Ann's third great grandfather came to America from the United Kingdom.
~~~Visited Oquawka Cemetery on September 20, 2018. In walking through cemetery and finding the family plot was a special moment. Touched her stone marker and wished to have asked her questions about her life!
Ann Hopkins Rice is buried next to one of her sons, James F. Rice on the left of her (facing grave.) John, a twin brother of James, and son of Ann's, is lost to family with his last known whereabouts somewhere in Kentucky.
Other Rice family members are buried behind this plot include the following, Anna Rice (1849-1854); Judge William Cyrus Rice (1815-1897); Mary Montgomery Walker, Cyrus' wife, (1827-1871); William P. Rice (1859-1860). Judge Wm. Cyrus Hopkins, his second wife, Salina M. Wheatley (1813-1891), married her on January 16, 1872. Salina was married to Benjamin Hinton Hopkins (1806-1869), first cousin to Cyrus!
Ann, daughter of John Hopkins and Jean Gordon, was born on August 21, 1780, four miles northeast of Harrisonburg, in Rockingham County, Va. (Part of Augusta County at the time.)
Ann married James Rice, a Virginian, of Rockingham County (son of John Rice and Mary Finney about April 3, 1802. Her husband started as a student of Jefferson Medical College, yet decided to engage in mercantile and land investment. They moved about 1805 to Greenup County, now Boyd County, Ky., where Mr. Rice continued his land investments, and under Robert Poage, his wife's brother-in-law, was appointed surveyor of Greenup County. Here six children were born to them, five boys and one girl.
In the early spring of 1815, her husband drowned, near Catlettsburg, Ky., while attempting to cross the Ohio River in a skiff, attended by a negro servant. The boat capsized; he was an expert swimmer and didn't survive the currents. James Rice was a man of fine humanity, and while not a completed graduate of the Jefferson school, it had been his intention soon to return and complete the course, only a term of which was unfinished, that he might be fully equipped for duty, there being no other so well educated medical practitioner in that county. He was called upon by all the people in his vicinity for medical attendance which he gave them free gratis. It was in response to one of these calls that he lost his life.
Mentally he was unusually progressive and clear. Successfully accurate and active in all business places and duties, one of his tenacious purposes was to give the highest educational advantages to his children.
Ann Hopkins Rice, a little frail woman, was so unexpectedly left with six children (the youngest being born after the death of his father) in a comparatively new country, with her husband's rather extended business interests and plowed lands in the embryo of development, with a brave spirit accepted the trust. When her boys had come to manhood, people used to say, "I would like to see the mother of those young men." She was delicate and small, with a spirit sweet and pure, and the Gordon blood in her veins.
In 1815, soon after the birth of the youngest child, William Cyrus Hopkins, she removed from Greenup County to Christian County, near Hopkinsville, to be in touch with her brother, Thomas Hopkins. The estate in Greenup had been intrusted to friends, whose administration was unsuccessful, and the children came to majority with nothing except a remnant of old slaves. This deprived them of all opportunities of advanced education, a great regret to them. With Southern inheritance, tradition, and blood in their veins, they had come to young manhood just in time to be caught and swep, away by the moral wave of abolition of the slave, and they did not hesitate though at a great personal sacrifice, to salute the flag of freedom that it might long wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave, nor to question between personal sacrifice and duty to humanity; even though it were exteriorly a black humanity, the blackness would be no darker because of their making. Twenty-five dollars each secured outfit membership and transport to a Liberian colony. One old colored man, faithful to the tradition, refused "to leave missus and the boys," and with them, in the spring of 1835, came to Henderson, then a part of Warren County. Ill., traveling in wagons, stopping at wayside inns or hospitable pioneer hearthstones, and occasionally being forced to camp out, but thinking no discomfort a hardship that brought them nearer to a state of freedom. There was no bitterness in their memories of "the old Kentucky home." They were born and bred there, and to this day they know "you're mighty lucky when you married a girl like Sue."
