hopkins  and  Malissa  Ruhama  Sargent,  was 
married  October  24,  1877,  to  James  Wesley  Hammond. 

CHILDREN  : 

JAMES  WESLEY,    born  Aug.  19,  1878. 
RUTH,  born  Sept.  23,  1879. 

CLARENCE  EARL,  born  July   18,  1881. 
IRENE,  born  July   11,1883. 

Home,  Cheyenne,  Wyo. 

V.  NANNIE  ELOISE  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  Or- 
lando Johnston  Hopkins  and  Malissa  Ruhama  Sargent,  died 
at  twenty-three,  and  is  buried  at  Denver,  Colo. 

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V.  ALICE  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Orlando  Johnston 
Hopkins  and  Malissa  Ruhama  Sargent,  was  married  December 
25,  1899,  to  Albert  Delos  Gilleland. 

Home,  Denver,  Colo. 

V.  RILEY  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  Orlando  Johnston 
Hopkins  and  Malissa  Ruhama  Sargent,  was  born  at  Ft.  Riley, 
Kan.  He  died  at  Junction  City,  Kan.,  when  a  little  more  than 
a  year  old,  and  is  btiried  at  Ft.  Riley,  Kan. 

V.  ORLANDO  JOHNSTON  HOPKINS,  sixth  child 
of  Orlando  Johnston  Hopkins  and  Malissa  Ruhama  Sargent, 
was  born  at  Leavenworth,  Kan.  He  died  a  year  and  a  half 
old,  and  is  buried  at  Leavenworth,  Kan. 


IV.  MARY  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  Thomas  Hopkins 
and  Sarah  Johnston,  was  married  June  17,  1891,  to  Rev. 
Samuel  Weeks,  a  Methodist  minister,  retired,  of  Holman, 
Ind.,  who  died  in  Jeffersonville,  Ind.,  in  July,  1895. 

At  which  place  the  widow  still  resides. 


IV.  JOHN  THOMAS  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  Thomas 
Hopkins  and  Sarah  Johnston,  was  married  July  5,  1865,  to 
Esther  M.  Dickinson,  of  Haddam,  Middlesex  County,  Conn. 

CHILDREN  : 

ROSA  BONHEUR,          born  June  18,  1866. 
CHARLES  DICKINSON,  born  Oct.    28,  1872. 
Home,  Jeffersonville,  Ind. 

IV.  JOHN  THOMAS  HOPKINS,  when  about  sixteen  years  old,  was 
engaged  in  the  Ohio  River  steamboat  service,  and  was  for  ten  years  a  clerk 
on  packets,  plying  between  Cincinnati,  Maysville,  Portsmouth,  and  Cat- 
lettsburg,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Big  Sandy.  Soon  after  the  outbreak  of 
the  Civil  War,  he  connected  himself  with  the  Union  Army,  serving  as  a 
civil  employee.  He  remained  twenty-five  years  in  the  quartermaster's 
department,  during  which  time  he  was  for  nine  years  superintendent  of 

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the  Jeffersonville  depot  of  the  quartermaster's  department  at  Jefferson- 
ville,  Ind.  A  change  of  national  administration  from  Republican  to  Demo- 
cratic required  his  resignation.  Afterwards  he  was  engaged  in  business, 
dry  goods  and  notions,  in  Jeffersonville,  remaining  in  that  business  twelve 
years,  when  he  sold  out.  He  is  now  general  bookkeeper  and  teller  of 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Jeffersonville. 

V.  ROSA  BONHEUR  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  John 
Thomas  Hopkins  and  Esther  M.  Dickinson,  was  married 
November  15,  1888,  to  Charles  H.  Allen. 

Home,  Jeffersonville,  Ind. 

V.  CHARLES  DICKINSON  HOPKINS,  second  child 
of  John  Thomas  Hopkins  and  Esther  M.  Dickinson,  was 
married  June  ij,  1901,  to  Lillie  M.  Pjau. 

CHILDREN: 

CHARLES  D.,  born  Apr.  i,  1903. 
Home,  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. 


IV.  MARGARET  ELLEN  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of 
Thomas  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Johnston,  was  married  April, 
1854,  to  Eli  E.  Kellogg,  who  was  born  1834.. 

CHILDREN  : 

EDGAR  E.,  born  Mar.  7,  1855. 
THOMAS,    born  Mar.  i,  1857. 

Home,  Denver,  Colo. 

IV.  MARGARET  ELLEN  HOPKINS  KELLOGG  died  April, 
1902. 


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HOUSE  BUILT  BY  JAMES  HOPKINS,  RF.D  OAK,  OHIO. 

HOUSE  BUII.T  BY  THOMAS  HOPKINS,  RIPLEY,  (  >mo. 

HOUSE   BUII.T   BY  r.oKnoN  HOPKINS,   RED  OAK,  OHIO. 


IV.  WILLIAM  HENRY  HARRISON  HOPKINS,  fifth 
child  of  Thomas  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Johnston,  was  married 
in  1863  to  Martha  Washington  Fowler,  of  Louisville,  Ky, 

Their  married  life  proving  incompatible  after  a  few  years,  they  were 
divorced. 

CHILDREN  : 

HENRY,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-five. 

The  life  of  William  Henry  Harrison  Hopkins  has  been  on  the  Ohio 
River,  in  connection  with  its  traffic.  During  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  he 
was  superintendent  of  river  transportation,  under  charge  of  officers  of  the 
U.  S.  Army.  He  is  still  connected  with  steamboats. 

Home,  Louisville,  Ky. 


IV.  HORACE  EVERETT  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of 
Thomas  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Johnston,  was  married  October 
/7,  1887,  to  Susannah  Hawkins,  of  Jeffersonmlle,  Ind. 

CHILDREN: 

H.  EVERETT,  born  July  15,  1888. 
ALMAL.,  born  Nov.  21,  1889. 
RUTH  P.,  born  Dec.  22,  1896. 
EDITH  L.,  born  May  5,  1899. 
CORRINNE,  born  Aug.  2,  1900. 

The  dead  are: 

H.  STODDARD,  aged  14  months. 
SUSIE  MAY,      aged  15  months. 

In  earlier  life  Horace  Everett  Hopkins  was  connected  with  railroads. 
Later  he  became  associated  with  newspaper  work  on  Louisville  daily 
papers,  and  as  correspondent  for  those  in  other  cities.  He  is  now  engaged 
in  job  printing  in  Jeffersonville,  Ind. 


///.  ELIZABETH  HOPKINS,  tenth  child  of  Archibald 
Hopkins,  and  fourth  child  of  Margaret  Shanklin,  was  married 
in  1821  to  William  Kinkead,  who  died  September  5,  1855. 

CHILDREN: 

ALEXANDER,  born  May  20,  1822;  died  Sept.    5,  1855. 

MARGARET  ANN,  born  Apr.  23,  1824;  died  Nov.    4,  1899. 

NANCY  JANE,  born  Aug.  17,  1827;  died  May     7,  1838. 

HARRIET  AMANDA,  born  Sept.  19,  1829. 

ELIZABETH  MARY,  born  May  15,  1831. 

WILLIAM  GAY,  born  May  24,  1833;  died  July     4,  1883. 

LUELLA,  born  May  30,  1836. 

ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  born  Apr.  16,  1838. 

JOHN  POAGE,  born  Sept.    9,  1840. 

SARAH  ELLEN,  born  Sept.    9,  1840;  died  July   24,  1874. 

IV.  ALEXANDER  KINKEAD,  first  child  of  Elizabeth 
Hopkins  and  William  Kinkead,  was  married  September  24, 
184.6,  to  Belle  McClanahan,  who  was  born  at  Ripley,  Ohio, 
April  14.,  1826. 

CHILDREN: 

DORA. 

MARGARET  ANN. 
MARY  ALICE. 

Home,  Ripley,  O.;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  ALEXANDER  KINKEAD  and  his  father,  William  Kinkead, 
died  the  same  day,  of  cholera.  They  are  buried  in  the  same  grave  at  Red 
Oak,  O. 

Belle  McClanahan  Kinkead  died  August  22,  1895,  and  is  buried  at 
Monmouth,  111. 


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V.  DORA  KINKEAD,  first  child  of  Alexander  Kinkead 
and  Belle  McClanahan,  was  married  May  7,  1878,  to  A.  B. 
Anderson. 

CHILDREN  : 

HARRY,  who  is  dead. 
MATTIE  BELLE. 
GERTRUDE. 
KATHERINE. 

Home,  Pawnee  City,  Neb.;  business,  physician. 


V.  MARGARET  ANN  and  V.  MARY  ALICE  KIN- 
KEAD, second  and  third  children  of  Alexander  Kinkead 
and  Belle  McClanahan,  are  unmarried. 

Home,  Monmouth,  III. 


IV.  MARGARET  ANN  KINKEAD,  second  child  of 
Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  William  Kinkead,  was  married  Decem- 
ber 31,  184.6,  to  Adam  Kelly,  who  was  born  September  17,  1818, 
and  died  April  21,  1876. 

CHILDREN  : 

MARY  ELIZABETH. 
SALLY  GAY. 

IV.  MARGARET  ANN  KINKEAD  and  Adam  Kelly  are  both  buried 
in  the  churchyard  at  Red  Oak.  The  two  daughters  are  unmarried,  and 
make  their  home  together  in  Ripley,  O. 


IV.  NANCY  JANE  KINKEAD,  third  child  of  Eliz- 
abeth Hopkins  and  William  Kinkead,  died  at  sixteen  years 
of  age,  and  is  buried  at  Red  Oak. 


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IV.  HARRIET  AMANDA  KINKEAD,  fourth  child  of 
Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  William  Kinkead,  was  married  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1850,  to  Ralph  Voris  Culter. 

CHILDREN: 

CHARLES  ALEXANDER. 

SARAH  ELIZABETH. 

MARGARET  ANN. 

ELIZA  JANE,  born  i§S7;  died  Mar.  13,  1860. 

SAMUEL  VORIS. 

THOMAS  ELMER,  born  1863;  died  June  16,  1891. 

LUELLA  KINKEAD,        born  Dec.  23,  1866;  died  May  21,  1893. 

Home,  Russelville,  O.;  business,  agriculture. 

Ralph  Voris  Culter  served  in  the  "Hundred  Days"  service,  Company 
B,  i72d  Regiment  Ohio  National  Guards.  He  died  August  20,  1901, 
and  is  buried  at  Red  Oak,  O. 

V.  CHARLES  ALEXANDER  CULTER,  first  child  of 
Harriet  Amanda  Kinkead  and  Ralph  Voris  Culter,  was  married 
October  29,  1874.,  to  Molly  R.  Culter. 

Molly  R.  Culter-Culter  died  June  15,  1895. 

V.  CHARLES  ALEXANDER  CULTER  was  married  second,  Decem- 
ber 23,  1896,  to  Clara  A.  Shotwell. 

CHILDREN  : 

LAURA  VORIS,  born  Feb.  5,  1899;  died  June  19, 1899. 

Home,  1539  Hapburg  Street,  East  Walnut  Hills,  Cincinnati,  Ohio; 
business,  street  car  motorman. 

V.  SARAH    ELIZABETH    CULTER,  second    child    of 
Harriet  Amanda  Kinkead  and  Ralph  Voris  Culter. 
At  home  with  her  mother  at  Russelville,  O. 


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V.  MARGARET  ANN  CULTER  third  child  of  Harriet 
Amanda  Kinkead  and  Ralph  Voris  Culter,  was  married  Novem- 
ber 4,  1873,  to  M.  P.  Porter. 

CHILDREN  : 

MINNIE  MAUD. 
IDA  MAY. 
MARY  LIZZIE. 
HATTIE  LEE. 
WILLIE  GARFIELD. 
RALPH  WYLIE. 
EDDIE  BRYSON. 
PAUL  McKiNLEY. 
TOMMY  RAY. 
EDNA  MARGARET. 

Home,  Berkley,  Va. ;  business,  clergyman. 

VI.  MINNIE  MAUD  PORTER,  first  child  of  Margaret 
Ann  Culter  and  M.  P.  Porter,  was  married  February  5,  1896, 
to  Tom  Martin. 

Home,  Ripley,  O. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  IDA  MA  Y  PORTER,  second  child  of  Margaret  Ann 
Culter  and  M.  P.  Porter,  was  married  October  19,  1899,  to 
George  F.  Williamson. 

CHILDREN  : 

HOY  H.  WILLIAMSON. 

Home,  120  Willoughby  Avenue,  East  Norfolk,  Va. ;  business,  railroad 
agent. 

VI.  MARY  LIZZIE  PORTER,  third  child  of  Margaret 
Ann  Culter  and  M.  P.  Porter. 

Is  in  her  father's  home  at  Berkley,  Va. 

VI.  HATTIE  LEE  PORTER,  fourth  child  of  Margaret 
Ann  Culter  and  M.  P.  Porter,  was  married  June  24,  1902,  to 
Charles  Hope. 

Home,  Bliven,  Berkley,  Va. 

The  rest  of  the  children  are  in  the  home  at  Berkley,  Va. 

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V.  ELIZA  JANE,  the  fourth,  V.  THOMAS  ELMER, 
the  sixth,  and  V.  LUELLA  KINKEAD  CULTER,  the  sev- 
enth, children  of  Harriet  Amanda  Kinkead  and  Ralph  Voris 
Culler,  are  dead,  and  buried  at  Red  Oak,  Ohio. 

V.  SAMUEL  VORIS  CULTER,  fifth  child  of  Harriet 
Amanda  Kinkead  and  Ralph  Voris  Culler,  was  married  May  3, 
1883,  to  Abbie  M.  Mitchell. 

CHILDREN  : 

EARL  MITCHELL,  born  Dec.  17,  1886. 
CHARLES  EDGAR,  born  Mar.  i,  1890. 
Home,  Georgetown,  O. ;  business,  grocer. 


IV.  ELIZABETH  MARY  KINKEAD,    fifth  child  of 
Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  William  Kinkead,  not  reported. 


IV.  WILLIAM  GAY  KINKEAD,  sixth  child  of  Eliz- 
abeth Hopkins  and  William  Kinkead,  was  married  December 
6,  1861,  to  Amanda  Tweed. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  QUINCY,  born  Mar.  7,  1863. 
SABINA  ELMARY,  born  Apr.  27,  1864. 
ALBERT  EMELIUS,  born  Nov.  13,  1865. 
JOHN  TWEED,  born  May  25,  1868. 
EDWIN  BELL,  born  Dec.  26,  1870. 
JENNIE  HOPE,  born  Sept.  5,  1873. 

Home,  Red  Oak,  O. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  WILLIAM  QUINCY  KINKEAD,  first  child  of  Wil- 
liam Gay  Kinkead  and  Amanda  Tweed,  was  married  March 
20,  1894.,  to  Flora  Stewart. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  ROBERT,  born  July  16,  1896. 
Home,  Bloomenburg,  O. ;  business,  banker. 

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V.  SABINA    ELAIARY    KINKEAD,   second    child    of 
William  Gay  Kinkead  and  Amanda  Tweed. 
Is  in  the  home  at  Red  Oak,  O. 

V.  ALBERT  EMELIUS  KINKEAD,  third  child  of 
William  Gay  Kinkead  and  Amanda  Tweed,  was  married  No- 
vember 17, 1898,  to  Wilhelmina  Reith,  who  died  March  7, 1900. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  SPARLING,  born  Feb.  21,  1900. 

V.  JOHN  TWEED  KINKEAD,  fourth  child  of  William 
Gay  Kinkead  and  Amanda  Tweed,  not  reported. 


V.  EDWIN  BELL,  fifth  child,  and  V.  JENNIE  HOPE 
KINKEAD,  the  sixth  child  of  William  Gay  Kinkead  and 
Amanda  Tweed. 

Are  in  the  home  at  Red  Oak,  O. 


IV.  LUELLA    KINKEAD,  seventh    child    of    Elizabeth 
Hopkins  and  William  Kinkead.    She  is  unmarried. 
Has  a  home  in  Ripley,  O. 


IV.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  KINKEAD,  eighth  child 
of  Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  William  Kinkead,  was  married 
December  25,  1866,  to  Narcissa  De  Poy,  who  was  born  February 
n,  184.2. 

Home,  Red  Oak,  O. ;  business,  agriculture. 


IV.  JOHN  POAGE  KINKEAD,  ninth  child  0}  Elizabeth 
Hopkins  and  William  Kinkead,  was  married  December  20, 
1869,  to  Joanna  Carr,  who  was  born  September  10,  184.9. 

CHILDREN: 

HAMER  CARR,  born  July   28,  1871. 

JOHN  EVERET,  born  Feb.  21,  1878;  died  Sept.  29,  1878. 

NORA  EDITH,  born  Oct.   20,  1880. 

Joanna  Carr  Kinkead  died  March  21, 1891,  and  is  buried  at  Red  Oak,  O. 

V.  JOHN  POAGE  KINKEAD  was  married  a  second  time  June  4, 
1896,  to  Lizzie  Stephenson,  who  was  born  January  29,  1853. 

Home,  Red  Oak,  O.;  business,  farmer. 


IV.  SARAH  ELLEN  KINKEAD,  tenth  child  oj  Elizabeth 
Hopkins  and  William  Kinkead,  died  at  the  home  July  24., 1874.. 
She  was  unmarried. 


HI.  ELIJAH  HOPKINS,  eleventh  child  of  Archibald 
Hopkins  and  fifth  child  of  Margaret  Shanklin,  died  when 
seventeen  years  old  at  his  father's  house.  He  is  buried  in  the 
old  churchyard  in  Red  Oak,  Ohio. 

His  was  the  first  grave  of  the  Hopkins  family  in  the  new  home. 


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III.     JOHN    HOPKINS. 

III.     JAMKS    HOPKINS. 

III.     ARCHIBALD    HOPKINS. 


///.  JAMES  HOPKINS,  twelfth  child  of  Archibald  Hop- 
kins and  Margaret  Shanklin,  was  married  by  Rev.  Alexander 
Rankin,  October  3,  /£jj,  to  Nancy  Ryan  Clark,  who  was  born 
June  18,  1815,  and  died  November  14.,  1896. 
CHILDREN  : 

ELLEN  CLARK,  born  Jan.     3,  1835. 

SARAH,  born  Aug.    7,  1837. 

VIRGINIA,  born  Apr.     2,  1840. 

JOHN  CLARK,  born  Nov.    2,  1842. 

WILLIAM  EDWARD,       born  Jan.   19,  1845. 
GEORGE  IRWIN,  born  Aug.  29,  1847. 

ALEXANDER  DUNLAP,  born  Sept.    3, 1851. 
MILTON  EDWIN,  born  Jan.   28,  1857. 

Home,  Higginsport,  O.;  business,  farming. 

When  James  Hopkins  was  seventy  years  old  he  met  with  a  serious  acci- 
dent, which  resulted  in  the  loss  of  his  left  arm  above  the  elbow.  He  died 
February  19,  1887. 

Nancy  Ryan  Clark  Hopkins  died  November  14,  1896.  Both  are  buried 
in  the  Clark  Cemetery,  Clairmont  County,  Ohio. 


IV.  ELLEN  CLARK  HOPKINS,  first  child  oj  James 
Hopkins  and  Nancy  Ryan  Clark,  was  married  April  3,  1862, 
to  Joseph  C.  Wells,  who  was  born  March  9,  1819. 

CHILDREN: 

SALLIE,  born  Dec.  15,  1863. 

NANNIE  MAY,  born  Sept.  14,  1865. 

DAUGHTER,      born  and  died  Jan.  9,  1868. 

JAMES,  born  June  19,  1869.;  died  Apr.  3,  1872. 

INEZ  C.,          born  Jan.   26,  1872. 

ANTOINETTE,    born  July     7,  1874;  died  Nov.  26,  1878. 

Home,  Felicity,  Clermont  County,  O.;  business,  agriculture. 
Joseph  C.  Wells  is  buried  in  the  Clark  Cemetery. 

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V.  SALLIE  WELLS,  first  child  of  Ellen  Clark  Hopkins 
and  Joseph  C.  Wells,  was  married  October  16,  1884.,  to  Andrew 
Miller  Early,  who  was  born  in  Feesburg,  Ohio,  July  26,  1859. 

CHILDREN: 

LEWIS  WELLS,  born  Nov.  3,  1885. 
VERN  KEMPER,  born  Mar.  20, 1888. 
ROBERT  LINN,  born  July  24, 1890. 

Home,  Feesburg,  Brown  County,  O.;  business,  agriculture. 

Andrew  Miller  Early  is  also  a  member  of  the  commission  firm  of  Dugan, 
Livingston  &  Co.,  35  Walnut  Street,  Cincinnati,  O.  Sallie  Wells  Early 
studied  at  "The  Western,"  Oxford,  O.,  Class  of  1881. 

V.  NANNIE  MAY  WELLS,  second  child  of  Ellen  Clark 
Hopkins  and  Joseph  C.  Wells,  was  married  May  5,  1892,  to 
Joseph  W .  Hayden,  who  was  born  March  21,  1851. 

CHILDREN  : 

ANNETTA  MAY,     born  Sept.  5,  1896. 
JOSEPH  D WIGHT,  born  Mar.  3,  1899. 

V.  NANNIE  MAY  WELLS  studied  at  "The  Western,"  Oxford,  O., 
Class  of  1884.  J.  W.  Hayden  is  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church. 

Home,  Felicity,  Clermont  County,  O. ;  business,  shoe  merchant. 

V.  The  third  child  (unnamed],  V.  JAMES,  the  fourth  child, 
and  V.  ANTOINETTE,  the  sixth  child  of  Ellen  Clark  Hop- 
kins and  Joseph  C.  Wells,  died  when  little  children,  and  are 
buried  '  'in  Clark  Cemetery  in  sight  of  the  old  home;  a  beautiful 
place." 

V.  INEZ  C.  WELLS,  fifth  child  of  Ellen  Clark  Hopkins 
and  Joseph  C.  Wells. 

Studied  at  Oxford  College,  Oxford,  O.,  1889.  She  lives  with  her 
mother  at  Felicity,  Clermont  County,  O. 


IV.  SARAH  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  James  Hopkins 
and  Nancy  Ryan  Clark,  has  been  an  invalid  from  childhood. 

Home,  with  her  sisters  in  Augusta,  Ky.,  and  Felicity,  O. 

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IV.  VIRGINIA  HOPKINS,  third  child  0}  James  Hopkins 
and  Nancy  Ryan  Clark,  was  married  October  3,  1871,  to  G.  H. 
McKibben,  who  was  born  December  19,  184.1. 

CHILDREN: 

ALPHEUS,  born  July   15, 1872. 

NANNY  CLARK,  born  Jan.   25,  1874. 

DOLLY  HOUSTON,  born  Dec.  31,1875. 

HUGH  LINN,  born  Aug.    9,  1877. 
ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  born  July  29,  1879. 

JOSEPH  PETTIT,  born  Sept.  n,  1882. 

Home,  Augusta,  Ky.;  business,  Public  Administrator  and  Guardian 
of  Bracken  County,  Ky. 

V.  ALPHEUS  McKIBBEN,  first  child  of  Virginia  Hop- 
kins and  G.  H.  McKibben. 

Graduated  from  Central  University,  Richmond,  Ky.,  Class  of  1894,  and 
from  Jefferson  Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  class  of  1897. 

Home,  4729  Liberty  Avenue,  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  business,  physician  and 
surgeon. 

V.  NANNY  CLARK  McKIBBEN,  second  child  of  Vir- 
ginia Hopkins  and  G.  H.  McKibben. 

Studied  at  Glendale  College,  Glendale,  O.  She  is  at  home  with  her 
parents,  Augusta,  Ky. 

V.  DOLLY  HOUSTON  McKIBBEN,  third  child  of 
Virginia  Hopkins  and  G.  H.  McKibben. 

Studied  at  Glendale  College,  Glendale,  O.,  and  at  Neff  College  of 
Oratory,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  She  is  at  home  with  her  parents,  Augusta,  Ky. 

V.  HUGH  LINN  McKIBBEN,  fourth  child  of  Virginia 
Hopkins  and  G.  H.  McKibben. 

Studied  civil  engineering  at  Purdue  University,  Lafayette,  Ind.,  Class 
of  1902.  He  is  employed  by  the  American  Bridge  Company,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Home,  Aspinwall,  Pa. 

V.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  McKIBBEN,  fifth  child  of 
Virginia  Hopkins  and  G.  H.  McKibben. 
Is  a  dental  student  at  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

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V.  JOSEPH  PETTIT  McKIBBEN,  sixth  child  of  Vir- 
ginia Hopkins  and  G.  H.  McKibben. 

Is  a  student  at  Purdue  University,  West  Lafayette,  Ind. 


IV.  JOHN  CLARK  HOPKINS,  jourth  child  of  James 
Hopkins  and  Nancy  Ryan  Clark,  is  unmarried. 

Home,  Hunnewell,  Kan. ;  business,  merchant. 


IV.  WILLIAM   EDWARD   HOPKINS,  fifth   child   of 
James  Hopkins  and  Nancy  Ryan  Clark,  is  unmarried. 

Home,  Higginsport,  O.;  business,  agriculture. 


IV.  GEORGE  IRWIN  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of  James 
Hopkins  and  Nancy  Ryan  Clark,  was  married  November  25, 
1877,  to  Ella  Frances  Kay,  who  was  born  in  1845. 

CHILDREN: 

CARRIE  Lou,  born  May  7,  1881. 

Ella  Frances  Kay  Hopkins  died  January  19,  1886. 

IV.  GEORGE  IRWIN  HOPKINS  was  married  second,  November 
9,  1893,  to  Minnie  F.  Bradford. 

Home,  Georgetown,  O. ;  business,  life  insurance. 

V.  CARRIE  LOU  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  George  Irwin 
Hopkins  and  Ella  Frances  Kay,  was  married  February  25, 1902, 
to  Lewis  Cochran. 

Home,  Ripley,  O. ;  business,  blacksmith. 


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IV.  ALEXANDER  DUN  LAP  HOPKINS,  seventh  child 
of  James  Hopkins  and  Nancy  Ryan  Clark,  was  married  April 
8,  1879,  to  Ida  May  Foore,  who  was  born  1853. 

CHILDREN: 

JAMES  POWER,  born  Mar.  n,  1880;  died  Mar.  2,  1884. 

Ida  May  Foore  Hopkins  died  October  17,  1881. 

IV.  ALEXANDER  DUNLAP  HOPKINS  was  married  second, 
January  24,  1884,  to  Emma  M.  Norris,  who  was  born  May  i,  1854. 

CHILDREN: 

JENNIE  MARIE,  born  Mar.  24,  1885. 

ROBERT  ALEXANDER,  born  Sept.  29,  1889. 
INEZ  MARGARET,  born  Oct.  5,  1893. 
Home,  Moscow,  Clermont  County,  O.;  business,  farming. 


IV.  MILTON  EDWIN  HOPKINS,  eighth  child  of  James 
Hopkins  and  Nancy  Ryan  Clark,  was  married  October  4.,  1882, 
to  Henrietta  Wise. 

CHILDREN: 

LIDA  LEE,  born  Sept.    5,  1883. 

MILDRED  EVANGELINE,  born  Nov.  15,  1887. 

ANNITA  BELL,  born  Dec.  30, 1889. 

EDWIN  WISE,  born  Mar.    2,  1891. 

STANLEY  ARTHUR,  born  June    2,1901. 

Home,  Higginsport,  O.;  business,  agriculture. 


IV.  HARRIET  HOPKINS,  thirteenth  child  of  Archibald 
Hopkins  and  seventh  child  of  Margaret  Shanklin. 

Cared  for  her  father  and  mother  as  long  as  they  lived.  She  was  remem- 
bered by  her  father  in  his  will.  She  was  a  good  horsewoman  and  rode  on 
the  Ohio  hills  wherever  her  father  could  go,  and  that  was  saying  much. 
After  both  father  and  mother  had  passed  on  to  the  Eternal  Home,  she 

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married  Noah  Evans  of  Hillsboro,  O.,  a  ruling  elder  in  the  Presbyterian 
church  at  that  place.  He  made  her  last  years  very  happy  ones.  She  is 
buried  in  the  cemetery  at  Hillsboro. 


IV.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  fourteenth  child  of  Archi- 
bald Hopkins  and  eighth  child  of  Margaret  Shanklin,  was  mar- 
ried at  Ripley,  Ohio,  by  Rev.  Gilliland,  March  29,  1837,  to 
Rachel  M.  McLain,  who  was  born  July  14,  1817,  and  died 
October  i,  1887. 

CHILDREN: 

AMANDA,  born  Sept.  14,  1838. 

BERNARD  SCOTT,  born  May    3,  1841;  died  Feb.  18,  1842. 

HENRY  M.,  born  Aug.  21,  1845. 

MARY  ALICE,        born  July     5,  1848;  died  Aug.    5,  1864. 

IV.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  and  his  wife,  Rachel  M.  McLain,  were 
born  in  Brown  County,  O.     They  went  to  Clark  County,  O.,  in  1856, 
where  they  stayed  one  year  and  then  went  to  Kendall  County,  111. 

Home,  Oswego,  111. ;  business,  agriculture. 

Archibald  Hopkins,  and  his  wife,  Rachel  M.  McLain  Hopkins,  are 
buried  at  Oswego,  111. 

V.  AMANDA  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Archibald  Hopkins 
and  Rachel  M.  McLain,  was  married  by  Rev.  L.  M.  Loss  of 
the  Au  Sable  Presbyterian  Church,  March  14, 1861,  to  Hamilton 
Cherry. 

CHILDREN: 

IDA,  born  Feb.     5,  1862. 

SARA,  born  Feb.  18,  1863;  died  Mar.  16,  1863. 

CHARLES,  born  May  13,  1865. 

ALICE,  born  June    3,  1869. 

SADIE,  born  Aug.  28,  1870. 

ROBERT,  born  Oct.   12,  1873;  died  Oct.   21,  1888. 

HAROLD,  born  May  22,  1881. 

Home,  Naansay,  111. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  AMANDA  HOPKINS  and  Hamilton  Cherry  lived  from  March, 
1861,  to  November,  1878,  on  a  farm  in  Naansay  Township,  then  they 
went  to  Aurora,  staying  there  eight  years,  when  they  returned  to  the  farm 

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where  they  now  live.  Mrs.  Cherry  says,  "  I  have  an  old  arithmetic  bearing 
the  date  1804,  which  was  used  by  my  father,  Archibald  Hopkins,  and  his 
brothers,  John,  William,  and  Thomas  Hopkins.  Their  names  are  all 
written  in  the  book." 

VI.  IDA  CHERRY,  first  child  oj  Amanda  Hopkins  and 
Hamilton  Cherry,  was  married  November  16,  1892,  to  Jay 
G.  Updike. 

CHILDREN: 

UNA,  born  Aug.  31,  1893;  died  Sept.  13,  1894. 

MARSHALL,  born  Jan.  21,  1895. 
MILDRED,  born  June  17,  1896. 
MARION,  born  July  14,  1898. 
LESTER,  born  Jan.  15,  1902. 

Home,  Naansay,  Kendall  County,  111. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  SARA  CHERRY,  second  child  of  Amanda  Hopkins 
and  Hamilton  Cherry,  died  a  baby,  and  is  buried  in  the  Au 
Sable,  III.,  Cemetery. 

VI.  CHARLES  CHERRY,  third  child  of  Amanda  Hopkins 
and  Hamilton  Cherry,  is  unmarried. 

He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Illinois  State  Legislature  for  several  years. 
Home,  Naansay,  111. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  ALICE  CHERRY,  jourth  child  of  Amanda  Hopkins 
and  Hamilton  Cherry,  was  married  December  6, 1893, to  Truman 
W.  Thompson. 

CHILDREN: 

MABELLE,  born  May  n,  1895. 
ROBERT,     born  Aug.  21,  1899. 

Home,  Naansay,  Kendall  County,  111. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  SADIE  CHERRY,  fifth  child  of  Amanda  Hopkins 
and  Hamilton  Cherry,  was  married  September  29,  1903,  to 
Alanson  K.  Wheeler. 

Home,  Naansay,  Kendall  County,  111. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  ROBERT  CHERRY,  sixth  child  of  Amanda  Hopkins 
and  Hamilton  Cherry,  died  at  fifteen  years  of  age,  and  is  buried 

in  the  Au  Sable  Cemetery. 

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VI.  HAROLD  CHERRY,  seventh  child  of  Amanda  Hop- 
kins and  Hamilton  Cherry,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Naansay,  111. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  BERNARD  SCOTT  HOPKINS,  second  child  of 
Archibald  Hopkins  and  Rachel  M.  McLain,  died  a  child  less 
than  a  year  old,  and  is  buried  in  the  Churchyard  at  Red 
Oak,  Ohio. 

V.  HENRY  M.  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  Archibald 
Hopkins  and  Rachel  M.  McLain,  was  married  October  12, 1876, 
to  Josephine  Small,  who  was  born  September  17,  184.8,  at 
Aurora,  III. 

CHILDREN  : 

MARY  ALICE,  born  June  15, 1878. 

JAMES  ARCHIBALD,  born  Aug.    6,  1880. 

Home,  Yorkville,  111. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  MARY  ALICE  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Archibald 
Hopkins  and  Rachel  M.  McLain,  died  at  sixteen,  and  is  buried 
at  Oswego,  III. 


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///.  EDWIN  HOPKINS,  fifteenth  child  of  Archibald  Hop- 
kins and  ninth  child  of  Margaret  Shanklin,  was  married  Decem- 
ber 30,  1835,  to  Kesiah  Shepherd,  who  was  born  March  5, 1812. 

CHILDREN  : 

ALONZO  ALBERT,          born  Nov.  17,  1837. 

MELINDA  SHEPHERD,  born  June    2,  1841;  died  Feb.   16,  1886. 

LUTHER  SHANKLIN,      born  July     4,  1844;  died  Oct.  21,  1885. 

Home,  Ripley,  O.,  where  their  children  were  born. 

III.  EDWIN  HOPKINS  died  at  Ripley,  O.,  and  is  buried  in  the 
churchyard  at  Red  Oak.     Kesiah  Shepherd  Hopkins  died  at  Washington, 
D.  C.,  September  3,  1873,  and  is  buried  in  the  Congressional  Cemetery. 

IV.  ALONZO  ALBERT  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Edwin 
Hopkins  and  Kesiah  Shepherd,  was  married  November  29, 
1865,  to  Martha  Ann  Ray,  who  was  born  January  23,  1841,  at 
Newark,  Ohio. 

CHILDREN  : 

LUTHER  SHANKLIN,  born  Jan.   28,  1867;  died  Feb.  18,  1877. 

ALBERTA  RAY,  born  Oct.     8,  1868;  died  Mar.  24,  1870. 

NORMAN  THOMPSON,  born  Jan.   24,  1870;  died  Dec.  18,  1875. 

ALLEN  LOWRIE,  born  June    3,1871. 

JENNIE,  born  Jan.   30,  1873;  died  Aug.  20,  1874. 

GRACE  SHEPHERD,  born  Nov.    4,  1874;  died  Feb.  26, 1877. 

ANTOINETTE,  born  May  16,  1876. 

ANN  ELIZABETH,  born  Aug.    9,  1878. 

CHAUNCEY  RAY,  born  Nov.    6,  1879. 

NELSON  KINGSLEY,  born  Feb.  21,  1882. 

The  first  child  was  born  at  Rockford,  111.,  the  next  three  at  Culpepper, 
Va.,  the  fifth,  sixth,  and  seventh  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  and  the  last  three 
at  Georgetown,  Mo. 

Martha  Ann  Ray  Hopkins  died  at  Rockford,  111.,  October  14,  1890, 
and  is  buried  there. 

IV.  ALONZO  ALBERT  HOPKINS  enlisted  in  Company  B,  i46th 
Illinois  Infantry  at  Rockford,  111.,  August  29,  1864,  and  was  discharged  at 
Springfield,  111.,  July  8,  1865. 

Home,  Rockford,  111. ;  business,  retired. 


V.  LUTHER  SHANKLIN,  the  first,  ALBERTA  RAY, 
the  second,  and  NORMAN  THOMPSON  HOPKINS,  the 

third,  children  of  Albert  Alonzo  Hopkins  and,  Martha  Ann  Ray, 
died  in  infancy. 

V.  ALLEN  LOWRIE  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Alonzo 
Albert  Hopkins  and  Martha  Ann  Ray. 
Is  a  broker,  203  W.  State  Street,  Rockford,  111. 

V.  JENNIE,  the  fifth,  and  GRACE  SHEPHERD  HOP- 
KINS, the  sixth,  children  of  Alonzo  Albert  Hopkins  and  Martha 
Ann  Ray,  died  when  little  children. 

V.  ANTOINETTE  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  of  Alonzo 
Albert  Hopkins  and  Martha  Ann  Ray. 
Is  her  father's  homekeeper.     Rockford,  111. 

V.  ANN   ELIZABETH    HOPKINS,  eighth  child    of 
Alonzo  Albert  Hopkins  and  Martha  Ann  Ray. 
Is  a  teacher,  Rockford,  111. 

V.  CHA  UNCEY  RA  Y  HOPKINS,  ninth  child  of  Alonzo 
Albert  Hopkins  and  Martha  Ann  Ray. 

Is  a  clerk  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  at  Rockford,  111. 

V.  NELSON  KINGSLEY  HOPKINS,  tenth  child  of 
Alonzo  Albert  Hopkins  and  Martha  Ann  Ray. 

Is  a  bookkeeper  in  the  People's  Bank  and  Trust  Company,  Rockford, 
111. 


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IV.  MELINDA  SHEPHERD  HOPKINS,  second  child 
oj  Edwin  Hopkins  and  Kesiah  Shepherd,  was  married  December 
14,  1868,  to  Chauncey  T.  Ray,  who  was  born  January  i,  184.2. 

CHILDREN  : 

AGNES  LOUISE,  born  Feb.  10,  1870. 

CHARLES  KINGSLEY,      born  Nov.  28,  1871. 

HOBART  BLAKEMAN,       born  Apr.   17,  1874;  died  Mar.  8,  1877. 

CHAUNCEY  SHEPHERD,  born  Nov.    7,  1875;  died  June  7,  1876. 

WARREN  HOPKINS,         born  May    5,  1877. 

WALTER  NEIL,  born  Sept.    6,  1879. 

CHAUNCEY  SHERMAN,    born  Jan.   13,  1883. 

The  first  two  children  were  born  at  Culpepper,  Va.,  the  others  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

Home,  Rockford,  111. 

Chauncey  T.  Ray  enlisted  in  the  Seventy-fourth  Regiment  Infantry 
Volunteers  of  Illinois  at  Rockford,  111.,  August  9,  1862,  was  in  seventeen 
engagements,  and  was  mustered  out  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  January  10,  1875. 

IV.  MELINDA  SHEPHERD  HOPKINS  died  February  16,  1886, 
and  is  buried  at  Rockford,  111. 

V.  AGNES  LOUISE  RA  Y,  first  child  oj  Melinda  Shepherd 
Hopkins  and  Chauncey  T.  Ray. 

Is  a  trained  nurse.     Home,  Chicago,  111. 

V.  CHARLES  KINGSLEY  RA  Y,  second  child  of  Melinda 
Shepherd  Hopkins  and  Chauncey  T.  Ray,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Pittsburg,  Pa. ;  business,  broker. 

V.  HOBART  BLAKEMAN  RA  Y  and  V.  CHAUNCEY 
SHEPHERD  RA  Y,  the  third  and  fourth  children  of  Melinda 
Shepherd  Hopkins  and  Chauncey  T.  Ray,  died  when  little 
children. 

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V.  WARREN  HOPKINS  RAY,  fifth  child  of  Melinda 
Shepherd  Hopkins  and  Chauncey  T.  Ray,  served  in  the  Spanish- 
American  War.  He  enlisted  in  Colonel  Bryan's  regiment  at 
Omaha,  Neb.,  July  10,  1896,  and  was  discharged  at  Augusta, 
Ga.,  May  n,  1899. 

Home,  Rockford,  111. ;  business,  assistant  in  the  Rockford  City  Hospital. 

V.  WALTER   NEIL    RAY,    sixth    child    of    Melinda 
Shepherd  Hopkins  and  Chauncey  T.  Ray,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Mason  City,  la. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  CHAUNCEY   SHERMAN   RAY,  seventh  child   of 
Melinda  Shepherd  Hopkins  and  Chauncey  T.  Ray. 
Is  a  clerk.     Home,  Rockford,  111. 


IV.  LUTHER  SHANKLIN  HOPKINS,  third  child  of 
Edwin  Hopkins  and  Kesiah  Shepherd. 

Enlisted  in  the  Eleventh  Illinois  Cavalry,  Company  I,  at  Rockford,  111., 
February  8,  1865,  and  was  discharged  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  September  30, 
1865.  He  died  October  21,  1865,  and  is  buried  at  Rockford,  111. 


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III.     GRACY   ANN   HOPKINS    DUNLAP. 


///.  GRACY  ANN  HOPKINS,  sixteenth  child  of  Archi- 
bald Hopkins  and  tenth  child  of  Margaret  Shanklin,  was  mar- 
ried September  5,  1833,  to  William  Dunlap,  who  was  born 
June  20,  1812,  and  died  September  i,  1888. 

