STEPHEN HOPKINS

HOPKINS, HOPKINS

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/14/2009 at 20:25:50

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

STEPHEN HOPKINS, farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Unionville; born in Claiborne Co., Tenn., in 1822; removed to this county in 1850 by flatboat down Powels River, thence by steamboat via Alexandria, and by wagon here; owns 100 acres of land, valued at $20 per acre. Married Miss Mary Hopkins in 1843; she was born in Claiborne Co., Tenn., in 1827; they have ten children - Annie, Mahela, John M., Allen, William H., Eli, Mary, Sarah E., Jane, and George, two of whom are in Kansas, the eldest boy in California, the balance at home or settled in this vicinity. Members of the M.E. Church; Democrat. He has held the office of Township Clerk; Township Trustee several terms is Treasurer of the School Board.