Husband: Samuel HOPPER
Birthdate: ca 1772
Birthplace: Orange Co., NC (now Caswell Co., NC)
Death date: ca November 1857
Place of death: Rabun Co., GA
Burial: Head of Tennessee Baptist Church Cemetery, Rabun Co., GA
Father: [Thomas HOPPER]
Mother: [Nancy STEWART]
Other Spouses: 2) Sarah McKINNEY

Marriage date: March 24, 1801
Marriage place: Caswell Co., NC

Wife: Elizabeth MURPHEY
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CHILDREN

Child No. 1: [unknown son] HOPPER
Birthdate: between 1810 and 1820
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Child No. 2: Henry HOPPER
Birthdate: March 21, 1814 NC
Spouses' names: 1) [unknown]; 2) Melinda Rebecca KEENER
Marriage date: 2) March 07, 1841 Rabun Co., GA
Death date: January 28, 1886 Rabun Co., GA
Burial: Head of Tennessee Baptist Church Cemetery, Rabun Co., GA

Child No. 3: Charles HOPPER
Birthdate: between 1815 and 1820
Spouses' names: Elizabeth COFFEE
Marriage date: September 15, 1836 Rabun Co., GA
Death date: [Murray Co., GA?]
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Child No. 4: Caroline HOPPER
Birthdate: between 1815 and 1820
Spouses' names: Joseph HEMPHILL
Marriage date: May 16, 1839 Rabun Co., GA
Death date: between 1846 and 1847 Macon Co., NC
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Child No. 5: Jasper HOPPER
Birthdate: July 02, 1820 NC or TN
Spouses' names: Ruth Jane DICKERSON
Marriage date: June 28, 1843 Rabun Co., GA
Death date: May 24, 1907 Macon Co., NC
Burial: Head of Tennessee Baptist Church Cemetery, Rabun Co., GA

Child No. 6: Zachariah HOPPER
Birthdate: November 06, 1821 Giles Co., TN
Spouses' names: Mary Elizabeth HINTON
Marriage date: December 23, 1857 Franklin Co., AR
Death date: after 1886 Franklin Co., AR
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Child No. 7: Thomas HOPPER
Birthdate: ca 1825 NC
Spouses' names: Louisa RITCHIE
Marriage date: 1843 Rabun Co., GA
Death date: May 01, 1863 Lauderdale Springs, MS
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Child No. 8: John A. HOPPER
Birthdate: December 17, 1826 GA
Spouses' names: Mary Tabitha MATHIS
Marriage date: May 04, 1857 Rabun Co., GA
Death date: July 24, 1891 Rabun Co., GA
Burial: Wesley Chapel Memorial Cemetery, Rabun Co., GA

Child No. 9: Joseph HOPPER
Birthdate: February 08, 1829 GA
Spouses' names: Amanda GILLESPIE
Marriage date: March 11, 1854 Rabun Co., GA
Death date: May 22, 1885 Rabun Co., GA
Burial: Head of Tennessee Baptist Church Cemetery, Rabun Co., GA

Child No. 10: Flora Ann HOPPER
Birthdate: between 1830 and 1835 [NC?]
Spouses' names: [Barak?] NORTON
Marriage date: between 1840 and 1850
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Child No. 11: Sarah Adaline HOPPER
Birthdate: ca 1832 GA
Spouses' names: Henry D. GILLESPIE
Marriage date: December 12, 1852
Death date: after 1870 AR
Burial:
 
 
Documentation:
* 1820 Census Giles Co., TN;
* 1840 Census Rabun Co., GA;
* 1850 Census Rabun Co., GA;
* Marriage records of Rabun Co., GA;
* Estate of Samuel Hopper (including deeds and probate records);
* Head of Tennessee Baptist Church Cemetery, Dillard, Rabun Co., GA;
* Wesley Chapel Memorial Cemetery, Rabun Gap, Rabun Co., GA;
* Bethany Norberg.

Notes:
* The parents of Samuel HOPPER are unknown, but believed to be Thomas HOPPER and Nancy STEWART. This Thomas was the son of William Deacon HOPPER, Sr. and Mary Ann WRIGHT. It is also unclear which of Samuel's wives mothered his children. One theory states that Elizabeth died not long after she and Samuel were married, and that all of Samuel's children were by his second wife.