CHILDREN: 

LEONADAS  MILTON,  born  Aug.  13,  1834;  died  Oct.  24,  1853. 

BENJAMIN  HOPKINS,  born  Feb.  16,  1837. 

WILLIAM  HENRY,  born  Aug.  16,  1839. 

MARGARET  AMANDA,  born  Jan.     3,  1842. 

MARY  ELIZABETH,  born  Mar.  17,  1844. 

HARRIET  SHEPHERD,  born  Sept.    4,  1847. 

JAMES  ALEXANDER,  born  July     6,  1850. 

Home. 

III.  GRACY  ANN  HOPKINS  was  always  spoken  of  by  those  who 
knew  her  with  enthusiasm.     She  was  a  fine-looking  woman  with  captivating 
manners  and  a  lovely  character.     Mrs.  Bland  Bennett,  her  granddaughter, 
says,  "  I  wish  I  could  give  you  a  pen  picture  of  her  as  I  remember  her,  that 
would  reveal  her  grace  and  stateliness.     She  was  very  beautiful,  with 
golden  hair  and  blue  eyes,  tall  and  slender.     She  was  always  busy  and 
was  exquisitely  neat.     I  have  heard  my  mother  say  she  had  a  very  sweet 
voice  although  I  never  heard  her  sing."     She  was  fond  of  company  and 
thought  much  of  her  relatives. 

IV.  LEONADAS   MILTON   DUNLAP,  first  child   of 
Gracy  Ann  Hopkins  and  William  Dunlap,  died  at  nineteen 
years  of  age,  and  is  buried  at  Red  Oak,  Brown  County,  Ohio. 


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IV.  BENJAMIN  HOPKINS  DUNLAP,  second  child 
of  Gracy  Ann  Hopkins  and  William  Dunlap,  was  married 
November  25,  /#57,  to  Nancy  A.  Dickens,  who  was  born  April 

21,  1836. 

CHILDREN  : 

FRANK,  born  July     4,  1859;  died  Nov.  i,  1869. 

GRACE  E.,  born  Sept.  25,  1860. 

WILLIAM  WALTER,  born  July  16,  1865. 
HARRY  MAYO,         born  Dec.  12,  1870. 

IV.  BENJAMIN   HOPKINS   DUNLAP  has  been  quite    a    rover, 
visiting  many  places.     He  spent  one  year  in  Old  Mexico.     In  1857  he 
was  on  the  frontier  of  Kansas  engaged  in  freighting  to  the  mountains.     In 
1864  he  had  charge  of  a  thousand  head  of  cattle  taking  them  to  New  Mexico. 
At  Big  Bend,  Kan.,  he  and  his  party  were  attacked  by  about  400  Indians. 
After  a  hot  fight,  the  Indians  were  driven  off,  but  not  before  six  of  his 
men  had  been  wounded  and  he  himself  had  received  an  ounce  ball  in  his 
leg,  breaking  the  bone  below  the  knee.     He  was  obliged  to  ride  300  miles 
in  a  stage  coach  before  receiving  surgical  aid.     The  surgeons  then  wished 
to  amputate  his  leg,  but  he  objected,  and  the  fact  that  he  has  a  well,  strong 
limb  now  proves  that  he  was  right.     To-day  he  is  a  robust  man  of  sixty- 
three  years  living  among  the  mountains. 

Home,  Caddo,  I.  T. 

V.  FRANK  DUNLAP,  first  child  of  Benjamin  Hopkins 
Dunlap  and  Nancy  A .  Dickens,  died  at  ten  years  of  age,  and  is 
buried  at  Leavenworth,  Kan. 


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V.  GRACE  ELIZABETH  DUNLAP,  second  child  of 
Benjamin  Hopkins  Dunlap  and  Nancy  A.  Dickens,  was 
married  October  7,  1884,  to  Bland  Bennett,  who  was  born  at 
Fair  field,  Ky.,  March  23, 1852. 

CHILDREN: 

EDWARD  DUNLAP,  born  July  20,  1885. 

GRACE  BLAND,        born  June  13,  1888;  died  Jan.  7,  1890. 

MILDRED,  born  Nov.  30,  1890. 

KENNETH  RAE,       born  Mar.  10,  1895. 

MARY  GRACE,         born  Dec.     5,  1899. 

Home,  Whitsboro,  Tex. ;  business,  cotton,  grain,  and  banking. 

V.  GRACE    ELIZABETH    DUNLAP  was  educated    in   the  public 
schools  of  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  and  had  a  year  in  a  private  school  in  Texas. 
Bland  Bennett  attended  school  at  the  old  Gethsemane  College,  near  Bards- 
town,  Ky. 

VI.  EDWARD    DUNLAP   BENNETT,  first    child   of 
Grace  E.  Dunlap  and  Bland  Bennett. 

Is  a  cadet  at  Wentworth  Military  Academy,  Lexington,  Mo.  The  other 
children  are  in  the  home. 

V.  WILLIAM  WALTER  DUNLAP,  third  child  of  Ben- 
jamin Hopkins  Dunlap  and  Nancy  A.  Dickens,  was  married 
in  1898  to  Cora  Lee  Garrett. 

Home,  La  Jara,  Colo. ;  business,  mining  and  ranching. 

V.  HARRY  MAYO  DUNLAP,  fourth  child  of  Benja- 
min Hopkins   Dunlap   and  Nancy  A.  Dickens,  was  married 
February,  1892,  to  Maud  Edwards,  who  was  born  April,  1871. 

CHILDREN: 

GRACE  ELIZABETH. 
B.  BENNETT. 

Maud  Edwards  Dunlap  died  December,  1898. 

VI.  HARRY  MAYO  DUNLAP  was  married  second,  July  23,  1902, 
to  Annie  Edwards,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife. 

Home,  Caddo,  I.  T. ;  business,  banker. 

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IV.  WILLIAM  HENRY  DUNLAP,  third  child  of  Gracy 
Ann  Hopkins  and  William  Dunlap,  was  married  April  5,  1871, 
to  Rachel  King  Larimer,  who  was  born  April  14.,  184.7,  an^ 
died  May  25,  igoo. 

CHILDREN: 

NANCY  LARIMER,  born  Jan.  26,  1873. 
GRACE  ANN,  born  Jan.  6, 1875. 
BESSIE  KING,  born  Nov.  24, 1878. 

Home,  1329  Central  Street,  Kansas  City,  Mo.;  business,  rental  agent. 


IV.  MARGARET  AMANDA  DUNLAP,  fourth  child  of 
Gracy  Ann  Hopkins  and  William  Dunlap,  was  married  June 
25,  1862,  to  Erastus   McCrillus,  who  was  born  September  10, 
1828. 

CHILDREN: 

EDWIN  B.,  born  Mar.    4,  1863;  died  Aug.  28,  1864. 

WILLIAM  DUNLAP,  born  Oct.     i,  1864. 

FRED  B.,  born  Nov.    8,  1866. 

CHARLES  CLEVELAND,  born  May  21, 1869. 

Home,  925  S.  Broadway,  Leavenworth,  Kan.;  business,  general  collect- 
ing agency. 

V.  EDWIN   B.    McCRILLUS,    first  child  of   Margaret 
Amanda  Dunlap  and  Erastus  McCrillus,  died  a  baby,  and  is 
buried  at  Mi.  Muncie  Cemetery,  Kan. 

V.  WILLIAM  DUNLAP  McCRILLUS,  second  child  of 
Margaret  Amanda  Dunlap  and  Erastus  McCrillus. 
Is  a  druggist  in  Chicago,  924  E.  sist  Street. 

V.  FRED.   B.   McCRILLUS,    third    child    of    Margaret 
Amanda  Dunlap  and  Erastus  McCrillus. 

Is  a  shipping  clerk  for  the  Abernathy  Manufacturing  Company,  Leaven- 
worth,  Kan. 

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V.  CHARLES  CLEVELAND  McCRILLUS,  fourth 
child  of  Margaret  Amanda  Dunlap  and  Erastus  McCrillus. 

Is  a  traveling  salesman  for  W.  H.  Hasbrouck  &  Co.,  New  York,  with 
his  headquarters  in  Chicago. 

IV.  MARY  ELIZABETH  DUNLAP,  fifth  child  of  Gracy 
Ann  Hopkins  and  William-  Dunlap,  was  married  November 
4,  1869,  t°  Edwin  King  Larimer,  who  was  born  September  19, 

1843- 
CHILDREN  : 

EDWIN  JONES,  born  Oct.     4,  1870. 

WILLIAM  DUNLAP,      born  Dec.  12,  1871;  died  Sept.  2,  1873. 

JOSEPH  ALEXANDER,  born  Sept.  13,  1873. 

MARY  DUNLAP,          born  July   18,  1876. 

Home,  1400  Second  Avenue,  Cedar  Rapids,  la.;  business,  wholesale 
and  retail  hardware. 

F.  EDWIN  JONES  LARIMER,  first  child  of  Mary  Eliza- 
beth Dunlap  and  Edwin  King  Larimer,  is  unmarried. 

Home,  Cedar  Rapids,  la.;  business,  associated  with  his  father,  E.  K. 
Larimer  in  hardware  business. 

F.  WILLIAM  DUNLAP  LARIMER,  second  child  oj  Mary 
Elizabeth  Dunlap  and  Edwin  King  Larimer,  died  a  baby,  two 
years  old,  and  is  buried  at  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa. 

V.  JOSEPH  ALEXANDER  LARIMER,  third  child  of 
Mary  Elizabeth  Dunlap  and  Edwin  King  Larimer,   is  not 
married. 

Home,  Cedar  Rapids,  la.;  business,  associated  with  his  father,  E.  K. 
Larimer,  in  hardware  business. 

F.  MARY  DUNLAP  LARIMER,  fourth  child  of  Mary 
Elizabeth  Dunlap  and  Edwin  King  Larimer,  was  married  June 
12,  icjoi,  to  William  Loud  Phipps,  who  was  born  in  Cedar 
Rapids,  Iowa,  August  3,  i8j$. 

Home,  114  S.  i3th  Street,  Cedar  Rapids,  la.;  business,  assistant  store- 
keeper, C.  R.  I.  &  P.  Ry.  at  Cedar  Rapids. 


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IV.  HARRIET  SHEPHERD  DUNLAP,  sixth  child  of 
Gracy  Ann  Hopkins  and  William  Dunlap,  was  married  May 
28,  1879,  to  Alfred  Lorett  Stevens,  who  was  born  July  5,  184.1, 
and  died  March  n,  1885. 

IV.  MRS.  HARRIET  SHEPHERD  DUNLAP  is  at  Cedar  Rapids,  la. 


IV.  JAMES  ALEXANDER  DUNLAP,  seventh  child  of 
Gracy  Ann  Hopkins  and  William  Dunlap,  was  married  Sep- 
tember 13,  /#77,  to  Elizabeth  Winter,  who  was  born  March  17, 
1856. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  HENRY,  born  Sept.  u,  1878. 

Home,  Anaconda,  Mont. ;  business,  purchasing  agent  of  the  Anaconda 
Copper  Mining  Company. 

V.  WILLIAM  HENRY  DUNLAP,  child  of  James  Alex- 
ander Dunlap  and  Elizabeth  Winter,  is  unmarried. 

He  was  a  student  at  Armour  Institute,  Chicago,  for  three  years.  He 
now  resides  at  Anaconda,  Mont.,  and  is  connected  with  the  drafting  depart- 
ment of  the  Anaconda  Copper  Mining  Company. 


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Bishop  Wharburton  once  said  that  "high  birth  was  a  thing  which  he 
never  knew  any  one  disparage  except  those  who  had  it  not;,  and  he  never 
knew  any  one  make  a  boast  of  it  who  had  anything  else." 


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Letter  from  Benjamin  Henton  to  Robert  Pogue,  Mason  Co.,  Ky.     Owned 
by  John  T.  Shanklin,  Johnson's  Junction,  Ky. 

AUGUSTA  COUNTY  May  igih  1798. 
Dr  Brother 

Last  monday  Evening  I  Received  your  letter  dated  the  25th  of  March 
and  am  now  on  my  return  from  the  pastures.  I  was  at  Dunlap's  who  owns 
the  land  on  the  Sioto.  I  did  not  find  him  at  home  but  was  Informed  by 
his  Brother  that  he  would  not  Sell  it  and  likewise  that  William  Poage  had 
been  with  him  last  week  on  the  Same  business.  As  I  found  the  man  had 
no  Intention  to  Sell  the  Land  I  did  not  think  it  worth  while  to  Wait  for  his 
Return  home. 

Trade  is  very  dull  in  this  Contrey  and  money  hard  to  Raise  but  if  you 
Should  make  any  purchas  and  want  money  I  will  try  to  make  up  one 
hundred  pounds.  I  expect  you  to  write  to  me  as  Soon  as  any  purchase  is 
made,  first  opportunity  that  you  have.  I  have  nothing  meterial  to  write. 
We  are  Mutch  as  usual  in  helth  so  no  more  But  wish  to  be  Remembered 
to  all  Inquiring  friends  and  Remains  your  most  Effectionate  bro. 

BENJAMIN  HENTON. 
Addressed  to  Mr.  Robert  Poage 
Mason  County 

Kentucky 
Sent  by  Mr.  Kennady. 


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//.  SARAH  HOPKINS,  child  of  John  Hopkins  and 
Jean  Gordon,  was  married  about  1782  to  Benjamin  Henton. 

CHILDREN: 

JOHN,  born  July     4,  1784. 

DAVID,  born  Sept.    5,  1786. 

JANE,  born  Oct.  23,  1788. 

SILAS,  born  Sept.  16,  1792;  died  Apr.  21,  1852. 

ELIZABETH,  born  Mar.    3,  1794. 

ESTHER,  born  June  17,  1796. 

HANNAH  MARY,  born  Oct.    3,  1798. 

SARAH,  born  Sept.  20,  1800. 

Home,  Rockingham  County,  Va.,  business,  agriculture. 

Benjamin  Henton  lived  in  Rockingham  County  and  moved  to  Augusta 
County  not  far  from  the  dividing  line  between  the  two  counties. 

II.  SARAH  HOPKINS  is  said  to  have  been  married  twice,  the  second 
time  to  Robert  Crawford. 

///.  JOHN  HENTON,  first  child  oj  Sarah  Hopkins  and 
Benjamin  Henton,  was  twice  married  and  had  several  children, 
one  of  whom  was  V.  SARAH. 

Home,  Ross  County,  O. 

IV.  SARAH  HENTON,  child  oj  John  Henton,  was  mar- 
ried to  George  Nicholas. 

CHILDREN  : 
MARY. 
AMANDA. 
RUSH. 

Home,  Cross  Keys,  Va.  (Postoffice). 


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///.  DAVID  HENTON,  second  child  0}  Sarah  Hopkins 
and  Benjamin  Henton,  was  married  in  1824.  to  Elizabeth 
Myers,  who  was  born  in  1800. 

CHILDREN  : 

BENJAMIN  F.,          born  Aug.  20,  1826;  died  May  14,  1859. 

DAVID,  born  Mar.    9,  1828;  died  Jan.    9,  1850. 

SARAH  JANE,  born  Oct.  26,  1829. 

MARY  CATHERINE,  born  Aug.  25,  1831. 

ELIZABETH,  born  May     i,  1834. 

JOHN,  born  Mar.    2,  1836;  died  Nov.  23,  1850. 

REBEKAH,  born  Dec.  16,  1838. 

Home,  Waverly,  Mo. ;  business,  agriculture. 

III.  COL.  DAVID  HENTON  was  reared  and  educated  in  Rock- 
ingham,  Va.  He  served  in  the  War  of  1812  in  Capt.  Tommy  Hopkins's 
company  (Hopkins  was  his  uncle).  David  Henton  was  also  colonel  of 
state  militia. 

He  was  in  the  mercantile  business  in  Harrisonburg,  Va.,  for  a  while, 
then  moved  to  his  farm,  where  he  remained  until  he  removed  in  1839  to  a 
place  in  the  vicinity  of  Waverly,  Lafayette  County,  Mo.,  "where  for  many 
years  he  was  an  important  factor  in  the  upbuilding  and  local  advancement 
of  this  progressive  city  and  its  immediate  neighborhood.  He  was  a  man 
of  superior  business  ability,  energetic  in  all  the  duties  of  life,  temperate  in 
his  habits,  and  withal  possessed  of  excellent  judgment  and  honesty  of  pur- 
pose. A  citizen  of  rare  integrity  of  character,  liberal  and  public  spirited, 
he  commanded  the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  who  knew  him,  and  when 
he  passed  away,  September  9,  1870,  his  death  was  mourned  as  a  public 
loss.  He  was  a  loving  husband  and  father,  a  kind  friend  and  neighbor, 
and  one  of  the  tried  and  true  pioneers  of  the  early  days,  whose  memory 
will  be  enshrined  in  the  hearts  of  coming  generations."  (Quoted  from  a 
biographical  sketch.) 

Elizabeth  Myers  Henton  was  born,  grew  up,  and  was  educated  in 
Virginia.  The  Myers  family  was  of  German  descent.  The  Grandmother 
Myers's  maiden  name  was  Barbara  Hart,  and  her  parents  came  from  Switz- 
erland. Elizabeth  Myers  Henton  with  the  seven  children  accompanied  her 
husband  to  the  new  western  home  where  she  will  be  remembered  by  all 
who  knew  her  as  a  woman  of  genuine  worth  and  refinement  as  well  as  a 
devoted  wife  and  loving  mother. 


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IV.  BENJAMIN  F.  HENTON,  first  child  of  David  and 
Elizabeth  Myers  Henton. 

Was  a  highly  honorable,  moral,  and  promising  young  man.  He  died 
at  thirty-three  years  of  age,  and  is  buried  in  the  Mt.  Hope  Cemetery  near 
Waverly. 

IV.  DAVID  HENTON,  second  child  of  David  and  Eliza- 
beth Myers  Henton. 

Was  full  of  energy  and  enterprise.  At  twenty  years  of  age,  he  with 
hundreds  of  others  set  out  for  the  gold-fields  in  California.  He  succeeded 
well  while  there  and  started  for  home,  but  died  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  on  his 
way. 

IV.  SARAH  HENTON,  third  child  of  David  Henton  and 
Elizabeth  Myers,  was  married  to  B.  F.  Gordon. 

CHILDREN  : 

Lu  ELLA. 
HENTON. 

Home,  Waverly,  Mo. 

B.  F.  Gordon  when  quite  young  served  in  the  Mexican  War  in  Capt. 
Walton's  company,  Col.  Doniphan's  regiment  of  Missouri  Cavalry.  At 
the  close  of  the  war,  he  engaged  in  the  mercantile  and  drug  business.  At 
this  time  he  was  married  to  Sarah  Henton.  When  the  Civil  War  began, 
he  enlisted  and  served  as  colonel  till  about  its  close,  when  he  was  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  general,  but  it  proved  too  late  for  any  service  in  that  capacity. 
He  was  a  noble,  brave  soldier.  The  privations  of  army  life  left  his  health 
weakened  and  he  lived  but  a  short  time  after  his  return  to  Waverly. 

IV.  SARAH  HENTON  GORDON  married  second,  I.  F.  Scurlock, 
a  clergyman  in  the  M.  E.  Church  from  Atlanta,  Ga.  He  died  in  1901. 
Mrs.  Sarah  Henton  Gordon  Scurlock  lives  in  Kansas  City,  Kan.,  with  her 
son,  Henton  Gordon,  and  two  grandsons,  Gordon  and  Frank  Harris. 


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V.  LU  ELLA  GORDON,  first  child  of  Sarah  Henton  and 
B.  F.  Gordon,  was  married  to  Parker  Harris,  who  was  born 
in  Livingston,  Alabama. 
CHILDREN: 

GORDON. 

FRANK. 

V.  LU  ELLA  GORDON  was  married  second  to  John  Norville. 

V.  HENTON  GORDON,  second  child  of  Sarah  Henton 
and  B.  F.  Gordon,  was  married  to  Mrs.  George,  of  Hot  Springs, 
Arkansas. 

Home,  Kansas  City,  Kan.;   business,  law. 

V.  HENTON  GORDON  was  a  prominent  lawyer  of  Kansas  City, 
but  on  account  of  failing  health  retired  from  practice  several  years  ago.  He 
is  a  graduate  of  the  Washington  and  Lee  Universities,  and  took  a  thorough 
law  course  there.  Mrs.  George  Gordon  died  in  1900,  after  a  lingering 
illness.  Mrs.  Scurlock  makes  a  home  for  her  son,  Henton  Gordon,  in 
Kansas  City,  Kan. 

IV.  CATHERINE  HENTON,  fourth  child  of  David 
Henton  and  Elizabeth  Myers,  was  married  March  6,  1855,  to 
I.  F.  Yancy. 

CHILDREN  : 
EOLA. 
PAULW. 

LAYTON. 

DAVID. 

Home,  Waverly,  Mo. ;  business,  physician. 

I.  F.  Yancy  was  a  skillful  physician  in  Waverly,  Mo.,  and  a  man  of 
unusually  gentlemanly  bearing.  When  the  Civil  War  began,  he  was  one 
of  the  first  to  enlist  and  served  in  the  capacity  of  surgeon.  At  the  close  of 
the  war  he  returned  to  Waverly  and  resumed  his  medical  practice. 

IV.  CATHERINE  HENTON  YANCY  is  a  very  energetic,  ambitious 
woman.  When  her  daughter  needed  better  opportunities  for  education 
than  the  schools  of  Waverly  afforded,  she  moved  to  Lexington,  where  the 
daughter  completed  her  education  at  Central  Female  College.  Then  Mrs. 
Yancy  took  her  three  sons  to  Fayette,  Mo.,  where  they  had  the  advantages 
offered  by  Central  Male  College.  When  they  were  through,  she  returned 
to  her  home  in  Waverly  and  went  with  her  sons  on  her  large  farm  about 
five  miles  from  the  town.  Here  she  now  lives  with  her  youngest  son,  David. 

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V.  EOLA  H.  YANCY,  first  child  of  Catherine  Henton 
and  I.  F.  Yancy,  was  married  to  John  Gont. 

CHILDREN  : 

KATHERIN. 

SPENCER. 

RALPH. 

HARRY.  r 

Home,  Waverly,  Mo. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  PAUL  W.  YANCY,  second  child  of  Catherine  Henton 
and  I.  F.  Yancy,  was  married  December  7,  1891,  to  Jean 
Bagly,  of  Bagly,  Vermont. 

Home,  Waverly,  Mo. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  LAYTON  YANCY,  third  child  of  Catherine  Henton 
and  I.  F.  Yancy. 
Is  in  California. 

V.  DAVID  YANCY,  fourth  child  of  Catherine  Henton 
and  I.  F.  Yancy. 

Is  on  the  home  farm,  Waverly,  Mo. 


IV.  ELIZABETH  HENTON,  fifth  child  of  David  F. 
Henton  and  Elizabeth  Myers,  was  married  June  18,  1856,  to 
Spencer  W.  Brown,  who  was  born  in  1824.. 

CHILDREN: 

MARY  ELIZABETH  (MINNIE). 
SPENCER  LEE. 
BENJAMIN  HENTON. 
WILLIAM  POLMORE. 

Home,  Waverly,  Mo. ;  business,  physician. 


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Spencer  W.  Brown  was  born  in  Rockingham  County,  Va.,  and  was 
seven  years  old  when  his  parents  moved  to  Salina  County,  Mo.  He  entered 
the  Medical  College  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  at  the  age  of  twenty-two.  Here  he 
remained  one  year  and  then  attended  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  of 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  where  he  graduated  in  1850.  He  located  at  Waverly, 
Mo.,  where  he  began  his  medical  practice.  In  1854  he  took  a  post-graduate 
course  at  St.  Louis.  He  enlisted  at  the  opening  of  the  Civil  War  and  was 
appointed  surgeon  of  the  First  Regiment  of  the  Trans-Mississippi  Division 
of  the  Confederate  States  Army  in  which  he  served  till  the  close  of  the  war. 
He  then  returned  to  Waverly  and  continued  to  practice  medicine  till  1871 
when,  on  account  of  failing  health,  he  retired.  He  with  his  family  removed 
to  their  farm  near  Waverly  where  they  now  reside. 

V.  MARY  ELIZABETH  BROWN,  first  child  of  Eliza- 
beth Henton  and  Spencer  W.  Brown,  was  married  September 
/5,  1886,  to  Samuel  M.  Dyer,  of  Goodnight,  Texas. 

CHILDREN  : 

ELIZABETH. 
SAMUEL. 

Home,  Goodnight,  Tex. ;  business,  cattle  raising. 

Samuel  M.  Dyer  owned  a  cattle  ranch  and  was  quite  successful  in  his 
business.  He  made  frequent  shipments  of  cattle  to  Kansas  City.  His 
last  trip  was  made  during  intensely  cold  and  disagreeable  weather.  He 
took  a  heavy  cold  and  died  of  pneumonia  in  Kansas  City. 

V.  MRS.  MARY  ELIZABETH  DYER  is  a  brave,  energetic 
woman,  and  is  quite  successfully  going  on  with  her  husband's  business. 

V.  SPENCER  LEE  BROWN,  second  child  of  Elizabeth 
Henton  and  Spencer  W.  Brown,  was  married  to  Yula  Platten- 
burg,  of  Dover,  Missouri. 

CHILDREN  : 

BENJAMIN  HENTON. 
GEORGE  PLATTENBURG. 

Home,  Waverly,  Mo. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  BENJAMIN   HENTON   BROWN,  third  child  of 
Elizabeth  Henton  and  Spencer  W.  Brown. 
Is  in  the  Chicago  University. 

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V.  WILLIAM    POLMORE    BROWN,    fourth   child    of 
Elizabeth  Henton  and  Spencer  W.  Brown. 

Is  attending  to  his  agricultural  interests  at  Waverly,  Mo. 


IV.  JOHN  HENTON,  sixth  child  oj  David  Henton  and 
Elizabeth  Myers,  died  when  only  fourteen  years  old. 

He  had  already  manifested  noble  characteristics  and  proved  himself 
a  worthy  member  of  a  worthy  race.     He  is  buried  at  Waverly,  Mo. 


IV.  REBECCA  HENTON,  seventh  child  of  David  Henton 
and  Elizabeth  Myers,  was  married  in  1860  to  John  E.  Corder, 
who  was  born  August  21,  1836. 

CHILDREN: 

KATE,  born  Feb.  19,  1862. 

LESLIE  WALKER,  born  Apr.  20,  1867. 
FRANK  GORDON,  born  June  3,  1872. 

Home,  near  Waverly,  Mo.;   business,  retired  merchant  and  banker. 

John  E.  Corder  is  a  Virginian,  born  in  Rappahanock  County.  He  is 
one  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  his  grandfather  having  served  in  that 
war.  He  came  to  Missouri  in  1856  and  located  in  Waverly.  When  the 
Civil  War  began,  he  enlisted  in  Shelby's  Command,  Confederate  Army, 
and  served  three  years.  After  the  war,  he  returned  to  Waverly  and  engaged 
in  mercantile  and  banking  business.  He  has  now  retired  to  a  large  stock 
farm  which  he  owns  in  Saline  County,  having  made  a  success  of  all  the 
enterprises  of  his  life. 

V.  KATIE  CORDER,  first  child  of  Rebecca  Henton  and 
John  E.  Corder,  was  married  to  J.  H .  Crosswhite,  who  was 
born  February  17,  1858. 

CHILDREN  : 

JOHN  E.,  born  April  10,  1892. 

REBECCA  HENTON,  born  July  3,  1894. 

Home,  Waverly,  Mo. ;  business,  physician. 


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V.  LESLIE  WALKER  CORDER,  second  child  of  Re- 
becca Henton  and  John  E.  Corder,  was  married  July  15,  1897, 
to  Nellie  Perry  Buck,  who  was  born  December  i,  1874.. 

CHILDREN: 

LEON  WESLEY,        born  Feb.  2,  1900. 
DOROTHY  HENTON,  born  Dec.  10,  1912. 

Home,  near  Waverly,  Mo. ;  business,  farming  and  stock  raising. 

V.  FRANK  GORDON  CORDER,  third  child  oj  Rebecca 
Henton  and  John  E.  Corder,  was  married  to  Nellie  McGoffee. 
Home,  near  Waverly,  Mo. ;  business,  farming  and  stock  raising. 


///.  JANE  HENTON,  third  child  of  Sarah  Hopkins  and 
Benjamin  Henton ,  was  married  to  Jessie  Ralston. 

CHILDREN: 
HOLMS. 


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///.  SILAS  HENTON,  fourth  child  of  Sarah  Hopkins 
and  Benjamin  Henton,  was  married  October  24,  1824,  to  Susan 
H.  Guiwn,  who  was  born  February  23,  1806,  and  died  Febru- 
ary 77,  1853. 
CHILDREN  : 

SARAH  M.,  born  Sept.  18,  1825;  died  Dec.  26,  1850. 

RACHEL  A.,  born  Feb.  17,  1827;  died  Dec.  10,  1862. 

SUSAN  J.,  born  Oct.     i,  1828;  died  Mar.    4,  1849. 

D.  BENJAMIN,  born  Nov.  23,  1830;  died  Apr.  25,  1902. 

WILLIAM  S.,  born  Nov.  26,  1832;  died  May  26,  1856. 

ROBERT  A.,  born  Dec.  24,  1834;  died  Mar.  22,  1894. 

HANNAH  F.,  born  June  16,  1837;  died  June    2,  1853. 

ELIZABETH  V.,  born  Sept.  26,  1841;  died  Feb.     9,  1866. 

IV.  SILAS  HENTON,  his  wife  and  seven  children  are  all  buried  at 
Augusta  Stone  Church  Cemetery. 

IV.  SARAH  M.  HENTON,  first  child  of  Silas  Henton 
and  Susan  H.  Guiwn,  died  at  twenty-five  years  of  age. 

IV.  RACHEL  A.  HENTON,  second  child  of  Silas  Henton 
and  Susan  H.  Guiwn,  was  married  to  Dr.  Remer. 
CHILDREN  : 

Two  DAUGHTERS,  both  of  whom  are  dead. 


IV.  SUSAN  J.  HENTON,  third  child  of  Silas  Henton 
and  Susan  H.  Guiwn,  died  when  twenty-one  years  of  age. 


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IV.  D.  BENJAMIN  HENTON,  fourth  child  of  Silas 
Henton  and  Susan  H.  Guiwn,  was  married  in  January,  1860, 
to  Elizabeth  Lewis  Wilson  (only  daughter  of  the  late  Thos.  P. 
Wilson  and  granddaughter  of  Rev.  Dr.  William  Wilson,  second 
pastor  of  the  old  Augusta  Stone  Church). 

CHILDREN  : 

HANNAH,  WINTERS,  and  THOMAS,  who  died  in  infancy. 
ELIZABETH,  born  June  28,  1866. 

Elizabeth  Lewis  Wilson  Henton  died  in  the  early  '7o's. 

IV.  D.  BENJAMIN  HENTON  married  second  Margaret 
(Peggy}  McClung,  daughter  of  the  late  Chas.  McClung.  She 
lived  only  a  jew  years. 

There  are  no  surviving  children,  the  two  sons  both  being  dead. 

Home,  Ft.  Defiance,  Va. ;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  D.  BENJAMIN  HENTON  was  born  and  reared  at  Mt.  Meriden, 
Va.,  and  with  the  exception  of  a  year  or  two  of  early  manhood  spent  in  the 
Far  West  and  Mexico  and  a  short  time  in  Albemarle  County,  had  lived  all 
his  life  in  Augusta  County,  Va.     His  mother  was  a  member  of  the  well- 
known  Walker  family  of  Augusta  County,  and  through  her  he  had  an 
extensive  connection.     He  was  a  confederate  veteran  and  served  in  McCaus- 
land's  brigade  during  the  last  two  years  of  the  war. 

V.  ELIZABETH    HENTON,    child   of    D.    Benjamin 
Henton  and  Elizabeth  Wilson,  was  married  December  8,  1886, 
to  William  McCue,  who  was  born  May  9,  184.9. 

CHILDREN  : 

MABEL,  born  1889. 

HELEN,  born  1893. 

BESSIE,  born  1895. 

Home,  Ft.  Defiance,  Augusta  County,  Va.;  business,  agriculture. 


IV.  WILLIAM  S.  HENTON,  fifth  child  of  Silas  Henton 
and  Susan  H.  Guiwn,  died  at  twenty- four  years  of  age. 

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IV.  ROBERT  A.  HENTON,  sixth  child  of  Silas  Henton 
and  Susan  H.  Guiwn,  was  married  July  25,  1860,  to  Hannah 
M.  McCulloch,  at  the  residence  of  the  bride's  uncle,  William 
G.  Miller,  Mt.  Vernon  Forge,  Rockingham  County,  Virginia. 
She  was  born  October  3,  1838,  at  New  Hope,  Augusta  County, 
Virginia,  and  is  the  daughter  of  Dr.  George  and  Nancy  Miller 
McCulloch. 

CHILDREN: 

NANCY  M.,  born  May    8,  1861;  died  Apr.  18,  1897. 

SILAS,  born  May  22,  1863;  died  Jan.  19,  1864. 

ALLIE,  born  Dec.  31,  1864. 

WILLIAM,  born  Apr.  22,  1868. 

SUSAN  H.,  born  Feb.  26,  1870. 

ELIZABETHS.,  born  Feb.  13,  1873;  died  May  31,  1880. 

GEORGE  McC.,  born  Dec.    4,  1876. 

M.  ROBBIE,  born  Jan.     2,  1879. 

Home,  Marshall,  Mo. 

IV.  ROBERT  A.  HENTON  was  a  soldier  in  the  Confederate  Army. 

V.  NANCY   M.   HENTON,   first  child  of   Robert   A. 
Henton  and  Hannah  M.  McC'-lloch,  unreported. 

V.  SILAS  HENTON,  second  child  of  Robert  A.  Henton 
and  Hannah  M.  McCulloch,  died  before  he  was  a  year  old 
and  is  buried  at  Mt.  Cavmd  Church,  Saline  County,  Missouri. 

V.  ALLIE  HENTON,  third  child  of  Robert  A.  Henton 
and  Hannah  M.  McCulloch,  was  married  January  23,  1901, 
to  Margaret  C.  Miller,  who  was  born  May  5,  1866. 

Home,  Miami,  Saline  County,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  WILLIAM  HENTON,  fourth  child  of  Robert  A. 
Henton  and  Hannah  M.  McCulloch,  was  married  March  6, 
1895,  to  Ada  Briston,  who  was  born  July  27,  1869. 

CHILDREN  : 

Two  SONS,  who  died  in  infancy. 

Home,  near  Miami,  Saline  County,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

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V.  SUSAN  H.  HENTON,  fifth  child  of  Robert  A.  Henton 
and  Hannah  M.  McCulloch,  was  married  November  16,  1893 
to  Rucker  McDaniel,  who  was  born  December  18,  1870. 

CHILDREN: 

ROBERT  H.,  born  Oct.  20,  1894. 

JASPERS.,  born  July  21,1897. 

JUNE  ALEXANDER  R.,  born  Nov.  22,  1902. 

V.  ELIZABETH  S.  HENTON,  sixth  child  of  Robert 
A.  Henton  and  Hannah  M.  McCulloch,  died  at  seven  years  of 
age,  and  is  buried  at  Christian  Cemetery,  near  Miami,  Saline 
County,  Missouri. 

V.  GEORGE   McCULLOCH   HENTON,  seventh  child 
of  Robert  A .  Henton  and  Hannah  M.  McCulloch,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Marshall,  Mo.;  business,  grocer. 

V.  M.  ROBBIE  HENTON,  eighth  child  of  Robert  A. 
Henton  and  Hannah  M.  McCulloch,  was  married  February 
12,  1904,  to  Alvin  Parker. 

Home,  Memphis,  Tenn. 


IV.  HANNAH  F.  HENTON,   seventh  child  of  Silas 
Henton  and  Susan  H.  Guiwn,  died  at  sixteen  years  of  age. 


IV.  ELIZABETH  V.  HENTON,  eighth  child  of  Silas 
Henton  and  Susan  H.  Guiwn,  was  married  to  Dr.  Davis. 


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///.  ELIZABETH  HENTON,  fifth  child  of  Sarah  Hop- 
kins and  Benjamin  Henton,  was  married  to  John  Sites. 

CHILDREN: 
AMANDA. 
ELIZABETH. 
MARY. 
JOHN. 
PRICE. 
LOUISA. 
CORNELIA. 

Family  moved  to  Tennessee  after  the  Civil  War. 

IV.  AMANDA    SITES,  first  child  of   Elizabeth  Henton 
and  John  Sites,  was  married  to  John  Earman. 


IV.  ELIZABETH  SITES,  second  child  of  Elizabeth  Hen- 
ton  and  John  Sites,  died  unmarried. 


IV.  LOUISA  SITES,  sixth  child  of  Elizabeth  Henton  and 
John  Sites,  was  married  to  Joseph  Miller. 

Home,  Athens,  Tenn. 

The  rest  of  the  children  unreported. 


///.  ESTHER  HENTON,  sixth  child  of   Sarah  Hop- 
kins and  Benjamin  Henton,  was  married  to  -          -  Fawcette. 
Home,  Terre  Haute,  Ind. 

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777.  HANNAH  MARY  HENTON,  seventh  child  of 
Sarah  Hopkins  and  Benjamin  Henton,  was  married  October, 
1819,  to  James  Alexander  Walker,  who  was  born  in  October, 

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CHILDREN: 

BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN,  born  Oct.  1820;  died  Feb.  1879. 

JOHN,  born  Jan.  1823;  died  1859. 

SARAH  JANE,  born  Jan.  1825. 

ELIZABETH,  born  Aug.  1827. 

JAMES  ALEXANDER,  born  Aug.  1832;  died  Oct.  1901. 

HANNAH  MARY,  born  Oct.  1836;  died          1892. 

SILAS  HENTON,  born  Jan.  1839. 

Home,  Augusta  County,  Va. 

III.  HANNAH  MARY  HENTON  WALKER  lived  at  the  old  home 
with  her  mother  and  sister  Sarah,  where  both  died. 

IV.  BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN  WALKER,  first  child  0} 
Hannah  Mary  Henton  and  Alexander  Walker,  was  married 
in  1848,  to  Mary  Houston. 

CHILDREN  : 

ARCHIBALD  ALEXANDER,  born  Apr.  1850. 

Mary  Houston  Walker  died  November  17,  1872,  and  is  buried  in 
Augusta  Church  Cemetery. 

IV.  BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN  WALKER  was  married  a 
second  time,  in  1876,  to  Mattie  Wright,  who  died  February,  i8*jg. 

CHILDREN  : 

FRANK,          born  Jan.  1878;  died  May  1903. 
CHARLOTTE,  born  May  1879. 

TV.  BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN  WALKER  was  a  physician  and  a 
Christian  gentleman  of  influence  in  his  community. 


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V.  ARCHIBALD  A.  WALKER,  first  child  of  Benjamin 
Franklin  Walker  and  Mary  Houston,  was  married  October, 
1877,  to  Willie  Moorman,  who  died  in  1888. 

CHILDREN: 

HARRY,  born  1879. 
FRANK,  born  1882. 
MARY,  born  1886. 

Home,  Fort  Defiance,  Va. 

VI.  HARRY    WALKER,    first    child    of    Archibald    A. 
Walker  and  Willie  Moorman. 

Lives  at  Canton,  O. 

VI.  FRANK  WALKER,  second  child  of    Archibald    A. 
Walker  and  Willie  Moorman. 
Lives  at  Fort  Defiance,  Va. 

VI.  MARY    WALKER,    third     child    of    Archibald    A. 
Walker  and  Willie  Moorman. 
Lives  at  Fort  Defiance,  Va. 

V.  FRANK  WALKER,  second  child  of  Benjamin  Frank- 
lin Walker  and  first  child  of  Mattie  Wright,  died  at  25  years 
of  age. 

V.  CHARLOTTE  WALKER,  third  child  of  Benjamin 
Franklin  Walker  and  second  child  of  Mattie  W right,  was 
married  in  November,  1899,  to  Albert  Blanton. 

CHILDREN: 

ALBERT. 

SILAS  WALKER,  born  Aug.  6,  1904. 

Home,  Marion,  N.  C. 


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IV.  JOHN  WALKER,  second  child  of  Hannah  Mary 
Henton  and  Alexander  Walker,  died  in  1859.  He  went  to 
California  during  the  gold  fever,  lost  his  health  and  died  there. 
He  was  unmarried. 


IV.  SARAH  JANE  WALKER,  third  child  0}  Hannah 
Mary  Henton  and  Alexander  Walker,  was  married  in  184.5, 
to  Thomas  P.  Crawford. 

CHILDREN  : 

SARAH  AGNES,  born  1846;  died  Oct.  1849. 

V.  SARAH  JANE   WALKER  CRAWFORD  died  in  1846. 


IV.  ELIZABETH  WALKER,  fourth  child  of  Hannah 
Mary  Henton  and  Alexander  Walker,  was  married  in  184.5,  t° 
Joseph  Davis  Craig. 

CHILDREN: 

JAMES  ALEXANDER,  born  Mar.  1848. 

