Husband: Benjamin Franklin HOPKINS
Birthdate: about 1801
Birthplace: S.C.
Death date: after 8 June 1860
Place of death: Pickens Co., S.C.
Burial: unknown
Father: Stephen Hopkins
Mother: Nancy (? Chapman) see notes in Stephen Hopkins chart.

Marriage date: 2 Aug. 1821
Marriage place: Pendleton District, S.C.

Wife: Margaret EATON
Birthdate: about 1803
Birthplace: S.C.
Death date: between 1840 and 1850
Place of death: Pickens Co., S.C.
Burial: unknown
Father: John Eaton
Mother: Rebecca Bruce

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: unknown SON HOPKINS
Sex: M
Birthdate: about 1823
Birthplace: Pendleton Dist., S.C.
Death date: unknown
Place of death: unknown
Burial: unknown
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: unknown
Spouse's name: unknown

Child No. 2: ?? DAVID HOPKINS?? See notes
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1825
Birthplace: S.C.
Death date: about 1900
Place of death: S.C.
Burial: Neville Cemetery, Oconee Co., S.C.
Marriage date: see notes
Marriage place: see notes
Spouse's name: married twice-see notes

Child No. 3: unknown SON HOPKINS
Sex: M
Birthdate: about 1827
Birthplace: Pickens Co., S.C.
Death date: unknown
Place of death: unknown
Burial: unknown
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: unknown
Spouse's name: unknown

Child No. 4: SAMUEL O. HOPKINS
Sex: M
Birthdate: 11 Feb. 1829
Birthplace: Pickens Co., S.C.
Death date: 18 Jan. 1909
Place of death: Rabun Co., Ga.
Burial: Antioch Methodist Church, Rabun Co., Ga.
Marriage date: 1 JAN. 1865 OR 1866
Marriage place: Oconee Co., S.C.
Spouse's name: ELIZABETH MOSS BRADLEY

Child No. 5: JAMES O. Z. HOPKINS
Sex: M
Birthdate: about 1831
Birthplace: Pickens Co., S.C.
Death date: unknown
Place of death: unknown
Marriage date: unknown
Burial: unknown
Marriage place: unknown
Spouse's name: unknown

Child No. 6: JOSEPH C. HOPKINS
Sex: M
Birthdate: about 1836
Birthplace: Pickens Co., S.C.
Death date: after 1860
Place of death: unknown
Burial: unknown
Marriage date: before 1855
Marriage place: probably Pickens Co., S.C.
Spouse's name: SARAH unknown
 

Documentation:
NOTES ON DAVID HOPKINS:
* The relationship of David Hopkins as a son of Benjamin Franklin Hopkins has yet to be proved. He is included here as a possible son for several reasons. His year of birth corresponds to the census date given for a son of Benjamin F. Hopkins. Both the children and grandchildren of Samuel O. Hopkins and David Hopkins visited back and forth with the same relatives in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia in the early to mid 1900's. I have been working with one of his descendants for 25 years trying to prove this relationship and we haven't been able to prove the link. Both sides of the family even share some of the same family legends.
* David Hopkins first married Sarah "Sallie" Rothell/Rather and had one son, Samuel born in 1862. They seperated and David and Samuel can be found in the 1870 Census of Rabun Co., Ga. in approximately the same place where Samuel O. Hopkins can be found in 1860 and 1880. Naming patterns in Stephen Hopkins family seem to indicate that the males were named after their father's brothers. It would seem that David Hopkins named his first son Samuel for his brother, Samuel O. Hopkins. David married second Caroline Ramey of Rabun Co., Ga. before 1873 and moved back to Oconee Co., S.C.
References:
1. 1840 Census Pickens Co., S.C. Benjamin F. Hopkins
Males: 3 age 5-10 2 age 10-15 1 age 15-20 1 age 40-50 Females 1 age 30-40
2. 1850 Census Pickens Co., S.C. taken 8 Oct. 1850 by Mr. Garvin
B. F. Hopkins age 49 W M farming R/E 500 born S.C.
Margaret Hopkins age 47 W F born S.C.
James O. Z. Hopkins age 19 W M laborer born S.C.
Samuel O. Hopkins age 16 W M laborer born S.C.
Joseph C. Hopkins age 14 W M born S.C.
3. 1860 Census Pickens Co., S.C. taken 8 June 1860
Skelton, Zadoc age 70 W M farmer
Skelton, Sarah age 40 W F
Heaton, Eliza age 14 W F
Hopkins, B. F. age 56 W M farm labor born S.C.
4. Benjamin Franklin Hopkins is listed as a son of Stephen Hopkins in a Deed of Gift from Stephen to his children.
Recorded: Pendleton Dist S.C. Conveyence Books, Wills, Book M, 1812-1817, page 100- 101.
5. Deeds:
Pickens Co., S.C., Deed Book F 1, Page 272;
Pickens Co., S.C., Deed Book B 1, Page 327,
Pickens Co., S.C. Deed Book B 1, Page 321.

RECORDS FOR MARGARET EATON:
1. 1820 Census, Pendleton Dist., S.C. enumerates John Eaton with his wife and 8 children. Margaret would be the third child.
2. "A Collection of Upper S. C. Genealogical and Family Records", Page 34, By Wooley Published by Southern Historical Press, 1982.
The estate of James Bruce, Sr., Probate Judge Office Pickens Co., S.C. states that George O. Bruce testified that he was a son of James Bruce and a grandson of James Bruce, Sr. who lived on Wolf Creek and made oath that his father is dead and that he left a widow and 11 children as follows:
widow- Priscilla Bruce
son- Jonathan Bruce
son-George O. Bruce
son- James Bruce
Dau- Rutha Watson, widow
Dau- Rebecca Bruce, wife of John Eaton
son-Abraham Bruce
son- Aquilla Bruce
son- Daniel A Bruce
Dau- Patience Bruce, wife of Adonejah Edwards
Dau- Sarah Bruce, wife of William Eaton
relation not known, but listed with children is Jos. Powell
3. Marriage of Margaret Eaton to Benjamin Franklin Hopkins is in the Pendleton Messenger Newspaper.

Notes:
* I am descended from Stephen Hopkins through his son, Benjamin Franklin Hopkins, and through his grandson, Samuel O. Hopkins.