Findagraver, lilbuddy kindly sent to me this extract on Sarah Hopkins:
"His mother: SARAH HOPKINS, fifth child of Archibald Hopkins (see F/A/G #9925732) and Elizabeth Poage, was a lovely, modest, gentle woman, rather tall and slender, and graceful, with black hair and blue eyes. She was said to have been a very pretty, stylish young woman. She was a fine horsewoman, sitting the most spirited horse with perfect ease. She possessed a fine voice, and my grandfather used to love to hear her sing "Counter," a rare accomplishment in those days. She was domestic in her tastes, and given to hospitality. She did her full share in helping grandfather in assisting slaves to the Canadian border. Many a time grandfather came home and found grandmother cooking doughnuts and hard biscuit, while a black man was safely hid in the loft of the cabin, or in the hay-mow. As soon as it was dark grandfather hitched up, and took the slave to the next station, driving like Jehu so as to make the return trip before day-light. This night march was usually made endurable by grandmother's doughnuts and biscuits. Sometimes on arriving at home in the morning he would find grandmother hiding another poor fellow, and would have to repeat his night ride. Grandmother made her trip from Virginia on horseback with her father, she having remained there several years after the rest of the family had moved to Ohio. We have in our possession a corner of a linen tablecloth, with knotted fringe, which she [Page 147 ] spun and wove before she left Virginia. We also have a piece of embroidery which she made after she was sixty years old, showing her to be a skillful needle woman. There is in the family a blue and white wool and linen coverlet which she spun and wove. Though over ninety years old, it is in good condition. We have a piece of her wedding petticoat, of fine corded dimity, and a piece of her wedding dress, which was of thin white goods, with ten rows of trimming around the skirt woven into the goods." [1905 book, "A chapter of Hopkins genealogy: 1735-1905 By Ella Warren Harrison].
Thanks to findagraver, lilbuddy who later also sent her precise date of birth: "June 10, 1792. She was born near Harrisonburg, Rockingham co., VA."[____]
UPDATED May 2019- Thanks again go to findagraver, lilbuddy, for clarification as to the birth location. Also do note that the town of Venice is now known as Ross in Butler Co. OH, so that too was clarified. Thx!
Findagraver, lilbuddy kindly sent to me this extract on Sarah Hopkins:
"His mother: SARAH HOPKINS, fifth child of Archibald Hopkins (see F/A/G #9925732) and Elizabeth Poage, was a lovely, modest, gentle woman, rather tall and slender, and graceful, with black hair and blue eyes. She was said to have been a very pretty, stylish young woman. She was a fine horsewoman, sitting the most spirited horse with perfect ease. She possessed a fine voice, and my grandfather used to love to hear her sing "Counter," a rare accomplishment in those days. She was domestic in her tastes, and given to hospitality. She did her full share in helping grandfather in assisting slaves to the Canadian border. Many a time grandfather came home and found grandmother cooking doughnuts and hard biscuit, while a black man was safely hid in the loft of the cabin, or in the hay-mow. As soon as it was dark grandfather hitched up, and took the slave to the next station, driving like Jehu so as to make the return trip before day-light. This night march was usually made endurable by grandmother's doughnuts and biscuits. Sometimes on arriving at home in the morning he would find grandmother hiding another poor fellow, and would have to repeat his night ride. Grandmother made her trip from Virginia on horseback with her father, she having remained there several years after the rest of the family had moved to Ohio. We have in our possession a corner of a linen tablecloth, with knotted fringe, which she [Page 147 ] spun and wove before she left Virginia. We also have a piece of embroidery which she made after she was sixty years old, showing her to be a skillful needle woman. There is in the family a blue and white wool and linen coverlet which she spun and wove. Though over ninety years old, it is in good condition. We have a piece of her wedding petticoat, of fine corded dimity, and a piece of her wedding dress, which was of thin white goods, with ten rows of trimming around the skirt woven into the goods." [1905 book, "A chapter of Hopkins genealogy: 1735-1905 By Ella Warren Harrison].
Thanks to findagraver, lilbuddy who later also sent her precise date of birth: "June 10, 1792. She was born near Harrisonburg, Rockingham co., VA."[____]
UPDATED May 2019- Thanks again go to findagraver, lilbuddy, for clarification as to the birth location. Also do note that the town of Venice is now known as Ross in Butler Co. OH, so that too was clarified. Thx!
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Family Members
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William Hopkins
1786–1848
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John Hopkins
1787–1872
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Jane "Janie" Hopkins Pogue
1789–1863
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Mary Hopkins Poage
1790–1872
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Robert Hopkins
1794–1874
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Gordon Hopkins
1797–1863
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Benjamin Hopkins
1799–1827
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Elizabeth Hopkins Kinkead
1800–1871
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Elijah Hopkins
1802–1819
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James S. Hopkins
1803–1887
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Harriet Hopkins Evans
1805–1873
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Archibald Hopkins
1808–1874
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Edwin Hopkins
1810–1846
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Gracy Ann Hopkins Dunlap
1812–1882
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