WILLIAM  BELL,         born  Sept.  1850;  died  Feb.  1895. 

Home,  Cold  Sulphur  Springs,  Va. 

IV.  ELIZABETH  WALKER  CRAIG  writes  as  follows:  "You  ask  if 
my  home  was  broken  up  during  the  war.  I  never  left  home,  though  the 
section  in  which  I  lived  was  three  times  overrun  by  federal  troops  who 
destroyed  everything  we  had  except  the  house  over  my  head,  burned  barns 
and  all  outbuildings  of  every  description,  and  even  destroyed  the  house 
furniture,  carrying  off  such  as  they  could.  I  thank  God  it  is  all  past. 
I  am  sure  I  could  never  go  through  with  it  again. 

"My  son,  James  Alexander  Craig,  was  only  sixteen  when  the  war 
closed,  but  had  volunteered  and  was  on  his  way  to  join  his  command  when 
he  heard  the  news  of  Lee's  surrender,  so  he  was  spared  the  hardships  of 
the  camp  and  strife  of  battle,  and  I,  perhaps,  a  son.  He  was  elected  to  the 
Legislature  in  1895,  and  served  four  terms,  but  has  since  retired  to  private 
life.  He  is  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  quite  influential  in 
church  circles  and  the  courts  of  the  church." 


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IV.     JAMES    ALEXANDER    WALKER. 


V.  JAMES  ALEXANDER  CRAIG,  first  child  of  Eliza- 
beth Walker  and  Joseph  Davis  Craig,  was  married  May, 
1869,  to  Susan  Butler. 

Home,  Cold  Sulphur  Springs,  Va. 

V.  JAMES  ALEXANDER  CRAIG,  as  has  been  said  above,  was  a 
Confederate  soldier.  He  has  been  in  the  house  of  delegates,  is  an  elder 
in  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school. 

V.  WILLIAM  BELL  CRAIG,  second  child  0}  Elizabeth 
Walker  and  Joseph  Davis  Craig,  was  married  in  November, 
1879,  to  Lelia  Brownlee. 

IV.  JAMES  ALEXANDER  WALKER,  fifth  child  of 
Hannah  Mary  Henton  and  Alexander  Walker,  was  married 
in  1857,  t°  Sarah  Poague. 

CHILDREN  : 

MAGGIE,  born  1858. 

WILLIE,  born  1859. 
ALEXANDER,  born  1861. 

FRANK,  born  1865;  died  1890. 

JAMES,  born  1867;  died  1890. 

ALLEN,  born  1869;  died  1892. 

Home,  Wytheville,  Va. 

James  Alexander  Walker  served  in  the  Confederate  Army  four  years. 
In  June,  1861,  he  reported  for  duty  as  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  Thirteenth 
Virginia  Infantry  at  Winchester,  having  been  promoted  from  captain  in 
the  Fourth  Virginia  Infantry.  Later  he  was  made  brigadier-general  and 
commanded  the  "Stonewall  Brigade."  He  said,  "To  have  commanded 
such  a  brigade  as '  Stonewall'  was  glory  enough  for  me."  Of  this  regiment 
General  Lee  said,  "  It  is  a  splendid  body  of  men" ;  and  General  Ewell,  "  It 
is  the  only  regiment  in  my  command  that  never  fails."  Early  said  of  them, 
"  They  can  do  more  hard  fighting  and  be  in  better  plight  afterward  than  any 
troops  I  ever  saw."  Walker  was  in  charge  of  this  regiment  in  the  entire 
valley  campaign,  and  after  Port  Republic  went  with  Jackson's  corps  to 
Richmond  as  skirmishers  for  the  division.  They  were  the  first  of  the  corps 
to  fire  a  gun  in  that  memorable  campaign  around  Richmond,  known  as  the 
"  Seven  Days'  Fight."  Walker  directed  the  regiment  with  a  master  hand, 
and  was  within  a  hundred  yards  of  the  works  when  the  enemy  broke  and 

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fell  back.  Out  of  260  men,  128  fell  killed  and  wounded.  At  Culpepper 
Court  House  they  did  heroic  work  and  checked  the  advance  of  the  enemy 
at  just  the  time  and  place  to  save  the  battle  from  being  lost. 

Captain  S.  D.  Buck  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  a  fellow-comrade,  says,  "He  was 
the  best  friend  a  good  soldier  ever  had  and  a  terror  to  the  man  who  shirked 
his  duty!"  During  the  Battle  of  the  Wilderness  he  got  the  only  wound  he 
received  during  the  war,  although  he  was  in  almost  every  battle  in  which 
the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia  participated,  from  1861  to  1865,  when  Lee 
surrendered  at  Appomattox.  After  the  war  he  was  a  leading  factor  in  the 
politics  of  the  state.  He  was  a  member  of  the  legislature  of  Virginia  for 
two  consecutive  terms,  was  lieutenant-governor  of  Virginia  from  1876  to 
1880,  and  a  member  of  the  Fifty-fourth  and  Fifty-fifth  Congress.  He  was  a 
lawyer  of  ability  and  success.  He  died  in  October,  1901,  and  is  buried  in 
the  cemetery  of  his  home  town,  Wytheville,  Va. 

V.  MAGGIE  WALKER,  first  child  of  James  Alexander 
Walker  and  Sarah  Poague,  was  married  in  1878,  to  James 
Jordan. 

CHILDREN  : 
ANNIE, 
WILLIE, 
MARGARETTE, 
RUSSELL, 
WALKER. 

Home,  Wytheville,  Va. 

V.  WILLIE  WALKER,  second  child  of  James  Alexander 
Walker  and  Sarah  Poague,  was  married  to  Manly  Caldwell. 

CHILDREN: 

VIRGINIA. 
SARAH  POAGUE. 
WALKER. 

Home,  Wytheville,  Va. 

V.  ALEXANDER  WALKER,  third  child  of  James  Alex- 
ander Walker  and  Sarah  Poague,  was  married. 
Seven  children,  names  unreported. 
Home,  Florence,  Ala.;  business,  law. 

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V.  FRANK  WALKER,  fourth  child  of  James  Alexander 
Walker  and  Sarah  Poague,  died  at  twenty-five  years  of  age. 

V.  JAMES  WALKER,  fifth  child  of  James  Alexander 
Walker  and  Sarah  Poague,  died  at  twenty-three,  and  is  buried 
at  Wytheville,  Virginia. 

V.  ALLEN  WALKER,  sixth  child  of  James  Alexander 
Walker  and  Sarah  Poague,  married  Maude  Foote. 

CHILDREN: 
LAURA. 
FOOTE. 

V.  ALLEN  WALKER  died  at  twenty-three  years  of  age,  and  is 
buried  at  Wytheville,  Va. 


IV.  HANNAH  MARY  WALKER,  sixth  child  of  Hannah 
Mary  Henton  and  Alexander  Walker,  died  in  1892,  unmar- 
ried, and  is  buried  in  Augusta  Church  Cemetery. 


IV.  SILAS    HENTON    WALKER,    seventh    child    of 
Hannah  Mary  Henton  and  Alexander  Walker,  was  married 
in  1870,  to  Laura  E.  Boone. 

CHILDREN  : 

ANNIE  CRAIG,  born  Mar.  19,  1872;  died  Aug.  7,  1875. 
Home,  Weyer's  Cave;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  SILAS  HENTON  WALKER  went  into  the  war  at  its  commence- 
ment,  a   private  in   Company   E,  ist  Virginia  Cavalry.      Once  he   was 
wounded  at  Yellow  Tavern,  about  twenty  miles  from  Richmond.     He  served 
during  the  entire  war,  and  was  commanding  his  company  when  the  war 
closed,  having  been  promoted   from  private  to  captain.     He  was  elected 
to  the  Legislature  from  Augusta  County  in  1895,  and  with  the  exception 
of  two  years,  has  served  continuously  since,  and  is  now  elected  for  two 
years  more. 


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IV.  SARAH  HENTON,  eighth  child  of  Sarah  Hopkins 
and  Benjamin  Henton,  died  unmarried,  and  is  buried  in 
Augusta  Stone  Church  Cemetery,  Virginia. 


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"The  best  cure  for  snobbishness  that  could  be  prescribed  for  any 
man  or  woman  would  be  a  thorough  study  of  his  or  her  own  family  history 
in  all  its  lines." 


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II.  MARY  HOPKINS,  daughter  of  John  Hopkins  and 
Jean  Gordon,  was  married  to  Robert  Poage,  of  Greenup  County, 
Kentucky. 

CHILDREN  : 

JOHN  HOPKINS,     born  Mar.  15,  1783;  died 

JANE,  born  Mar.  22,  1784;  died  Oct.   25,  1831. 

GEORGE,  born  1787;  died  Aug.    7,1849. 

THOMAS,  born  Feb.     4,  1792;  died  Mar.  21,  1867. 

JAMES,  born  *797- 

HARRIET,  born  Nov.  21,  1801;  died  Sept.    2,  1835. 

ANN,  born  Feb.   1 6,  1804;  died  1845. 

ELIZABETH. 

MARY. 

REBECCA. 

ROBERT  WATSON. 

WILLIAM. 

Home,  Greenup  County,  Ky. ;  business,  agriculture  and  surveying. 

Robert  Poage  came  to  Kentucky  from  Virginia  about  1800.  Here  he 
built  one  of  the  first  brick  houses  in  the  locality.  It  is  still  standing,  and  is 
owned  by  James  Poage,  of  Mayslick,  Ky.  Robert  Poage  was  a  surveyor,  and 
qualified  as  assistant  surveyor  in  Augusta  County,  Va.,  June  16,  1778. 
He  was  later  surveyor  of  Greenup  County,  Ky.  Robert  Poage  died 
before  1814,  as  a  letter  written  in  September  of  that  year  by  his  wife  to 
her  brother-in-law,  Robert  Pogue,  of  Mason  County,  Ky.,  asks  about  a 
deed,  etc.,  speaking  of  "remembering  about  what  Mr.  Poage  did." 

///.  JOHN  HOPKINS  POAGE,  first  child  of  Mary 
Hopkins  and  Robert  Pogue,  was  married  in  1806,  to  Jane 
Hopkins,  his  own  cousin. 

See  the  Jane  Hopkins  family,  under  Archibald  Hopkins,  Red  Oak,  O., 
page  in. 


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///.  JANE  POAGE,  daughter  of  Mary  Hopkins  and 
Robert  Poage,  was  married  October  2,  1806,  to  her  own  cousin, 
James  Poage,  who  was  born  September  15,  1784.,  and  died  in 
1850,  in  Monroe  County,  Missouri.  He  was  called  "Major" 

CHILDREN: 

MARY  ANN,  born  Sept.  18,  1807;  died  1863. 

AMANDA,  born  Dec.     5,  1809;  died  1860. 

ROBERT  DARIUS,  born  Feb.  13,  1811;  died  July  21,  1864. 

ELIZA,  born  Sept.        1812;  died  Feb.     9,1845. 

MARTHA,  born  Feb.         1814. 

WILLIAM  HOPKINS,  born  Aug.         1815. 

DAVIS, 

MARCUS,  born  May  22,  1819;  died  July  20,  1864. 

RUFUS  A.,  born  May  22,  1819;  died  Nov.     5,  1844. 

ANDREW  FRANKLIN,  born  July         1822;  died  May     9,  1849. 

THOMAS  MILLER,  born  Dec.         1823. 

JAMES  EDWARD, 

SAMANTHA,  born  Sept.  14,  1826;  died  Oct.  25,  1850. 

SAMUEL,  born  Sept.  14,  1826;  died  Sept.  14,  1826. 

JOHN  DAVIS,  born  June  22,  1829. 

Home,  Monroe  County,  Mo. 

IV.  MARY  ANN  POAGE,  first  child  of  Jane  Poage  and 
James  Poage,  was  married,  November  17,  1854.,  to  James  E. 
Crawford. 

Home,  Florida,  Monroe  County,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 


IV.  AMANDA  POAGE,  second  child  of  Jane  Poage  and 
James  Poage,  was  married  to  W.  H.  Vawter,  who  was  born 
in  1807. 

CHILDREN: 

ALFRED  F.,  born  Sept.        1840. 

JAMES  H.,  born  Feb.         1842. 

THOMAS  P.,  born  Aug.     7,  1843. 

WILLIAM  FRANKLIN,  born  Dec.  28,  1844. 

Home,  Marshall,  Mo. 

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V.  ALFRED  F.  VAWTER,  first  child  of  Amanda  Poage 
and  W.  H.  Vawter,  was  married,  January,  1873,  to  Emma 
Major,  who  was  born  in  1850. 

CHILDREN: 
W.  E. 
FRANCES. 
ALFRED. 
MAJOR. 

Home,  Marshall,  Mo.;  business,  druggist. 

V.  JAMES  H.  VAWTER,  second  child  of  Amanda  Poage 
and  W.  H.  Vawter,  was  married  in  i86g,  to  Eva  Vaughan. 
Home,  Marshall,  Saline  County,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  THOMAS  P.  VAWTER,  third  child  of  Amanda 
Poage  and  W.  H.  Vawter,  was  married  in  i868y  to  Addie 
Vaughan,  who  was  born  in  1852. 

CHILDREN  : 

WILLIAM  A. 
EMMA. 
A.  T. 
EVA. 
T.  P. 

lOLA. 

EDGAR. 

FRANK. 

AURELINE. 

VAUGHAN. 

Home,  Marshall,  Saline  County,  Mo.;  business,  merchant. 


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V.  WILLIAM  FRANKLIN  VAWTER,  fourth  child  of 
Amanda  Poage  and  W.  H.  Vawter,  was  married,  first,  in  1869, 
to  Latitia  H.  Buck,  who  was  born  in  184.7,  ana  died  in  1872. 
He  was  married  second,  in  1888,  to  Susie  F.  Fray,  who  was 
born  in  1863. 

CHILDREN  : 

WILLIAM  A. 

JOHN  F. 

DAVID  D. 

CHARLES  E. 

MARTHA  E. 

Home,  Marshall,  Saline  County,  Mo.;  business,  grocery  and  meat 
market. 


IV.  ROBERT  DARIUS  POAGE,  third  child  of  Jane  Poage 
and  James  Poage,  was  married  September  3,  184.0,  to  Margaret 
Poage   (daughter  of  Col.   William  Poage  and  granddaughter 
of  John  Poage). 

CHILDREN: 

ROBERT  DAVIS,  born  Oct.   n,  1841. 

MARY  LOUISA,  born  Sept.  20,  1844;  died  June  28,  1892. 

JANE  A.,  born  Dec.  13,  1848. 

FRANCES  CORDELIA,  born  Dec.  27,  1850. 

ELLA,  born  Aug.  27,  1856. 

EDWIN,  born  1860;  died  Aug.         1864. 

JOHN  ALLEN,  born  Feb.  n,  1864;  died  Aug.  10,  1864. 

Home,  Hannibal,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  ROBERT  DAVIS  POAGE,  first  child  of  Robert  Darius 
Poage  and  Margaret  Poage,  was  married  May  2, 1867,  to  Sarah 
A.  King,  who  was  born  June  12,  1844. 

CHILDREN: 

HORACE  E.,  born  Mar.  28,  1868;  died  Dec.  18,  1903. 

ARTHUR  A. 

ANNA  M.,  died  Aug.    6,  1879. 

Home,  Hannibal,  Mo. 

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V.  MARY  LOUISA  POAGE,  second  child  of  Robert 
Darius  Poage  and  Margaret  Poage,  was  married  February, 
1865,  to  R.  E.  CaldwelL 

CHILDREN  : 

EARL,  born  1866. 

INFANT,  born  1867;  died           1867. 

WILLIAM,  born  1869. 

DRAPHUS  PARK,  born  1885;  died  Feb.  1887. 

Home,  Monroe  County,  Mo. 

V.  JANE  A.  POAGE,  third  child  of  Robert  Darius  Poage 
and  Margaret  Poage,  died  an  infant,  and  is  buried  in  Monroe 
County,  Missouri. 

V.  FRANCES  CORDELIA  POAGE,  fourth  child  of 
Robert  Darius  Poage  and  Margaret  Poage,  was  married 
March  3,  1881,  to  Stephen  White. 

CHILDREN  : 

MABEL,  born  Dec.  1881. 
BARTLET,  born  July  2,  1884. 
CHARLES,  born  May  13,  1886. 
HORTENSE,  born  May  13,  1894. 

Stephen  White  died  May,  1898. 

V.  FRANCES  CORDELIA  POAGE  WHITE  married,  second, 
Edwin  P.  Snell. 

Home,  Florida,  Mo. 

V.  ELLA  POAGE,  fifth  child  of  Robert  Darius  Poage 
and  Margaret  Poage,  was  married  March  21, 1878,  to  Philander 
W.  Hickman,  who  was  born  July  15,  184.7. 

CHILDREN  : 

ELBERT  A.,  born  Aug.  28,  1883. 

WILLIAM  WALTER,  born  Sept.  15,  1899. 

Home,  Perry,  Mo. 

V.  EDWIN  POAGE,  sixth  child  of  Robert  Darius  Poage 
and  Margaret  Poage,  died  when  four  years  old. 

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V.  JOHN   ALLEN    POAGE,    seventh  child   of    Robert 
Darius  Poage  and  Margaret  Poage,  died  when  six  months  old. 


IV.  ELIZA  POAGE,  fourth  child  of  Jane  Poage  and  James 
Poage,  was  married  February  6,  1834,  to  William  M.  Vaughan. 

CHILDREN  : 

JAMES  M.,  born  died  in  infancy. 

MARY  JANE,  born  Apr.  16,  1836;  died  Mar.        1872. 

MARTHA  ISABEL,  born  Oct.  1837. 
BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN,  born  Apr.  16,  1839. 
JOHN  GRAY,  born  Oct.  1840. 

Home,  Paris,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  JAMES  M.  VAUGHAN,  first  child  of  Eliza  Poage 
and  William  M.  Vaughan,  died  in  infancy. 

V.  MARY  JANE   VAUGHAN,  second  child  of  Eliza 
Poage  and  William  M.  Vaughan,  was  married  April,  1860, 
to  John  Powell,  who  died  February,  1880. 

CHILDREN: 
SUSAN  F. 
LYDA. 

SIDNEY  GRAY. 
NORA  B. 
WILLIAM. 
MAMIE. 
Home,  Paris,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  SUSAN  F.   POWELL,   first  child    of    Mary   Jane 
Vaughan  and  John  Powell. 

Is  at  home,  Paris,  Mo. 

VI.  LYDA  POWELL  and  VI.  NORA  B.  POWELL, 
the  second  and  fourth  children  of  Mary  Jane  Vaughan  and 
John  Powell,  are  dead. 

VI.  SIDNEY  G.  POWELL,  third  child  of  Mary  Jane 
Vaughan  and  John  Powell,  is  married  and  lives  near  Perry, 

Missouri. 

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VI.  WILLIAM   POWELL,  fifth    child    of    Mary   Jane 
Vaughan  and  John  Powell,  is  unreported. 

VI.  MAMIE    POWELL,    sixth    child    of    Mary    Jane 
Vaughan  and  John  Powell,  was  married  to  Jack  Blanton. 
Home,  Paris,  Mo.;  business,  editor  of  the  Paris  Appeal. 

V.  MARTHA  ISABEL  VAUGHAN,  third  child  of  Eliza 
Poage  and  William  M.    Vaughan,   was   married   November, 
1869,  to  John  Manning. 

CHILDREN: 
ELLA. 

MARY  LEE. 
CHARLES  A. 
FRANK. 
MATTIE  G. 
JOHN. 
IDA  M. 
VIOLA. 

Home,  Cairo,  Mo.;  business,  stock  farming. 

VI.  ELLA   VAUGHAN,   VI.  JOHN  VAUGHAN  and 
VI.  VIOLA  VAUGHAN,  the  first,  sixth,  and  eighth  children 
of  Martha  Isabel  Vaughan  and   John   Manning,   are   dead. 
The  rest  are  unreported. 

V.  BENJAMIN    FRANKLIN     VAUGHAN,    fourth 

child  of  Eliza  Poage  and  William  M.  Vaughan,  was  married 
November  14.,  1872,  to  Mary  Jane  Poage  (daughter  oj  William 
Hopkins  Poage  and  Elizabeth  Ann  Pollard). 
CHILDREN: 

CORDELIA,  died  in  infancy. 

WILLIAM  GRAY,  born  Jan.   26,  1875. 

SUSAN  C.,  born  July     7,  1877. 

ELIZABETH  B.,    born  Sept.    2,  1879. 

NATHAN  P.,        born  Sept.  16,  1881. 

CHARLES  A.,       born  July     8,  1887. 

CALIFORNIA,       born  Feb.  18,  1892. 

OLIVER  B.,          born  Feb.     2,  1895. 

Home,  Perry,  Mo.;  business,  stock  farming. 

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VI.  WILLIAM  GRAY  VAUGHAN,  second  child  of 
Benjamin  Franklin  Vaughan  and  Mary  Jane  Poage,  was 
married  September  30,  1897,  to  Jennie  Beasheart. 

CHILDREN  : 

ALVA  FRANKLIN. 
NELLIE  GRAY. 

Home,  Perry,  Mo. 

V.  JOHN  GRAY  VAUGHAN,  fifth  child  of  Eliza 
Poage  and  William  M.  Vaughan,  died  at  Westminster  College, 
Missouri,  while  preparing  for  the  ministry. 


IV.  MARTHA    POAGE,  fifth  child  of  Jane  Poage   and 
James  Poage,  was  married  July,  1838,  to  Harrison  Vaughn. 

CHILDREN  : 

ELIZA  JANE,  born  Apr.  23,  1839. 

MARY  ANN,  born  Mar.    5,  1841. 

JAMES  ROBERT,      born  May  16,  1843. 

JOHN  W. 

AMANDA  BELLE. 

MILDRED. 

THOMAS  MILTON,  born  July  24,  1851. 

JOHN  F. 

ELIZABETH. 

V.  ELIZA    JANE    VAUGHN,   first    child    of    Martha 
Poage  and  Harrison  Vaughn,  was  married   April  n,  1861, 
to  William  E.  Sproul. 

CHILDREN: 

I.  T.,  born  Jan.  15,  1862. 
J.  E.,  born  Jan.  23,  1864. 

Home,  Strother,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  MARY  ANN  VAUGHN,  second   child  of    Martha 
Poage  and  Harrison  Vaughn,  was  married  to  Jeff  Sproul. 
Home,  Taylor,  Tex. 

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V.  JAMES  ROBERT  VAUGHN,  third  child  of  Martha 
Poage  and  Harrison  Vaughn,  was  married  to  Hattie  Clark. 
Home,  Texarkana,  Ark. 

V.  JOHN  W.  VAUGHN,  fourth  child  of  Martha  Poage 
and  Harrison  Vaughn,  is  unmarried. 

V.  AMANDA  BELLE  VAUGHN,  fifth  child  of  Martha 
Poage  and  Harrison  Vaughn,  is  unmarried. 

V.  MILDRED  VAUGHN,  sixth  child  of  Martha  Poage 
and  Harrison  Vaughn,  is  married  and  has  three  children. 
No  further  report. 

V.  THOMAS  MILTON  VAUGHN,  seventh  child  of 
Martha  Poage  and  Harrison  Vaughn,  was  married  to  Mattie 
Hoeker. 

CHILDREN: 

JESSIE,  born  1879. 
MABLE,born  1881. 

ALICE,  ) 

I    born  1885  (twins). 
ALMA,  > 

Home,  Paris,  Mo. 

V.  JOHN  F.  VAUGHN,  eighth  child  of  Martha  Poage 
and  Harrison  Vaughn,  is  married  and  has  three  children. 
Not  reported  further. 

V.  ELIZABETH  VAUGHN,  ninth  child  of  Martha 
Poage  and  Harrison  Vaughn,  is  married  to  W.  T.  Brown. 
Three  children.  No  further  report. 


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IV.  WILLIAM  HOPKINS  POAGE,  sixth  child  of  Jane 
Poage  and  James  Poage,  was  married  in  February,  1842,  to 
Elizabeth  Ann  Pollard. 

CHILDREN: 
JAMES  A. 
SAMUEL  B. 
SARAH  C. 
MARY  J. 

AMANDA  CORDELIA. 
CHARLES  W. 
RUTH. 

V.  JAMES  A.  POAGE,  first  child  of  William  Hopkins 
Poage  and  Elizabeth  Ann  Pollard,  was  married  to  Ella  Hick- 
man. 

Home,  Strother,  Mo. 

V.  SAMUEL  B.  POAGE,  second  child  of  William  Hop- 
kins Poage  and  Elizabeth  Ann  Pollard,  was  married  to  Fannie 
Speed. 

Home,  Strother,  Mo.  (Widow  there.) 

V.  SARAH  C.  POAGE,  third  child  of  William  Hopkins 
Poage  and  Elizabeth  Ann  Pollard,  was  married  to  Albert  Hen- 
derson. 

Home,  Strother,  Mo. 

V.  MARY  JANE  POAGE,  fourth  child  of  William  Hop- 
kins Poage  and  Elizabeth  Ann  Pollard,  was  married  to  Ben- 
jamin Franklin  Vaughn,  son  of  Eliza  Poage  and  William 
M.  Vaughan. 

Home,  Perry,  Mo. 

V.  AMANDA  CORDELIA  POAGE,  fifth  child  of  Wil- 
liam Hopkins  Poage  and  Elizabeth  Ann  Pollard,  was  married 
to  Joseph  F.  Fawcett. 

Home,  Victor,  Mo. 

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V.  CHARLES  W.  POAGE,  sixth  child  of  William  Hop- 
kins Poage  and  Elizabeth  Ann  Pollard,  was  married  to  Mollie 
Hubbard. 

Home,  Perry,  Mo. 

V.  RUTH  POAGE,  seventh  child  of  William    Hopkins 
Poage  and  Elizabeth  Ann  Pollard,  is  not  married. 
Home,  Perry,  Mo. 


IV.  DAVIS   POAGE,  seventh  child  of  Jane  Poage  and 
James  Poage,  died  in  infancy. 


IV.  MARCUS  POAGE,  eighth  child  of  Jane  Poage  and 
James  Poage,  was  married  to  Susan  M.  Burgess. 

CHILDREN  : 

RUFUS  M.,    born  Nov.  i,  1844. 
BETTIE,         born  Aug.  27,  1846. 

ANN,              born  Jan.  4,  1855. 

EMMA,           born  Oct.  4,  1857. 

DORA,            born  Nov.  7,  1860. 

M.  WESLEY,  born  Nov.  5,  1864. 
Home,  Paris,  Mo. 

V.  RUFUS  M.  POAGE,  first  child  of  Marcus  Poage  and 
Susan  M.  Burgess,  was  married  August  14.,  1870,  to  Mamie 
Kerr. 

CHILDREN  : 

MINNIE,    born  Sept.  14,  1870;  died  Nov.  14,  1899. 
CHARLES,  born  Dec.   29,  1878. 
LIZZIE,      born  Jan.    23,  1881. 

Home,  Santa  Fe,  Mo. ;  business,  agriculture. 


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V.  BETTIE  POAGE,  second  child  of  Marcus  Poage  and 
Susan  M.  Burgess •,  was  married  October  15,  1877,  to  William 
Vaughn. 

CHILDREN  : 

CLARENCE,  born  Aug.  15,  1880. 
WESLEY,  born  Nov.  19,  1882. 
PAUL,  born  Oct.  13,  1884. 
GLENN,  born  July  2,  1888. 
Home,  Goss,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  ANN  POAGE,  third  child  of  Marcus  Poage  and 
Susan  M.  Burgess,  was  married  October  23,  1873,  to  William 
Baskett. 

CHILDREN  : 

MARY,  born  July  9,  1878. 

NATHANIEL,  born  1880. 

LINA,  born  Jan.  6,  1881. 

Home,  Paris,  Mo. 

V.  EMMA  POAGE,  fourth  child  of  Marcus  Poage  and 
Susan  M.  Burgess,  was  married  May  i,  1884,  to  Alonzo  Mc- 
Allister. 

CHILDREN  : 

ARTHUR,  born  1888. 
VERNA,  born  1890. 
Home,  Nelson,  Mo.;  business,  clergyman. 

V.  DORA  POAGE,  fifth  child  of  Marcus  Poage  and 
Susan  M.  Burgess,  was  married  June  10,  1880,  to  Thomas 
McAllister. 

CHILDREN  : 

LILLIAN,  born  1882. 
STELLA,  born  1885. 
MADGE,  born  1888. 
A.  D.,  born  1889. 
EDGAR,  born 

Home,  Fayetteville,  Mo.;  business,  merchant. 

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V.  M.  WESLEY  POAGE,  sixth  child  of  Marcus  Poage 
and  Susan  M.  Burgess,  was  married  September  17,  1887,  to 
Nina  Farthing. 

CHILDREN: 

EARL. 

GOLDEN. 

GLADYS. 

MARIE. 

RUTH. 

Home,  West  Plains,  Mo. ;  business,  merchant. 

IV.  RUFUS  A.  POAGE,  ninth  child  of  Jane  Poage  and 
James  Poage,  was  not  married. 

IV.  ANDREW  FRANKLIN  POAGE,  tenth  child  of  Jane 
Poage  and  James  Poage,  died  at  twenty-seven  years  of  age. 

IV.  THOMAS  MILLER  POAGE,  eleventh,  IV.  JAMES 
EDWARD  POAGE,  twelfth,  IV.  SAMUEL  POAGE,  four- 
teenth, children  of  Jane  Poage  and  James  Poage,  are  unre- 
ported. 

IV.  SAMANTHA  POAGE,  thirteenth  child  of  Jane  Poage 
and  James  Poage,  died  at  twenty-four  years  of  age. 

IV.  JOHN  DAVIS  POAGE,  fifteenth  child  of  Jane 
Poage  and  James  Poage,  was  married  November  23,  1852,  to 
Susan  M.  Wright. 

CHILDREN  : 

WILLIAM  ABEL,  born  Sept.  7,  1853. 
JANE  ELIZABETH,  born  Jan.  25,  1855. 
FRANCES  DAVIS,  born  Sept.  i,  1860. 

Home,  Victor,  Mo. 

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F.  WILLIAM  ABEL  POAGE,  first  child  of  John  Davis 
Poage  and  Susan  M.  Wright,  was  married  November  24.,  1882, 
to  Margaret  Calban. 

Home,  Paris,  Mo. 

V.  JANE  ELIZABETH  POAGE,  second  child  of  John 
Davis  Poage  and  Susan  M.  Wright,  was  married  to  Susan  M. 
Johnson. 

Home,  Berry,  111. ;  business,  physician. 

F.  FRANCES  DAVIS  POAGE,  third  child  of  John 
Davis  Poage  and  Susan  M.  Wright,  died  in  Paris,  Mo. 


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///.  GEORGE  POAGE,  son  o]  Mary  Hopkins  and  Robert 
Poage,  was  married  in  1811,  to  Judith  Blair  Kemper,  who 
was  born  September  10,  1788,  in  Garrard  County,  Kentucky. 
She  was  the  daughter  oj  Rev.  James  Kemper  and  Judith  Hath- 
away, of  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

CHILDREN: 

SOPHIA  TlMBERLAKE. 

ROBERT  CYRUS,  died  Apr.         1904. 

JAMES  HARVEY,  died  Feb.  24,  1888. 

SAMUEL  DAVIS. 

GEORGE  BENJAMIN,     died  Mar.  29,  1897. 

AUGUSTUS  WILDS. 

MARY  FRANCES. 

FRANCES  SARAH,         born  June  10,  1827;  died  Aug.    i,  1834. 

Home,  Greenup  County,  Ky.  (now  Ashland) ;  business,  agriculture. 
Judith  Blair  Kemper  died  Oct.  21,  1848,  at  Ashland,  Ky. 

IV.  SOPHIA  TlMBERLAKE  POAGE,  first  child  of 
George  Poage  and  Judith  Blair  Kemper,  was  married  to  Henry 
B.  Pollard. 

CHILDREN: 

MARGARET  ANN,      died  about  1859. 

GEORGE  BRAXTON,  died  about  1870. 

THOMAS  ORVILLE. 

EDWARD  YOUNG. 

JOHN  CONDIT. 

WILLIAM  HENRY. 

MILTON  BROWNING. 

EMMA  IRENE. 

SOPHIA  ELIZABETH. 

GREEN  FORREST. 

IV.  SOPHIA  TlMBERLAKE  POAGE  POLLARD  was  married 
second  to  Spencer  Payne. 

Home,  Ashland,  Ky. ;  business,  agriculture. 

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V.  MARGARET  ANN  POLLARD,  first  child  of  Sophia 
Timberlake  Poage  and  Henry  B.  Pollard,  died  about  1859. 

V.  GEORGE  BRAXTON  POLLARD,  second  child  of 
Sophia  Timberlake  Poage  and  Henry  B.  Pollard,  died  when 
about  twenty-five  years  old. 

V.  THOMAS  ORVILLE  POLLARD,  third  child  of 
Sophia  Timberlake  Poage  and  Henry  B.  Pollard,  died  in  the 
Confederate  Army. 

V.  EDWARD  YOUNG  POLLARD,  fourth  child  of 
Sophia  Timberlake  Poage  and  Henry  B.  Pollard,  unre  ported. 

V.  JOHN  CONDIT  POLLARD,  fifth  child  of  Sophia 
Timberlake  Poage  and  Henry  B.  Pollard,  was  married  to 
Frances  Johnson.  He  died  in  1903  at  Huntington,  West 
Virginia. 

V.  WILLIAM  HENRY  POLLARD,  sixth  child  of 
Sophia  Timberlake  Poage  and  Henry  B.  Pollard,  was  twice 
married,  first  to  Miss  Powers. 

CHILDREN  : 

MARY. 
HARRY. 

V.  WILLIAM  HENRY  POLLARD  married  second,  Miss  Maupin. 
He  died  in  1904. 

V.  MILTON  BROWNING  POLLARD,  seventh  child 
of  Sophia  Timberlake  Poage  and  Henry  B.  Pollard,  is  unre- 
ported. 


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V.  EMMA  IRENE  POLLARD,  eighth  child  of  Sophia 
Timberlake  Poage  and  Henry  B.  Pollard,  was  married  to 
William  H.  Sympson. 

CHILDREN  : 
JAMES. 
BETH. 
MARY. 
WILLIAM. 
JUDITH. 

V.  SOPHIA  ELIZABETH  POLLARD,  ninth  child  of 
Sophia  Timberlake  Poage  and  Henry  B.  Pollard,  was  married 
to  Henry  Geiger. 

CHILDREN: 
JAMES. 
BERT. 
FOREST. 
HENRY. 
ESTHER. 
EMMA. 
COOK. 

Home,  Ashland,  Ky. 

V.  GREEN  FORREST  POLLARD,  tenth  child  of  Sophia 
Timberlake  Poage  and  Henry  B.  Pollard,  died  unmarried. 

IV.  ROBERT  CYRUS  POAGE,  second  child  of  George 
Poage  and  Judith  Blair  Kemper,  was  married  December  24, 
1839,  to  Anne  E.  Gallaher,  who  died  July,  1904. 

CHILDREN: 

JAMES  HARVEY,     born  1840. 

LUELLA  KEMPER,  born  1843. 

EMMA,  born  1845;  died  1845. 

ASHLAND,  born  1854;  died  Oct.  16,  1886. 

Home,  Ashland,  Ky. ;  business,  operator  of  flour  mill. 

IV.  ROBERT  CYRUS  POAGE  is  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church 
at  Ashland. 

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V.  JAMES    HARVEY   POAGE,    first    child   of    Robert 
Cyrus  Poage  and  Anne  E.  Gallaher,  was  married  to  Mary 
C.  Haskell. 

CHILDREN: 

NETTIE  TENNYSON. 

MARY. 

EVELINE. 

HARRIET. 

Louis  KEMPER. 

ROBERT  OSBORNE. 

ANNA. 

Home,  Ashland,  Ky. ;  business,  wharfmaster. 

VI.  NETTIE  TENNYSON,  first  child  of  James  Harvey 
Poage  and  Mary  C.  Haskell,  is  married  to  (name  not  given], 
and  has  two  children,  James  and  Harold. 

VI.  MARY  POAGE,  second  child  of  James  Harvey  Poage 
and  Mary  C.  Haskell,  died  at  thirteen  years  of  age. 

VI.  EVELINE   POAGE,  third  child   of  James   Harvey 
Poage  and  Mary  C.  Haskell,  was  married  to  (name  not  given). 

CHILDREN  : 

MARY  POAGE. 
EVELYN. 

VI.  HARRIET  POAGE,  fourth  child   of  James  Harvey 
Poage  and  Mary  C.  Haskell,  is  unmarried. 

VI.  LOUIS    KEMPER   POAGE,   fifth    child   of   James 
Harvey  Poage  and  Mary  C.  Haskell,  died  young. 

VI.  ROBERT  OSBORNE  POAGE,  sixth  child  of  James 
Harvey  Poage  and  Mary  C.  Haskell. 
Is  in  college. 


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VI.  ANNA    POAGE,   seventh    child   of    James   Harvey 
Poage  and  Mary  C.  Haskell,  is  married  to  (name  not  given). 

CHILDREN  : 
MARIE. 
FRANCIS. 


V.  LUELLA   KEMPER  POAGE,  second  child  of  Robert 
Cyrus  Poage  and  Anne  E.  Gallaher,  is  unmarried. 
Lives  at  Ashland,  Ky. 

V.  EMMA  POAGE,  third  child  of  Robert  Cyrus  Poage 
and  Anne  E.  Gallaher,  died  when  three  months  and  eighteen 
days  old. 

V.  ASHLAND  POAGE,  fourth  child  of  Robert  Cyrus 
Poage  and  Anne  E.  Gallaher,  was  married  November  18,  1879, 
to  Helen  May  Flye,  daughter  of  Edwin  Flye  of  Maine. 

CHILDREN: 

EDWIN  FLYE,  born  July  24,  1880. 
MARGUERITE,  born  1885. 

Home,  Ashland,  Ky.;  business,  operator  of  flour  mill. 

IV.  JAMES  HARVEY  POAGE,  third  child  of  George 
Poage  and  Judith  Blair  Kemper,  was  married  October  15, 
1851,  to  Sarah  A.  A.  Gallaher. 

CHILDREN: 

JAMES  EDGAR,  died  Nov.  13,  1904. 

JOHN  BAYLESS. 

ANNA  MARY. 

SARAH  KEMPER. 

GEORGE  HARVEY. 

ROBERT  CYRUS. 

Home,  Huntington,  W.  Va. 

IV.  JAMES  HARVEY  POAGE  is  an  elder  in  the  Presbyterian 
church. 

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V.  JAMES  EDGAR  POAGE,  first  child  oj  James  Har- 
vey Poage  and  Sarah  A.  A.  Gallaher,  was  married  to  Fannie 
Gallaher. 

CHILDREN: 
ERSKINE. 

Home,  Missouri;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  JOHN  BAY  LESS  POAGE,  second  child  of  James 
Harvey  Poage  and  Sarah  A.  A.  Gallaher,  was  married  May 
/7,  1 88 1,  to  Mary  Moore  Miller. 

CHILDREN: 

BLANCHE  MILLER. 

Business,  merchant. 

V.  ANNA  MARY  POAGE,  third  child  oj  James  Harvey 
Poage  and  Sarah  A.  A.  Gallaher,  was  married  October  24., 
1881,  to  Joseph  R.  Shelton. 

CHILDREN: 

SALLY  POAGE, 

HARVEY  WINSTON, 

ANDREW  KEMPER,  born  in  1888. 

Home,  Huntington,  W.  Va. 

F.  SARAH  KEMPER  POAGE,  fourth  child  of  James 
Harvey  Poage  and  Sarah  A.  A.  Gallaher,  died  in  1879. 

V.  GEORGE  HARVEY  POAGE,  fifth  child  of  James 
Harvey  Poage  and  Sarah  A.  A.  Gallaher,  was  married  October 
19,  1889,  to  Ada  Octavia  Wright. 

V.  ROBERT  CYRUS  POAGE,  sixth  child  of  James  Har- 
vey Poage  and  Sarah  A.  A.  Gallaher,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Huntington,  W.  Va.;  business,  civil  engineer. 


IV.  SAMUEL   DAVIS   POAGE,   fourth  child  of  George 
Poage  and  Judith  Blair  Kemper,  died  near  Ashland,  Kentucky. 

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IV.  GEORGE  BENJAMIN  POAGE,  fifth  child  0}  George 
Poage  and  Judith  Blair  Kemper,  was  married  to  Ruth  Emily 
Wardlaw. 

CHILDREN  : 

NANNIE  BLAIR,  died  in  infancy. 

HUDSON  BREVARD. 

MARY  BOONE. 

JULIAN  KANE. 

VIRGINIA  WARDLAW. 

Home,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Webster  Grove  suburb. 

V.  NANNIE   BLAIR    POAGE,    first    child    of    George 
Benjamin  Poage  and  Emily  Ruth  Wardlaw,  died  in  infancy. 