In 1841, after her son George Poage Rice was married, Ann Hopkins Rice made her home with him for a number of years, though her last years were with her son William Cyrus Rice, at Oquawka, Henderson County, Ill., where she died February 16, 1850, tenderly regretted by her children and friends.
Written by James Montgomery Rice, Peoria Ill.
MARRIAGE BOND GIVEN BY ANN HOPKINS AND JAMES RICE. 1804.
I do hereby certify that my son James Rice is above the age of twenty one years old this Second day of April one thousand eight hundred and four to which I set my hand.
MARY RICE
Attest John Rice A copy atteste,
S. T. LOGAN, Clerk.
Wm. Cromer,
Rockingham County.
This day came Thomas Hopkins before me a Justice of the Peace for the said county and made oath that Ann Hopkins was above the age of twenty-one years. Given under my hand this 3rd day of March, 1804.
PEACHY HARRISON.
A copy atteste, S. A. Logan, Clerk.
Know all men by these presents that we, James Rice and Thomas Hopkins are held and firmly bound unto John Page, Esquire, Governor of Virginia, and his successors for the use of the Commonwealth, in the sum of One hundred and fifty dollars, to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, Exors. and adrms. jointly and severally firmly by these presents, Sealed and dated this 3rd day of April, 1904.
The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas a marriage is shortly intended to be solemnized between the above bound James Rice and Ann Hopkins, daughter of John Hopkins of Rockingham County, if therefore there shall be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage then the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the
Presence of JAMES RICE (Seal)
G. M. Harrison ANN HOPKINS (Seal)
A true copy of bond recorded in Rockingham County, Va.
J. M. RICE.
~~~Visited Oquawka Cemetery on September 20, 2018. In walking through cemetery and finding the family plot was a special moment. Touched her stone marker and wished to have asked her questions about her life!
Ann Hopkins Rice is buried next to one of her sons, James F. Rice on the left of her (facing grave.) John, a twin brother of James, and son of Ann's, is lost to family with his last known whereabouts somewhere in Kentucky.
Other Rice family members are buried behind this plot include the following, Anna Rice (1849-1854); Judge William Cyrus Rice (1815-1897); Mary Montgomery Walker, Cyrus' wife, (1827-1871); William P. Rice (1859-1860). Judge Wm. Cyrus Hopkins, his second wife, Salina M. Wheatley (1813-1891), married her on January 16, 1872. Salina was married to Benjamin Hinton Hopkins (1806-1869), first cousin to Cyrus!
Ann, daughter of John Hopkins and Jean Gordon, was born on August 21, 1780, four miles northeast of Harrisonburg, in Rockingham County, Va. (Part of Augusta County at the time.)
Ann married James Rice, a Virginian, of Rockingham County (son of John Rice and Mary Finney about April 3, 1802. Her husband started as a student of Jefferson Medical College, yet decided to engage in mercantile and land investment. They moved about 1805 to Greenup County, now Boyd County, Ky., where Mr. Rice continued his land investments, and under Robert Poage, his wife's brother-in-law, was appointed surveyor of Greenup County. Here six children were born to them, five boys and one girl.
In the early spring of 1815, her husband drowned, near Catlettsburg, Ky., while attempting to cross the Ohio River in a skiff, attended by a negro servant. The boat capsized; he was an expert swimmer and didn't survive the currents. James Rice was a man of fine humanity, and while not a completed graduate of the Jefferson school, it had been his intention soon to return and complete the course, only a term of which was unfinished, that he might be fully equipped for duty, there being no other so well educated medical practitioner in that county. He was called upon by all the people in his vicinity for medical attendance which he gave them free gratis. It was in response to one of these calls that he lost his life.
Mentally he was unusually progressive and clear. Successfully accurate and active in all business places and duties, one of his tenacious purposes was to give the highest educational advantages to his children.
Ann Hopkins Rice, a little frail woman, was so unexpectedly left with six children (the youngest being born after the death of his father) in a comparatively new country, with her husband's rather extended business interests and plowed lands in the embryo of development, with a brave spirit accepted the trust. When her boys had come to manhood, people used to say, "I would like to see the mother of those young men." She was delicate and small, with a spirit sweet and pure, and the Gordon blood in her veins.
