Andrew Hooper, Fourth Child of Revolutionary Soldier Absalom
Hooper, Sr. (part 3 - Hooper Family)
THROUGH
MOUNTAIN MISTS
Early Settlers of Union
County, Georgia
Their
Descendants...Their Stories...Their Achievements
Lifting the
Mists of History on Their Way of Life
By: Ethelene Dyer Jones
Andrew
Hooper, Fourth Child
of Revolutionary
Soldier Absalom Hooper, Sr.
(part 3 - Hooper Family)
Andrew Hooper was the fourth of
twelve
children born to Absalom, Sr. and Sarah Salers Hooper, and one of the
three
Hooper brothers who settled in Union
County, Georgia
by 1840.
Andrew Hooper was born about 1792 and
died in 1849. His place of birth is held
to be Pendleton District,
South Carolina. He grew up in Haywood County, North
Carolina
where his parents moved when he was young.
It was there he met and married Dicie (sometimes spelled Dicey)
whose
maiden name is unknown.
Like his father before him who had
served in the Revolutionary War, Andrew also heard the call of his
country
during the “unpleasantness” known in the annals of US
history as the War of 1812
against Great
Britain. His
term of service was short, from February 16, 1815 when he
volunteered until March
12, 1815 when he was honorably discharged.
His army pay for the twenty-six days was $6.
93. However, as will be seen later, he
had another recompense coming after his death.
It is not known precisely when Andrew
Hooper migrated to Union
County, Georgia
to
settle along Fodder Creek in what became Towns County
in 1856. Andrew and his wife Dicey were
residents and in the Union Census of 1840, having in their household
himself
and his wife who were listed as between 40-50 years of age with six
children. Ages and genders of the
children were two males between 10-15, one male between 20-30, one
female
between 5-10 and two females between 15-20.
It is assumed that Andrew Hooper was a farmer at Fodder Creek. He may have assisted his brother Absalom, Jr.
with his grist mill.
The known children of Andrew and Dicey
Hooper were:
(1)
Jonathan
Hooper (1820-1880 ?) who married Lucinda
Barrett (believed to be part
Cherokee) in Union
County
on February 9, 1854
with William Burch performing their ceremony.
After Towns was formed from Union County,
Jonathan and
Lucinda moved to the head of Byers Creek in Towns and made a living by
sawmilling and farming. Jonathan was a
cripple, small of stature. They had Millie
Ann, Robert Richard, Jonathan “Pink”, Icey (or Dicea, after her
Grandmother
Hooper), Green Berry
(died as infant), Mary Ollie, Gus, and Ulysses Allen.
After Jonathan’s death, Lucinda married a
Rizley.
(2) Sarah
Hooper (1821-?) married Noah Shook and had
children Mary, Jonathan,
Permelia and
Rebecca by 1850, with additions and/or name changes of Adaline, Dicea
and Sarah
(listed in 1860 census).
(3) Matilda
Caroline Hooper (1824-1911) married William
Burton Rogers
on November 5, 1843. They lived in the Cynth Creek section of Towns County
and at their deaths were interred in the Lower Hightower
Cemetery. Children of this couple were Disa Manerva,
Jonathan Burton, Melton Augustus, Martin W., Christopher Columbus,
Freeman H.,
Elihu Montgomery, N. Leander, and David.
(4)
William J. Hooper (1828-1878)
married
Jemima Hooper,
his first cousin, daughter of
his Uncle
Absalom Hooper, Jr., in Union
County, GA on August 16, 1851
with M. L. Burch, justice of
the peace, performing the ceremony.
William enlisted in the Confederate Army in May, 1864 with
Young’s
Battallion, Company 1, Hampton’s
Brigade. He was seriously wounded at
Lovejoy Station when Sherman
was marching through Georgia. Although surviving, his wounds troubled him
the rest of his life. By 1870, Jemima Hooper and her widowed sister,
Hannah
Hooper Gilbert and children, were living in the widowed Jemima’s
household.
(5) Andrew
Green Hooper (1829-1898) married Martha
Talitha Berry.
Their children were Dicie Rebecca, John Chapman, William Alonzo;
Margaret Haseltine, Louisa Arah, Highley Al, and Andrew Young. Andrew, like his brother William, enlisted in
the Confederate Army, Company D, 24th Regiment. He survived
the
war. His widow Margaret received a
Confederate pension after his death.
(6)
A female child was listed in
the 1840
census without a
name, born between 1830-1835. No further information is found on her.
A short time after Andrew Hooper’s
first wife Dicey died in 1847, he married Mary Cantrell on July 2, 1847. Mary Cantrell may have been a widow, bringing
some of her own children to live in Andrew’s household.
The 1850 census has some children not quite
identifiable by names of children of Andrew and his first wife Dicea. These were Mary, 29; Nancy, 12, Jane 9;
Sarahan
6, Mahala 4, and John 1. It is known,
however, that two of these were identified as “minor children” of
Andrew Hooper
and received a land grant on June 30, 1857 for their father’s service in the
War of 1812. It could be that Mary Mahalia
(known as “Polly”)
may have been a child born to Andrew and Dicey, and that her mother
died at
childbirth. At any rate, children 7 and
8 of Andrew Hooper were:
(7) Mary
Mahalia “Polly” Hooper born in 1846 or 1847.
She
married David Nicholson.
(8)
John
Harley Hooper (1849-1912), son of Andrew and
Mary Cantrell Hooper married
Martha Evaline
Brewster.
Their seven children were
Jane, Martha Ann, Mary Etta,
William Luther, John, Georgia
and Lula.
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Andrew Hooper and his family joined
the lure of new lands in the 1830s and became a part of growing Union County
sometime between 1834 and 1840. Numerous
descendants still reside within the mountain region near where their
ancestors
took up residence. >
c2010 by
Ethelene Dyer
Jones; published Nov.
4, 2010 in The Union Sentinel, Blairsville, GA.
Reprinted by
permission. All rights reserved.
[Ethelene Dyer
Jones is a retired educator,
freelance writer, poet, and historian. She may be reached at
e-mail [email protected];
phone 478-453-8751; or mail 1708 Cedarwood Road, Milledgeville, GA
31061-2411.]
Updated November 7, 2010
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