V.  HUDSON  BREVARD  POAGE,  second  child  of 
George  Benjamin  Poage  and  Emily  Ruth  Wardlaw,  is  unre- 
ported. 

V.  MARY  BOONE  POAGE,  third  child  of  George  Ben- 
jamin Poage  and  Emily  Ruth  Wardlaw,  was  married  October 
31,  i go i,  to  Gordmi  Land,  of  Denver,  Colo. 

V.  JULIAN  KANE  POAGE,  fourth  child  of  George 
Benjamin  Poage  and  Emily  Ruth  Wardlaw,  was  married 
October  9,  1885,  to  Sidney  Bedloe  Schuyler. 

CHILDREN: 

NENDER  HUDSON. 

Home,  Webster  Grove,  Mo. 

IV.  AUGUSTUS  WILDS  POAGE,  sixth  child  of  George 
Poage  and  Judith  Blair  Kemper. 
Lives  at  Parkersburg,  W.  Va. 

IV.  MARY  FRANCES  POAGE,  seventh  child  of  George 
Poage  and  Judith  Blair  Kemper,  died  when  seven  years  old. 

IV.  FRANCES  SARAH  POAGE,  eighth  child  of  George 
Poage  and  Judith  Blair  Kemper,  died  when  a  child. 

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///.  THOMAS  POAGE,  son  of  Mary  Hopkins  and  Robert 
Poage,  was  married  June  75,  1815,  to  Mary  Ann  Powers,  who 
was  born  November  n,  7793,  and  died  January  18,  1870. 

CHILDREN: 

EDWIN  DEAN,  born  Mar.  22,  1816;  died  Jan.  17,  1842. 

EMILY  ANN,  born  Jan.     6,  1818. 

JAMES  ERVIN,  born  Mar.    4,  1820. 

RICHARD  DEAN,  born  Dec.  27,  1823;  died  Jan.   21,  1904. 

EPHRAIM  McDowELL,  born  Feb.  17,  1828;  died  July  17,  1901. 

SARAH  JUDITH,  born  July  25,  1830;  died  May  24,  1882. 

LESLIE  POWERS,  born  Mar.         1838. 

This  family  moved  from  Kentucky  to  Monroe  County,  Mo.,  in  the 
early  spring  of  1830. 

IV.  EDWIN  DEAN  POAGE,  first  child  of  Thomas  Poage 
and  Mary  Ann  Powers,  died  when  twenty-six  years  of  age. 


IV.  EMILY  ANN  POAGE,  second  child  of  Thomas  Poage 
and  Mary  Ann  Powers,  was  married  January  6,  1836,  to  Judge 
Granville  Snell,  who  was  born  January  15,  1813. 

CHILDREN: 

ARABELLA  E.,  born  Nov.    2,  1836;  died  Feb.  22,  1874. 

SARAH  ELIZABETH,  born  Nov.  28,  1838;  died  Oct.    2,  1872. 

MARY  SUSAN,  born  Nov.  18,  1840. 

EDWIN  POAGE,  born  Dec.    7,  1842. 

E.  AMELIA,  born  Apr.  19,  1845. 

JULIA,  born  Nov.  n,  1846. 

THOMAS,  born  July  17,  1849. 

CLIFTON,  born  Aug.  12,  1851. 

WATSON,  born  Aug.  12,  1851. 

LEVI,  born  Oct.  31,  1854;  died  Nov.  24,  1871. 


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V.  ARABELLA  E.  SNELL,  first  child  of  Emily  Ann 
Poage  and  Granville  Snell,  was  married  January  26,  1867, 
to  Philip  S.  Hecker. 

CHILDREN  : 

CHARLES  G. 

WALTER. 

MARY. 

Home,  Centralia,  Mo. 

F.  SARAH  ELIZABETH  SNELL,  second  child  of  Emily 
Ann  Poage  and  Granville  Snell,  was  married  May  29,  1860, 
to  C.  C.  Hagood. 

CHILDREN: 

EMMETT. 
MARY. 
JULIA. 
EDWIN. 

Home,  Nevada,  Mo. 

F.  MARY  SUSAN  SNELL,  third  child  of  Emily  Ann 
Poage  and  Granville  Snell,  was  married  February  18,  1868, 
to  S.  T.  Hook. 

CHILDREN  : 

THOMAS  E.,  born  Dec.  24,  1868. 
MARY  E.,      born  June  20,  1871. 

Home,  Mexico,  Mo.;  business,  live  stock  and  agriculture. 

F.  EDWIN  POAGE  SNELL,  fourth  child  of  Emily  Ann 
Poage  and  Granville  Snell,  was  married  December  19,  1866, 
to  Martha  McCann. 

CHILDREN: 

W.  W. 
C.  G. 

SUSIE. 
HATTIE. 

Home,  Paris,  Mo. 

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V.  E.  AMELIA  SNELL,  fifth  child  of  Emily  Ann  Poage 
and  Granville  Snell,  was  married  January  26,  1867,  to  P.  S. 
Hocker. 

CHILDREN: 

C.  G. 

WALTER  E. 
MARY  E. 

Home,  Paris,  Mo. 

V.  JULIA  SNELL,  sixth  child  of  Emily  Ann  Poage  and 
Granville  Snell. 
Lives  at  Paris,  Mo. 

V.  THOMAS  SNELL,  seventh  child  of  Emily  Ann  Poage 
and  Granville  Snell. 

Lives  at  1404  Olive  Street,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

V.  CLIFTON  SNELL,  eighth  child  of  Emily  Ann  Poage 
and  Granville  Snell,  was  married  January,  1871,  to  Dollie 
Cartright. 

CHILDREN: 
FRANK. 
NADINE. 

Home,  Holliday,  Mo. 

V.  WATSON  SNELL,  ninth  child  of  Emily  Ann  Poage 
and  Granville  Snell,  was  married  January,  1871,  to  Jennie 
Beckford. 

CHILDREN: 
HOWARD. 
EDWIN. 
EMMA. 
JULIA. 

Home,  Nampa,  Idaho;  business,  real  estate  and  mining. 

V.  LEV  I  SNELL,  tenth  child  of  Emily  Ann  Poage  and 
Granville  Snell,  died  when  seventeen  years  of  age. 

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IV.  JAMES  ERVIN  POAGE,  third  child  of  Thomas 
Poage  and  Mary  Ann  Powers,  was  married  to  Gabriella  Aber- 
nathy. 

CHILDREN  : 

SALLIE. 

FANNIE. 

CORDELIA. 

ARZELIA. 

THOMAS. 

NELIA. 

Home,  Paris,  Mo. ;  business,  carpenter. 


IV.  RICHARD  DEAN  POAGE,  fourth  child  of  Thomas 
Poage  and  Mary  Ann  Powers,  was  married  December  6,  1864., 
to  Amanda  S.  Valandingham. 

Amanda  S.  Valandingham  Poage  died  and  Richard  Dean  Poage  mar- 
ried second,  in  1881,  Mrs.  Snow. 

Home,  Centralia,  Mo. 


iv.  EPHRAIM  MCDOWELL  POAGE,  fifth  child  of 

Thomas  Poage  and  Mary  Ann  Powers,  was  married  February 
20, 1851,  to  Frances  Louisa  Quarks,  who  died  January  28, 1852. 

IV.  EPHRAIM  McDOWELL  POAGE  was  married,  sec- 
ond, October  7,  1852,  to  Georgianna  Boulware,  who  died  No- 
vember 19,  1899. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  KANSAS, 

KATE  ELMO,  born  Sept.  19,  1859. 

Home,  Paris,  Mo.;  business,  physician  and  merchant. 


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V.  WILLIAM  KANSAS  POAGE,  first  child  of  Ephraim 
McDowell  Poage  and  Georgianna  Boulware,  was  married  June 
26,  1883,  to  Viola  Rawlings. 

CHILDREN: 

GEORGE  RAWLINGS,  born  Oct.  31,  1885. 
Home,  Paducah,  Ky. ;  business,  clothier. 

V.  KATE  ELMO  POAGE,  second  child  oj  Ephraim  Mc- 
Dowell Poage  and  Georgianna  Boulware,  was  married  Jan- 
uary 18,  1882,  to  Thomas  Grey  Mitchell. 

CHILDREN  : 

GLENN  DEAN,  born  Apr.  29,  1889. 
Home,  Paris,  Mo. 

IV.  SARAH  JUDITH  POAGE,  sixth  child  of  Thomas 
Poage  and  Mary  Ann  Powers,  was  married  May,  1850,  to 
William  Grey,  who  died  in  1885. 

CHILDREN: 
MARY. 
THOMAS. 

Home,  Quincy,  111. 

V.  MARY  GREY,  first  child  of  Sarah  Judith  Poage  and 
William  Grey,  married  Charles  T.  Lemley. 

CHILDREN  : 

GREY,  born  Dec.  29,  1874. 

GEORGE  THOMAS,  born  Aug.  u,  1881;  died  Apr.  1898. 

Home,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.;  business,  real  estate. 

V.  THOMAS  GREY,  second  child  of  Sarah  Judith  Poage 
and  William  Grey,  died  in  Old  Mexico. 

IV.  LESLIE  POWERS  POAGE,  seventh  child  of  Thomas 
Poage  and  Mary  Ann  Powers,  died  at  seventeen  years  of  age. 


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///.  JAMES  POAGE,  son  of  Mary  Hopkins  and  Robert 
Poage,  was  married  to  Jemima  McCormick. 

CHILDREN: 
ALBERT. 
JULIUS. 
ROBERT. 
JANE. 

Home,  LaGrange,  Mo. 

In  1858  this  family  started  from  Missouri  to  Texas  by  boat.  The 
boat  burned  a  hundred  miles  from  St.  Louis,  and  James  Poage,  his  son 
Albert,  and  his  daughter-in-law,  the  wife  of  Julius,  were  drowned. 

IV.  ALBERT  POAGE,  first  child  of  James  Poage  and 
Jemima  McCormick,  was  married  to  Marcella  Johnson,  of 
West  Virginia. 

After  the  disaster  above  mentioned  Marcella  Johnson  Poage  returned 
with  a  little  daughter  to  Virginia. 


IV.  JULIUS  POAGE,  the  second  child  of  James  Poage 
and  Jemima  McCormick,  was  married  to  Sallie  Laidley . 

CHILDREN: 
EDDA. 

Sallie  Laidley  Poage  was  drowned. 

IV.  JULIUS   POAGE   was   married,    second,  to   S.    N. 
Hatton,  who  died  in  1902. 

CHILDREN  : 
VIRGINIA, 

SALLIE  BLACKWOOD, 
JULIA  BOYD. 

V.  EDDA  POAGE,  first  child  of  Julius  Poage  and  Sallie 
Laidley,  was  married  to  Professor  James  T.  Wallace. 

Home,  Oakland,  Cal. 

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V.  VIRGINIA  POAGE,  second  child  of  Julius  Poage  and 
first  child  of  S.  N.  Hatton,  was  married  to  Zeph  McBride. 

V.  SALLIE  BLACKWOOD  POAGE,  third  child  of 
Julius  Poage  and  second  child  of  S.  N.  Hatton,  married 
Mr.  Simbaugh. 

Home,  Isleton,  Cal. 

V.  JULIA  BOYD  POAGE,  fourth  child  of  Julius  Poage 
and  third  child  of  S.  N.  Hatton,  married  Mr.  Oats. 
Home,  Sacramento,  Cal. 


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///.  HARRIET  POAGE,  daughter  of  Mary  Hopkins  and 
Robert  Poage,  was  married  to  Richard  Powers. 

CHILDREN  : 

ROBERT  HARVEY,  born  Mar.    3,  1820;  died  Jan.  27,  1853. 

MARCUS  M.,          born  Jan.   22,1821. 

MINERVA,  born  Apr.     6,  1822;  died  Aug.    3,  1847. 

MILFORD,  born  Mar.    3,  1824. 

WEALTHY  A.,        born  Mar.  25,  1828. 

MARY  JANE,          born  June    3,  1830. 

JAMES  NELSON,     born  Apr.     4,  1832. 

THERON  B.,  born 

Home,  Florida,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  ROBERT  HARVEY  POWERS,  first  child  of  Har- 
riet Poage  and  Richard  Powers,  was  unmarried.  He  died  at 
thirty-three  years  of  age,  and  is  buried  at  Stockton,  Cat. 

IV.  MARCUS  M.  POWERS,  second  child  of  Harriet  Poage 
and  Richard  Powers,  was  married  January  18,  1844,  t°  P°Hy 
Terrill. 

CHILDREN: 
COLUMBUS. 
CYRUS  BENJAMIN. 
RICHARD  EDWIN. 
ORVAL. 

GEORGE  MILTON. 
WILLIAM. 
HARVEY. 
ARTHUR. 
IV.   MARCUS  M.  POWERS  was  married,  second,  to  Angeline  Nesbit. 

CHILDREN: 
MINNIE. 
MARCUS  ORION. 
NETA. 
EVA. 
BEULAH. 

Home,  Stoutsville,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

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IV.  MINERVA  POWERS,  third  child  of  Harriet  Poage 
and  Richard  Powers,  was  married  October  12,  184.3,  t°  J-  M. 
Thompson. 

CHILDREN: 

RICE,  who  died  in  infancy. 

IV.  MILFORD  POWERS,  fourth  child  of  Harriet  Poage 
and  Richard  Powers,  was  married  August  24,  184.7,  io  Harriet 
M.  Dixon. 

CHILDREN: 

LAURA,  born  Sept.  7,  1853. 
JAMES  D.,  born  Aug.  26,  1855. 
LUELLA,  born  Mar.  16,  1857. 
RICHARD  B.,  born 
ANNA  JANE,  born  Jan.  28,  1860. 
MARY  C.,  born  Apr.  30,  1864. 

Home,  Corvallis,  Mont.;  business,  clergyman. 

V.  LAURA  POWERS,  first  child  of  Milford  Powers  and 
Harriet  M.  Dixon,  was  married  June  18, 18 — ,  to  M.  J.  McGee. 

V.  JAMES  D.  POWERS,  second  child  of  Milford  Powers 
and  Harriet  M.  Powers,  died  unmarried. 

V.  LUELLA  POWERS,  third  child  of  Milford  Powers 
and  Harriet  M.  Dixon,  was  married  October  8,  1884.,  to  John 
Cobb. 

V.  RICHARD  B.  POWERS,  fourth  child  of  Milford 
Powers  and  Harriet  M.  Dixon,  is  unmarried. 

V.  ANNA  JANE  POWERS,  fifth  child  of  Milford 
Powers  and  Harriet  M.  Dixon,  was  married  October  6,  18 — , 
to  Christopher  Warherst. 

V.  Mary  C.  Powers,  sixth  child  of  Milford  Powers  and 
Harriet  M.  Dixon,  is  unmarried. 

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IV.  WEALTHY  A.  POWERS,  fifth  child  oj  Harriet  Poage 
and  Richard  Powers,  was  married  to  W.  H.  Violet. 

CHILDREN  : 

OSCAR. 

AURELIA. 

LAURA. 

WILLIAM. 

MARVIN. 

ADA. 

Business,  agriculture. 

One  of  the  daughters  married  William  J.  Jackson,  and  lives  at  Pueblo, 
Colo. 


IV.  MARY  JANE  POWERS,  sixth  child  0}  Harriet  Poage 
and  Richard  Powers,  was  married  to  Martin  Mason. 

CHILDREN: 
FLETCHER. 
GEORGE. 
THERON. 
MINNIE. 
BEULAH. 

Home,  Paris,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  MARY  JANE  POWERS  MASON  died,  and  is  buried  at  Zion, 
Monroe  County,  Mo. 


IV.  JAMES  N.  POWERS,  seventh  child  of  Harriet  Poage 
and  Richard  Powers,  was  married  in  1874,  to  Mary  Forsyth. 

CHILDREN: 

HATTIE  BELLE,  who  died  in  infancy. 

Home,  Paris,  Mo.;  business,  real  estate  and  loan. 


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IV.  THERON  B.  POWERS,  eighth  child  of  Harriet  Poage 
and  Richard  Powers,  was  married  February  23,  1870,  to  Lucy 
M.  Hocker. 

CHILDREN: 

EMMA. 

CASSIE  V. 

HATTIE  R. 

HOMER  N. 

OSCAR  B. 

CHARLES  O. 

JOSEPH  THERON,  who  died  in  infancy. 

Home,  Perry,  Mo. ;  business,  agriculture  and  stock  farming. 


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///.  ANN   POAGE,    daughter   of    Mary    Hopkins    and 
Robert  Poage,  was  married  to  John  Stewart. 

CHILDREN  : 

JAMES,  born  Jan.    3,  1830. 

HARRIET,  born  1832;  died  1874. 

ROBERT,  born  1834;  died  1842. 

MARY,  born  1836;  died  1857. 

HUGH  MENART,  born  Feb.  24,  1838; 
JOHN  WILLIAM,  born  1841;  died  1843. 

Home,  Welsh,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  JAMES  STEWART,  first  child  of  Ann  Poage  and  John 
Stewart,  was  married  September  i,  1860,  to  Mary  Walden. 

CHILDREN: 

ANNIE  L.,     born  Jan.     7,  1863. 

EUGENE  A.,  born  June  29,  1865. 

JUAN,  died  Sept.  1867. 

ESTELLE  V.,  born  Oct.  24,  1870. 

BECK  ELLA,  born  Oct.    4,  1873 ; 

MARY  L.,      born  Apr.    9,  1878. 

Mary  Walden  Stewart  died,  and  James  Stewart  was  married  second, 
June  20,  1882,  to  Mary  Loutham. 
Home,  Palmyra,  Mo. 

V.  ANNIE  L.  STEWART,  first  child  of  James  Stewart 
and  Mary  Walden,  was  married  to  Owen  T.  Thornburg. 

CHILDREN: 
ROY. 
NORA. 
JAMES. 
JOSEPHINE. 
LEE. 
JACK. 

ESTELLA. 

GEORGE. 
MARY. 

Home,  Moberly,  Mo.;  business,  stockman. 

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VI.  ROY  THORNBURG,  first  child  of  Annie  L.  Stewart 
and  Owen  T.  Thornburg,  was  married  March  6,  1902,  to  Ruby 
Edwards. 

CHILDREN: 

EUGENE,  born  Mar.  20,  1903. 
No  record  of  the  other  children. 

F.  EUGENE   A.    STEWART,    second    child    of   James 
Stewart  and  Mary  Waldon,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Palmyra,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

F.  JUAN  STEWART,  third  child  of  James  Stewart  and 
Mary  Waldon,  died  September,  1867,  and  is  buried  at  Mt. 
Olivet,  Monroe  County,  Mo. 

V.  ESTELLE  V.  STEWART,  fourth  child  of  James 
Stewart  and  Mary  Waldm,  was  married  November  3,  1896, 
to  George  B.  Bennett,  who  died  July  6,  i8gg. 

Home,  Palmyra,  Mo. 

F.  BECK  ELLA  STEWART,  fifth  child  of  James  Stewart 
and  Mary  Waldon,  was  married  January  26,  1899,  to  Daniel 
McLeod. 

CHILDREN: 

J.  STEWART,  born  Mar.  26,  1900. 

DANIEL  MARSHALL,  born  Oct.     6,  1903. 

Home,  Hannibal,  Mo.;  business,  livery. 

F.  MARY  L.  STEWART,  sixth  child  of  James  Stewart 
and  Mary  Waldon,  is  unmarried. 

She  is  her  father's  homekeeper,  Palmyra,  Mo. 


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IV.  HARRIET  STEWART,  second  child  of  Ann  Poage 
and  John  Stewart,  was  married  to  Henry  Engle. 

CHILDREN: 

ANNIE  M.,  born  1859. 

JOHN  P.,  born  1861. 

WILLIAM  P.,  born  1863. 

JENNIE,  born  1865. 

JAMES  L.,  born  1867. 

MATTIE  BECK,  born  1869. 

EDDIE  POAGE,  born  1872. 

Home,  Middle  Grove,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  ANNIE  M.  ENGLE,  first   child   of  Harriet  Stewart 
and  Henry  Engle,  is  married. 

Lives  at  Evansville,  Mo. 

V.  JOHN   P.  ENGLE,  second  child  of   Harriet  Stewart 
and  Henry  Engle,  was  married  to  Nannie  Grimes. 
Home,  Welsh,  Mo. 

V.  WILLIAM  P.  ENGLE,  third  child  of  Harriet  Stewart 
and  Henry  Engle,  was  married  to  Minnie  Daw  son. 
Home,  Omega,  Okla. 

V.  JENNIE  ENGLE,  fourth  child  of  Harriet  Stewart 
and  Henry  Engle,  was  married  to  Monroe  Grimes. 
Home,  Fayette,  Mo.;  business,  livery. 

V.  JAMES  L.  ENGLE,  fifth   child   of   Harriet  Stewart 
and  Henry  Engle,  not  reported. 

V.  MATTIE  BECK  ENGLE,    sixth    child  of   Harriet 
Stewart  and  Henry  Engle,  was  married  to  William  Willis. 

CHILDREN: 

ALTHA. 

VALERIA. 

ENGLE. 

Home,  Moberly,  Mo.;  business,  merchant. 

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V.  EDDIE  POAGE  ENGLE,  seventh  child  of  Harriet 
Stewart  and  Henry  Engle,  was  married  February  8,  1895,  to 
Rachel  Cartright. 

CHILDREN: 
HUGH  C. 
SARAH  F. 
BLANCHE  H. 

Home,  Welsh,  Mo. 

IV.  ROBERT  STEWART,  third  child  of  Ann  Poage  and 
John  Stewart,  died  when  eight  years  old. 

IV.  MARY  STEWART,  fourth  child  of  Ann  Poage  and 
John  Stewart,  died  at  twenty-one  years  of  age. 

IV.  HUGH  STEWART,  fifth  child  of  Ann  Poage  and 
John  Stewart,  was  married  to  Rebecca  Berry. 
Home,  Welsh,  Mo. 

IV.  JOHN  WILLIAM  STEWART,  sixth  child  of  Ann 
Poage  and  John  Stewart,  died  a  little  child. 


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///.  ELIZABETH  POAGE,  daughter  of  Mary  Hopkins 
and  Robert  Poage,  was  married  to  Robert  Abraham  Brubaker. 

CHILDREN: 
HARRIET. 
ROBERT. 
GEORGE. 
JOHN. 
EDWIN. 
REBECCA 
JULIUS. 
FRANK. 

IV.  HARRIET  BRUBAKER,  first  child  of  Elizabeth  Hop- 
kins and  Robert  Abraham  Brubaker,  was  married  to 
Castle. 


IV.  ROBERT,  IV.  GEORGE,  IV.  JOHN,  and  IV. 
EDWIN  BRUBAKER,  second,  third,  fourth,  and  fifth 
childred  of  Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  Robert  Abraham  Brubaker, 
were  not  married. 


IV.  REBECCA,  IV.  JULIUS,  and  IV.  FRANK  BRU- 
BAKER, sixth,  seventh,  and  eighth  children  of  Elizabeth 
Hopkins  and  Robert  Abraham  Brubaker,  are  unreported. 


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///.  MARY  POAGE,   daughter  of  Mary  Hopkins  and 
Robert  Poage,  was  married  to  Thomas  Wilson. 

CHILDREN: 

ROBERT. 

GEORGE. 

MARY. 

JAMES. 

ELIZABETH. 

STEPHEN. 

Home,  moved  from  Indiana  to  Illinois  in  the  '3o's.     No  further  record 
obtained. 


///.  REBECCA  POAGE,  daughter  of  Mary  Hopkins  and 
Robert  Poage,  was  married  to  John  Pickett  Metcalf,  who  was 
born  August  17,  1795. 

CHILDREN  : 

ROBERT. 
HORACE. 


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///.  ROBERT  WATSON  POAGE,  son  of  Mary  Hop- 
kins and  Robert  Poage,  was  married  to  Mary  Poage,  daughter 
of  Col.  George  Poage  and  Ann  Allen.  She  was  born  Novem- 
ber 4,  1781. 

CHILDREN  : 

ROBERT  ALEXANDER. 
JOHN. 
BENJAMIN. 
SALLIE. 

All  the  children  were  born  in  Kentucky,  and  moved  to  Missouri  in 
the  '30*3. 


///.  WILLIAM  POAGE,  son  of  Mary  Hopkins  and 
Robert  Poage,  was  married  to  Ann  McCormick,  who  was  born 
January  16, 1801. 

CHILDREN  : 

AMELIA. 

SOPHRONIA,          born  Mar.  31,  1827. 

JEMIMA  V. 

HARRIET. 

MARY  FRANCES. 

GEORGE. 

LUCRETIA. 

FRED  W.,  born  Apr.  16,  1837. 


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IV.  AMELIA  POAGE,  first  child  of  William  Poage  and 
Ann  McCormick,  was  married  to  J.  D.  Rain. 
Home,  Santa  Rosa,  Cal. 

IV.  JAMES  POAGE,  second  child  of  William  Poage  and 
Ann  McCormick,  was  married  to  Emma  Hickman. 
Home,  Victor,  Mo. ;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  SOPHRONIA  POAGE,  third  child  of  William  Poage 
and  Ann  McCormick,  was  married  March  2,  1858,  to  John 
Poage,  of  Greenbrier  County,  W.  Va. 

CHILDREN: 
SALLIE. 

EFFIE  J.,  born  June  27,  1861. 
LILLIE. 

Home,  Edina,  Mo.;  business,  hardware. 

IV.  JEMIMA  V.  POAGE,  fourth  child  of  William  Poage 
and  Ann  McCormick,  was  married  to  Thomas  La  Fau. 

CHILDREN: 

ANNE. 

Thomas  La  Fau  died,  and  Jemima  V.  Poage  was  married  second  to 
James  T.  Hutton. 

CHILDREN: 
CHARLES. 
KATIE. 
LUTA. 
ELBERT. 
MAGGIE. 
HERBERT. 

Home,  La  Grange,  Mo.;  business,  grocer. 

IV.  HARRIET  POAGE,  fifth  child  of  William  Poage  and 
Ann  McCormick,  is  unre ported. 

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IV.  MARY  FRANCES  POAGE,  sixth  child  of  William 
Poage  and  Ann  McCormick,  was  married  to  T.  W.  Willis. 

CHILDREN  : 
OSCAR. 
EUGENE. 
ADA. 
LUELLA. 
ANNA  LEE. 
FREDERICK. 
FANNIE. 

Home,  Winters,  Cal. ;  business,  hardware. 

IV.  GEORGE  POAGE,  seventh  child  of  William  Poage 
and  Ann  McCormick,  is  unre ported. 

IV.  LUCRETIA  POAGE,  eighth  child  of  William  Poage 
and  Ann  McCormick,  was  married  to  George  W.  Martin. 
Home,  Paris,  Mo. ;  business,  agriculture  and  stock. 

IV.  FRED   W.   POAGE,  ninth  child  of  William   Poage 
and  Ann  McCormick,  was  married  October  15,  1868,  to  Lizzie 
S.  Nunn. 

CHILDREN  : 
NEITA  MAY. 
FANNIE  LINSEY. 
ALBERT  GATEWOOD. 

Home,  Bentonville,  Ark.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  FANNIE  LINSEY  POAGE,  second  child  of  Fred  W. 
Poage  and  Lizzie  S.  Nunn,  was  married  to  William  Preston 
Hopkins,  son  of  Rev.  Preston  Brok  Hopkins,  of  Elm  Springs, 
Ark. 


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"It  is  no  more  than  courteous  that  we  should  follow  back,  from  son  to 
father,  the  affection  that  has  vanished  from  the  earth,  and  that  we  should 
learn  how  much  we  owe  to  the  virtues  of  our  forebears." 


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Letter  from  Jane  Hopkins  Pogue  to  her  husband,  Col.  Robert  Pogue, 
in  the  army.  Owned  by  John  T.  Shanklin,  Johnson's  Junction,  Ky. 

November  3 oth,  1812. 
MY  DEARE  HUSBAND 

I  sent  Edwin  to  see  Mr  Marshall  and  showed  him  the  agreement  bee- 
tween  Walker  and  yourself.  I  have  enclosed  his  letter  to  you  that  he  has 
writen  to  me.  I  sent  Edwin  to  se  the  man  that  was  owing  you  wheet  as 
soon  as  the  milldam  and  race  was  finished  with  a  request  to  diliver  there 
wheet,  but  they  have  all  faild  except  W.  Mats  who  has  dilivered  one  small 
load.  I  would  not  have  been  so  uneasy,  but  Mr.  Walker  has  been  threat- 
ning  you  with  heavy  damages.  He  has  not  said  an  illnatured  word  to 
me  yet.  But  has  talked  very  short  to  Bill  and  some  of  the  neighbors. 
He  wishes  me  to  borrow  the  wheet  and  says  he  must  start  again  Chrismes. 
Before  wheet  took  a  rise  I  purchased  200  bushels  lest  there  should  be  some 
failurs,  same  I  got  for  half  a  crown  A  bushell  but  It  cannot  be  got  for  less 
then  three  shillings  in  cash  and  will  soon  be  three  and  sixpence.  I  have 
been  reading  of  the  gallent  conduct  of  G.  Tupper  and  I  am  much  gratifide 
thareat,  when  our  Mayslick  horsmen  came  home,  many  of  them  said  he 
ought  to  be  shot,  others  that  they  would  Rather  kill  him  than  an  indian. 
But  that  is  Mayslick  patriotism  you  know.  We  are  all  in  health  and  long 
very  much  to  se  you  again.  The  children  join  in  love  to  you  and  their 
brothers.  I  Add  no  more  But  remain  your  loving  wife  untill  death. 

J.  POGUE 

Col  R  Pogue 

P.  S.  we  have  not  got  all  our  corn  in  yet  But  we  shall  quit  it  and  git  our 
wheet  out.     I  have  done  everything  in  my  power  to  fulfill  the  contract 
with    walker  indeed  more  than  was  convenient.     Your  contract  says  as 
soon  as  you  conveniently  can  after  water  comes  But  I  will  still  persevere 
in  getting  the  wheet  delivered  in  the  mill 
(Adressed  on  the  outside  to) 
Col  Robert  Pogue 

Commander  of  the  4th  regiment  of 
Kentucky  militia 


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Letter  from  Robert  Pogue  to  his  wife,  Jane  Hopkins  Pogue.  Owned 
by  John  T.  Shanklin,  Johnson's  Junction,  Ky. 

WASHINGTON  CITY,  agth  Feby,  1816. 
DEAR  JANE: — 

I  suppose  your  anxious  to  hear  from  me.  I  have  had  very  disagree- 
able weather  on  my  journey,  but  enjoyed  good  health.  Our  friends  in 
Rockingham  is  well.  I  did  not  call  at  Augustia.  I  have  presented  my 
petition  to  Congress  on  account  of  Berry's  land  and  the  prospect  at  present 
is  favourable  but  their  is  no  knowing  how  soon  that  may  be  blasted.  I 
shall  be  better  able  to  judge  on  Saturday  next.  I  have  seen  James  Brown 
who  tells  me  he  is  not  hear  prepared  to  pay  me  any  money,  but  has  no 
doubt  but  them  notes  sent  by  Wilson  will  be  paid  off.  He  says  if  I  had 
written  to  him,  he  should  have  instructed  his  agent  specially  to  take  them 
up,  and  would  write  now  if  I  thought  Wilson  would  not  have  left  Orleins 
before  a  letter  could  reach  thair,  and  he  says  it  would  be  an  accomidation 
to  him  if  I  could  make  out  with  the  payment  of  two  of  the  notes  and  for- 
ward the  other  two  on  next  fall  after  he  makes  sail  of  his  crop  of  sugar, 
but  if  I  insist  on  it,  the  whole  money  shall  be  raised  as  soon  as  he  gits  home. 
I  expect  to  leave  this  place  on  Monday  next  for  Richmond  and  from 
thence  to  Kentucky.  I  shall  likely  stay  a  few  days  in  Augusta  to  rest 
and  see  my  friends.  This  is  one  of  the  tirisomest  places  I  ever  was  in 
and  the  poorest  tables  that  ever  I  was  at  in  what  is  called  good  tavern. 
Beef  sells  in  market  for  16  Dollars  pr  100  not  of  a  good  quality,  every- 
thing else  that  is  eatable  in  proportion.  I  have  heard  no  forin  news  that 
is  interesting.  Their  is  no  part  of  the  Union  that  is  moure  favoured  with 
plenty  than  Kentucky  nor  no  part  that  is  less  gratefull  to  the  giver.  The 
people  for  50  miles  round  this  city,  it  appears  to  me,  is  not  able  to  supply 
this  town  with  provitions  without  infringing  on  the  necessities  of  their 
own  families.  You  can  scarcely  walk  the  street  without  meeting  a  Beggar 
that  is  rely  so  through  necessity.  The  Drawn  butter  that  we  use  for  the 
purpose  of  pouring  over  Boiled  fish  looks  like  grewel  and  can  not  in  jus- 
tice be  called  anything  else  and  a  small  portion  of  tanted  butter  mixed  with 
it.  One  family  in  Kentucky  I  am  of  opinion,  uses  as  much  solid  food 
in  one  year  as  six  of  the  same  size  does  in  this  country.  Take  the  country 
through.  As  for  high  living  on  fish  and  oysters  their  is  but  few  Kentucky- 
ians  that  would  fatten  on  them. 

I  discover  my  mind  turns  much  more  on  any  affairs  at  home  when 
abroad,  than  it  does  when  there,  which  teaches  me  this  lesson  that  it  is 

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our  duty  and  interest  to  turn  our  attention  more  immediately  to  the  business 
that  is  within  our  reach,  for  the  business  that  is  done  when  the  mind  is 
absent  might  as  well  be  let  alone  for  nothing  short  of  mistakes  and  disorder 
is  the  consequence. 

Give  my  love  to  all  the  family,  etc. 

I  ever  remain  your  affectionate  hausband, 

ROBERT  POGUE. 
Mrs.  Jane  Pogue. 


Letter  from  William  Pogue  to  his  mother,  Jane  Hopkins  Pogue.  Owned 
by  John  T.  Shanklin,  Johnson's  Junction,  Ky. 

LEXINGTON,  November  ;th  1817 
DEAR  MOTHER 

I,  yesterday,  received  a  letter  bearing  date  the  4th  of  this  month  from 
my  father,  wherein  he  requests  me  to  write  to  you  immediately  to  relieve 
your  anxiety  respicting  me,  as,  he  says  that,  you  are  apprehensive  that  I 
am  drowned  on  my  way  from  this  place  to  Mason;  but  I  did  not  start  as 
the  money  that  I  expected  to  get  was  not  and  could  not  be  got  out  of  Bank 
and  there  was  an  understanding  betwixt  me  and  my  father  if  I  did  not 
get  the  money  I  would  not  go  down;  for  that  reason  I  did  not  go  but  re- 
mained in  Lexington  and  attended  to  my  business,  of  which  there  was  a 
considerable  press,  it  being  about  the  commencement  of  court. 

I  will  inform  you  that  the  clock  which  I  supposed  was  on  the  way  to 
Mason  was  not  taken  by  the  Waggoner  that  had  promised  to  transport 
it ;  but  it  yet  remains  in  this  place  and  I  will  send  it  by  the  first  opportunity 
to  Mr.  Mackey. 

If  Amanda  wishes  to  go  to  Lexington  to  go  to  school,  I  desire  you 
or  some  of  the  family  to  inform  me  when  she  will  be  ready  to  come,  that 
I  may  make  arrangement  with  Mr  Ely  the  for  her  schooling  and  also  know 
where  she  will  board  or  where  she  would  desire  to  board  and  find  out 
when  the  next  quarter  will  commence  that  she  may  know  when  to  prepare, 
and  when  she  is  ready  I  will  go  down  for  her  as  I  have  promised. 

I  would  be  much  pleased  to  know  how  soon  arrangements  could  be 
made  for  Jane  to  go  to  school  and  receive  a  good  education,  as  I  find  by 
observation  that  an  understanding,  such  as  I  fondly  believe  the  most  of 
our  family  possess,  will  always  command  admiration  from  those  less 
informed  and  repsect  and  esteem  from  the  learned,  and  what  is  still  in- 
finitely more  satisfactory,  it  will  enable  such  adepts  to  from  correct  ideas 
of  the  understanding  and  qualifications  of  any  person  in  whose  company 
they  may  be,  if  it  be  but  for  a  few  minutes.  Yet  there  are  still  greater 

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and  more  weighty  considerations  in  making  choice  of  one  whom  they 
design  for  their  friend  and  companion  through  life,  and  whom,  when 
once  received  as  such,  they  can  never  abandon  or  forsake.  How  essential 
a  requisite  is  it  that  we  should  pry  into  the  depths  of  their  understanding 
before  they  fix  a  seal  and  disposition  which  perhaps  may  be  forever  fatal 
to  their  happiness  and  ruinous  to  their  comforts  in  life,  moreover  a  woman 
well  educated  will  more  than  recompense  in  the  instruction  of  a  family, 
for  the  time  she  may  have  spent  in  her  own  education.  The  incorrect 
impression  which  a  child  receives  is  difficult,  indeed,  almost  impossible 
to  destroy.  When  it  commences  going  to  school,  it  must  be  both  untaught 
and  taught  to  bring  it  as  far  forwards  as  one  that  has  been  properly  in- 
structed from  the  beginning.  This  has  been  a  subject  of  debate  in  our 
debating  society  (of  which  I  am  a  member)  and  it  has  been  decided  that 
a  woman  should  have  equally  as  good  an  education  as  a  man  and  these 
were  the  grounds,  to  enable  them  to  avoid  imposition  to  which  they  are 
much  more  exposed  than  men,  to  enable  them  to  instruct  their  children 
in  which  they,  by  their  domestic  situation,  have  a  greater  share  than  the 
men,  and  to  avoid  embarrassments  in  the  administration  of  an  estate 
should  they  survive  their  husband,  with  the  particulars  of  which  estate 
they  are  always  better  acquainted  than  any  other  person  living. 

I  wish  Amanda  to  write  to  me  as  soon  as  she  can  and  inform  me  what 
branch  she  has  learned,  that  I  may  know  what  class  she  is  prepared  to 
enter.  Give  my  love  to  John  and  the  rest  of  the  family.  Tell  Robert 
I  wish  him  to  learn  as  fast  as  he  can,  and  do  not  let  him  stay  a  single  night 
from  home  as  it  is  one  of  the  worst  practices  that  a  student  can  be  guilty  of. 

I  add  not,  but  Remain  your  affectionate  son 

WM  L  POGUE 
(Addressed  on  the  other  side  to) 

Mrs  Jane  Pogue 
Mayslick 

Mason  County 


John  Pogue  to  his  mother,  Jane  Hopkins  Pogue.     Owned  by  John  T. 

Shanklin,  Johnson's  Junction,  Ky. 

AMANDA  Ap  2ist  1832 
MY  DR  MOTHER 

After  a  long  intension  I  assume  the  high  privilege  of  addressing  one 
who  is  entitled  to  the  liveliest  sence  of  moral  obligation  owing  to  the  fact 
that  she  has  born  the  burden  of  my  being.  When  I  consider  the  many 
sleepless  nights,  the  anxiety,  the  vexation,  the  troubles,  you  must  have 

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had  to  endure  for  my  sake,  I  am  brought  to  lament  that  hitherto  I  have 
been  unfaithful,  but  am  happy  to  say  that  the  older  I  get,  so  in  proportion, 
my  affection  for  you  increases,  but  this  is  all  the  tribute  you  can  ever  expect 
from  me,  for  I  shall  never  be  able  to  reward  you  for  the  services  you  have 
rendered  to  me.  My  only  dependence  on  this  very  important  matter  is 
in  God  who  is  fully  sufficient  to  reward  for  all  you  bore  relative  to  your 
unworthy  son.  I  often  feel  great  anxiety  on  your  account  thinking  you 
are  in  sickness,  in  trouble,  have  lonesome  nights,  thinking  of  your  children 
with  great  doubts  and  fears  on  your  mind  about  their  future  prospects 
in  this  world,  but  let  me  tell  you  my  dear  mother,  never  let  this  be  the  case 
more  than  you  can  help.  Those  fearful  apprehensions  are  only  calculated 
to  torture  your  mind,  rather  turn  the  vision  of  your  faith  to  the  solemn 
admonition  of  the  Saviour  Be  not  anxious  for  your  life  &c.  You  have 
evry  reason  to  expect  the  Lord  will  provide  for  your  children.  My  only 
wish  is  that  you  may  lift  up  your  prayer  for  the  remnant  that  are  left  pray- 
ing that  the  Lord  will  not  let  them  run  heedlessly  on  after  the  common 
vanities  of  the  times,  which  so  often  prove  a  mar  to  the  children  of  this 
world,  and  far  more  dangerous  than  the  loss  of  all  the  goods  and  chatties 
of  the  world. 

