Sunday, March 23, 2008

James H. Hopkins

When lived
1851-1898

How related to Kieran
Great-great-great grandfather (father of Celia Lillian Hopkins)

Parents
Richard Hopkins and Selina Calyear (Hopkins)

Birth
1851 in New York, N.Y.

Employment
NA

Marriage
g Marie/Mary Ellen Cook (b. Nov. 1868; d. Sept. 24, 1925, in Hennepin County, Minn.) on Sept. 1, 1985, in Sparta, Kent County, Mich.

Children
g Celia Hopkins (b. July 12, 1896, in Sparta, Mich.; m. James L. Scott; d. Dec. 22, 1965, at 2 a.m. at St. Benedict’s Community Hospital in Durand, Wis.)

Interesting facts
g Either James or his wife Mary apparently remarried and gave birth two sons; one of them is named William Leonard; given James' year of death, it probably was Mary
g James sometimes appears as "John" in documents
g Living in New York Ward 11, District 8, N.Y. in 1860
g Living in Douglas, Montcalm County, Mich., in 1880
g Living in or near Sparta, Mich., in 1870 and 1896

Died
Sept. 12, 1898, in Waumande, Trempealeau County, Wis.

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