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Surnames beginning with "H"
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A chapter of Hopkins genealogy, 1735-1905
by Ella Warren Harrison
Chicago Lakeland Press
1905
This is a section from the above reference book. Material transcribed exactly as it appears in publication. Refer to publication for additional information.
Pages 185, 185a & 186
III. JAMES HOPKINS, (photo)twelfth child of Archibald Hokins and Margaret Shanklin, was married by Rev. Alexander Rankin, October 3, 1833, 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, 0.; business, farming.
When James Hopkins was seventy years old he met with a serious accident, 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 of 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, 0.; 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, 0.; business, agriculture.
Andrew Miller Early is also a member of the commission firm of Dugan, Livingston & Co., 35 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, 0. Sallie Wells Early studied at "The Western," Oxford, 0., 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 dwight |
born Mar. 3 1899. |
V. NANNIE MAY WELLS studied at "The Western," Oxford, 0., Class of 1884. J. W. Hayden is an elder in the Presbyterian church.
Home, Felicity, Clermont County, 0.; business, shoe merchant.
V. The third child (unnamed), V. JAMES, the fourth child, and V. ANTOINETTE, the sixth child of Ellen Clark Hopkins 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, 0., 1889. She lives with her mother at Felicity, Clermont County, 0.
IV. SARAH HOPKINS, second child of James Hopkins and Nancy Ryan dark, has been an invalid from childhood. Home, with her sisters in Augusta, Ky., and Felicity, 0.
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