You  will  tell  father  that  the  Furnace  is  doing  well.  She  is  making 
excellent  iron  at  the  rate  of  three  and  three  quarters  or  upwards.  The 
waggons  from  Maysville  were  landed  in  the  night  and  were  received,  but 
the  river  took  a  suden  rise  and  covered  them  just  before  I  got  from  Sandy 
with  corn.  A  part  of  them  have  been  got  out  and  we  hope  to  get  the  balance 
when  the  river  falls.  The  rise  amounted  to  six  feet,  in  a  few  hours,  the 
same  night,  which  was  beyond  calculation,  but  such  is  the  fact.  Many 
things  occurs  to  put  us  on  the  watch.  Dr.  Hollingsworth  has  lately  mar- 
ried a  fine  sensable  lady.  I  expect  you  will  surely  do  me  the  pleasure  of 
writting  to  me,  as  I  have  already  hinted,  it  will  frequently  relieve  many 
an  anxious  thought  and  allways  give  me  pleasure  to  hear  from  home.  Tell 
Am  especially  she  must  write.  The  friends  are  all  well  as  far  as  I  can  hear. 
You  will  give  my  warmest  love  to  Father  Edwin  &  Hana  and  yourself 
Robert  Aven  and  Col  Mathews  &c  and  rest  assured  that  I  will  continue 
your  dutiful  son 

JOHN 
Mrs  Jane  Pogue 

(Addressed  on  the  other  side  to) 
Mrs  Jane  Pogue 

Mason  Cty 
Mayslick 
Ky. 

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Letter  from  John  Pogue  to  his  father,  Robert  Pogue.      Owned  by  John  T. 
Shanklin,  Johnson's  Junction,  Ky. 

MASON  COUNTY  Nov  2oth  1817 
DEAR  FATHER 

Yours  of  the  i3th  is  just  come  to  hand  in  which  we  receive  much  satis- 
faction, and  feel  gratified  with  the  idea  of  your  being  well,  and  haveing 
spirits  as  high  as  the  waters,  for  we  believe  them  to  be  very  high  and  I  can 
say  with  equal  propriety  that  we  are  in  the  same  situation. 

I  have  just  returned  from  seeing  Maj.  Gray,  he  lives  about  thirty  one 
miles  from  here,  and  find  the  mast  is  not  as  plenty  as  was  expected  and  in 
consequence  of  the  extreme  wet  weather,  is  all  sprouted  and  he  is  unwilling 
to  winter  our  hogs  on  that  account.  I  therefore  think  it  best  to  keep  them 
at  home;  and  buy  corn  and  feed  them,  which  I  find  from  a  rough  calcula- 
tion will  cost  us  about  seventy  or  eighty  dollars,  I  have  not  received  Tait's 
corn  yet,  but  I  expect  it  shortly. 

Mr  Metcalfe  has  offered  me  four  shillings  per  bushel  for  wheat,  I  have 
some  thoughts  of  letting  him  have  what  we  have  at  Robertson's,  as  I  expect 
the  market  for  wheat  will  be  low  this  season,  and  I  think  we  will  have 
enough  in  our  barn  for  our  own  use. 

Mr  Houghton's  progressing  with  the  saw  mill.  He  is  almost  ready  to 
raise.  Moor  is  about  half  done  the  race.  I  have  bought  the  iron  for  the 
irons,  and  am  about  to  employ  Shotwell  to  make  them  as  it  is  out  of  the 
power  of  uncle  Shanklen  to  do  it.  I  will  manage  and  work  for  the  best, 
and  save  all  I  can.  A  sound  resolution  is  highly  necessary  in  this  case,  if 
we  act  from  a  principle  of  duty,  we  will  not  greeve  at  losses,  or  exult  when 
we  are  gainers.  Such  a  principle  we  hope  to  cultivate.  Let  it  not  be  long 
before  we  hear  from  you  again,  for  we  are  anxious  on  your  account.  I 

remain  with  Obedient  respect  your 

son  JOHN 

(Addressed  on  the  other  side  to) 
Robert  Pogue 

Stantown 

Virginia. 


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Letter  from  John  Pogue  to  his  father,  Robert  Pogue.     Owned  by  John  T. 
Shanklin,  Johnson's  Junction,  Ky. 

AMANDA  August  nth  1829. 

DR  FATHER  I  suppose  you  are  anixous  to  hear  how  we  are  coming  on.  We 
generly  had  very  bad  weather  ever  since  I  got  here,  but  we  have  succeeded 
in  getting  Rock  quarryed  and  hailed,  as  well  as  the  nature  of  the  case  would 
admit,  and  the  work  is  now  going  on  as  well  as  we  can  reasonably  expect. 
If  the  weather  should  keep  good,  I  think  the  masons  will  reach  the  summit 
of  the  stack  in  12  or  15  days.  The  foundation  of  the  pot-house  is  built  and 
the  frame  ready  to  raise.  We  are  now  getting  out  the  boards.  They  have 
none  of  the  right  kind  of  nails  to  put  them  on  with.  We  should  now  be 
glad  to  have  a  cag  of  sixpeny  of  the  small  size  if  they  could  be  got  in  Mays- 
ville  and  sent  on  convenently.  It  is  probable  that  Lindsey  will  go  up  the 
river  to  see  about  an  engine,  if  the  health  of  his  family  will  admit  of  his 
going.  Little  Amanda  has  had  an  attack  of  the  flux  and  in  some  measure 
recovered  as  to  the  disease,  but  in  a  verry  low  and  languid  state.  Mrs 
Culver  is  now  lieing  in  a  fever,  but  I  think  she  is  geting  better.  The  matter 
between  Dr  McDowell  and  Mr  Culver  is  not  settled.  They  still  have  no 
communication,  but  they  both  seem  to  be  acting  in  the  line  of  their  partic- 
ular duties  and  I  think  with  prudent  management,  the  thing  in  some 
measure  will  wear  away  so  as  not  to  hinder  business.  The  shoes  that 
you  ordered  have  never  come  to  hand.  There  is  a  shoemaker  about 
settled  at  Vincent  Powell's  who  engages  to  do  our  shoemakeing  on  as  good 
terms  as  it  can  be  done  any  where  else.  It  will  therefore  not  be  necessary 
to  make  any  other  contract  about  the  article.  If  there  should  be  some 
money  got  for  Lindsey,  to  go  up  the  river,  to  defray  expenses,  it  would  be 
well.  I  supose  the  want  of  the  engine  will  be  the  only  thing  that  will  keep 
us  out  of  blast  about  Christmas.  We  are  all,  except  the  two  cases  mentioned, 
very  well.  Give  my  love  and  respects  to  all  the  family.  I  remain  your 
dutiful  Son 

JOHN  H.  POGUE 

N  B  it  is  not  necessary  to  give  yourself  much  trouble  about  the  nails  without 
they  could  be  sent  direct.  If  we  cant  do  otherwise,  we  will  try  to-pennys. 

J.  H.  P. 

(Addressed  to) 

Genl.  Robert  Pogue 
Mason  County 
Kentucky. 


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//.  JANE  HOPKINS,  daughter  0}  John  and  Jean 
Gordon  Hopkins,  was  married  June  4,  i/p/,  to  Robert  Poage, 
of  May  slick,  Mason  County,  Ky.,  who  was  born  in  Augusta 
County,  Va.,  October  6,  1766. 

William  Poage,  son  of  Robert,  the  pioneer,  married  Ann  Kenedy.  In 
company  with  Daniel  Boone  and  others,  he  and  his  family  settled  at  Boon- 
ville,  Ky.,  about  September,  1775.  In  February,  1776,  he  removed 
his  family  to  the  fort  at  Harrodsburg,  and  in  the  spring  of  that  year  cleared 
ground  and  planted  corn  two  miles  from  the  fort.  He  had  great  mechanical 
skill,  and  during  more  than  two  years  made  all  the  wooden  vessels  used  by 
the  people  in  the  fort.  He  also  made  the  woodwork  of  the  first  plow  used 
in  Kentucky  and  the  first  loom  on  which  weaving  was  done  in  that  state. 
On  September  i,  1778,  in  a  fight  with  the  Indians,  he  was  wounded  by 
three  balls,  but  his  companions  escaped  unhurt.  The  next  day  they  found 
him  and  carried  him  to  a  hiding-place.  The  Indians  discovered  them  and 
laid  for  them,  but  were  found  out  and  attacked.  Four  of  them  were  killed, 
one  of  whom  had  Poage's  gun,  which  was  recovered  and  became  the 
property  of  his  son,  Robert  Poage  of  Mason  County,  Ky.  William  Poage 
was  carried  home,  but  died  the  next  day.  Ann  Kennedy  was  four  times 
married,  first  to  Mr.  Wilson,  second  to  William  Poage,  third  to  Joseph 
Lindsay,  who  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Blue  Licks  in  1782,  and  fourth  to 
James  McGinty.  She  is  said  to  have  been  a  woman  of  rare  energy  and 
ingenuity.  Collins  says  she  brought  the  first  spinning-wheel  to  Kentucky 
and  made  the  first  linen  manufactured  in  that  country  from  the  lint  of 
nettles,  and  the  first  linsey  made  from  nettle-lint  and  buffalo  wool.  Wil- 
liam Poage  and  Ann  Kennedy  were  the  father  and  mother  of  Robert 
Poage,  who  married  Jane  Hopkins,  daughter  of  John  Hopkins  the  pioneer. 


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//.  JANE  HOPKINS,  daughter  oj  John  Hopkins  and 
Jean  Gordon,  was  married  June  4.,  1791,  to  Robert  Pogue,  of 
Mason  County,  Ky. 

CHILDREN: 

JOHN  HOPKINS,  born  Sept.  24,  1792;  died  Aug.  18,  1836. 

WILLIAM  LINDSEY,  born  May  24,  1794;  died  an  old  man  (no  date). 

EDWIN,  born  Mar.  27,  1797;  died  Nov.  27,  1841. 

AMY,  born  May  24,  1799;  died  Aug.  17,  1800. 

HANNAH  AMANDA,  born  Mar.    4,  1801;  died  Jan.     i,  1827. 

JANE  ISABELLA,  born  Apr.     i,  1803;  died  May  21,  1827. 

ROBERT,  born  Apr.     i,  1803;  died  a  baby. 

ROBERT  C.,  born  Aug.  20,  1805;  died  Sept.    i,  1836. 

ANN  E.,  born  June  19,  1808;  died  Oct.   10,  1838. 

Robert  and  Jane  Hopkins  Poage  lived  in  Mason  County,  Va.,  on  a 
large  plantation,  a  part  of  which  is  still  held  by  members  of  the  family.  It 
is  said  that  the  first  white  child  born  in  Kentucky  was  their  oldest  son, 
John  Hopkins  Poage.  Mrs.  Carttrell  of  Normal,  Ky.,  says,  "  Grandmother 
(Jane  Hopkins  Poage)  was  a  woman  of  great  personal  courage,  energy,  and 
ability.  She  managed  a  large  family  of  slaves  and  a  very  large  farm  during 
the  absence  of  her  husband  and  oldest  son  in  the  War  of  1812." 

The  spelling  of  the  name  was  chansred  at  an  early  date  from  "Poage" 
to  "  Pogue." 


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III.  JOHN  HOPKINS  POGUE,  first  child  0}  Jane  Hop- 
kins and  Robert  Pogue,  was  married  November  20,  1832,  to 
Sarah  Ann  Moore,  0}  Cable  County,  Va.  (She  was  oj  Dutch 
descent.} 

CHILDREN: 

FREDERICK  ROBERT,  born  Sept.  1833. 
ELIZA  JANE,  born  Mar.  20,  1835. 

Home,  Greenup  County,  Ky.;   business,  agriculture. 

III.  JOHN  HOPKINS  POGUE  was  a  man  of  fine  Christian  char- 
acter.    He  was  an  elder  in  the  Betheseda  Presbyterian  Church,  now  Ash- 
land.    He  lived  on  the  farm  given  to  him  by  his  father,  now  owned  and 
occupied  by  his  daughter,  Eliza  Jane  Garttrell  and  her  sons  and  widowed 
daughter,  Anna  G.  Kerr. 

IV.  FREDERICK  ROBERT  POGUE,  first  child  of  John 
Pogue  and  Sarah  Ann  Moore,  died  in  infancy,  and  is  buried 
in  one  of  the  Ashland,  Ky.,  cemeteries,  beside  his  father. 


IV.  ELIZA  JANE  POGUE,  second  child  of  John  Pogue 
and  Sarah  Ann  Moore,  was  married  October  25,  1853,  to  Henry 
C.  Gartrell,  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  who  was  born  May  23, 
and  died  April,  1870,  at  Ashland,  Ky. 

CHILDREN: 

RICHARD  MOORE,  born  Sept.    9,  1854;  died  June  18,  1878. 

JOHN  HOPKINS,  born  June  24,  1856;  died  Sept.    2,  1857. 

ANN  MARIA,  born  Dec.  12,  1859. 

HENRY  C.,  born  Mar.  12,  1861. 

VIOLA,  born  Apr.     9,  1863. 

VIRGINIA,  born  June  25,  1866. 

ETHELBERT  HOPKINS,  born  Nov.  24,  1869. 

Home,  Normal,  Ky.,  a  suburb  of  Ashland,  built  on  her  farm. 


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V.  RICHARD  MOORE  GARTRELL,  first  child  of  Eliza 
Jane  Pogue  and  Henry  C.  Gartrell,  died  at  twenty-three  years 
of  age,  and  is  buried  in  the  cemetery  at  Ashland,  Ky. 

V.  JOHN  HOPKINS  GARTRELL,  second  child  of  Eliza 
Jane  Pogue  and  Henry  C.  Gartrell,  died  in  infancy,  and  is 
buried  in  the  cemetery  at  Ashland,  Ky. 

V.  ANNA  MARIA  GARTRELL,  third  child  of  Eliza 
Jane  Pogue  and  Henry  C.  Gartrell,  was  married  February 
8,  1893,  to  W.  M.  Ken,  who  was  born  in  Gallia  County,  Ohio, 
July  22,  184.0,  and  died  May  9,  1898. 

Home,  Normal,  Boyd  County,  Ky. ;  business,  banker  and  hardware. 

V.  HENRY  C.  GARTRELL,  fourth  child  of  Eliza  Jane 
Pogue  and  Henry  C.  Gartrell. 

Is  on  the  farm  their  mother  inherited  from  her  Grandfather  Robert 
Poage. 

V.  VIOLA  GARTRELL,  fifth  child  of  Eliza  Jane  Pogue 
and  Henry  C.  Gartrell,  was  married  September  20,  1893,  to 
Judge  M.  H.  Houston,  who  was  born  in  Rockbridge  County,  Va. 

Home,  Ashland,  Ky. ;  business,  law. 

V.  VIRGINIA  GARTRELL,  sixth  child  of  Eliza  Jane 
Pogue  and  Henry  C.  Gartrell,  was  married  June  10,  1895,  to 
Judge  Thomas  Cherrington,  of  Ironton,  Ohio,  who  was  born 
in  Gallia  County,  Ohio. 

Home,  Ironton,  O.;  business,  law. 

V.  ETHELBERT  HOPKINS  GARTRELL,  seventh  child 
of  Eliza  Jane  Pogue  and  Henry  C.  Gartrell,  was  married 
November  28,  1901,  to  Mabel  E.  Conant,  of  Newton,  Mass. 

Home,  Normal,  Ky. ;   business,  manufacturer  of  fire  brick. 

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///.  WILLIAM  LINDSEY  POGUE,  second  child  of  Jane 
Hopkins  and  Robert  Pogue,  was  married,  first,  to  Ann  Mc~ 

Cormick. 
CHILDREN: 

HARVEY  EDGAR,  born  1825. 

AMANDA. 

III.  WILLIAM  LINDSEY  POGUE  was  married  second  to  Caroline 
Beach. 

CHILDREN  : 
WILLIAM  L. 
ROBERT. 
HARRIET. 
MARY  ELIZA. 

IV.  HARVEY  EDGAR  POGUE,  first  child  of  William 
Lindsey  Pogue  and  Ann  McCormick,  was  married  to  Frances 
Wood,  of  Maysville,  Ky. 

CHILDREN: 

JOHN  FLEMING. 
HARVEY  EDGAR. 
JAMES  WOOD. 
PROVENCE  MCCORMICK. 
THOMAS  LIGHTFOOT. 
Home,  Avondale,  O. 

V.  JOHN   FLEMING,    PROVENCE   McCORMICK, 
and  THOMAS    LIGHTFOOT  POGUE,  the  first,  fourth, 
and  fifth  children  of  Harvey  Edgar  Pogue  and  Frances  Wood. 

Live  with  their  mother  at  Avondale,  O. 

V.  HARVEY  EDGAR  POGUE,  second  child  of  Harvey 

Edgar  Pogue  and  Frances  Wood. 
Lives  at  Maysville,  Ky. 

V.  JAMES  WOOD  POGUE,  third  child  of  Harvey  Edgar 
Poage  and  Frances  Wood,  was  married  to  Madge  Adele  Ellis, 

of  Atlanta,  Ga. 

Home,  Atlanta,  Ga.;  business,  clergyman. 

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///.  EDWIN  POGUE,  third  child  of  Jane  Hopkins  and 
Robert  Pogue,  was  married  January  20,  1820,  to  Maria  Met- 
calf,  of  Fleming  County,  Ky. 
CHILDREN: 

Four  of  the  children  died  in  infancy. 

ROBERT. 

Maria  Metcalf  Pogue,  died  November  27,  1841. 


///.  AMY  POGUE,  fourth  child  of  Jane  Hopkins  and 
Robert  Pogue,  died  a  baby,  and  is  buried  in  Mason  County, 
on  the  home  farm. 


III.  HANNAH  AMANDA  POGUE,  fifth  child  of  Jane 
Hopkins  and  Robert  Pogue,  was  married  September  12,  1822, 
to  J.  E.  McDouell,  who  was  born  in  Flemingsburg,  Ky. 


III.  JANE  ISABELLA   POGUE,  sixth  child  of  Jane 
Hopkins  and  Robert  Pogue,  was  married  November  27,  1828, 
to  William  MacKay. 
CHILDREN: 

ANDREW  WILLIAM. 

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IV.  ANDREW  WILLIAM  MacKAY,  first  child  of  Jane 
Isabella  Pogue  and  William  MacKay,  unreported. 


III.  ROBERT  POGUE,  seventh  child  0}  Jane  Hopkins 
and  Robert  Pogue,  died  in  infancy. 


III.  ROBERT  C.  POGUE,  eighth  child  of  Jane  Hopkins 
and  Robert  Pogue. 

Went  to  see    his  brother  John  during  his  fatal  illness  with  the  yellow 
fever,  contracted  the  disease,  and  died  a  few  days  later. 


///.  ANN  E.  POGUE,  ninth  child  of  Jane  Hopkins  and 
Robert  Pogue,  was  married  June  3,  1829,  to  Samuel  Garrison. 

CHILDREN  : 

ROBERT,         born  Mar.  30,  1830. 

SAMUEL,         born  Oct.   28, 1833;  died  Jan.  5, 1860. 

JOHN,  born  Aug.  30,  1836. 

BLACKBURN,  born  May  30,  1838. 


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IV.  ROBERT  GARRISON,  first  child  of  Ann  E.  Pogue  and 
Samuel  Garrison,  was  married  to  Fanny  Burch,  of  Marietta,  O. 

IV.  ROBERT  GARRISON  was  married  second  to  Lizzie  Garland. 

CHILDREN: 
ANNA  RICE. 
WALLACE  BRUCE. 
KATE. 

Home,  Bowling  Green,  Ky. ;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.     ROBERT  GARRISON  graduated  from  the  Marietta  College, 
Marietta,  O. 


IV.  SAMUEL  GARRISON,  second  child  of  Ann  E.  Pogue 
and  Samuel  Garrison. 

Was  a  graduate  of   Marietta  College,  Marietta,  O.,  and  from  a  law 
school  in  Cincinnati,  O. 
He  died  January  5,  1860. 


IV.  JOHN  GARRISON,  third  child  of  Ann  E.  Pogue 
and  Samuel  Garrison,  was  married  to  Katrina  Garrison,  of 
Scottsville,  Ky. 

CHILDREN: 

LOUELLA  POAGE. 
ETTA  HOPKINS. 
MINNIE  WIGINGTON. 
KENNETH. 
LESTER  HUGO. 

Home,  Bowling  Green,  Ky. ;  business,  teacher. 

IV.  BLACKBURN  GARRISON,  fourth  child  of  Samuel 
Garrison  and  Ann  E.  Pogue. 

Entered  the  army  in  October,  1861,  under  John  M.  Harland,  Tenth 
Kentucky  Infantry.  He  was  mortally  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Chicka- 
mauga  on  the  igth  of  September  and  died  October  10,  1863. 

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"  There  isn't  so  much  difference  in  the  troubles  on  this  earth  as  there 
is  in  the  folks  that  have  to  bear  them." 


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II.  HANNAH  HOPKINS  was  born  in  Rockingham 
County,  Va.,  July,  1769.  Her  father  was  John  Hopkins, 
and  her  mother  was  Jean  Gordon.  She  was  married  in 
to  James  Shanklin,  her  own  cousin,  who  was  born  May 
1768,  and  died  May  u,  1863.  Hannah  Hopkins  Shanklin 
died  August  3,  1817. 

Of  her  James  Shanklin,  her  husband,  said:  "Under  all  her  afflictions  in 
this  vale  of  tears  she  manifested  a  great  degree  of  patience  and  resig- 
nation to  the  Divine  will  and  a  firm  reliance  on  the  Saviour  of  sinners  who 
was  all  her  salvation  and  desire." 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  letter  given  them  when  leaving  Virginia 
for  Kentucky.  "This  is  to  testify  that  James  Shanklin  and  Hannah,  his 
wife,  have  lived  in  this  Congregation  from  infancy  to  this  time,  that  they 
have  never  exposed  themselves  to  the  sensure  of  the  Church,  and  are  both 
in  full  communion,  are  hereby  certified,  Cook's  Creek,  Sept.  29,  1794.  By 

order  of  Session, 

BENJAMIN  IRVIN,  V.D.M." 

II.  HANNAH  HOPKINS  and  James  Shanklin  came  to  Mason  County, 
Ky.,  in  1794.  She  and  her  sister,  Jane  Hopkins  Poage,  wife  of  Gen.  Robert 
Poage,  were  not  far  apart,  and  a  third  sister,  Mary  Hopkins  Poage,  wife  of 
Col.  Robert  Poage,  lived  in  Greenup  County,  Ky.  Hannah  Hopkins  and 
James  Shanklin  had  several  children  who  died  in  infancy.  One  child  grew 
to  maturity.  He  was, 

JOHN  HOPKINS,  born  Nov.  8,  1796;  died  Nov.  10,  1874. 

Home,  Mason  County,  Ky. ;  business,  agriculture. 


///.  JOHN  HOPKINS  SHANKLIN  was  married 
January  20,  1820,  to  Sally  Metcalj,  who  was  born  January 
28,  1800,  and  died  November  4,  1856. 

CHILDREN: 

JAMES  HOPKINS,  born  Dec.  4,  1820;  died  July  23,  1887. 
SALLY  PICKET,  born  Feb.  10,  1822;  died  Dec.  18,  1895. 
Home,  Mason  County,  Ky. ;  business,  agriculture. 

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IV.  JAMES    HOPKINS  SHANKLIN,  first   child  of 
John  Hopkins  Shanklin  and  Sally  Metcalf,  was  married  June  4., 
/&/5,  to  Agnes  Virginia  Poage,  who  was  born  October  7,  1824., 
at  the  old  homestead,  Greenup  County,  Ky.,  where  she  still  lives. 

CHILDREN: 

JOHN  T.,  born  Aug.  12, 1846. 

WILLIAM  PICKET,  born  Sept.  20,  1847. 

SAMUEL  ALBERT,  born  Dec.  21,  1853. 

NANNIE  POGUE,  born  May  30,  1858. 

ROBERT  ANDERSON,  born  Sept.  20,  1861;  died  Jan.  14,  1862. 

SALLY  METCALF,  born  June  13,  1863. 

Home,  Mayslick,  Ky. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  JOHN  T.  SHANKLIN,  first  child  of  James  Hop- 
kins Shanklin  and  Agnes  Virginia  Poage,  was  married  May 
28,  1891,  to  Minnie  Hendrick,  who  died  March  30,  1892. 

V.  JOHN  T.  SHANKLIN  was  married  a  second  time,  September 
20,  1893,  to  Mollie  Calvin,  who  was  born  April  2,  1864,  in  Boyd 
County,  Ky. 

CHILDREN: 

LOUISE  CALVIN,  born  Sept.  28, 1894. 

VIRGINIA  POAGE,  born  July  30,  1899. 

JAMES  HOPKINS,  born  Feb.     8,  1902. 

Home,  Johnson's  Junction,  Fleming  County,  Ky.  (Postoffice) ;  business, 
agriculture.  The  farm  is  in  Mason  County,  Ky. 

V.  WILLIAM  PICKET  SHANKLIN,  second  child  of 
James  Hopkins  Shanklin  and  Agnes   Virginia  Poage,  was 
married  March  4.,  1885,  to  Clara  McAllister,  who  was  born 
February  22,  1864.,  in  Dallas  County,  Tex. 
CHILDREN: 

GLEN  POAGE,  born  Jan.     4,  1886. 

MARY  MCALLISTER,  born  Aug.    2,  1890. 

AGNES  VIRGINIA       born  May  17,  1896. 

The  first  child  was  born  in  Dallas  County,  Tex.,  and  the  second  and 
third  in  Shelby  County,  Ky. 

Home,  Millersburg,  Ky.   (since  March,  1901);    business,  agriculture. 

V.  WILLIAM  PICKET  SHANKLIN  is  an  elder  in  the  Presby- 
terian church. 

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V.  SAMUEL  ALBERT  SHANKLIN,  third  child  of 
James  Hopkins  Shanklin  and  Agnes  Virginia  Poage,  was 
married  January  20,  1881,  to  Anna  Eliza  Piper,  who  was 
born  October  22,  1862,  near  Paris,  Ky. 

CHILDREN  : 

JAMES  ALEXANDER,  born  Mar.  14,  1883;  died  May  12,  1887. 

ELLEN  FITZGERALD,  born  Mar.    7,  1889. 

AGNES  VIRGINIA,  born  Apr.  15,1892. 

Home,  Maysville,  Ky. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  SAMUEL  ALBERT  SHANKLIN  is  a  deacon  in  the  Presby- 
terian church. 

V.  NANNY  POAGE  SHANKLIN,  fourth  child  of 
James  Hopkins  Shanklin  and  Agnes  Virginia  Poage,  was 
married  June  21,  1881,  to  William  Letton  Piper,  of  Nicholas 
County,  Ky. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  ERNEST,  born  May  14,  1883. 

ELIZA  ANN,  born  Sept.  21,  1884. 

AGNES  POAGE,  born  Sept.  30,  1886;  died  May  9,  1887. 

JAMES  SHANKLIN,  born  Apr.     7,  1888. 

SARAH  METCALF,  born  June  24,  1889. 

Home,  Carlish,  Nicholas  County,  Ky. ;  business,  stock  farmer. 

V.  ROBERT  ANDERSON  SHANKLIN,  fifth  child  of 
James  Hopkins  Shanklin  and  Agnes  Virginia  Poage,  died  a  baby. 

V.  SALLY  METCALF  SHANKLIN,  sixth  child  of 
James  Hopkins  Shanklin  and  Agnes  Virginia  Poage,  is  un- 
married. 

Makes  her  home  with  her  mother  at  the  old  homestead. 


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IV.  SALLIE  PICKETT    SHANKLIN,  second  child  of 
John  Hopkins  Shanklin  and  Sally  Metcalf,  was  married  in 
184.5  t°  William  Poage  (first  cousin  of  Mrs.  Agnes  Virginia 
Poage  Shanklin,  wife  of  James  Hopkins  Shanklin). 

CHILDREN  : 

JAMES  SHANKLIN,  born  Apr.  25,  1846. 

JOHN  FALLIS,  born  Apr.  29,  1849. 
GEORGE  HOPKINS,  born  Mar.  25,  1852. 

ANNIE  KENNEDY,  born  Mar.  25,  1854. 

SALLY  METCALF,  born  Dec.  15,  1859. 

WILLIAM,  born  Mar.  22,  1860. 

Home,  Mayslick,  Ky. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  JAMES  SHANKLIN  POAGE,  first  child  of  Sally 
Picket  Shanklin  and  William  T.  Poage,  was  married  Novem- 
ber 30,  1894.,  to  Mary  Louise  Jones,  who  was  born  March  12, 
1859,  near  Ashland,  Ky.,  and  died  September  6,  igoi. 

Home,  Mayslick,  Ky. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  JOHN  FALLIS  POAGE,  second  child  of  Sally  Picket 
Shanklin  and  William  T.  Poage,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Mayslick,  Ky. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  GEORGE  HOPKINS  POAGE,  third  child  of  Sally 
Picket  Shanklin  and  William  T.  Poage,  was  married  March 
15, 1883,  to  Mary  Elizabeth  Callison,  who  died  February  i,  1904.. 

CHILDREN: 

INFANT,        born  Jan.    13,  1884;  died  Feb.     3,  1884. 
FOREST  C.,  born  Jan.    24,  1885. 
MABEL  P.,    born  Jan.     5,  1888;  died  Mar.  20,  1894. 
MYRTIE  P.,  born  Dec.  10,  1890. 

Home,  Gallatin,  Mo. ;  business,  agriculture. 


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V.  ANNIE  KENNEDY  POAGE,  fourth  child  of  Sally 
Picket  Shanklin  and  William  T.  Poage,  was  married  Novem- 
ber 3, 1880,  to  H.  C.  Hawings,  who  was  born  in  Mason  County, 
Ky. 

CHILDREN  : 

WILLIAM  PICKET,  born  Aug.  6,  1881. 

Home,  Mayslick,  Ky.;   business,  agriculture  and  county  surveyor. 

V.  SALLY  METCALF  POAGE,  fifth  child  of  Sally 
Picket  Shanklin  and  William  T.  Poage,  was  married  October 
23,  1889,  to  James  C.  Darnell,  who  was  born  in  Fleming 
County,  Ky. 

CHILDREN: 

ANNIE  POAGE,  born  Apr.  16,  1894. 

ISABELLE  THOMPSON,      born  Aug.    5,  1896. 
Home,  Mayslick,  Ky. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  WILLIAM  POAGE,  sixth  child  of  Sally  Picket  Shank- 
lin and  William  T.  Poage,  was  married  October  30,  1889,  to 
Marguerite  B.  Barnett. 

CHILDREN: 

RAY  GRADY,  born  Aug.  19,  1890. 

ROBERT  TRIMLE,  born  Aug.  25,  1893. 
MARY  GENEVIEVE,  born  Aug.  26,  1901. 
WILL  ETTA,  born  Aug.  22,  1904. 

Home,  Gallatin,  Mo. ;  business,  agriculture. 


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"A  true  delineation  of  the  smallest  man  and  his  scene  of  pilgrimage 
through  life  is  capable  of  interesting  the  greatest  man;  that  all  men  are 
capable  of  interesting  the  greatest  men;  that  all  men  are  to  an  unspeakable 
degree  brothers,  each  man's  life  a  strange  emblem  of  every  man's  life ;  and 
that  human  portraits  faithfully  drawn  are  of  all  pictures  the  welcomest  on 
human  walls." — Carlyle. 


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//.  RUTH  HOPKINS,  daughter  0}  John  Hopkins  and 
Jean  Gordon,  was  not  married. 

She  made  her  home  with  her  brother  Thomas  Hopkins. 
Home,  Harrisonburg,  Va.,  until  1818,  when  she  moved  to  Christian 
County,  Ky.,  near  Harpersville. 


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"  They  that  on  glorious  ancestors  enlarge 
Proclaim  their  debt  instead  of  their  discharge." — Young. 


301 


//.  THOMAS  HOPKINS,  son  of  John  Hopkins  and 
Jean  Gordon,  was  married  March  10,  1795,  to  Sarah  Erwin, 
who  was  born  July  28,  1775,  and  died  June  n,  1857. 

CHILDREN  : 

JOHN,  born  Feb.   n,  1796;  died  Mar.  16,  1872. 

FRANCIS  GORDON,    born  Nov.  22, 1800. 
BENJAMIN  HINTON,  bom  Oct.   13,  1806;  died  1869. 
ANNA  JANE,  born  Dec.    8, 1813. 

RUFUS  C.,  born  Nov.  16,  1816. 

Home,  Harrisonburg,  Va.,  until  1817,  when  they  moved  to  Christian 
County,  Ky.,  near  Hopkinsville ;  business,  agriculture. 

///.  JOHN  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Thomas  Hopkins 
and  Sarah  Erwin,  was  married  January  21,  1820,  to  Jane 
Erwin,  who  died  June  16,  1832. 

CHILDREN  : 

WILLIAM  ERWIN,          born  Feb.  24,  1821;  died  Aug.  24,  1903. 
THOMAS  CHALMERS,     born  Sept.  17,  1826;  died. 

III.    JOHN  HOPKINS  was  married  second  to  Nancy  Andrew. 

CHILDREN: 

JANE  ELIZA,  born  Jan.  6, 1838. 

III.  JOHN  HOPKINS  was  married  third  to  Dorothy  Choate,  who 
was  born  April  17,  1812,  and  died  January  12,  1894. 

CHILDREN: 

DAVID  CHOATE,  born  May  9,  1849;  died  April  13,  1875. 
Home,  Kearsage,  Henderson  County,  111.;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  WILLIAM  ERWIN  HOPKINS,  first  child  0}  John 
Hopkins  and  Jane  Erwin,  was  unmarried. 

Home,  Kearsage,  111. 


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IV.  THOMAS  CHALMERS  HOPKINS,  second  child 
of  John  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Erwin,  was  not  married. 


IV.  ELIZA  JANE  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  John  Hop- 
kins and  first  child  of  Nancy  Andrew,  is  not  married. 
Home,  Oregon. 


IV.  DAVID  C  HO  ATE,  fourth  child   of  John   Hopkins 
and  first  child  of  Dorothy  Choate,  was  not  married. 


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///.  FRANCIS  GORDON  HOPKINS,  second  child  of 
Thomas  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Erwin,  was  married  May  6,  1830, 
to  Martha  L.  Battle. 

CHILDREN: 

MARTHA,  born  1831. 
THOMAS  B.,  born  1832. 
Home,  Lafayette,  la. 


///.  BENJAMIN  HINTON  HOPKINS,  third  child 
of  Thomas  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Erwin,  was  married  July 

,  to  Salina  Wheatly,  who  was  born  about  1812. 
Salina  Wheatly  Hopkins  died  February  17,  1891. 


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///.  ANNA  JANE  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Thomas 
Hopkins  and  Sarah  Erwin,  was  married  May  30,  1836,  to 
James  Scott,  who  was  born  January  25,  1816,  and  died  Feb- 
ruary 24.,  i8gi. 

CHILDREN: 

THOMAS  WILLIAM,    born  May  14, 1837. 

ROBERT  FRANCIS,     born  Oct.   14, 1839. 

RIIFUS  HOPKINS,      born  June  24,  1842. 

MARY  STEWART,       born  Mar.  n,  1845;  died  Feb.  24,  1898. 

SAMUEL  WILSON,      born  Nov.  13,  1847;  died  June  25, 1848. 

FRANCES  ALICE,        born  May  29,  1849;  died  Feb.  16,  1889. 

WALTER  BENJAMIN,  born  Mar.  14, 1852. 

JAMES  ALBERT,         born  Apr.  28, 1855. 

CHARLES,  born  June  28,  1858;  died  Oct.  12,  1870. 

Home,  Monmouth,  111. ;  business,  grocer. 

IV.  THOMAS  WILLIAM  SCOTT,  first  child  oj  Anna 
Jane  Hopkins  and  James  Scott,  was  married  April  24,  1872, 
in  San  Francisco,  CaL,  to  Mahina  Beats  Morton. 

CHILDREN: 

FLORENCE  L.,        born  Nov.  30,  1875. 

JOHN  JAMES,         born  July  20, 1878. 

Malvina  Beals  Morton  Scott  died  August  i,  1878. 

Home,  San  Francisco,  Cal. ;  business,  accountant  in  the  customs  house. 

IV.  THOMAS  WILLIAM  SCOTT  was  in  the  grocery  business  till  the 
beginning  of  the  Civil  War,  when  he  enlisted  in  Company  F,  Seventeenth 
Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  served  as  sergeant  and  seargeant  major. 
He  was  in  the  battles  of  Frederickton,  Mo.,  Fort  Donaldson,  Shiloh,  Inka, 
and  Hutche  Bridge,  and  various  skirmishes.  He  was  wounded  at  Shiloh 
and  discharged  on  account  of  ill  health,  November,  1862.  He  went  to 
California  in  1865  and  has  been  employed  in  the  United  States  Custom 
House  continuously  ever  since. 


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V.  FLORENCE  L.  SCOTT,  first  child  of  Thomas  William 
Scott  and  Malvina  Beats  Morton,  was  married  March  6,  1896, 
to  William  H.  Jones. 

Home,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


V.  JOHN   JAMES   JONES,    second   child   of    Thomas 
William  Scott  and  Malvina  Beats  Morton,  was  married  October 
,  1904.,  to  Madeline  Rowe  Bean. 
Home,  Boston,  Mass. ;  business,  salesman. 


IV.  ROBERT  FRANCIS  SCOTT,  second  child  of  Anna 
Jane  Hopkins  and  James  Scott,  was  married  November  3, 
1896,  to  Mary  Coffey,  of  Marion,  O. 

Home,  Monmouth,  111. ;  business,  grocer. 


IV.  RUFUS  HOPKINS  SCOTT,  third  child  of  Anna 
Jane  Hopkins  and  James  Scott,  was  married  to  Marietta  Usher, 
of  Hopkinsville,  Ky. 

CHILDREN  : 

HAROLD  USHER,  born  Jan.  17,  1885. 
Home,  Monmouth,  111.;  business,  grocer. 

IV.  MARY  STEWART  SCOTT,  fourth  child  of  Anna 
Jane  Hopkins  and  James  Scott,  died  unmarried,  and  is  buried 
at  Monmouth,  III. 

IV.  SAMUEL  WILSON  SCOTT,  fifth  child  of  Anna 
Jane  Hopkins  and  James  Scott,  died  in  infancy. 


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IV.  FRANCES  ALICE  SCOTT,  sixth  child  of  Anna 
Jane  Hopkins  and  James  Scott,  died  unmarried,  and  is  buried 
at  Monmouth,  III. 


IV.  WALTER  BENJAMIN  SCOTT,  seventh   child   of 
Anna  Jane  Hopkins  and  James  Scott,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Monmouth,  111. ;  business,  grocer. 


IV.  JAMES  ALBERT  SCOTT,  eighth  child  of  Anna  Jane 
Hopkins  and  James  Scott,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Monmouth,  111. ;  business,  grocer. 


IV.  CHARLES  SCOTT,  ninth  child  of  Anna  Jane  Hop- 
kins and  James  Scott,  died  unmarried,  and  is  buried  at  Mon- 
mouth, III. 


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///.  RUFUS  C.  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  Thomas  Hop- 
kins and  Sarah  Erwin,  was  married  in  1853  to  Sophia  Bain. 

CHILDREN: 

HENRY,  born  Nov.  30,  1854;  died  May  15,  1876. 
CLARA,    born  June  22,  1857;   died  June  n,  1877. 

Sophia  Bain  died  in  1860. 

III.  RUFUS  C.  HOPKINS  was  married  a  second  time,  to  Margaret 
Cusic. 

CHILDREN  : 

MARY,       born  Oct.  16,  1863. 
CLEMENT,  born  May  28,  1868. 

Home,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

III.  RUFUS  C.  HOPKINS  left  Virginia  in  1818,  when  but  two  years 
old,  so  has  no  recollections  of  the  family  in  that  state.  He  lived  in  Kentucky 
until  about  1835  and  then  went  to  Illinois,  where  he  remained  about  two 
years.  From  here  he  went  to  Jackson,  Miss.,  to  join  his  brother  Frank,  and 
in  1850  to  California.  He  has  little  communication  with  any  of  the  family 
except  those  in  Illinois.  At  eighty-six  years  of  age  (1902)  he  retains  all 
his  faculties  and  is  quite  active.  He  employs  his  time  in  writing,  but  not 
usually  for  publication,  though  he  has  one  book  of  poems,  "Rose  and 
Thistle,"  in  print.  His  son  will  doubtless  edit  his  later  works.  His 
daughter  Mary  is  his  homekeeper. 


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"  The  man  who  has  not  anything  to  boast  of  but  his  illustrious  ancestors 
is  like  a  potato — the  only  good  belonging  to  him  is  underground." — Sir  T. 
Overbury. 


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//.  JOHN  HOPKINS,  son  of  John  Hopkins  and  Jean 
Gordon,  born  1776,  and  died  September  14,  1842,  was  married 
to  Elizabeth  Baxter,  who  was  born  June  22,  1776,  and  died 
June  27,  1844. 

CHILDREN: 

MARY,  born  Oct.  2,  1789. 

THOMAS,  born  Aug.  n,  1791. 

GEORGE  BAXTER,  born  Jan.  16,  1794. 

JOHN,  born  Jan.  5,  1796. 

LUCINDA,  born  June  3,  1798. 

JOSEPH  BAXTER,  born  May  3,  1800. 

CYRUS,  born  Nov.  23, 1809. 

Home,  Upper  Tract,  W.  Va. 