In 1815, soon after the birth of the youngest child, William Cyrus Hopkins, she removed from Greenup County to Christian County, near Hopkinsville, to be in touch with her brother, Thomas Hopkins. The estate in Greenup had been intrusted to friends, whose administration was unsuccessful, and the children came to majority with nothing except a remnant of old slaves. This deprived them of all opportunities of advanced education, a great regret to them. With Southern inheritance, tradition, and blood in their veins, they had come to young manhood just in time to be caught and swep, away by the moral wave of abolition of the slave, and they did not hesitate though at a great personal sacrifice, to salute the flag of freedom that it might long wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave, nor to question between personal sacrifice and duty to humanity; even though it were exteriorly a black humanity, the blackness would be no darker because of their making. Twenty-five dollars each secured outfit membership and transport to a Liberian colony. One old colored man, faithful to the tradition, refused "to leave missus and the boys," and with them, in the spring of 1835, came to Henderson, then a part of Warren County. Ill., traveling in wagons, stopping at wayside inns or hospitable pioneer hearthstones, and occasionally being forced to camp out, but thinking no discomfort a hardship that brought them nearer to a state of freedom. There was no bitterness in their memories of "the old Kentucky home." They were born and bred there, and to this day they know "you're mighty lucky when you married a girl like Sue."
In 1841, after her son George Poage Rice was married, Ann Hopkins Rice made her home with him for a number of years, though her last years were with her son William Cyrus Rice, at Oquawka, Henderson County, Ill., where she died February 16, 1850, tenderly regretted by her children and friends.
Written by James Montgomery Rice, Peoria Ill.
MARRIAGE BOND GIVEN BY ANN HOPKINS AND JAMES RICE. 1804.
I do hereby certify that my son James Rice is above the age of twenty one years old this Second day of April one thousand eight hundred and four to which I set my hand.
MARY RICE
Attest John Rice A copy atteste,
S. T. LOGAN, Clerk.
Wm. Cromer,
Rockingham County.
This day came Thomas Hopkins before me a Justice of the Peace for the said county and made oath that Ann Hopkins was above the age of twenty-one years. Given under my hand this 3rd day of March, 1804.
PEACHY HARRISON.
A copy atteste, S. A. Logan, Clerk.
Know all men by these presents that we, James Rice and Thomas Hopkins are held and firmly bound unto John Page, Esquire, Governor of Virginia, and his successors for the use of the Commonwealth, in the sum of One hundred and fifty dollars, to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, Exors. and adrms. jointly and severally firmly by these presents, Sealed and dated this 3rd day of April, 1904.
The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas a marriage is shortly intended to be solemnized between the above bound James Rice and Ann Hopkins, daughter of John Hopkins of Rockingham County, if therefore there shall be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage then the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the
Presence of JAMES RICE (Seal)
G. M. Harrison ANN HOPKINS (Seal)
A true copy of bond recorded in Rockingham County, Va.
J. M. RICE.
Ann's third great grandfather came to America from the United Kingdom.
~~~Visited Oquawka Cemetery on September 20, 2018. In walking through cemetery and finding the family plot was a special moment. Touched her stone marker and wished to have asked her questions about her life!
Ann Hopkins Rice is buried next to one of her sons, James F. Rice on the left of her (facing grave.) John, a twin brother of James, and son of Ann's, is lost to family with his last known whereabouts somewhere in Kentucky.
Other Rice family members are buried behind this plot include the following, Anna Rice (1849-1854); Judge William Cyrus Rice (1815-1897); Mary Montgomery Walker, Cyrus' wife, (1827-1871); William P. Rice (1859-1860). Judge Wm. Cyrus Hopkins, his second wife, Salina M. Wheatley (1813-1891), married her on January 16, 1872. Salina was married to Benjamin Hinton Hopkins (1806-1869), first cousin to Cyrus!