///.  MARY  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  John  Hopkins  and 
Elizabeth  Baxter,  died  in  childhood,  and  is  buried  at  Upper 
Tract,  Pendleton  County,  Va. 


HI.  THOMAS  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  John  Hop- 
kins and  Elizabeth  Baxter,  was  married  October  14,  1819,  to 
Eunice  Cunningham. 

CHILDREN: 

MARY  E.,  born  Nov.  13,  1820. 
GEORGE  B.,  born  July  25,  1822. 
CAROLINE,  born  Mar.  19,  1824. 
AMANDA,  born  Nov.  15,  1825. 
REBECCA  H.,  born  Feb.  25,  1828. 
SARAH  ANN,  born  July  8,  1830. 
JEMINA,  born  Feb.  24,  1833. 


///.  GEORGE    BAXTER    HOPKINS,    third   child    of 
John  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Baxter,  died  in  childhood. 

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///.  JOHN  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  John  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Baxter,  was  married  April  12,  1825,  to  Phebe 
Dyer. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  LOVE,  born  June    6,  1826. 

JOSEPH  BAXTER,  born  Apr.     5,  1828. 

MARY  JANE,  born  Sept.  29,  1830. 

ANN  ELIZABETH,  born  Mar.  27, 1833. 
GEORGE  WASHINGTON,  born  Mar.  27,  1833. 

JAMES  DYER,  born  Mar.  24,  1836. 

MARGARET  L.,  born  Apr.  16,  1838. 

REBECCA  D.,  born  1839. 


///.  LUCINDA  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  John  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Baxter,  was  married  to  Daniel  Armentrout. 
Home,  Upper  Tract,  Pendleton  County,  Va. 


///.  JOSEPH  BAXTER  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of 
John  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Baxter,  died  in  childhood,  and 
is  buried  at  Upper  Tract,  Pendleton  County,  Va. 


///.  CYRUS  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  of  John  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Baxter,  was  married  to  Susan  E.  Johnson,  who 
was  born  in  Pendleton  County,  Va.,  January  17,  1814.. 

CHILDREN: 

WILLIAM  JOHNSON,  born  Sept.    6,  1837. 
MATTIE  H.,  born  Feb.  27,  1840. 

JOHN  J.,  born  Dec.  19,  1843. 

Susan  E.  Johnson  died  August  6,  1858,  and  is  buried  in  Rockingham 
County,  Va. 

III.  CYRUS  HOPKINS  married  second  Mrs.  Jane  Rolston  Hop- 
kins, who  died  November  8, 1884,  and  is  buried  in  Rockingham  County,  Va. 
CHILDREN: 

CHARLES  D.,  born  Feb.  27,  1866. 

Home,  Upper  Tract,  Pendleton  County,  Va. ;  business,  agriculture. 

A  letter  from  Cyrus  Hopkins,  Upper  Tract,  Pendleton  County,  Va., 
dated  December  27,  1876,  says:  "John  Hopkins  lived  in  Rockingham 
County  and  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War  and  also  represented 
his  country  in  the  legislature  of  Virginia.  There  were  three  brothers, 
William,  John,  and  Archibald.  They  came  to  Virginia  from  Albany. 
When  they  first  came  there  were  but  two;  they  then  located  in  Greenbrier 
County  in  southern  Virginia,  but  not  being  satisfied  with  the  country,  sold 
out  and  returned  to  Albany.  When  they  again  returned,  they  brought 
with  them  one  other  brother,  and  all  three  located  in  Rockingham  County, 
Va. 

"My  father,  John,  married  a  Miss  Baxter,  and  removed  to  Pendleton, 
to  what  is  known  as  Upper  Tract;  his  younger  brother,  Thomas,  remained 
in  the  county  of  Rockingham  on  the  old  homestead  until  his  family  was 
about  grown;  he  then  sold  out  and  removed  to  Kentucky  and  afterwards 
to  Ohio. 

"  As  to  the  history  of  my  aunts  on  the  father's  side,  I  have  no  recollection 
of  ever  seeing  any  one  except  Aunt  Sally." 

"  Respectfully, 

CYRUS  HOPKINS." 


IV.  WILLIAM  JOHNSON  HOPKINS,  first  child  of 
Cyrus  Hopkins  and  Susan  E.  Johnson,  was  married  May  4, 
1869,  to  Sarah  S.  Kile,  who  was  born  in  Pendleton  County,  Va. 

CHILDREN: 

THOMAS  BRUCE,  born  Mar.  16,  1870;  died  Aug.  28,  1871. 

MARY  SUSAN,  born  June  n,  1872. 

JOHN  EDWARD,  born  Apr.     6,  1874. 

WILLIE  EUNICE,  born  Jan.     4,  1877. 

Home,  Upper  Tract,  Va. ;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  WILLIAM  JOHNSON  HOPKINS  was  a    soldier   in  the  Con- 
federate Army,  was  in  the  Eighteenth  Virginia  Cavalry. 

V.  THOMAS  BRUCE  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  William 
Johnson  Hopkins  and  Sarah  S.  Kile,  died  an  infant. 

V.  MARY  SUSAN  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  William 
Johnson  Hopkins  and  Sarah  S.  Kile,  was  married  September 
75, 1897,  to  Ernest  W.  Hefner,  who  was  born  January  u,  1872. 

CHILDREN: 

CHARLOTTE,  born  June  21,  1898;  died  Apr.  2,  1900. 

CHARLES  SAMUEL,  born  Feb.  23,  1901. 

WILLIAM  HOPKINS,  born  Aug.  22,  1903;  died  Nov.  15,  1904. 

Home,  Sutton,  Braxton  County,  W.  Va.;  business,  county  clerk,  Brax- 
ton  County,  Va. 

V.  JOHN  EDWARD  HOPKINS,  third  child  oj  William 
Johnson  Hopkins  and  Sarah  S.  Kile,  is  unmarried. 

V.  WILLIE  EUNICE  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Wil- 
liam Johnson  Hopkins  and  Sarah  S.  Kile,  was  married  Decem- 
ber 27,  1899,  to  Frank  H.  Kidd,  who  was  born  April  4,  1876. 

CHILDREN: 

MILDRED,  born  Mar.    5,  1901. 
PAUL,          born  Sept.  10,  1903. 

Home,  Flat  Woods,  Braxton  County,  Va.;  business,  commercial 
traveler. 

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IV.  MATTIE   H.    HOPKINS,   second   child   of   Cyrus 
Hopkins  and  Susan  E.  Johnson,  was  married  April  i,  1868, 
to  Captain  J.  H.  Daugherty,  who  was  born  in  Moorfield,  W . 
Va.,  September  24.,  1839. 

CHILDREN: 

MORRIS  BAXTER,  born  Apr.  17,  1869. 

SUSAN  HOPKINS,  born  Dec.  16,  1872. 

ANNIE  HAMILTON,  born  May  27,  1875. 

SALLIE  TOLBERT,  born  Dec.     1,1877. 

MARY  ROLSTON,  born  May  12,  1880. 

WILLIAM  HENRY,  born  Apr.     5,  1883. 

JAMES  HAMILTON,  born  Apr.  13,  1886. 

Home,  Franklin,  W.  Va. ;  business,  merchant. 

V.  MORRIS  BAXTER  DAUGHERTY,   first  child  of 
Mattie  H.  Hopkins  and  J.  H.  Dougherty,  is  unmarried. 

Home,  Washington,  D.  C.;  business,  clerk  in  the  Treasury  Department. 

V.  SUSAN  HOPKINS  DAUGHERTY,  second  child  of 
Mattie  H.  Hopkins  and  J.  H.  Daugherty,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Franklin,  W.  Va. ;  business,  teacher. 

V.  ANNIE  HAMILTON  DAUGHERTY,  third  child 
oj  Mattie  H.  Hopkins  and  J.  H.  Daugherty,  was  married 
December  18,  1898,  to  Hugh  Carey  Boggs. 

CHILDREN  : 

ANNIE  MARGUERITE,  born  Aug.  3,  1900. 
RICHARD  HOPKINS,  born  Aug.  12,  1903. 
Home,  Franklin,  W.  Va.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  SALLIE  TOLBERT  DAUGHERTY,  fourth  child  of 
Mattie  H.  Hopkins  and  J.  H.  Daugherty,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Savannah,  Ga. ;  business,  trained  nurse. 

V.  MARY  RALSTON  DAUGHERTY,   fifth   child   of 
Mattie  H.  Hopkins  and  J.  H.  Daugherty,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Petersburg,  W.  Va. ;  business,  stenographer. 


V.  WILLIAM  HENRY  DAUGHERTY,  sixth  child  of 
Mattie  H.  Hopkins  and  J.  H.  Dougherty,  was  married  to 
Lenora  Bible. 

CHILDREN: 

ALICE,  born  Sept.  6,  1902. 

ANNIE  MABLE,  born  Jan.       1904. 
Home,  North  Fork,  W.  Va. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  JAMES  HAMILTON  DAUGHERTY,  seventh  child 
of  Mattie  H.  Hopkins  and  J.  H.  Daugherty. 
Is  a  student  at  Franklin,  W.  Va. 

IV.  JOHN  J.  HOPKINS,  third  child  0}  Cyrus  Hopkins 
and  Susan  E.  Johnson,  was  married  to  Fannie  Harper,  of 
Upper  Tract,  W.  Va. 

CHILDREN  : 

SALLIE,  born  Aug.  26,  1883. 

JOHN  JAMES,  born  Aug.  27,  1888. 

WILLIAM  BOULDIN,  born  May    9,  1891. 

CHARLES  BAXTER,    born  Apr.  29,  1895;  died  Aug.    3,  1895. 

LESTER  HARPER,      born  June  n,  1898. 

RICHARD  WORTH,     born  Apr.     7,  1901;  died  July     9,  1901. 

MARTHA,  born  July     8,  1903;  died  Oct.  22,  1903. 

Home,  Upper  Tract,  W.  Va. ;  business,  physician  and  surgeon. 

IV.  JOHN  J.  HOPKINS  was  a  soldier  in  the  Confederate  Army. 
Served  in  Company  B,  Fourteenth  Virginia  Cavalry.  He  studied  medicine 
at  the  University  of  Virginia  from  1869  to  1871.  He  then  went  to  New 
York  and  graduated  from  the  University  Medical  College  in  1874.  He  is 
medical  examiner  for  two  life  insurance  companies  and  is  chairman  of  the 
Democratic  committee  of  the  county. 

IV.  CHARLES  D.  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Cyrus 
Hopkins  and  first  child  of  Jane  Rolston  Hopkins,  was  married 
July  3,  1900,  to  Fannie  M.  Bear. 

CHILDREN  : 

CHARLES  RALSTON,  born  Nov.  7,  1901. 
MARY  MARSHALL,  born  Nov.  i,  1902. 
Home,  Higginsville,  Mo. ;  business,  agriculture. 


"Ay,  but  pedigree's  a  poor  thing  to  boil  the  porritch  pot  wi'." 


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II.  ANN  HOPKINS,  daughter  of  John  Hopkins  and  Jean  Gordon,  was 
born  August  21,  1780,  four  miles  northeast  of  Harrisonburg,  in  Rocking- 
ham  County,  Va.  (this  was  then  part  of  Augusta  County).  She  married 
about  April  3,  1802,  James  Rice,  a  Virginian,  of  Rockingham  County  (son 
of  John  Rice  and  Mary  Rice,  nee  Finney),  formerly  a  student  of  Jefferson 
Medical  College,  but  at  this  time  engaged  in  mercantile  and  land  invest- 
ment. They  moved  about  1805  to  Greenup  County,  now  Boyd  County, 
Ky.,  where  Mr.  Rice  continued  his  land  investments,  and  under  Robert 
Poage,  his  wife's  brother-in-law,  was  appointed  surveyor  of  Greenup 
County.  Here  six  children  were  born  to  them,  five  boys  and  one  girl.  In 
the  winter  or  early  spring  of  1815,  her  husband  was  drowned,  near  Cat- 
lettsburg,  Ky.,  while  attempting  to  cross  the  Ohio  River  in  a  skiff,  attended 
by  a  negro  servant.  The  boat  capsized;  he  was  an  expert  swimmer,  but 
it  is  probable  that  he  was  seized  with  a  cramp  or  that  the  weight  of  his 
clothing  overpowered  him. 

James  Rice  was  a  man  of  fine  humanity,  and  while  not  a  completed 
graduate  of  the  Jefferson  school,  he  was  called  upon  by  all  the  people  in  his 
vicinity  for  medical  attendance  which  he  gave  them  free  gratis.  It  was  in 
response  to  one  of  these  calls  that  he  lost  his  life.  It  had  been  his  intention 
soon  to  return  and  complete  the  course,  only  a  term  of  which  was  unfinished, 
that  he  might  be  fully  equipped  for  duty,  there  being  no  other  so  well 
educated  medical  practitioner  in  that  county.  Mentally  he  was  unusually 
progressive  and  clear.  Successfully  accurate  and  active  in  all  business 
places  and  duties,  one  of  his  tenacious  purposes  was  to  give  the  highest 
educational  advantages  to  his  children. 

Ann  Hopkins  Rice,  a  little  frail  woman,  so  unexpectedly  left  with  six 
children  (the  youngest  being  born  after  the  death  of  his  father)  in  a  com- 
paratively new  country,  with  her  husband's  rather  extended  business 
interests  and  plowed  lands  in  the  embryo  of  development,  with  a  brave 
spirit  accepted  the  trust.  When  her  boys  had  come  to  manhood,  people 
used  to  say,  "I  would  like  to  see  the  mother  of  those  young  men."  She 
was  delicate  and  small,  with  a  spirit  sweet  and  pure,  and  the  Gordon  blood 
in  her  veins.  This  picture  was  given  me  largely  by  my  mother,  her  erst- 
while daughter-in-law,  so  that  old-time  legend  of  inharmony  is  broken. 

In  1815,  soon  after  the  birth  of  the  youngest  child,  she  removed  from 
Greenup  County  to  Christian  County,  near  Hopkinsville,to  be  in  touch 
with  her  brother,  Thomas  Hopkins.  The  estate  in  Greenup  had  been 

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intrusted  to  friends,  whose  administration  was  unsuccessful,  and  the 
children  came  to  majority  with  nothing  except  a  remnant  of  old  slaves. 
This  deprived  them  of  all  opportunities  of  advanced  education,  a  great 
regret  to  them.  With  Southern  inheritance,  tradition,  and  blood  in  their 
veins,  they  had  come  to  young  manhood  just  in  time  to  be  caught  and  swep, 
away  by  the  moral  wave  of  abolition  of  the  slave,  and  they  did  not  hesitatet 
though  at  a  great  personal  sacrifice,  to  salute  the  flag  of  freedom  that  it 
might  long  wave  over  the  land  of  the  free  and  the  home  of  the  brave,  nor 
to  question  between  personal  sacrifice  and  duty  to  humanity;  even  though 
it  were  exteriorly  a  black  humanity,  the  blackness  would  be  no  darker 
because  of  their  making.  Twenty-five  dollars  each  secured  outfit  mem- 
bership and  transport  to  a  Liberian  colony.  One  old  colored  man,  faithful 
to  the  tradition,  refused  "to  leave  missus  and  the  boys,  "and  with  them,  in 
the  spring  of  1835,  came  to  Henderson,  then  a  part  of  Warren  County.  111., 
traveling  in  wagons,  stopping  at  wayside  inns  or  hospitable  pioneer  hearth- 
stones, and  occasionally  being  forced  to  camp  out,  but  thinking  no  dis- 
comfort a  hardship  that  brought  them  nearer  to  a  state  of  freedom.  There 
was  no  bitterness  in  their  memories  of  "  the  old  Kentucky  home."  They 
were  born  and  bred  there,  and  to  this  day  they  know  "  you're  mighty  lucky 
when  you  married  a  girl  like  Sue." 

In  1841,  after  her  son  George  was  married,  Ann  Hopkins  Rice  made 
her  home  with  him  for  a  number  of  years,  though  her  last  years  were  with 
her  son  Cyrus  William,  at  Oquauka,  Henderson  County,  111.,  where  she 
died  February  16,  1850,  tenderly  regretted  by  her  children  and  friends. 

Written  by  James  Montgomery  Rice,  Peoria  111. 


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MARRIAGE  BOND  GIVEN  BY  ANN  HOPKINS  AND  JAMES  RICE. 

1804. 

I  do  hereby  certify  that  my  son  James  Rice  is  above  the  age  of  twenty 
one  years  old  this  Second  day  of  April  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
four  to  which  I  set  my  hand. 

MARY  RICE 
Attest  John  Rice  A  copy  atteste, 

S.  T.  LOGAN,  Clerk. 
Wm.  Cromer, 
Rockingham  County. 

This  day  came  Thomas  Hopkins  before  me  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for 
the  said  county  and  made  oath  that  Ann  Hopkins  was  above  the  age  of 
twenty-one  years.  Given  under  my  hand  this  3rd  day  of  March,  1804. 

PEACHY  HARRISON. 
A  copy  atteste,  S.  A.  Logan,  Clerk. 

Know  all  men  by  these  presents  that  we,  James  Rice  and  Thomas  Hop- 
kins are  held  and  firmly  bound  unto  John  page,  Esquire,  Governor  of 
Virginia,  and  his  successors  for  the  use  of  the  Commonwealth,  in  the  sum 
of  One  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  to  which  payment  well  and  truly  to  be 
made,  we  bind  ourselves,  our  heirs,  Exors.  and  adrms.  jointly  and  severally 
firmly  by  these  presents,  Sealed  and  dated  this  3rd  day  of  April,  1904. 

The  condition  of  the  above  obligation  is  such  that  whereas  a  marriage 
is  shortly  intended  to  be  solemnized  between  the  above  bound  James  Rice 
and  Ann  Hopkins,  daughter  of  John  Hopkins  of  Rockingham  County,  if 
therefore  there  shall  be  no  lawful  cause  to  obstruct  the  said  marriage 
then  the  above  obligation  to  be  void,  otherwise  to  remain  in  full  force 
and  virtue. 
Signed,  sealed  and  delivered  in  the 

Presence  of  JAMES  RICE  (Seal) 

G.  M.  Harrison  ANN  HOPKINS  (Seal) 

A  true  copy  of  bond  recorded  in  Rockingham  County,  Va. 

J.  M.  RICE. 


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II.  ANN  HOPKINS,  tenth  child  of  John  and  Jean 
Gordon  Hopkins,  was  married  shortly  after  April  3,  1804.,  to 
James  Rice,  son  of  John  (son  of  William,  son  of  William,  son 
oj  Thomas}  and  Mary  Finney,  of  Accomac  County,  Va. 

CHILDREN  : 

JOHN,  born  Oct.   27,  1808;  died  date  lost. 

JAMES  F.,  born  Oct.   27,  1808;  died  Jan.    21,  1851. 

ANNA  JANE,  born  1809;  died  about       1831. 

THOMAS  HOPKINS,  born  Nov.  14,  1810;  died  Sept.  1889. 
GEORGE  POAGE,  born  Oct.  27,  1812;  died  July  7,1890. 
WILLIAM  CYRUS,  born  July  9,  1815;  died  Feb.  14,  1897. 

Home,  Rockingham  County,  Va.,  until  about  1805,  when  they  moved 
to  Greenup  (now  Boyd)  County,  Ky.  James  Rice  was  a  farmer  or  planter 
and  also  served  as  Deputy  Surveyor  of  Greenup  County,  Ky.,  for  his 
brother-in-law,  Robert  Poage.  He  was  drowned  in  the  Ohio  River,  near 
Catlettsburg,  Ky.,  about  1814.  About  1816,  Ann  Hopkins  Rice,  with  her 
little  children  went  to  Christian  County,  Ky.,  near  Hopkinsville,  to  live. 
Here  she  remained  until  1835,  when  she,  with  her  sons,  came  to  Monmouth, 
111.  She  was  a  devout,  lovely,  brave,  and  intelligent  woman,  a  Presbyterian 
in  faith. 

///.  JOHN  RICE,  first  child  of  Ann  Hopkins  and  James 
Rice,  died  in  Kentucky.  He  was  unmarried. 


III.  JAMES  RICE,  twin  brother  oj  John,  second  child  of 
Ann  Hopkins  and  James  Rice,  was  not  married. 

He  was  licensed  as  an  attorney  at  law  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Iowa, 
March  23,  1842,  was  commissioned  by  the  Governor  of  Iowa  as  lieutenant- 
colonel  Third  Regiment,  March  29,  1842.  He  went  to  California  overland 
in  1849.  He  died  January  21,  1851,  at  Oquawka,  111.,  and  is  buried  there. 


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///.  ANNA  JANE  RICE,  third  child  of  Ann  Hopkins 
and  James  Rice,  was  married  to  Hon.  Alexander  Hall,  of 
Kentucky,  who  had,  about  1828,  moved  from  Rockbridge  County, 
Va.,  to  Kentucky. 

CHILDREN: 

ANNA  JANE,  born  1832;  died  1841. 
ALEXANDER,  born  1834;  died  Apr.  12,  1858. 

IV.  ANNA  JANE  HALL,  first  child  oj  Anna  Jane  Rice 
and  Alexander  Hall,  died  when  a  child. 

IV.  ALEXANDER  HALL,  second  child  of  Anna  Jane 
Rice  and  Alexander  Hall,  was  married  1857,  to  Mary  K.  Cog- 
hill,  who  died  July  jj,  1858. 


III.  THOMAS  HOPKINS  RICE,  fourth  child  of  Ann 
Hopkins  and  James  Rice,  was  married  April  12,  184.9,  a^  ine 
home  of  Hardin  Davis,  Henderson  County,  III.,  to  Mrs.  Mary 
Irvannah  Elletl. 

CHILDREN  : 

JAMES  ALBERT,  born  Jan.     7,  1850;  died  June  i,  1856. 

WILLIAM  ALEXANDER,    born  Dec.  13,  1852;  died  Dec.  5,  1883. 
MARY,  born  June    5,  1856;  died  June  5,  1864. 

ANN,  born  June    5,  1856. 

JESSIE,  born  July     5,  1858;  died  May  7,  1859. 

Home,  Henderson  County,  111. 

III.  THOMAS  HOPKINS  RICE  was  a  farmer,  nurseryman,  and 
horticulturist.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Fall  Creek  Presbyterian  Church, 
Henderson  County,  111.  He  was  a  very  honest,  kind-hearted,  wise  man, 
and  served  as  justice  of  the  peace  for  several  years.  His  later  years  were 
spent  at  Monmouth,  111.  Here  he  and  his  wife  died  and  are  buried. 

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IV.  JAMES  ALBERT  RICE,  first  child  of  Thomas  Hop- 
kins Rice  and  Mary  Irvannah  Ellett,  died  when  six  years  old, 
and  was  buried  in  the  old  Ellett  graveyard,  but  was  after- 
wards removed  to  the  cemetery  at  Monmouth,  III. 

IV.  WILLIAM  ALEXANDER  RICE,  second  child  of 
Thomas  Hopkins  Rice  and  Mark  Irvannah  Ellett,  was  married 
October  13,  1881,  to  Ellen  Morton,  who  was  born  September 
26,  1856. 
CHILDREN  : 

WILLIAM  ALEXANDER,   born  Aug.    2,  1882. 

NANNIE  HARDING,         born  Dec.  17,1883. 

Home,  Monmouth,  111. 

IV.  WILLIAM  ALEXANDER  RICE  was  a  graduate  of  Monmouth 
College,  Class  of  1873.     He  taught  two  years  in  Oregon,  then  entered  the 
First  National  Bank  at  Monmouth,  111.,  and  was  made  assistant  cashier  in 
1879,  m  which  capacity  he  served  till  1882.     After  this  he  was  made  cashier 
and  part  owner  of  the  bank  of  Atchison  County,  Mo.     He  lived  at  Rockport 
and  is  buried  at  Monmouth,  111. 

Ellen  Morton  Rice  studied  at  Monmouth  College. 

V.  WILLIAM  ALEXANDER  RICE,  first   child  of  Wil- 
liam Alexander  Rice  and  Ellen  Morton. 

Is  a  student  in  Monmouth  High  School. 

V.  NANNIE  HARDING  RICE,  second  child  of  William 
Alexander  Rice  and  Ellen  Morton. 

Is  a  student  in  the  Monmouth  High  School. 

IV.  MARY  RICE,  third  child  of  Thomas  Hopkins  and 
Mary  Irvannah  Ellett,  died  when  eight  years  old,  and  is  buried 
at  Monmouth,  III. 

IV.  ANN  RICE,   twin  sister  of  Mary,   fourth  child  of 
Thomas  Hopkins  Rice  and  Mary  Irvannah  Ellett,  is  not  married. 
Home,  189  E.  Forty-first  Street,  Chicago,  111. 

IV.  JESSIE  RICE,  fifth  child  of  Thomas  Hopkins  Rice 
and  Mary  Irvannah  Ellett,  died  in  infancy. 

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///.  GEORGE  POAGE  RICE,  fifth  child  of  Ann  Hopkins 
and  James  Rice,  was  married  February  4.,  184.1,  to  Caroline 
Montgomery,  daughter  of  James  Montgomery,  son  of  John, 
son  of  William,  son  of  Alexander,  son  of  John. 

CHILDREN: 

JAMES  MONTGOMERY,  born  Mar.    8,  1842. 

JOHN  HOPKINS,  born  Feb.  14,  1844. 

WILLIAM  CYRUS,  born  Apr.  30,  1846;  died  May    8,  1850. 

JANE  ELIZABETH,  born  July  30,  1848;  died  May  18,  1849. 

MARY  LOUISE,  born  June  15, 1850. 

CARRIE,  born  Apr.  15,  1853. 

ANN,  born  Oct.         1856;  died  in  infancy. 

CHARLES  EDWARD,  born  Nov.    3,  1858. 

III.  GEORGE  POAGE  RICE  studied  for  the  ministry  at  Clarksville, 
Tenn.     He  moved  with  his  mother  from  Christian  County,  Ky.,  to  Mon- 
mouth,  111.,  in  1835.     He  was  in  the  mercantile  business  with  his  brothers 
a  few  years  in  Monmouth,  then  he  farmed  in  Henderson  County,  111.,  till 
1857,  when  he  went  to  Oquawka,  111.     Here  he  entered  the  mercantile 
firm  of  Phelps  &  Rice,  which  continued  four  years,  when  he  retired.     He 
was  forty  years  a  ruling  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church.     He  died  in 
Omaha,  Neb.,  July  7,  1890,  and  is  buried  at  Monmouth,  111. 

Home,  Oquawka  and  Monmouth,  111.,  and  Omaha,  Neb. 

IV.  JAMES    MONTGOMERY    RICE,    first    child    of 
George  Poage  Rice  and  Caroline  Montgomery,  was  married 
September  14.,  1871,  to  Eliza  F.  Ballance,  who  was  born  Jan- 
uary 26,  1844,  and  died  February  77,  1895. 

CHILDREN: 

LILLIAN  BALLANCE,  born  Mar.  26,  1873. 

JULIA  MARGARET,  born  Oct.  28,  1874;  died  Mar.  4,  1875. 

CAROLINE  MONTGOMERY,  born  Mar.  18,  1876. 

MARY  VIRGINIA,  born  Oct.   18,  1880. 

MONTGOMERY  GORDON,  born  Aug.  24,  1882. 

WILLIS  BALLANCE,  born  Dec.     6,  1884. 

Home,  Peoria,  111. 

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IV.  JAMES  MONTGOMERY  RICE  was   born  in  Monmouth,  111., 
and  lived  on  a  farm  in  Henderson  County,  111.,  until  he  was  fifteen  years 
old.    The  family  then  moved  to  Oquawka,  111.     He  was  in  the  freshman 
class  at  Monmouth  College  1860-1861.   He  enlisted  August  20, 1861,  in  Com- 
pany E,  loth  Illinois  Infantry,  for  three  years.    He  was  corporal,  sergeant, 
and  detailed  clerk  at  brigade  headquarters,  and  was  in  engagements  at  Pitts- 
burg  Landing,  Corinth,  Missionary  Ridge,  Ringold,  Buzzard  Roost,  Peach 
Tree  Creek,  Ezra  Church,  Jonesborough,  capture  of  Atlanta,  and  others, 
and  was  honorably  mustered  out  of  service  September  18,  1864. 

He  was  general  inspector  of  rifle  practice,  Illinois  National  Guard, 
from  May  30,  1875,  until  January,  1896,  when  he  resigned.  He  graduated 
from  the  law  department  of  Michigan  University  in  1866,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Supreme  Court  of  Illinois  April  14,  1866,  and  to  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States  in  1890.  He  was  city  attorney  of  Peoria  in 
1877,  is  a  member  of  the  state  bar  association,  and  was  the  principal  or- 
ganizer of  the  Peoria  Law  Library  Association.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  State  Legislature  1871  to  1873,  anc^  is  the  author  of  the  third  clause  in 
the  declaration  of  war  with  Spain.  He  was  a  member  of  the  General 
Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  1899  and  1900,  and  is  the  author 
of  the  new  method  of  electing  standing  committees  in  that  body.  (See 
Appleton's  American  and  English  Encyclopedia,  1900.) 

Eliza  F.  Ballance,  daughter  of  Charles  Ballance  (son  of  Willis,  son  of 
Charles),  was  born  in  Peoria,  111.  She  graduated  from  the  Monticello 
Seminary,  Godfrey,  111.  She  died  February  17,  1895,  and  is  buried  at 
Peoria,  111.  She  was  a  faithful  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and 
of  several  patriotic  ladies'  societies.  All  of  her  children  are  members  of 
the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  Peoria,  111. 

V.  LILLIAN  BALLANCE  RICE,  first  child  of  James 
Montgomery  Rice  and  Eliza  F.  Ballance,  was  married  Sep- 
tember 4,  1896,  to  Daniel  Rufus  Brigham,  of  Milwaukee,  Wis. 
(son  of  Lydia  Card  and  Daniel  Morgan  Brigham,  of  Cleveland) , 
who  was  born  April  10,  1865. 

CHILDREN  : 

DANIEL  MORGAN,  born  May  8,  1899. 

CAROLINE  RICE,    born  Mar.  i,  1901. 

DANIEL  RUFUS  BRIGHAM  died  at  Denver,  Colorado,  February 
19,  1902,  and  is  buried  at  Springdale  Cemetery,  Peoria,  111. 

V.  LILLIAN  BALLANCE   RICE   graduated  from    Smith    College, 
Northampton,  Mass.,  Class  of    1894,    and  was    professor  of  history  and 

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English  literature  in  the  State  Normal  School  of  Arizona,  1896-1897.     Her 
married  life  was  spent  in  Denver,  Colo. 
Home,  Peoria,  111. 

F.  JULIA  MARGARET  RICE,  second  child  of  James 
Montgomery  Rice  and  Eliza  F.  Ballance,  died  before  she  was 
a  year  old,  and  is  buried  at  Peoria,  III. 

V.  CAROLINE  MONTGOMERY  RICE,  third  child  of 
James  Montgomery  Rice  and  Eliza  F.  Ballance. 

Studied  at  Smith  College,  Northampton,  Mass.,  and  taught  in  the 
public  schools  of  Peoria,  111.,  and  Denver,  Colo. 
Home,  Peoria,  111. 

V.  MARY  VIRGINIA  RICE,  fourth  child  of  James 
Montgomery  Rice  and  Eliza  F.  Ballance,  graduated  from  Mich- 
igan University,  Class  of  1902,  receiving  the  degree  of  A.  B. 

Home,  Peoria,  111. 

V.  MONTGOMERY  GORDON  RICE,  fifth  child  of 
James  Montgomery  Rice  and  Eliza  F.  Ballance. 

Is  a  student  in  the  law  department  of  Michigan  University,  Class  of 
1906. 

V.  WILLIS  BALLANCE  RICE,  sixth  child  of  James 
Montgomery  Rice  and  Eliza  F.  Ballance. 

Graduated    from    the   Peoria  High  School,  Peoria,  111.,  in  June,  1901. 
He  is  a  student  in  Cornell  University,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 

IV.  JOHN  HOPKINS  RICE,  second  child  of  George 
Poage  Rice  and  Caroline  Montgomery,  was  married  December 
29,  1869,  to  Margaret  J.  Martin. 

CHILDREN: 

FRANK  MONTGOMERY,  born  Sept.    i,  1871. 

ANN  LOUISE,  born  Sept.    2,  1873. 

SALLIE  PLUMMER,         born  July  31,  1876. 

WILLIAM  CYRUS,          born  Mar.    9,  1880. 

MARY,  born  Oct.     2,  1884;  died  Sept.  24,  1885. 

EVA  M.,  born  Aug.  30,  1886. 

Home,  Wichita,  Kan. 

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IV.  JOHN  HOPKINS  RICE  enlisted  August  10,  1862,  in  Company 
C,  pist  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry.     He  was  promoted  to  sergeant  and 
first  lieutenant  on  December  26,  1862.      While  guarding  the  bridge  over 
Salt  River,  Ky.,  he  was  captured  by  John  J.  Morgan,  the  raider,  and 
paroled.     He  was  in  the  parole  camp  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  until  exchanged 
in  June,  1863.     He  was  at  Vicksburg,  Port  Hudson,  New  Orleans,  Mor- 
ganzia,   La.,   Brownsville,   Tex.,   Brazos  de   Santiago,   Tex.,   Palo  Alto, 
Mobile,  and  was  mustered  out  July  12,  1865.     He  has  been  a  farmer, 
justice  of  the  peace,  school  director,  treasurer  of  the  school  board,  and  is 
a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church.     He  moved  to  a  farm  near  Wichita, 
Kan.,  February  14,  1900. 

V.  FRANK  MONTGOMERY  RICE,  first  child  of  John 
Hopkins  Rice  and  Margaret  J.  Martin. 

Is  a  farmer  near  Wichita,  Kan. 

V.  ANN  LOUISE  RICE,  second  child  of  John  Hopkins 
Rice  and  Margaret  J.  Martin,  died  in  infancy. 

V.  SALLIE  PLUMMBR  RICE,  third  child  of  John 
Hopkins  Rice  and  Margaret  J.  Martin,  was  married  to  Frank 
Jones. 

Home,  near  Wichita,  Kan. 

V.  WILLIAM  CYRUS  RICE,  fourth  child  of  John  Hop- 
kins Rice  and  Margaret  J.  Martin. 
Is  a  farmer  near  Wichita,  Kan. 

V.  MARY  RICE,  fifth  child  of  John  Hopkins  Rice  and 
Margaret  J.  Martin,  died  an  infant. 

V.  EVA  M.  RICE,  sixth  child  of  John  Hopkins  Rice  and 
Margaret  J.  Martin. 

Is  in  the  home  with  her  parents  at  Wichita,  Kan. 


IV.  WILLIAM   CYRUS   RICE,    third   child   of   George 
Poage  Rice  and  Caroline  Montgomery,  died  about  four  years  old. 

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IV.  JANE  ELIZABETH  RICE,  fourth  child  of  George 
Poage  Rice  and  Caroline  Montgomery,  died  an  infant. 

IV.  MARY  LOUISE  RICE,  fifth  child  of  George  Poage 
Rice  and  Caroline  Montgomery,  was  married  May  29,  1879, 
to  John  Thomas  Marriott,  who  was  born  March  6,  /#55,  in 
Brimfield,  III. 

CHILDREN: 

CAROLINE  MONTGOMERY,  born  Mar.  24,  1886. 
WILLIAM  HENRY,  born  Sept.  16,  1888. 

Home,  Wakefield,  Neb.;  business,  merchant  and  broker. 

IV.  MARY  LOUISE  RICE,  taught  school  at  Minar,  III,  and  Brim- 
field,  111.,  and  was  assistant  principal  of  the  Elmwood  High  School. 
She  studied  at  the  Peoria  Normal  School,  and  at  Valparaiso,  Ind. 

IV.  CARRIE  RICE,   sixth  child  of  George  Poage  Rice 
and  Caroline  Montgomery,  was  married  November  i,  1877, 
to  Lyman  Weeks  Case,  who  was  born  December  i,  1853,  at 
S wanton,  Vt. 

CHILDREN: 

BERTHA,  born  Aug.    9,  1878. 

FREDERICK  ALBERT,        born  Apr.  30,  1880;  died  June,  1881. 

MONTGOMERY  BABCOCK,  born  Feb.  n,  1882. 

Home,  Peoria,  111.;  business,  loan  broker  and  loan  agent. 

V.  BERTHA  CASE,  first  child  of  Carrie  Rice  and  Lyman 
Weeks  Case. 

Is  a  graduate  of  the  State  Normal  School  of  Nebraska,  Peru,  Neb. 
She  has  been  a  teacher  in  the  Omaha  public  schools  since  1899. 

V.  FREDERICK  ALBERT  CASE,  second  child  of  Carrie 
Rice  and  Lyman  Weeks  Case,  died  in  infancy. 

V.  MONTGOMERY  BABCOCK  CASE,  third  child  of 
Carrie  Rice  and  Lyman  Weeks  Case. 
Is  a  student  in  the  University  of  Nebraska. 

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IV.  ANN  RICE,  seventh  child  of  George  Poage  Rice  and 
Caroline  Montgomery,  died  in  infancy. 


IV.  CHARLES  EDWARD  RICE,  eighth  child  of  George 
Poage  Rice  and  Caroline  Montgomery,  was  married  July  17, 
1890,  to  Emma  Lyon. 

IV.  CHARLES  EDWARD  RICE  graduated  from  the  Monmouth 
College  in  1877,  and  from  the  Omaha  Theological  Seminary  in  1895, 
was  ordained  a  Presbyterian  minister  March,  1894,  and  has  served  several 
churches  in  Nebraska  as  pastor.  He  was  engaged  in  work  for  the  Amer- 
can  Sunday  School  Union  from  1887  to  1892.  He  died  June  8,  1903,  at 
his  home  in  Hotchkiss,  Colo.,  where  he  is  buried.  His  widow  still  lives 
there  with  her  brother. 


///.  WILLIAM  CYRUS  RICE,  sixth  child  of  Ann  Hop- 
kins and  James  Rice,  was  married  April  14,  1844,  to  Mary 
Montgomery  Walker,  who  was  born  August  29,  1827,  and  died 
July  20,  1871. 

CHILDREN: 

ANNA,  born  May  22,  1849;  died  Dec.  25,  1854. 

WILLIAM  P.,         born  Aug.    4,  1859;  died  Aug.    8,  1860. 
CYRUS  WALKER,  born  May  19,  1861. 
FLORA,  born  Mar.    6,  1864. 

III.  WILLIAM  CYRUS  RICE  was  elected  county  surveyor  on  the 
organization  of  Henderson  County  in  1841.     In  1843  ne  was  made  probate 
judge.     In  1854  he  was  elected  representative  to  the  General  Assembly 
from  the  fortieth  district,  composed  of  Henderson  and  Warren  counties, 
and  re-elected  in  1858.     He  was  made  county  judge  in  1873,  an^  served 
until   1890,    when   he   retired.     He  was  a  devout,  earnest,  kindly  man, 
possessing  all   the   Christian  virtues.     He  lived  all    his  married  life  at 
Oquawka,  111.,  where  he  died  on  February  14,  1897,  and  is  buried. 

Home,  Oquawka,  111. 

IV.  ANNA  RICE,  first  child  of  William  Cyrus  Rice  and 
Mary  Montgomery  Walker,  died  when  five  years  old. 

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IV.  WILLIAM  P.  RICE,  second  child  of  William  Cyrus 
Rice  and  Mary  Montgomery  Walker,  died  when  a  year  old. 

IV.  CYRUS   WALKER  RICE,    third  child   of    William 
Cyrus  Rice  and  Mary  Montgomery  Walker,  was  married  Sep- 
tember 9,  1897,  to  Catherine  Southerland,  who  was  born  Novem- 
ber 28,  1868. 

CHILDREN  : 

WILLIAM  CYRUS,  born  July     7,  1898. 

ROBERT  VAN  VALSEN,  born  Sept.  30,  1899. 

V.  CYRUS  WALKER  RICE  is  a  graduate  of  Monmouth  College. 
He  studied  law  with  his  father,  and  with  Judge  T.  Lyle  Dickey,  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Illinois,  and  at  the  Chicago  Law  School.     He  first 
entered  into  partnership  with  his  father  at  Oquawka,  111.,  then,  in  1885, 
he  became  associated  with  James  Montgomery  Rice  at  Peoria,  111. 

In  1892  he  went  to  Chicago,  where  he  has  practiced  since.  His  office 
is  in  the  Ashland  block. 

Home,  Chicago,  111. 

IV.  FLORA  RICE,  fourth  child  of  William  Cyrus  Rice 
and  Mary  Montgomery  Walker,  was  married  June  20,  1893, 
to  Irving  Torrence  Brady. 

CHILDREN: 

MARGARET  MARY,  born  Aug.  3,  1894. 

DOROTHY,  born  Nov.  5,  1899. 

Flora  Rice  studied  at  Monticello  Seminary. 

Home,  314  Sixtieth  Street,  Chicago,  111.;  business,  law. 

Irving  Torrence  Brady  died  at  Chicago,  111.,  September  29,  1902. 


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THERE  LIVED  A  MAN. 

Once,  in  the  flight  of  ages  past, 

There  lived  a  man — and  who  was  he  ? 

Mortal,  however  thy  lot  is  cast, 
That  man  resembled  thee. 

He  suffered,  but  his  pangs  are  o'er; 

Enjoyed,  but  his  delights  are  fled; 
Had  friends — his  friends  are  now  no  more; 

And  foes — his  foes  are  dead. 

He  saw  whatever  thou  hast  seen; 

Encountered  all  that  troubles  thee; 
He  was  whatever  thou  hast  been; 

He  is  what  thou  shalt  be. 

The  annals  of  the  human  race, 

Their  ruins  since  the  world  began, 

Of  him  afford  no  other  trace 
Than  this — there  lived  a  man. 

— Montgomery. 


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THE  ARCHIBALD  (ERCEBALD)  HOPKINS 

FAMILY 


WILL  OF  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  THE  PIONEER. 

This  nineteenth  Day  of  March  1799  I,  Archebald  Hopkins,  Jr.,  of 
Rockingahm  County  and  State  of  Virginia,  being  weake  in  body  but  of 
Perfect  mind  and  memory  Do  make  this  my  Last  will  &  testament.  I 
bequeath  to  my  wife,  Jennet  Hopkins  her  Dowry  according  to  law  &  to 
have  her  choice  of  all  the  feather  beds  in  my  possession  &  to  have  one  with 
such  furniture  as  she  shall  choose  for  one  bed ;  I  bequeath  to  my  Son  Eph- 
riam  Hopkins  the  Plantation  he  now  lives  on  Lying  on  both  Sides  of  mudy 
Creek  Containing  310  acres  by  Survey  to  him  and  his  heirs  &  forever, 
I  bequeath  to  my  grand  Son  Archibald  Hopkins,  Son  of  Ephriam  Hopkins 
a  tract  of  land  lying  on  both  sides  of  mudy  creek  and  adjoining  the  Lands 
I  now  live  on  &  Lands  formerly  belonging  to  Thomas  Shanklin  &  Like- 
wise a  Part  of  the  Land  I  now  live  on  and  joining  the  fore  track  begining 
at  a  Pine  on  the  West  side  of  the  Creek  in  a  line  of  the  land  I  now  live  on 
&  running  from  thence  a  strait  line  to  the  wright  hand  of  the  lowernopt 
gap  in  the  hill  on  the  East  side  of  the  Creek,  Continuing  still  a  strait  line 
from  sd  gap  until  it  strikes  the  line  of  my  land  on  the  east  side  of  the  Creek 
to  him  and  his  heirs  &c  for  ever  &  Forever  my  Son  Ephriam  Hopkins  to 
have  the  profits  arising  from  the  lands  untill  his  son  Archibald  Hopkins 
is  21  years  of  age,  Provided  he  lives  till  that  period  on  the  Land  he  now 
lives  on,  I  bequeath  to  my  grand  Son  Thomas  Hopkins  Son  of  Ephriam 
Hopkins,  a  track  of  land  lying  on  mudy  Creek  now  occupied  by  James 
McHoney  &  likewise  two  other  surveys  joining  said  track  land  to  him  & 
his  heirs  &c  forever  &  Forever  that  his  father  Ephriam  Hopkins  have  the 
profits  arising  from  the  lands  until  his  son  Thomas  Hopkins  is  21  years  of 
age  Provided  resides  till  that  Period  on  the  land  he  now  occupies,  &  should 
sd  Ephriam  Hopkins  remove  to  a  distant  part  of  the  Country  then  my  execu- 
tors to  have  the  care  of  my  grand  Sons  lands  after  such  removal  &  the  profits 
arising  from  sd  lands  to  be  appropriated  for  the  benefit  of  my  grand  Sons 
untill  they  are  of  the  age  afforesaid,  I  bequeath  to  my  Son  william  hopkins 
the  Plantation  I  now  live  on  that  is  all  the  lands  that  is  included  in  the 
inclusive  Survey,  I  made,  except  that  Part  that  I  have  before  mentioned 
as  given  by  this  will  to  my  grand  Son  Archibald  hopkins  and  my  wifes 
Dowey  Dureing  her  life  with  all  its  improvements  to  him  &  his  heirs 

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&c  foever  &  Forever  that  the  Plantation  I  purchased  of  George  &  David 
Berry  Sen  to  be  sold  &  preserving  the  water  courses  and  benefits  of  the 
waters  of  said  plantation  for  the  benefit  of  the  Plantation  I  have  given 
by  this  will  to  my  Son  William  hopkins  and  all  my  other  Lands  that  I 
possess  in  harrison  County  &  the  other  Countys  in  that  Part  of  said  State 
if  any  to  be  likewise  sold  &  the  money  arising  from  sutch  sale  to  be  eaquealy 
Devided  amongst  my  three  Daughters  Children  to  those  they  now  have 
and  to  those  they  shall  hereafter  have,  &  all  my  Personal  estate  except 
one  of  the  waggons  and  all  other  Plantation  utentials  &  two  horse  beasts 
which  is  to  remain  the  property  of  my  Son  William  &  he  is  to  have  his 
choice  of  the  waggons  &  likewise  of  the  horse  beasts  except  my  wifes 
horse  beast  I  order  that  she  shall  have  the  first  choice  and  Sadie  &  her 
weareing  appearl  preserved  as  her  own  property  &  all  the  Personal  estate 
that  Remains  that  is  not  already  mentioned  to  be  sold  &  the  money  arising 
from  said  sale  &  all  the  debts  to  me  Due  or  hereafter  may  become  due 
(except  that  Debt  Due  to  me  from  Benjamin  Smiths  estate  for  the  warrent 
he  got  from  me  the  money  of  which  I  leave  to  my  Son  william)  to  be 
eaquealy  Devided  between  my  wife  and  three  Daughters  &  I  appoint 
william  Prolston  &  my  son  wilh'am  hopkins  executors  of  this  my  Last  will 
&  testament  &  the  Reservation  of  the  water  courses  to  extend  in  breadth 
three  Poles  with  the  meanders  of  the  Creek  from  Mathew  Harrison  Line 
of  the  one  fork  &  from  about  60  Poles  of  the  other  fork  of  the  Creek. 


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SALE  BILL  OF  PERSONAL  PROPERTY. 

Owned  by  Ruth  Hopkins,  Harrisonburg,  Va. 

The  sale  bill  of  the  Estate  of  Archibald  Hopkins,  Deed  May  8th  1799. 

L  S  P 

Wm  Hopkins  to  three  old  tubs o  2  o 

Ditto  to  one  Sifter o  2  6 

Ditto  to  one  old  tub o  o  8 

Ditto  to  three  old  Barrels o  2  8 

Ditto  to  one  pair  of  Stilards o  3  8 

Ditto  to  two  old  tubs o  o  7 

Jean  Hopkins  to  one  meat  tub o  2  10 

Ditto  to  Ditto o  i  10 

Ditto  to  one  Bell o  i  4 

Ditto  to  one  D.  oven o  i  4 

Ditto  to  one  iron  pot o  i  4 

Ditto  to  one  large  kettle o  18  4 

Ditto  to  one  D.  oven o  6  3 

Ditto  to  two  washing  tubs o  3  6 

Ditto  to  one  box  iron o  i  6 

Ditto  to  one  flat  iron o  3  3 

Ditto  to  two  pails o  i  3 

Ditto  to  two  iron  trammels o  15  3 

Ditto  to  two  Buckets o  4  4 

Ditto  to  one  frying  pan o  3  i 

Rodger  Mallery  to  one  grindstone 038 

Jacob  Nicely  to  one  grindstone o  5  6 

Thomas  Hopkins  to  one  Cider  Barrel o  6  6 

Jennet  Hopkins  to  one  double  Barrel o  10  6 

Henry  Maryers  to  one  Ditto o  4  6 

Jennet  Hopkins  to  one  hive  bees o  6  6 

Henry  Sprinkle  to  one  Ditto o  u  4 

Jos  Baxter  to  five  empty  hives o  i  3 

Archibald  Rutherford  to  one  waggon n  i  3 

Jacob  Nicely  to  one  Brindle  Cow  &  Calf 6  4  3 


L      S      P 

Adam  Losh  to  one  Black  Cow  &  Calf 6      3       3 

John  Harrison  to  one  Black  Cow  &  Calf 6       5       i 


35  16  2 

Samuel  Miller  to  one  red  Cow  &  Calf  with  white  face 5  19  7 

Nicholas  Ludwick  to  one  Black  Cow  &  Calf 5  14  7 

James  Burges  to  one  Black  Cow  &  calf 5  15  7 

James  Rolstone  to  one  Red  Cow  &  young  calf 7  o  7 

John  Miller  to  two  shepp i  10  3 

Benjamin  Webb  to  two  Ditto i  6  6 

Gawn  Hamilton  to  two  Ewes  and  their  lambs i  14  6 

Ditto  to  Ditto 2  6  6 

John  Hopkins  to  two  ewes  and  their  lambs 2  10  6 

Benjamin  Webb  to  two  ewes 2  10  6 

John  Hopkins  to  two  ewes  &  their  lambs i  4  6 

Susannah  Polsel  to  one  Brown  heifer  &  calf 4  10  6 

John  Diver  to  one  Brown  heifre  &  calf 5  17  6 

Gawn  Hamilton  to  two  Brindled  Steers n  17  6 

Wm  Cravens  to  two  Brown  steers 9  6  6 

George  Chrisman  to  two  Pyded  steers 7  8  6 

Ditto  to  one  Bull  and  puded  steer 7  16  6 

Amas  tharp  to  one  black  &  one  brown  steer n  8  6 

Hugh  Diver  to  one  red  steer 7  3  i 

Michael  Roop  to  one  Black  horse 24  16  i 

John  Hopkins  to  one  negro  man  jack 130  16  i 

Ephriam  Hopkins  to  Ditto  Humphrey 42  3  i 

Saml  Miller  to  the  service  of  them  i  year  10  months 31  3  i 

John  Hopkins  to  Ester  &  Child 6  3  i 

Archibald  Rutherford  one  girl  Nanny  for  3  years 10  10  i 

John  Pence  to  one  girl  Sail  for  6  years 30  12  7 

Richard  Hollenshead  to  one  Boy  Dan  for  10  years 41  12  7 

William  Hopkins  to  one  jackscrew i  12  7 

John  Chrisman  to  one  tin  plate  stove  &  pipe 6  n  7 

Jennet  Hopkins  to  ten  Chairs 6  19  7 

Ditto  to  one  Wool  Sheel 6  3  7 

Ditto  to  one  spinning  wheel 6  9  7 

Ditto  to  Ditto 6  4  7 

Ditto  to  six  geese 6  7  7 

436  9  7 
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L  S  P 

Wm  Bolston  to  one  Black  mare 20 

George  Mowry  to  one  Black  Colt 20  2 

Wm  Hopkins  to  one  Bay  Colt 17  2 

John  Hoover  to  one  sorrel  Colt 15  5 

Henry  Sprinkle  to  two  Black  heifers  white  faces 3  13 

James  Bolstone  to  one  dark  Brindle  heifer 4  13 

Henry  Sprinkle  to  two  Black  heifers 4  5 

Solomon  Vance  to  two  black  stears  with  white  faces 3  16  6 

Ditto  to  one  pyded  steer  &  one  red  Bull 4  5  9 

Andrew  Blain  to  one  yellow  steer  &  red  one 7  5  9 

Wm  Cravens  to  one  Black  Cow  white  face 5  2  9 

George  Humlickhouser  to  one  clock 3  9 

Jennet  Hopkins  to  2  pr  dog  irons  tongs  shovel  2  tramels 5  9 

Ditto  to  one  bed  &  Bedding 4  9 

Ditto  to  one  Bedsted  mat  &  Covering i  10  9 

Aaron  Thomas  to  one  arm  Chair i  i  9 

Jennet  Hopkins  to  a  quantity  of  hemp 3  5  i 

Ditto  to  one  woolen  wheel 3  9  i 

Aaron  Thomas  to  one  old  tub 3  i  i 

Ditto  to  two  Ditto 3  i  9 

Ditto  to  one  Ditto  &  gun 319 

John  Hopkins  to  two  old  tubs 3  10  9 

Jennet  Hopkins  to  one  Cupboard 2  10  9 

Ditto  to  one  Bed  &  Bedding 6  10  9 

Ditto  to  one  walnut  box 6  10  9 

Ditto  to  one  bed  bedsted  &  covering 12  15  9 

Joseph  Waxter  to  one  arm  chair 12  3  9 

Jennet  Hopkins  to  one  table 12  9  9 

Christain  Miller  to  one  piece  sole  leather 12  10  9 

Ditto  to  one  syde  of  upper  leather 12  10  9 

Wm  Hopkins  to  one  syde  harness  leather i  3  i 

Benjn  Bolstone  to  two  hogs 5  7 


171  2  9 

John  Hoover  to  one  hog 3  7  i 

Jennet  Hopkins  to  old  pewter i  7  i 

Jacob  Woolf  to  five  Bushels  buckwheat  41  pr  bushel 171 

Christain  Miller  to  one  lamp i  i  3 

Jennet  Hopkins  to  one  womans  saddle i  3  3 

Henry  Mawyers  to  ten  Bushels  tye  a  53  pr  Bushel 2  10  3 

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L  S  P 

Andrew  W.  Lain  to  Ditto  at  Ditto 2  . .  3 

To  Bonds  Due  to  the  Estate 13  3 

To  Cash  then  in  hand 123  3  4 

To  sundry  articles  kept  by  the  Widdow  at  the  appraisement 

which  is  not  in  the  sale  Bill  amounting  to 6  19  6 

to  Bood  Devided  amons  the  Legatees  at  the  appraisement . .  63  6 


70  in 

35  l6       2 

436  9      7 

171  2      9 

I351  10      5 
Marked  Sale  Bill  of  Archibald  Hopkins  Deed 


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RECEIPTS  GIVEN  BY  HEIRS  OF  ARCHIBALD 

HOPKINS. 

Owned  by  Ruth  Hopkins,  Harrisonburg,  Va. 

October  soth  1800  Received  of  the  Executors  of  my  husbands  estate 
one  hundred  and  eighty  four  Pounds  two  shillings  &  nine  Pence  in  Cash 
and  one  horse  Beast  appraised  to  forty  Pounds  and  one  bed  and  furniture 
appraised  to  twenty  pounds  as  part  of  my  Dowry  as  willed  to  me  by  my 
Late  husband  Received  Per  me  Jean  Hopkins 

her 
Jean  Hopkins 

mark 
No.  i. 

October  2oth  1800  Received  of  the  other  Executors  of  Archibald  Hop- 
kins Deceast  the  sum  of  76  pounds  7  shillings  and  2  pence  it  Being  a  part 
of  my  wifes  Dowry  left  her  father  Received  by 

William  Rolstone 

for  Joseph  Chrisman 
No.  2. 

October  2oth  1800  Received  of  the  other  executors  of  Archibald 
Hopkins  estate  the  horses  and  waggon  and  the  other  Plantation  utentials 
as  willed  to  me  By  my  Late  father  and  appraised  to  one  hundred  Pounds 
&  eight  Pounds  Seventeen  Shillings  and  Six  Pence  Received  Per  me 

Wm  Hopkins 

October  2oth  1800  Received  of  the  other  Executors  of  Archibald 
Hopkins  Deceased  the  sum  of  96  pounds  and  fore  pence  Half  penny  it 
Being  a  part  of  my  wifes  Dowry  left  her  by  her  father  Received  by  me 

William  Rolston 
No.  3. 

October  2oth  1800  Received  of  the  executors  of  Archibald  Hopkins 
Estate  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  nine  Pounds  Seventeen  Shilling 
and  five  pence  as  Part  of  my  wifes  Dowry  willed  to  her  by  her  father  Ar 
Hopkins.  Received  by  me  John  Hopkins 

No.  4. 

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August  22  1801  Received  of  the  executors  of  my  husbands  estate 
three  hundred  and  nine  Dollars  fifty  cents  as  Part  of  my  Dowry  willed  to 
me  by  husband  Ar  Hopkins  Received  Per  me 

her 
Jennet  Hopkins 

mark 
No.  5. 

August  2nd  1 80 1  Received  of  the  other  executors  of  Arch  estate  the 
sum  of  one  hundred  &  fifty  four  Dollars  &  ninety  Cents  as  Part  of  my 
wifes  Dowry  willed  to  her  by  her  father  Received  Per  me 

Win  Rolstone 
No.  6. 

August  22  1801  Received  of  the  other  executors  of  Arch  Hopkins 
estate  for  Joseph  Chrisman  the  Sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  four  Dollars 
and  ninety  Cents  as  part  of  his  wifes  Dowry  willed  to  her  by  her  father 
Received  Per  me. 

Wm  Rolstone 

for 

Joseph  Chrisman 
No.  7. 

October  i6th  1802 

Received  of  the  Exectrs  of  Archibald  Hopkins  the  sum  of  fifty  five 
pounds  ten  shillings  it  Being  a  part  of  the  legacy  left  me  By  my  husband 
By  me 

her 
Jane  Hopkins 

mark 
Test 

Jos.  Chrisman 
No.  8. 

October  i6th  1802 

Received  of  the  other  Extors  of  Archibald  Hopkins  the  sum  of  twenty 
seven  pounds  fifteen  shillings  it  Being  a  part  of  the  legacy  left  to  Josh 
Chrismans  wife  left  to  her  by  her  father  By  me 

William  Bolstone 

for 

Joseph  Chrisman 
John  Hopkins 
No.  9. 

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October  i6th  1802 

Received  of  the  other  Estors  of  Archibald  Hopkins  the  sum  of  twenty 
seven  pounds  fifteen  shillings     By  me  William  Rolston 

John  Hopkins 
No.  10. 

Written  on  the  back. 

Settled  with  Jeennot  Hopkins  100  Dollars  to  thomas  herron  and  23 
Dollars  and  33  cents  for  Dofty's  estate    august  22d.  1801 


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WILL  OF  JENNET  HOPKINS,  WIDOW  OF  ARCHI 
BALD  (ERCEBALD)  HOPKINS,  THE  PIONEER. 

Owned  by  Ruth  Hopkins,  Harrisonburg,  Va. 
Thie  first  day  of  July  1803  I  Jennet  Hopkins  of 
Rockingham  County  &  state  of  Virginia  do  make  and 
ordain  this  to  be  my  last  will  and  testament  that  is 
to  say  I  bequeath  to  my  Daughter  in  law  Nancy  Hop- 
kins wife  of  Ephriam  Hopkins  ten  pounds  likewise  I 
bequeath  to  my  grandaughter  Jennet  Hopkins  daughter 
of  Ephriam  Hopkins  fifty  pounds  I  bequeath  to  my 
grandaughters  Sarah  gracy  hannah  &  peggy  Hopkins  all 
daughters  of  Ephriam  Hopkins  thirty  pounds  each  to 
be  levied  out  of  my  estate  to  be  in  the  care  of  my 
Executors  to  be  paid  to  them  as  they  severally  come 
of  age  and  if  any  of  them  shold  die  before  they  come 
to  age  without  heirs  of  their  own  body  their  legacy 
to  be  equally  divided  amongst  the  rest  the  money  to 
be  put  to  interest  for  their  use  as  soon  as  conven- 
ancy  will  admit  I  bequeath  to  my  son  Ephriam  Hopkins 
a  note  of  twenty  two  pounds  ten  shillings  and  the 
sum  of  twenty  five  pounds  fifteen  shillings  that  I 
paid  for  him  of  executions  and  my  part  of  the  price 
of  a  negro  man  named  umphra  and  a  sorrel  mare  that 
he  has  now  in  his  possession  to  him  and  his  heirs 
forever  I  bequeath  to  my  son  William  Hopkins  one 
good  feather  bed  and  furniture  and  the  one  half  of 
my  thirds  sence  my  husbands  death  that  is  of  the 
mill 

and  the  stock  belonging  to  me  is  to  be  appraised 
indifferent  men  and  my  son  William  may  ke 
ment  if  he  Chooses  the  remainder  of 

I  bequeath  to  my  three  daughters  Elizabeth  Mary 
ually  devided  amongst  them  or  their  heirs 
that  my  son  Ephriam  Hopkins  shold  bring 

his  room  against  the  heirs  of  George  Baxter 
(Torn  off.)  y  Deed  husband  Conserning  my  father 

te  then  what  I  have  bequeathed  to  him 
to  my  estate  and  be 
s  Elizabeth  Mary  and 
oint  my  son  William  sole  executors  of 

this 

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/.  ARCHIBALD  (ERCEBALD}  HOPKINS,  the  pio- 
neer, married  Jennet  Love,  about  1757. 

CHILDREN: 

EPHRIAM,     born  1758;  baptized  Nov.  1762. 

WILLIAM  H. 

JANE. 

MARY. 

ELIZABETH,  died  Apr.  22,  1814. 

Home,  Rockingham,  Va.;  business,  agriculture. 

I.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  married  Jennet  Love  and  lived  and  died 
in  Rockingham  County,  Va.     That  he  was  a  pillar  in  the  church  we  know 
from  the  old  session  book  which  records  him  as  one  of  the  elders  for  many 
years.     Some  of  his  children's  children  still  live  in  the  county  where  he 
did  his  life's  work.     He  died  May  8,  1799,  and  is  buried  at  Cook's  Creek 
Church  Cemetery. 

Jennet  Love  Hopkins  made  her  will  July  i,  1803.  The  date  of  her 
death  is  unknown.  She  is  buried  beside  her  husband. 

//.  EPHRIAM  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Archibald  Hop- 
kins and  Jennet  Love,  married  Nancy  Shanklin. 

CHILDREN: 

ARCHIBALD,      born  died  about  1879. 

THOMAS. 

JENNET. 

SARAH,  born  1792. 

GRACY. 

HANNAH. 

PEGGY. 

II.  EPHRIAM  moved  to  Kentucky  soon  after  1803,  where  all  his 
children,  stayed,  except  Archibald,  who  returned  to  Harrisonburg,  Va. 

Lewis  Chrisman  Hopkins,  of  Mt.  Clinton,  Va.,  says  that  Ephriam 
Hopkins  had  eleven  children.  The  oldest  one,  Archibald,  returned  from 
Kentucky  to  Virginia,  and  was  brought  up  in  the  family  of  his  Uncle 
William.  None  of  the  Virginia  people  know  anything  about  the  remaining 
children,  and  diligent  search  has  failed  to  discover  them. 

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Letter  from  Ephriam  and  Nancy  Hopkins  to  William  Hopkins.  Owned 
by  Ruth  Hopkins,  Harrisonburg,  Va.  (William  was  Ephriam's  brother. 
Their  father  was  Archibald,  the  pioneer.) 

Jesamine  County  gth  Sept  1810 

Dear  Brother  &  Sister  we  Imbrace  this  oppertunity  of  writing  to 
Inform  you  that  we  are  all  in  A  Tolerable  good  state  of  Health  at  present 
thanks  be  to  God  for  his  Mercys  Hopeing  these  few  Lines  May  find  you 
all  Enjoying  the  same  Blessing  I  would  wish  you  to  send  me  some  satis- 
faction for  the  use  of  Humphrey  for  the  space  of  four  years  if  you  have 
not  Sold  my  Gun  &  Watch  send  them  out  By  the  Bearer  my  Daughter 
Sally  is  of  age  and  she  wants  you  to  send  her  Legacy  that  is  coming  from 
her  grandmothers  Estate  By  her  Uncle  Jones  Ewin  for  which  he  will  pro- 
duce an  order  on  you  for  the  same  give  our  Love  to  all  Enquiring  friends 
so  we  add  no  more  but  still  Remains  you  affectionate  Brother  &  Sister 

Ephriam  &  Nancy  Hopkins 
Mr  William  Hopkins 

(Addressed  on  the  other  side) 
Mr  William  Hopkins 
Rockingham  County 
Virginia 


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///.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  first  child  oj  Ephriam 
Hopkins  and  Nancy  Shanklin,  was  married  to  Elizabeth  Gordon. 

CHILDREN  : 

SARAH  ANN,  died  1874. 

THOMAS  GORDON,  born  Apr.  9,  1815;  died  Oct.  30,  1883. 

JOHN,  born  1817;  died  Mar.  23,  1852. 

AGNES. 

WILLIAM  DAVIS,      born  1823. 

ARCHIBALD,  died  in  boyhood. 

Home,  Harrisonburg,  Va. ;  business,  physician. 

We  find  in  Cook's  Creek  session  book  that  Sarah  Ann  and  Thomas 
Gordon,  children  of  Archibald  Hopkins,  were  baptized  August  17,  1815, 
and  their  brother  John  was  baptized  December  14,  1817. 

ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  died  about  1879,  near  ninety  years  of  age. 
He  was  known  as  "Red  Archy." 

IV.  SARAH  ANN  HOPKINS,  first  child  oj  Archibald 
Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Gordon,  was  married  August,  1831, 
to  Archibald  Hopkins,  son  of  William  Hopkins  and  Anne 
Ralston. 

CHILDREN  : 

ANN  ELIZABETH,  born  June    3,  1832;  died  Jan.  5,  1875. 
ABNER  KILLPATRICK,  born  Aug.    7,  1833;  died  Feb.  8,  1852. 

HESTER  LOVE,  born  Feb.     9,  1835;  died  Aug.       1895. 

FRANCES  AGNES,  born  Apr.  25,  1837;  died  Aug.  4,  1839. 

SALLY  LAVINIA,  born  Sept.  29,  1839. 

RUTH  GORDON,  born  Sept.  n,  1841. 

LEWIS  CHRISMAN,  born  Sept.    4,  1843. 

NANCY  CATHERINE,  born  June    9,  1845. 

Home,  Harrisonburg,  Va. ;  business,  agriculture. 


V.  ANN  ELIZABETH  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Arch- 
ibald Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ann  Hopkins,  was  married  August 
17,  1852,  to  Fernando  C.  T.  Brightwell,  who  was  born  August 
9,  1829,  in  Spotsylvania  County,  Va. 

CHILDREN: 

ZULU,  born  Oct.  17,  1853. 

SARAH  FRANCES,  born  Apr.    7,  1857. 
ROBERT  E.  LEE,  born  Aug.  23,  1863. 

Home,  Lexington,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  ANN  ELIZABETH  HOPKINS  BRIGHTWELL  died  January 
5,    1875,  and  was  buried   in  the  Presbyterian  burial-grounds,  Tabo,  La- 
fayette County,  Mo.,  near  Higginsville. 

VI.  ZULU  BRIGHTWELL,  first  child  of  Ann  Elizabeth 
Hopkins  and  Fernando   C.    T.   Brightwell,   was  married  at 
H arris onbitrg,  Va.,  October  27,  1885,  by  Rev.  J.  H.  Smith, 
to  Oliver  B.  Garrett,  who  was  born  April  12,  1855. 

CHILDREN  : 

EUGENE  HOPKINS,  born  Sept.    8,  1886;  died  Feb.  17,  1887. 
BESSIE  LEE,  born  Apr.  25,  1888. 

FERNANDO  C.,         born  Dec.  13,  1889. 
EDWARD  LINDLEY,  born  June  10,  1892. 

Home,  La  Belle,  Lewis  County,  Mo. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  SARAH  FRANCES  BRIGHTWELL,  second  child 
o)  Ann  Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  Fernando  C.  T.  Brightwell, 
was  married  to  Frank  Hopkins  (son  of  Rufus  R.  Hopkins, 
grandson  of  James,  great-grandson  of  John,  great- great- grand- 
son of  William,  the  pioneer). 

CHILDREN  : 
LIZZET. 
ZULU  GLENN. 
JOY. 

Home,  Washington,  D.  C. 


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VI.  ROBERT  E.  LEE  BRIGHTWELL,  third  child  of 
Ann  Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  Fernando  C.  T.  Brightwell,  was 
married  December  j,  1890,  to  Cam  Landis. 

CHILDREN  : 

BERNICE,    born  1891. 
JENNETTE,  born  1893. 

Home,  2210  Olive  Street,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 


V.  ABNER  KILLPATRICK  HOPKINS,  second  child 
of  Archibald  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ann  Hopkins,  died  a  little 
child. 


V.  HESTER  LOVE  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  Arch- 
ibald Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ann  Hopkins.     Unreported. 


V.  FRANCES    AGNES    HOPKINS,    fourth    child    of 
Archibald  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ann  Hopkins,  died  a  little  child. 


V.  SALLIE  LAV  IN  I  A  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  Arch- 
ibald Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ann  Hopkins,  was  married  Feb- 
ruary 4.,  1862,  to  Richard  T.  Brightwell,  who  was  born  January 
13,  1831,  in  Spotsylvania  County,  Va. 

CHILDREN: 

ALBERTA  NEILL,  born  Nov.  15,  1862. 
DEWITTE  FRANCIS,  born  Sept.  24,  1864. 
INFANT  DAUGHTER,  born  July  21,  1868. 
ANNIE  RUTH,  born  Oct.  26,  1869. 

INFANT  SON,  born  Feb.  21,  1872. 

MARY  JOHNSON,  born  July  8,1873. 
Home,  Parkerville,  Platt  County,  Mo. ;  business,  justice  of  the  peace. 


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VI.  ALBERTA  BRIGHTWELL,  first  child  of  Sallie 
Lavinia  Hopkins  and  Richard  T.  Brightwell,  was  married 
November,  1884,  to  William  E.  Nash. 

CHILDREN  : 

MABEL  ANNA,  born  Sept.  12,  1885. 

LAVINIA  FRANCES,  born  Dec.         1887. 

DORA  JENETTE,  born  Dec.         1889. 

MARY  STELLA,  born  Mar.  20,  1891. 

ALBERTA,  born  June        1894. 
ELIZABETH  DAVIDSON,  born  Mar.  22,  1897. 

AGNES,  born  Aug.  22,  1902. 

Home,  Parkerville,  Platt  County,  Mo.;  business,  meat  market. 

VI.  DEWITTE  FRANCES  BRIGHTWELL,  second  child 
of  Sallie  Lavinia  Hopkins  and  Richard  T.  Brightwell,  was 
married  January  25,  1897,  to  Nettie  Pope. 

CHILDREN: 

LETA  MAY,  born  Oct.  24,  1898. 

Home,  Kansas  City,  Mo.;  business,  gripman. 

VI.  The  third  child  of  Sallie  Lavinia  Hopkins  and  Richard 
T.  Brightwell  died  an  infant. 

VI.  ANNIE  RUTH  BRIGHTWELL,  fourth  child  of 
Sallie  Lavinia  Hopkins  and  Richard  T.  Brightwell,  was 
married  June  3,  1895,  to  J.  William  Davis. 

Home,  Platte  City,  Mo.;  business,  clerk. 

VI.  The  fifth  child  of  Sallie  Lavinia  Hopkins  and  Richard 
T.  Brightwell  died  an  infant. 

VI.  MARY  JOHNSON  BRIGHTWELL,  sixth  child  of 
Sallie  Lavinia  Hopkins  and  Richard  T.  Brightwell,  was  mar- 
ried December  i,  1899,  to  Thomas  Breen. 

CHILDREN: 

NONA  MARIE,          born  Oct.    4,  1898. 
THOS.  ARCHIBALD,  born  Jan.  12,  1902. 

Home,  Parkerville,  Mo.;  business,  mechanic. 

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V.  RUTH  GORDON  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of  Arch- 
ibald Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ann  Hopkins,  is  unmarried. 

She  lives  with  her  uncle,  Dr.  William  Davis  Hopkins,  at  Harrison- 
burg,  Va. 

V.  LEWIS  CHRISM  AN  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  oj 
Archibald  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ann  Hopkins,  was  married 
October  25,  1865,  to  Cordelia  Whitman. 

CHILDREN: 

JAMES  PIERCE,  born  Aug.  30,  1866. 

INFANT,  born  Oct.  25,  1868;  died  Nov.  2,  1869. 

ADELAIDE,  born  May  21,  1870. 

FANNY  LOVE,  born  Dec.  12,  1872. 

NANCY  KATE,  born  June  21,  1874. 

ANNIE  ELIZABETH,  born  Sept.  15,  1876. 

JOHN  ARCHIBALD,  born  July   15,  1877. 

SARAH  HOPKINS,  born  Apr.  13,  1879. 

ABNER  KILPATRICK,  born  Aug.  19,  1880. 

DAVID  RALSTON,  born  Nov.    8,  1882. 

Home,  Mt.  Clinton,  Va.;  business,  agriculture. 

*  V.  NANCY  CATHERINE  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  oj 
Archibald  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ann  Hopkins,  was  married 
October  27,  1865,  to  Thomas  Bradshaw,  who  was  born  March 
27,  184.3,  in  Lewis  County,  Mo. 

CHILDREN  : 

GABRIEL  SMITH,  born  July     5,  1867. 

ANNIE  VIRGINIA,  born  Sept.  21,  1868. 

ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  born  Dec.     5,  1870. 

ZULA  LOVE,  born  Dec.  19,  1881;  died  Jan.    28,  1891. 

LEWIS  K.,  born  June  14,  1874. 

JOSEPH  WILLIAM,  born  Nov.  19,  1878;  died  Mar.  23,  1894. 

ELIZABETH  CHRISMAN,  born  Oct.  27,  1872;  died  Jan.   14,  1876. 

NANNIE  KATE,  born  Jan.   21,  1877. 

Home,  La  Belle,  Louis  County,  Mo. 


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VI.  GABRIEL  SMITH  BRADS  HAW,  first  child  of 
Nancy  Catherine  Hopkins  and  Thomas  Bradshaw,  was  married 
September  7, 1892,  to  Molly  Byers,  who  was  born  June  75,  1871. 

CHILDREN: 

ONETA,  born  June    2,  1893. 

Cz,  born  Mar.  12,  1895. 

MARY  KATE,  born  June  16,  1897. 
LEONE,  born  Feb.  26,  1901. 

INFANT,          born  Dec.  30,  1903. 
Home,  Eklaka,  Custer  County,  Mont.;  business,  sheep  ranch. 

VI.  ANNIE  VIRGINIA  BRADSHAW,  second  child  of 
Nancy  Catherine  Hopkins  and  Thomas  Bradshaw,  was  mar- 
ried January  26,  1887,  to  Marion  Edward  Campbell,  who 
was  born  April  29,  1866,  in  Knox  County,  Mo. 

CHILDREN  : 

LAWSON  P.,  born  June  4,  1888. 

EDWARD  MARION  born  Apr.  i,  1893. 
CHARLES  MORSE,  born  Nov.  6,  1902. 
Home,  Green  City,  Sullivan  County,  Mo.;  business,  merchant. 

VI.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  BRADSHAW,  third 
child  of  Nancy  Catherine  Hopkins  and  Thomas  Bradshaw, 
was  married  June  29,  1898,  to  Jennie  Hendrick,  who  was 
born  November  8,  1875,  in  Lewis  County,  Mo. 

Home,  Labelle,  Lewis  County,  Mo.;  business,  teacher. 

VI.  ZULA  LOVE  BRADSHAW,  fourth  child  of  Nancy 
Catherine  Hopkins  and  Thomas  Bradshaw,  died  January  28, 
i8gi,  at  nine  years  of  age. 

VI.  LEWIS    K.    BRADSHAW,    fifth    child    of    Nancy 
Catherine    Hopkins    and    Thomas    Bradshaw,    was    married 
February  23,  1898,  to  Grace  Lillian  Eliot,  who  was  born  March 
2,  1875,  in  Vermillion,  Edgar  County,  III. 
CHILDREN  : 

LEWIS  EARL,       born  Nov.  29,  1898. 

EARNEST  ELIOT,  born  Nov.  12,  1900. 

Home,  Newark,  Knox  County,  Mo.;  business,  veterinary  surgeon. 

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VI.  JOSEPH  WILLIAM  BRADSHAW,  sixth  child  of 
Nancy  Catherine  Hopkins  and  Thomas  Bradshaw,  died 
March  23, 1894.,  at  fifteen  years  of  age. 

VI.  ELIZABETH  CHRISM  AN  BRADSHAW,  seventh 
child  of  Nancy  Catherine  Hopkins  and  Thomas  Bradshaw, 
died  January  14.,  1876,  at  three  years  of  age. 

VI.  NANNIE  KATE  BRADSHAW,  eighth  child  of 
Nancy  Catherine  Hopkins  and  Thomas  Bradshaw,  was  mar- 
ried March  17,  1887,  to  Andrew  Hall,  who  was  born  November 
75,  -T#75,  in  Sangamore  County,  III. 

CHILDREN: 

NIANNA,  born  Dec.  28,  1887. 

THOMAS  HARDIN,     born  Oct.  25,  1889, 
IRVINE  CATHERINE,  born  Dec.  28,  1901. 

Business,  agriculture. 

IV.  THOMAS  GORDON  HOPKINS,  second  child  of 
Archibald   Hopkins   and  Elizabeth   Gordon,   was  married  to 
Sarah  Ralston. 

CHILDREN: 

JESSIE  RALSTON,  born  Sept.  30,  1838. 

ARCHIBALD,  born  Sept.  30,  1838;  died  Nov.  26,  1868. 

HARRISON,  born  Feb.  12,  1841. 

ELIZABETH,  born  Nov.  15,  1842;  died  Mar.  18,  1852. 

AGNES,  born  Dec.     6,  1844. 

DAVID,  born  Mar.  n,  1847. 

HANNAH,  born  Mar.  25,  1849. 

MARGARET,  born  Jan.   17,1851. 

ERASMAS,  born  Jan.     2,  1854. 

DEWITT,  born  Feb.  27,  1856;  died  July   19,  1860. 

Home,  Singers  Glen,  Va.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  JESSIE  RALSTON  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Thomas 
Gordon   Hopkins   and   Sarah   Ralston,  was   married   to  - 
Hoover. 

Home,  Baltimore. 

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V.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  Thomas 
Gordon  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ralston,  was  married  July  21, 
1863,  to  Sarah  A.  Ralston,  daughter  of  Fealdon  Ralston. 

Home,  Singers  Glen,  Va. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  HARRISON  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  Thomas  Gor- 
don Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ralston,  was  married  October  3,  1867, 
to  Catherine  Long. 

CHILDREN  : 

EUDORA,        born  July   21,  1868. 

THOMAS,        born  Mar.    1,1870. 

WILLIAM  B.,  born  Feb.  25,  1872;  died  June  n,  1893. 

ELLA  M.,       born  Mar.  25,  1874. 

LEWIS  A.,      born  Sept.    9,  1876. 

NANNIE,        born  Aug.  29,  1879. 

SAIDA,  born  Oct.     9,  1881. 

Five  children  are  dead. 

Home,  Singers  Glen,  Va.;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  EUDORA,    first    child    of    Harrison    Hopkins    and 
Catherine  Long. 

Is  a  trained  nurse  in  the  Methodist  Hospital,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  Un- 
married. 

VI.  THOMAS  ALBERT,  second  child  of  Harrison  Hop- 
kins and  Catherine  Long,  was  married  December  29,  1898. 

CHILDREN  : 

OPHA  KATE,  born  Oct.     9,  1899. 

WELDON  ORVILLE,  born  Sept.  21,  1901. 
Home,  Roseville,  111.;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  WILLIAM  B.,  third  child  of  Harrison  Hopkins  and 
Catherine  Long,  was  drowned  June  n,  1893. 


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VI.  ELLA  M.,  fourth  child  of  Harrison  Hopkins  and 
Catherine  Long,  was  married  November  26,  1901,  to  Edwin 
Austin,  who  was  born  March  29,  1867,  in  Northfield,  la. 

CHILDREN: 

FERN,      born  1903. 
HERALD,  born  1904. 

Home,  Wapello,  la.;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  LEWIS   A.,   fifth   child   of   Harrison   Hopkins   and 
Catherine  Long,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Illinois;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  NANNIE  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of  Harrison 
Hopkins  and  Catherine  Long,  was  married  December  24., 
1902,  to  Mir  on  Beard. 

Home,  Singers  Glen,  Va. 

VI.  SAIDA  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  of  Harrison  Hop- 
kins and  Catherine  Long,  is  unmarried. 

Lives  with  her  parents  at  home  in  Singers  Glen,  Va. 

V.  ELIZABETH  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Thomas 
Gordon  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ralston,  died  at  ten  years  of  age. 

V.  AGNES  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  Thomas  Gordon 
Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ralston,  died  unmarried. 

V.  DAVID   HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of   Thomas  Gordon 
Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ralston,  was  married  to  Ellen  Ralston. 
Home,  Fawquill  County,  Va.;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  HANNAH    HOPKINS,  seventh    child    of    Thomas 
Gordon  Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ralston,  is  not  married. 
Home,  Kirkwood,  111. 


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V.  MARGARET   HOPKINS,  eighth    child   of    Thomas 
Gordon   Hopkins   and   Sarah  Ralston,  was   married   October 
24.,  1869,  to  David  R.  Miller. 

CHILDREN: 

ARCHIBALD  H.,  born  May  15,  1871;  died  Apr.  27,  1897. 
HETTIE  AGNES,  born  Apr.  14,  1878;  died  Aug.  31,  1896. 

VI.  ARCHIBALD  H.  MILLER,  first  child  of  Margaret 
Hopkins  and  David  Miller,  was  married  to  Josie  HalL    He 
died  in  his  twenty-sixth  year. 

Home,  Kirkwood,  111. 