Ann, daughter of John Hopkins and Jean Gordon, was born on August 21, 1780, four miles northeast of Harrisonburg, in Rockingham County, Va. (Part of Augusta County at the time.)
Ann married James Rice, a Virginian, of Rockingham County (son of John Rice and Mary Finney about April 3, 1802. Her husband started as a student of Jefferson Medical College, yet decided to engage in mercantile and land investment. They moved about 1805 to Greenup County, now Boyd County, Ky., where Mr. Rice continued his land investments, and under Robert Poage, his wife's brother-in-law, was appointed surveyor of Greenup County. Here six children were born to them, five boys and one girl.
In the early spring of 1815, her husband drowned, near Catlettsburg, Ky., while attempting to cross the Ohio River in a skiff, attended by a negro servant. The boat capsized; he was an expert swimmer and didn't survive the currents. James Rice was a man of fine humanity, and while not a completed graduate of the Jefferson school, it had been his intention soon to return and complete the course, only a term of which was unfinished, that he might be fully equipped for duty, there being no other so well educated medical practitioner in that county. He was called upon by all the people in his vicinity for medical attendance which he gave them free gratis. It was in response to one of these calls that he lost his life.
Mentally he was unusually progressive and clear. Successfully accurate and active in all business places and duties, one of his tenacious purposes was to give the highest educational advantages to his children.
Ann Hopkins Rice, a little frail woman, was so unexpectedly left with six children (the youngest being born after the death of his father) in a comparatively new country, with her husband's rather extended business interests and plowed lands in the embryo of development, with a brave spirit accepted the trust. When her boys had come to manhood, people used to say, "I would like to see the mother of those young men." She was delicate and small, with a spirit sweet and pure, and the Gordon blood in her veins.
In 1815, soon after the birth of the youngest child, William Cyrus Hopkins, she removed from Greenup County to Christian County, near Hopkinsville, to be in touch with her brother, Thomas Hopkins. The estate in Greenup had been intrusted to friends, whose administration was unsuccessful, and the children came to majority with nothing except a remnant of old slaves. This deprived them of all opportunities of advanced education, a great regret to them. With Southern inheritance, tradition, and blood in their veins, they had come to young manhood just in time to be caught and swep, away by the moral wave of abolition of the slave, and they did not hesitate though at a great personal sacrifice, to salute the flag of freedom that it might long wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave, nor to question between personal sacrifice and duty to humanity; even though it were exteriorly a black humanity, the blackness would be no darker because of their making. Twenty-five dollars each secured outfit membership and transport to a Liberian colony. One old colored man, faithful to the tradition, refused "to leave missus and the boys," and with them, in the spring of 1835, came to Henderson, then a part of Warren County. Ill., traveling in wagons, stopping at wayside inns or hospitable pioneer hearthstones, and occasionally being forced to camp out, but thinking no discomfort a hardship that brought them nearer to a state of freedom. There was no bitterness in their memories of "the old Kentucky home." They were born and bred there, and to this day they know "you're mighty lucky when you married a girl like Sue."
In 1841, after her son George Poage Rice was married, Ann Hopkins Rice made her home with him for a number of years, though her last years were with her son William Cyrus Rice, at Oquawka, Henderson County, Ill., where she died February 16, 1850, tenderly regretted by her children and friends.
Written by James Montgomery Rice, Peoria Ill.
MARRIAGE BOND GIVEN BY ANN HOPKINS AND JAMES RICE. 1804.
I do hereby certify that my son James Rice is above the age of twenty one years old this Second day of April one thousand eight hundred and four to which I set my hand.
MARY RICE
Attest John Rice A copy atteste,
S. T. LOGAN, Clerk.
Wm. Cromer,
Rockingham County.
This day came Thomas Hopkins before me a Justice of the Peace for the said county and made oath that Ann Hopkins was above the age of twenty-one years. Given under my hand this 3rd day of March, 1804.
PEACHY HARRISON.
A copy atteste, S. A. Logan, Clerk.