VI.  HETTIE  AGNES  MILLER,  second  child  of  Mar- 
garet Hopkins  and  David  R.  Miller,  was  married  to  John 
McKee,  of  Biggsville,  III.  She  was  born  in  Rockingham 
County,  Va.,  and  died  in  her  nineteenth  year. 

V.  ERASMAS  HOPKINS,  ninth  child  of  Thomas  Gor- 
don Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ralston,  unreported. 

V.  DEWITT  HOPKINS,  tenth  child  of  Thomas  Gordon 
Hopkins  and  Sarah  Ralston,  died  a  child. 

IV.  JOHN  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  Archibald  Hop- 
kins and  Elizabeth  Gordon,  was  married  April  13,  184.3,  t° 
Malinda  Jane  Ralston,  who  was  born  May  5,  1825. 

CHILDREN  : 

FERNANDO  C.,  born  Sept.  13,  1845. 
JOHN  HINTON,  born  Feb.  u,  1848. 
WILLIAM  NEWTON,  born  Jan.  8,  1850. 

Home,  Singers  Glen,  Va.;  business,  agriculture. 


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V.  FERNANDO    C.    HOPKINS,  first    child  of   John 
Hopkins  and  Malinda  Jane  Ralston,  was  married  October  13, 
1874.,  to  Angeline  Rinker. 

CHILDREN: 

ARTHUR  DAVID,  born  Aug.  5,  1875. 
WILLIAM  LUTHER,  born  Mar.  i,  1877. 
BESSIE  BELL,  born  Mar.  13,  1881. 
JOHN  ALBERT,  born  Jan.  2,  1883. 
ANNIE  LAURA,  born  Aug.  15,  1886. 
FRANKLIN  ED.,  born  Sept.  3,  1890. 
ETTA  MARY,  born  Sept.  3,  1890. 

SADIE  ELIZABETH,  born  Aug.  23,  1893. 
DASIE  ALICE,  born  Jan.  28,  1896. 
Home,  Singers  Glen,  Va.;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  ARTHUR  DAVID  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  Fer- 
nando C.  Hopkins  and  Angeline  Rinker,  was  married  March 
4.,  1902,  to  Jane  Wolfe,  who  was  born  September  n,  1875. 
CHILDREN: 

HERALD  HOLMES,  born  May  26,  1903. 
Home,  Mansfield,  111.;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  WILLIAM  LUTHER  HOPKINS,  second  child  oj 
Fernando  C.  Hopkins  and  Angeline  Rinker,  is  unmarried. 
Home,  Mansfield,  111.;  business,  agriculture. 
The  rest  of  these  children  are  in  the  home  at  Singers  Glen,  Va. 


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V.  WILLIAM  NEWTON   HOPKINS,   third    child  of 
John  Hopkins  and  Malinda  Jane  Ralston,  was  married  Jan- 
uary 27,  1874.,  to  Elizabeth  Rinker. 

CHILDREN: 

CHARLES  BAXTER,  born  Dec.  i,  1874. 
ARCHIBALD  JOHN,  born  Jan.  26,  1876. 
EFFIE  JANE,  born  Jan.  10,  1877. 

ANNIE  ESTELLE,  born  Nov.    5,  1878. 

ELLA  MAY,  born  Feb.  29,  1880. 

CORNELIA  ELIZABETH,  born  May  13,  1881. 
FANNY  ROLSTON,  born  May  10,  1883. 
HARRY  HANES,  born  May  31,  1885. 

MARY  ISABELLE,  born  Mar.  17,  1887. 

BERTHA  SCOTT,  born  June  22,  1889. 

BRUCY  BREWER,  born  Aug.  22,  1890. 

Home,  Singers  Glen,  Va. 

VI.  CHARLES   BAXTER    HOPKINS,    first    child    of 
William  Newton  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Rinker,  was  married 
December  10,  1896,  to  Vista  J.  Davis,  who  was  born  August 
2,  1870. 

CHILDREN  : 

ARCHIBALD  LEE,  born  Mar.  31,  1898. 
ARLIE  GUY,  born  Mar.  30,  1900. 
NELLIE  RUTH,  born  June  2,  1903. 

Home,  Singers  Glen,  Va. ;  business,  agriculture. 

VI.  ARCHIBALD  JOHN  and  VI.  ELLA  MAY  HOP- 
KINS, second  and  fifth  children  of  William  Newton  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Rinker,  are  at  Greenmount,  Va. 

VI.  EFFIE  JANE  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  William 
Newton  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Rinker,  is  at  Singers  Glen, 
Va. 

VI.  ANNIE  ESTELLE  and  VI.  CORNELIA  ELIZA- 
BETH HOPKINS,  the  fourth  and  sixth  children  of  William 
Newton  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Rinker,  are  at  Mansfield,  III. 

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VI.  FANNY  RALSTON  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  of 
William  Newton  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Rinker,  was  married 
September  15,  1904.,  to  James  W.  Stultz,  who  was  born  in  Au- 
gusta County,  Ky. 

Home,  Singers  Glen,  Va. ;  business,  milling. 

The  other  children  are  in  the  home  at  Singers  Glen,  Va. 


IV.  AGNES  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Archibald  Hop- 
kins and  Elizabeth  Gordon,  was  married  to  John  Hopkins 
Ralston  (son  of  Mary  Hopkins  and  Hinton  Ralston). 

Home,  Mt.  Clinton;  business,  farming. 

IV.  WILLIAM  DAVIS  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  Archi- 
bald Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Gordon,  was  married  to  Fanny 
Hopkins  (second  child  of  William  Hopkins  and  Hester  Krat- 
zer,  his  first  cousin). 

Home,  Harrisonburg,  Va.;  business,  physician. 


IV.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of  Archibald 
Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Gordon,  died  when  a  lad. 


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The  great  thing  in  this  world  is  not  so  much  where  we  are,  but  in  what 
direction  we  are  moving. — O    W.  Holmes. 


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//.  WILLIAM  H.  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  Archibald 
Hopkins  and  Jannet  Love,  was  married,  1806,  to  Anne  Ralston, 
who  died  May  13,  1812. 

CHILDREN: 

ARCHIBALD. 

JOHN  HINTON,  born  Mar.  24,  1809;  died  Sept.  22,  1869. 

DAVID  RALSTON. 

Anne  Ralston  Hopkins  died  May  13,  1812. 

II.  WILLIAM  H.  HOPKINS  married  second  Hester  Bear  Kratzer. 

CHILDREN  : 
WILLIAM  E. 
FRANCES  JANE. 
ELIZABETH  MARGARET,  born  Dec.  15,  1822;  died  Jan.  22,  1899. 

The  members  of  this  family  are  all  buried  at  the  New  Erection  Cem- 
etery in  Rockingham  County,  Va.,  except  Frances  Jane  who  is  buried  at 
Harrisonburg,  Va.,  and  Elizabeth  Margaret  at  Port  Republic,  Va. 

Home,  Rockingham  County,  Va. ;  business,  agriculture. 

///.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  William  H. 
Hopkins  and  Anne  Ralston,  married  Sarah  Ann  Hopkins, 
daughter  of  Archibald  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Gordon.  (See 
page  344.} 


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///.  JOHN  HINTON  HOPKINS,  second  child  of 
William  H.  Hopkins  and  Anne  Ralston,  was  married  October 
/p,  184.2,  to  Elizabeth  Margaret  C  off  man,  who  was  born  March 
13, 1822,  and  died  June  25, 1889. 

CHILDREN: 

ANNIE  RALSTON,  born  Nov.  21,  1843;  died  Nov.  14,  1865. 

SAMUEL  COFFMAN,        born  July  16,  1845;  died  Mar.  31,  1864. 
VIRGINIA,  born  Feb.  10,  1847;  died  Oct.   n,  1863. 

JANNET  LOVE,  born  Nov.  17,  1848;  died  Feb.         1850. 

MARY  FRANCES,  born  Oct.     i,  1850;  died  May  15,  1856. 

THOMAS  WALLACE,  born  Aug.  25,  1852. 
CATHERINE  COFFMAN,  born  Oct.  20,  1856. 
JOHN  HINTON,  born  May  25,  1859;  died  July  24,  1859. 

ELIZABETH  LOVE,         born  Aug.  19,  1860;  died  Sept.    7,  1885. 
VIRGINIA  GORE,  born  Aug.  30,  1863;  died  Sept.        1864. 

Home,  Rockingham  County,  Va. ;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  ANNIE  RALSTON  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  John 
Hinton  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Margaret  C  off  man,  died  at 
twenty -two  years  0}  age,  and  is  buried  in  the  New  Erection 
Cemetery. 

IV.  SAMUEL  COFFMAN  HOPKINS,  second  child  of 
John  Hinton  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Margaret  C  off  man,  died 
at  nineteen  years  of  age,  and  is  buried  in  the  New  Erection 
Cemetery. 

IV.  VIRGINIA  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  John  Hinton 
Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Margaret  C  off  man,  died  at  sixteen 
years  of  age,  and  is  buried  in  the  New  Erection  Cemetery. 

IV.  JANNET  LOVE  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  John 
Hinton  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Margaret  C  off  man,  died  when 
a  year  old,  and  is  buried  in  the  New  Erection  Cemetery. 

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IV.  MARY  FRANCES  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  John 
Hinton  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Margaret  C  off  man,  died  when 
five  years  old,  and  is  buried  in  the  New  Erection  Cemetery. 


IV.  THOMAS  WALLACE  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of 
John  Hinton  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Margaret  Coffman,  was 
married  June  30,  1894.,  to  Nova  Ward,  who  was  born  February 

12,   1879. 

CHILDREN: 

EDWARD  HINTON,  born  Feb.  11,1897. 

WALLACE  CLEMONS,       born  Sept.  14,  1898. 

JOHN  KIRK,  born  June  22,  1900;  died  Feb.  16,  1902. 

CATHERINE  COFFMAN,    born  Feb.     8,  1902;  died  Feb.  10,  1902. 

HENRY  WARD,  born  Jan.    17,  1903;  died  July    7,1903. 

ELIZABETH  MARGARET,  born  Aug.    9,  1904. 

Home,  Garvin,  Ind.  Ter.;  business,  agriculture. 


IV.  CATHERINE    COFFMAN    HOPKINS,    seventh 
child  of  John  Hinton  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Margaret  Coff- 
man, was  married  May  16,  1878,  to  Stephen  Harnsberger,  who 
was  born  July  5,  1852. 

CHILDREN  : 

BESSIE  INGLE,         born  Mar.  15,  1879. 

MARY  MOORMAN,    born  June  n,  1881;  died  Mar.  i,  1895. 

JOHN  HOPKINS,       born  Nov.    3,  1882. 

ROBERT  SAMUEL,    born  July   15,1887. 

Home,  Catlett,  Fauquier  County,  Va.;  business,  physician. 

V.  BESSIE   INGLE    HARNSBERGER,  first   child  of 
Catherine   Coffman  Hopkins  and  Stephen   Harnsberger,  was 
married  November  30,  1904.,  to  William  B.  Weaver. 

Home,  Clarksville,  Texas. 


IV.  JOHN  HINTON  HOPKINS,  eighth  child  of  John 
Hinton  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Margaret  Coffman,  died  in 
infancy. 


IV.  ELIZABETH  LOVE  HOPKINS,  ninth  child  of 
John  Hinton  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Margaret  Coffman,  was 
married  October  16,  1884.,  to  John  P.  Kegg,  who  was  born 
July  4,  1854. 

CHILDREN: 

JOHN  MONTGOMERY,  born  Aug,  4,  1885. 
Home,  Asheville,  N.  C.;  business,  merchant. 


IV.  VIRGINIA  GORE  HOPKINS,  tenth  child  of  John 
Hinton  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Margaret  Coffman  died  when  a 
year  old. 


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///.  DAVID  RALSTON    HOPKINS,  third    child   0} 
William   H.    Hopkins   and  Anne  Ralston   was     married  to 
Lavinia  Campbell. 
CHILDREN  : 

MARGARET  JANE. 

LAVINIA. 

CAMPBELL. 

Home,  Rockingham  Co.,  Va.;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  MARGARET  JANE  HOPKINS,  first  child  of 
David  Ralston  Hopkins  and  Lavinia  Campbell,  was  married  to 
Charles  Patterson. 

Home,  Riverton,  Augusta  Co.,  Va. 


IV.  LA  VINIA  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  David  Ralston 
Hopkins  and  Lavinia  Campbell,  was  married  to  James  Bear. 
Home,  Winter  Park,  Fla. 


IV.  CAMPBELL  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  David 
Ralston  Hopkins  and  Lavinia  Campbell,  died  unmarried,  and  is 
buried  in  the  New  Erection  Church  Cemetery,  Rockingham 
Co.,  Va. 


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///.  WILLIAM  E.  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  0}  William 
H.  Hopkins  and  first  child  of  Hester  Bear  Kratzer,  died  unmar- 
ried. He  is  buried  in  the  cemetery  at  New  Erection  Church, 
Rockingham  Co.,  Va. 


III.  FRANCES  JANE  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  Wil- 
liam H.  Hopkins  and  second  child  of  Hester  Bear  Kratzer,  was 
married  to  William  Davis  Hopkins  (son  of  Archibald  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Gordon). 

Home,  Harrisonburg,  Va.; business,  physician. 


///.  ELIZABETH  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of  William 
H.  Hopkins  and  third  child  of  Hester  Bear  Kratzer,  was  married 
November  17,  184.6,  to  Henry  B.  Harnsberger,  who  was  born 
November  26,  1816,  and  died  September,  igoq.. 

CHILDREN: 

FRANCES  HOPKINS,    born  Apr.     9,  1848. 
ELIZABETH  HESTER,  born  Oct.   21,  1849;  died  Sept.  27,  1877. 
KATE  COFFMAN,         born  May  16,  1854;  died  July   23,  1893. 
JANET  LOVE,  born  Nov.  23,  1856. 

JOHN  ISAAC,  born  June    3,  1858. 

ANNIE  VIRGINIA,       born  Dec.     i,  1861. 
Home,  Port  Republic,  Va.;  business,  agriculture. 

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IV.  FRANCES    HOPKINS    HARNSBERGER,    first 
child  of  Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  Henry  B.  Harnsberger,  was 
married  November  9,  1872,  to  J.  W.  Blackburn,  who  was  born 
April  24,  1847. 

CHILDREN: 

HENRY  HARNSBERGER,  born  Aug.  13,  1873. 

ELIZABETH  LETTITIA,  born  Sept.    5,  1874. 

JOHN  FRANCIS,  born  Jan.     2,  1877. 

FREDERICK  WILLIAM,  born  Jan.     7,1880. 

ADELAIDE,  born  Apr.     5,  1881. 

ANNIE  LEWIS,  born  May     5,  1885. 

JANE,  born  Sept.  24,  1886. 

JOSEPH  B.,  born  May    8,  1888. 

OLEVIA  FRANCES,  born  Nov.  12,  1891. 

Home,  Shendon,  Va.;  business,  agriculture  and  insurance. 

V.  HENRY    HARNSBERGER    BLACKBURN,    first 
child  of  Frances  Hopkins  Harnsberger  and  J.  W.  Blackburn,  is 
unmarried. 

Home,  Grottoes  (Shendon),  Va. ;  business,  civil  engineer  and  geological 
coal  expert. 

V.  ELIZABETH  LETTITIA  BLACKBURN,  second 
child  of  Frances  Hopkins  Harnsberger  and  J.  W.  Blackburn, 
was  married  December  10,  1897,  to  Albert  Kemper. 

CHILDREN  : 

FRANCES  HOPKINS,  born  Feb.  20,  1899. 
ALBERT  STRAGER,  born  Mar.  20,  1901. 
MARGARET  GRAHAM,  born  May  23,  1903. 

Home,  Port  Republic,  Va. ;  business,  physician. 

V.  JOHN  FRANCIS  BLACKBURN,  third  child  of 
Frances  Hopkins  Harnsberger  and  /.  W.  Blackburn,  is  un- 
married. 

Home,  Harrisonburg,  Va.;  business,  law. 


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V.  FREDERICK  WILLIAM  BLACKBURN,  fourth 
child  of  Frances  Hopkins  Harnsberger  and  J.  W.  Blackburn. 

Is  a  divinity  student. 

Home,  Grottoes  (Shendon),  Va. 

V.  ADELAIDE  BLACKBURN,  fifth  child  of  Frances 
Hopkins  Harnsberger  and  J.  W.  Blackburn,  was  married 
August  29,  i goo,  to  Herbert  Snapp,  who  was  born  April,  1870. 

CHILDREN  : 

RICHARD  LEONIDAS. 
GLADYS  VIRGINIA. 

Home,  Hagerstown,  Md. ;  business,  express  agent. 
The  other  children  are  in  the  home  at  Shendon,  Va. 


IV.  ELIZABETH  HESTER  HARNSBERGER,  second 
child  of  Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  Henry  B.  Harnsberger,  was 
married  May  29,  1877,  to  J.  W.  Rousseau. 


IV.  KATE  COFFMAN  HARNSBERGER,  third  child 
of  Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  Henry  B.  Harnsberger,  was  married 
January  75,  1879,  to  W.  I.  Harnsberger. 

CHILDREN: 

ROBERT  S.,  born  Oct.  30,  1879. 

J  ANNEX  LOVE,  born  Aug.  9,  1883. 
WILLIAM  INGLES,  born  Sept.  12,  1889. 
KATHLEEN,  born  Jan.  24,  1891. 

JOHN,  born  July   16,  1898. 

Home,  Shendon,  Va. 


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//.  JANE  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  Archibald  Hopkins 
and  Jennet  Love,  married  Joseph  Chrisman  and  went  to  Ken- 
tucky. No  trace  of  her  family  has  been  found. 


II.  MARY  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  Archibald  Hop- 
kins and  Jennet  Love,  married  William  Rolston.  Her  family 
has  not  been  found. 


II.  ELIZABETH  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  Archibald 
Hopkins  and  Jennet  Love,  married  her  own  cousin,  John 
Hopkins,  son  of  William  Hopkins,  the  pioneer.  (See  page  382.) 


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IV.  JANET  LOVE  HARNSBERGER,  fourth  child 
of  Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  Henry  B.  Harnsberger,  was  mar- 
ried May  23,  1888,  to  Charles  G.  Harnsberger. 

CHILDREN: 

THOMAS  KENNERLEY,  born  Apr.  26,  1889. 
ELIZABETH  MARY,  born  June  25,  1891. 
ANN  VIRGINIA,  born  Oct.  16,  1892. 

GRACE  ROLSTON,  born  July  5,  1897. 
Home,  Elkton,  Va. ;  business,  agriculture  and  civil  engineer. 

IV.  JOHN  ISAAC  HARNSBERGER,  fifth  child  of 
Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  Henry  B.  Harnsberger,  was  married 
December  5,  i&95,  to  Adelaide  Kemper,  who  was  born  March 
3, 1862,  and  died  June  n,  1902. 

CHILDREN  : 

MARGARET  CLARE,  born  Nov.  4,  1896. 

HENRY  BAKER,         born  Aug.  20,  1898;  died  Sept.  5,  1898. 

GEORGE  KEMPER,    born  Dec.   4,  1899. 

ESTHER  LEWIS,        born  Feb.    i,  1902. 

Home,  Port  Republic,  Va.;  business,  agriculture  and  civil  engineer. 

IV.  ANNIE  VIRGINIA  HARNSBERGER,  sixth  child 
of  Elizabeth  Hopkins  and  Henry  B.  Harnsberger,  not  re- 
ported. 


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No  man  is  born  into  the  world  whose  work 
Is  not  born  with  him.     There  is  always  work 
And  tools  to  work  withal,  for  those  who  will; 
And  blessed  are  the  horny  hands  of  toil. 

— Lowell. 


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THE   WILLIAM   HOPKINS   FAMILY 


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I.  WILLIAM  HOPKINS  came,  with  his  two  brothers,  John  and  Archi- 
ibald,  to  Virginia  before  1749.  He  settled  five  miles  north  of  his  brothers. 
There  is  in  Richmond,  Va.,  the  record  of  a  patent  made  to  Ephriam  Love 
and  William  Hopkins  for  two  hundred  and  four  acres  of  land,  dated  Septem- 
ber 5,  1749.  Tradition  says  that  he  married  a  sister  of  Ephriam  Love. 
There  is  a  suggestion  that  he  went  with  his  nephew,  Ephriam  Hopkins, 
to  Kentucky,  but  extended  search  has  not  found  any  trace  of  him  there. 
In  Cook's  Creek  session  book  a  list  of  church  members  in  1810  and  1811 
is  given.  This  list  gives  the  names  of  the  family  of  Thomas  Hopkins 
(son  of  John)  and  his  mother  (John's  widow),  also  Mrs.  John  Hopkins 
and  Jenny  Hopkins,  presumably  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Hopkins  Hopkins,  as 
her  oldest  child  was  Janet  and  Mrs.  Ann  Hopkins.  We  notice  that  where 
a  man  and  his  wife  were  both  members,  it  is  given  in  this  way,  i.e., 
Thomas  Hopkins  We  also  notice  that  where  the  husband  is  living,  but 

Wife. 

not  a  member  of  the  church,  the  wife  is  given  by  her  husband's  name,  as 
above,  Mrs.  John  Hopkins.  Hence  we  conclude  that  Mrs.  Ann  Hopkins 
was  the  widow  of  William  Hopkins.  If  he  entered  land  in  1749,  he  was 
of  age  at  that  date,  and  must  then  have  been  born  as  soon  as  1728.  John 
died  before  1791.  Archibald  died  May  8,  1799,  and  we  conclude  that 
William  had  also  finished  his  earthly  life.  We  find  a  little  later  that 
"Anne  Hopkins"  departed  this  life  May,  1812,  which  would  make  her 
about  sixty  years  old. 


/.  WILLIAM  HOPKINS.  Tradition  says  that  he  mar- 
ried a  sister  of  Ephraim  Love. 

CHILDREN: 

JOHN,  baptized  May,  1761. 

Home,  Rockingham  County,  Va.;  business,  agriculture. 

II.  JOHN  HOPKINS,  son  of  William  Hopkins,  married 
his  own  cousin,  Elizabeth  Hopkins,  daughter  of  Archibald,  the 
pioneer.  She  was  baptized  November,  1761,  and  the  church 
records  say  died  April  23,  1814.  They  were  probably  mar- 
ried about  1781. 

CHILDREN  : 

JENNET,       born  Mar.  18,  1782. 

ELIZABETH,  born  Jan.     5,  1784. 

WILLIAM,      born  Nov.  23,  1785. 

DAVID,          born  Dec.  25,  1787;  died  1857. 

MARY,  born  1789;  died  about  1850. 

ARCHIBALD,  born  Jan.    26,  1791. 

JAMES,          born  Dec.    8,  1793;  died  Apr.  30,  1852. 

Home,  West  Rockingham  County,  Va.;  business,  agriculture. 

COPY  OF  AN  OLD  RECEIPT. 
Owned  by  Ruth  Hopkins,  of  Harrisonburg,  Va. 

Oct.  20,  1800,  Received  of  the  executors  of  Archibald  Hopkins  Estate 
the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  nine  Pounds  Seventeen  Shillings  and 
five  Pence  as  part  of  my  wife's  Dowry  willed  to  her  by  her  father  Archibald 
Hopkins.  Received  by  me 

JOHN  HOPKINS. 

///.  JENNET  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  John  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Hopkins,  was  married  to  John  Bryan.  She 
died  in  early  life  and  is  buried  at  Cook's  Creek. 


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///.  ELIZABETH  HOPKINS,  second  child  of  John 
Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Hopkins,  died  unmarried.  Her  home 
was  with  her  sister  Mary.  She  is  buried  at  Cook's  Creek. 


III.  WILLIAM,  the  third,  and  DA  VID,  the  fourth,  children 
of  John  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Hopkins,  were  unmarried. 
They  lived  with  their  brother,  James,  and  each  died  when 
about  forty  years  old.  They  are  buried  at  Cook's  Creek. 


III.  MARY  HOPKINS,   fifth  child  of  John   Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Hopkins,  was  married  to  Hinton  Ralston. 

CHILDREN: 

JESSE. 

JOHN  HOPKINS,  baptized  Apr.  u,  1819. 

DAVID. 

JAMES  P. 

ELIZABETH,        baptized  Sept.        1823. 

JANE. 

ANN. 

Home,  Rockingham  County,  Va. ;  business,  agriculture. 

III.  MARY  HOPKINS  RALSTON  lived  on  a  farm  adjoining  her 
father's,  John  Hopkins,  where  she  died,  and  is  buried  at  Cook's  Creek. 

IV.  JESSE  RALSTON,   first   child   of   Mary  Hopkins 
and  Hinton  Ralston,  was  married  about  184.1  to  Fanny  Bear. 

Home,  Lafayette  County,  Mo.;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  JESSE  RALSTON  died  in  Missouri. 


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IV.  JOHN    HOPKINS    RALSTON,    second    child    of 
Mary  Hopkins  and  Hinton  Ralston,  was  married  to  Agnes 
Hopkins. 

Agnes  Hopkins  died  and  John  Hopkins  Ralston  married  second  Frances 
J.  Bear. 
CHILDREN: 

CHARLES. 

FRANK. 

HOLMES. 

HINTON. 

MARY. 

Home,  Rockingham  County,  Va. ;  business,  agriculture. 

V.  CHARLES  RALSTON,  first  child  of  John  Hopkins 
Ralston  and  Frances  J.  Bear. 

Lives  at  Mt.  Clinton,  Va. 

V.  FRANK  RALSTON,  second  child  of  John  Hopkins 
Ralston  and  Frances  J.  Bear. 

Lives  at  Chrisman.  Va. 


IV.  DAVID  RALSTON,  third  child  of  Mary  Hopkins 
and  Hinton  Ralston,  was  married  to  Ann  Bear. 

Ann  Bear  Ralston  died,  and  David  Ralston  married  second  Martha 
Young. 

Home,  Missouri;  business,  agriculture. 


IV.  JAMES  P.  RALSTON,  fourth  child  of  Mary  Hop- 
kins and  Hinton  Ralstton,  was  not  married. 


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IV.  ELIZABETH  RALSTON,  fifth  child  of  Mary  Hop- 
kins and  Hinton  Ralston,  was  married  about  1842,  to  Christy 
Bear. 

CHILDREN: 
MARY. 
JOHN. 
NEWTON. 

Home,  Harrisonburg,  Va. ;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  JANE  RALSTON,  sixth  child  of  Mary  Hopkins 
and  Hinton  Ralston,  was  married  to  John  Hopkins. 

CHILDREN: 

FERNANDO. 

JOHN. 

NEWTON. 

John  Hopkins  died,  and  Jane  Ralston  married  second  Cyrus  Hop- 
kins, of  Pendleton  County,  W.  Va. 

CHILDREN: 
CHARLES. 
Living  in  Missouri;  business,  agriculture. 

IV.  ANN  RALSTON,  seventh  child  of  Mary  Hopkins 
and  Hinton  Ralston,  was  not  married. 


III.  ARCHIBALD    HOPKINS,    sixth    child    of    John 
Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Hopkins,  is  unreported. 


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///.  JAMES  HOPKINS,  seventh  child  of  John  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Hopkins,  was  married  first  to  Elizabeth  Bryan, 
who  was  born  March  g,  1797- 
CHILDREN: 

HANNAH  JANE,  born  Feb.  29,  1820;  died  June  2,  1896. 
WILLIAM  RUFUS,  born  Jan.  3,  1822;  died  Dec.  12,  1902. 
MILTON,  born  Mar.  8,  1826;  died  in  infancy. 

Elizabeth  Bryan  Hopkins  died  June,  1826. 

III.  JAMES  HOPKINS  was  married  second,  September  22,   1829, 
to  Elizabeth  Copeland,  who  was  born  January  20,  1807,  and  died  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1876. 

CHILDREN: 

JOSEPHINE,  born  June  25,  1834. 
ARCHIBALD,  born  Nov.  22,  1844. 

After  the  death  of  James  Hopkins,  April  30,  1852,  Elizabeth  Copeland 
went  to  friends  in  Laporte,  Ind. 

IV.  HANNAH  JANE  HOPKINS,  first  child  of  James 
Hopkins   and  Elizabeth  Bryan,   was   married  December   21, 
1837,  to  Samuel  Bear,  who  was  born  November  4,  1804.. 

CHILDREN: 

VIRGINIA  L.,  born  Feb.     8,  1839. 

MARY  E.,       born  Oct.     5,  1840. 

HOLMES  B.,    born  Nov.  15,  1842;  died  Jan.  19,  1877. 

JAMES  W.,      born  Dec.  23,  1844. 

ANDREW  H.,  born  July   28,  1852;  died  in  infancy. 

Home,  Mt.  Crawford,  Va. ;  business,  frescoer  and  painter. 


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V.  VIRGINIA   L.   BEAR,  first  child  of  Hannah  Jane 
Hopkins  and  Samuel  Bear,  was  married  June  4,   1861,  to 
Michael  Lindon. 

CHILDREN  : 

LILLIAN  E.,    born  Aug.  19,  1862;  died  Aug.  3,  1881. 

MARY  E.,       born  May    2,  1866. 

MAUDE  E.,    born  Aug.  3,  1868. 

ANNA  BOYD,  born  Jan.  17,  1870. 

NELLIE  B.,    born  Oct.  5,  1871. 

Home,  Mt.  Crawford,  Va.;  business,  teacher. 

VI.  LILLIAN  E.  LINDON,  first  child  oj  Virginia  L. 
Bear  and  Michael  Lindon,  died  at  nineteen  years  of  age. 

VI.  MARY  E.  LINDON,  second  child  of  Virginia  L. 
Bear  and  Michael  Lindon,  is  unmarried. 

VI.  MAUDE  E.  LINDON,  third  child  of  Virginia  L. 
Bear  and  Michael  Lindon,  was  married  September  n,  1900, 
to  B.  F.  Kagey. 

Home,  Weyers  Cave,  Va. 

VI.  ANNA  BOYD  LINDON,  fourth  child  of  Virginia 
L.  Bear  and  Michael  Lindon,  is  unmarried. 

VI.  NELLIE  B.  LINDON,  fifth  child  oj  Virginia  L. 
Bear  and  Michael  Lindon,  was  married  March  16,  1897,  to 
Rev.  B.  V.  Surlzer. 

Home,  Poolsville,  Md. 


V.  MARY  EMMA  BEAR,  second  child  of  Hannah  Jane 
Hopkins  and  Samuel  Bear,  was  married  March  12,  1868,  to 
V.  C.  Switzer,  who  was  born  October  23,  1831,  at  Horn's  Mill, 
Rockingham  County,  Va. 

Home,  Mt.  Crawford,  Va.;  business,  chair  maker  and  painter. 

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V.  HOLMES  B.  BEAR,  third  child  of  Hannah  Jane 
Hopkins  and  Samuel  Bear,  was  married  November  15,  184.2, 
to  Emma  H.  Parks. 

CHILDREN  : 

LILLIAN  LEE,       born  Nov.  12,  1866. 

NANNY  BOYD,      born  June    6,  1869. 

HARRY  A.,  born  June  14,  1872;  died  Aug.  12,  1872. 

JENNY  HOPKINS,  born  July   17,  1874. 

Home,  Richmond,  Va.;  business,  druggist. 

V.  JAMES  W.  BEAR,  fourth  child  of  Hannah  Jane 
Hopkins  and  Samuel  Bear,  was  married  March  18,  1875,  to 
Annie  R.  Hill. 

CHILDREN: 

MARY  VIRGINIA,  born  Feb.  20,  1876;  died  Feb.  29,  1876. 
HOLMES  BOYD,     born  Jan.  30,  1877;  died  July  10,  1904. 

Home,  Mt.  Crawford,  Va.;  business,  painter  and  cabinetmaker. 

V.  ANDREW  H.  BEAR,  fifth  child  of  Hannah  Jane 
Hopkins  and  Samuel  Bear,  died  in  infancy,  and  is  buried  at 
Cook's  Creek  Cemetery. 


IV.  WILLIAM  RUFUS  HOPKINS,  second  child  of 
James  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Bryan,  was  married  June  i, 
184.8,  to  Elizabeth  Bowman. 

CHILDREN  : 
ADELAIDE. 
LUCY  MILLER. 
MARY  LIZZIE. 
FRANK  DAVIS. 
ALICE  BOWMAN. 
WILLIAM  R. 
CRAWFORD  MCCLURE. 

IV.  WILLIAM  RUFUS  HOPKINS  lived  at  the  old  homestead  of 
his  father  and  grandfather,  known  as  "Mountain  Home,"  until  his  wife 

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died.  He  then  went  to  Washington,  D.  C.,  to  live  with  his  son,  Frank 
D.  Hopkins,  where  he  died.  He  is  buried  at  Cook's  Creek,  Rockingham 
County,  Va. 

V.  ADELAID,  LUCY  MILLER,  and  MARY  LIZZIE, 

the  first,  second,  and  third  children  of  William  Rufus  Hopkins 
and  Elizabeth  Bowman,  died  in  infancy,  and  are  buried  at 
Cook's  Creek  Cemetery. 

V.  FRANK  DAVIS  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  William 
Rufus  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Bowman,  was  married  to  Sallie 
Brightwell,  of  Lexington,  Mo.  (great- great- granddaughter  of 
Archibald,  the  pioneer). 

CHILDREN  : 

LIZZETTE. 
ZULA  GLENN. 
FRANK  JOY. 

Home,  Washington,  D.  C. 

V.  ALICE  BOWMAN  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  William 
Rufus  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Bowman. 

Lives  with  her  brother,  Frank  Davis  Hopkins,  in  Washington.  She 
is  employed  in  the  Loan  &  Trust  Bldg.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

V.  WILLIAM  RUFUS  HOPKINS,  sixth  child  of  Wil- 
liam Rufus  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Bowman,  was  married 
December  22,  1896,  to  Ada  McWhorton,  who  was  born  May 

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CHILDREN: 

CHARLES  BOWMAN,  born  Jan.    3,  1901. 

HERBERT  FRANK,     born  Feb.  18,  1903. 

Home,  Oklahoma;  business,  agriculture. 


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V.  CRAWFORD  McCLURE  HOPKINS,  seventh  child 
of  William  Rufus  Hopkins  and  Elizabeth  Bowman,  was  married 
December  22,  1896,  to  Alice  Schelf,  who  was  born  January  13, 
1880. 

CHILDREN: 

ARTHUR  GOEBEL,  born  Dec.  4,  1902. 
Home,  Oklahoma;  business,  agriculture. 


IV.  MILTON  HOPKINS,  third  child  of  James  Hop- 
kins and  Elizabeth  Bryan,  died  in  infancy,  and  is  buried  at 
Cook's  Creek,  Rockingham  County,  Va. 


IV.  JOSEPHINE  HOPKINS,  fourth  child  of  James 
Hopkins  and  first  child  of  Elizabeth  Ann  Copeland,  was  married 
March  75,  1860,  to  Joseph  Hickman,  who  was  born  February 
27,  1832. 

CHILDREN: 

Two  children,  who  died  in  infancy. 

NELLIE  HOPKINS,  born  July  n,  1866. 

JOSEPH  HICKHAN,  died  Sept.  14,  1901. 

Home,  Laporte,  Ind. 


IV.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS,  fifth  child  of  James 
Hopkins  and  second  child  of  Elizabeth  Ann  Copeland,  was 
married  September  28,  1873,  to  Elizabeth  Ryan,  of  Bridgeport, 
W.  Va. 

CHILDREN  : 

Two  children,  who  died  in  infancy. 

MARY  JOSEPHINE,  born  Dec.  7,  1883. 

Elizabeth  Ryan  Hopkins  died  February,  1884,  when  Mary  Josephine 
was  a  tiny  baby.  Her  aunt,  Josephine  Hopkins  Hickman,  took  her  to 
her  home,  and  brought  her  up  as  her  own  child. 

IV.  ARCHIBALD  HOPKINS  lives  in  Chicago,  111. 

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Time,  like  an  ever-rolling  stream, 
Bears  all  its  sons  away; 
They  fly  forgotten,  as  a  dream 
Dies  at  the  opening  day. 

O  God!  our  help  in  ages  past, 
Our  hope  for  years  to  come, 
Be  thou  our  guide  while  troubles  last, 
And  our  eternal  home. 


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Who  serves  his  country  well  has  no  need  of  ancestors."-  -Voltaire. 


SOLDIERS. 

REVOLUTIONARY  WAR. 

Archibald  Hopkins,  John  Hopkins. 

WAR  OF  1812. 

David  Henton,  John  Hopkins, 

James  Hopkins,  Robert  Hopkins, 

Thomas  Hopkins. 

MEXICAN  WAR. 
B.  F.  Gordon. 

CONFEDERATE  ARMY. 

B.  F.  Gordon,  John  Hopkins, 

Frank  Gordon,  Edward  Young  Pollard, 

D.  Benj.  Henton,  John  Condit  Pollard, 

Robert  Henton,  Thomas  Orville  Pollard, 

Lewis  C.  Hopkins,  T.  A.  Walker, 

William  Johnson  Hopkins,  Silas  Walker. 

UNION  ARMY. 

Adam  Willis  Anderson,  Thomas  E.  Margrave, 

Aaron  Giles  Barnell,  William  Long  Masson, 

Spencer  W.  Brown,  Ephraim  P.  McCreight, 

John  E.  Corder,  Samuel  McCreight, 

Ralph  V.  Culter,  John  Hopkins  Pogue, 

Blackburn  Garrison,  Morgan  S.  Pratt, 

Alonzo  Albert  Hopkins,  Chauncey  T.  Ray, 

James  William  Hopkins,  James  M.  Rice, 

Luther  Shanklin  Hopkins,  John  H.  Rice, 

Orlando  J.  Hopkins,  Thos.  William  Scott, 

Andrew  J.  Kendall,  William  A.  Thompson, 

Gay  Kinkead,  William  McQ.  Voris, 

John  P.  Kinkead,  I.  F.  Yancy. 

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SPANISH-AMERICAN  WAR. 

Robert  L.  McCord,  Benjamin  Moreland  Sellar, 

Warren  Hopkins  Ray. 

UNITED  STATES  NAVY. 
Walter  Daniel  Kaesner. 


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COMPILER'S  NOTE. 

In  the  final  gathering  together  of  the  accumulated  threads  of  life  that 
have  been  found  in  our  search  for  the  members  of  the  Hopkins  family, 
many  things  might  be  said. 

The  work  has  been  laborious  and  patience-trying  because  so  many 
have  taken  no  interest  in  it. 

The  Poages,  as  a  rule,  said  (when  they  said  anything),  "You  can  find 
nothing  about  the  Poages."  Now,  it  is  a  fact  that  much  has  been  found, 
and  if  each  one  had  given  what  he  personally  knew,  the  bits  might  have 
been  put  together  and  a  complete  record  made.  It  is  to  be  regretted 
that  so  many  were  unwilling  to  give  even  the  data  of  their  own  families, 
and  the  ridiculous  reluctance  on  the  part  of  some  of  the  women  to  give 
the  dates  of  their  birth  is  beyond  comprehension.  When,  as  in  many  in- 
stances, two,  three,  and  four  letters  have  been  written,  with  stamps  in- 
closed for  reply,  without  results,  the  case  seemed  hopeless,  and  the  attempt 
abandoned. 

However,  there  have  been  those  who  have  given  their  hearty  co-opera- 
tion. Among  these  we  mention  the  late  Rev.  T.  M.  Hopkins,  of  Denver, 
Colo. ;  the  Gillilands,  and  Mr.  Archibald  Hopkins,  of  Red  Oak,  O. ;  Miss 
Lou  Kinkead,  of  Ripley,  O.;  Mr.  John  T.  Shanklin,  of  Johnson's  Junc- 
tion, Ky. ;  Dr.  and  Miss  Ruth  Hopkins,  of  Harrisonburg,  Va. ;  and  Professor 
A.  W.  Williamson,  of  Augustina  College,  Rock  Island,  111.  To  these  we 
give  a  heartfelt  "thank  you,"  and  to  all  others  who,  in  busy  lives,  have 
taken  time  to  answer  our  questions.  Not  all  of  those  who  gave  encour- 
agement and  help  when  the  work  began  six  years  ago,  are  in  the  earthly 
home  to  enjoy  its  completion. 

Rev.  T.  M.  Hopkins,  of  Denver,  Colo.,  was  greatly  interested  in  it, 
and  gave  of  his  knowledge,  time,  and  talent  to  its  accomplishment;  but 
he  has  been  in  his  Father's  house  many  days.  One  of  the  lists  of  children 
herein  recorded  was  made  out  by  a  mother  on  a  sickbed.  A  few  days 
later  her  daughter  added  a  postscript  saying  the  hand  that  had  written 
it  was  quiet  forever.  Some  who  have  written  in  the  joy  of  a  cloudless  life 
have  written  again  out  of  the  night  of  grief. 

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And  so,  as  knowledge  of  the  homes  has  increased,  there  has  been  re- 
joicing in  your  joys,  and  sorrow  for  your  griefs,  and  the  future  of  these 
lives  will  always  be  full  of  interest  to  your  compiler. 

ELLA  WARREN  HARRISON. 
MRS  R.  D.  HARRISON. 

Princeton,  111. 


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