Know all men by these presents that we, James Rice and Thomas Hopkins are held and firmly bound unto John Page, Esquire, Governor of Virginia, and his successors for the use of the Commonwealth, in the sum of One hundred and fifty dollars, to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, Exors. and adrms. jointly and severally firmly by these presents, Sealed and dated this 3rd day of April, 1904.
The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas a marriage is shortly intended to be solemnized between the above bound James Rice and Ann Hopkins, daughter of John Hopkins of Rockingham County, if therefore there shall be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage then the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the
Presence of JAMES RICE (Seal)
G. M. Harrison ANN HOPKINS (Seal)
A true copy of bond recorded in Rockingham County, Va.
J. M. RICE.
~~~Visited Oquawka Cemetery on September 20, 2018. In walking through cemetery and finding the family plot was a special moment. Touched her stone marker and wished to have asked her questions about her life!
Ann Hopkins Rice is buried next to one of her sons, James F. Rice on the left of her (facing grave.) John, a twin brother of James, and son of Ann's, is lost to family with his last known whereabouts somewhere in Kentucky.
Other Rice family members are buried behind this plot include the following, Anna Rice (1849-1854); Judge William Cyrus Rice (1815-1897); Mary Montgomery Walker, Cyrus' wife, (1827-1871); William P. Rice (1859-1860). Judge Wm. Cyrus Hopkins, his second wife, Salina M. Wheatley (1813-1891), married her on January 16, 1872. Salina was married to Benjamin Hinton Hopkins (1806-1869), first cousin to Cyrus!
Ann, daughter of John Hopkins and Jean Gordon, was born on August 21, 1780, four miles northeast of Harrisonburg, in Rockingham County, Va. (Part of Augusta County at the time.)
Ann married James Rice, a Virginian, of Rockingham County (son of John Rice and Mary Finney about April 3, 1802. Her husband started as a student of Jefferson Medical College, yet decided to engage in mercantile and land investment. They moved about 1805 to Greenup County, now Boyd County, Ky., where Mr. Rice continued his land investments, and under Robert Poage, his wife's brother-in-law, was appointed surveyor of Greenup County. Here six children were born to them, five boys and one girl.
In the early spring of 1815, her husband drowned, near Catlettsburg, Ky., while attempting to cross the Ohio River in a skiff, attended by a negro servant. The boat capsized; he was an expert swimmer and didn't survive the currents. James Rice was a man of fine humanity, and while not a completed graduate of the Jefferson school, it had been his intention soon to return and complete the course, only a term of which was unfinished, that he might be fully equipped for duty, there being no other so well educated medical practitioner in that county. He was called upon by all the people in his vicinity for medical attendance which he gave them free gratis. It was in response to one of these calls that he lost his life.
Mentally he was unusually progressive and clear. Successfully accurate and active in all business places and duties, one of his tenacious purposes was to give the highest educational advantages to his children.
Ann Hopkins Rice, a little frail woman, was so unexpectedly left with six children (the youngest being born after the death of his father) in a comparatively new country, with her husband's rather extended business interests and plowed lands in the embryo of development, with a brave spirit accepted the trust. When her boys had come to manhood, people used to say, "I would like to see the mother of those young men." She was delicate and small, with a spirit sweet and pure, and the Gordon blood in her veins.
In 1815, soon after the birth of the youngest child, William Cyrus Hopkins, she removed from Greenup County to Christian County, near Hopkinsville, to be in touch with her brother, Thomas Hopkins. The estate in Greenup had been intrusted to friends, whose administration was unsuccessful, and the children came to majority with nothing except a remnant of old slaves. This deprived them of all opportunities of advanced education, a great regret to them. With Southern inheritance, tradition, and blood in their veins, they had come to young manhood just in time to be caught and swep, away by the moral wave of abolition of the slave, and they did not hesitate though at a great personal sacrifice, to salute the flag of freedom that it might long wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave, nor to question between personal sacrifice and duty to humanity; even though it were exteriorly a black humanity, the blackness would be no darker because of their making. Twenty-five dollars each secured outfit membership and transport to a Liberian colony. One old colored man, faithful to the tradition, refused "to leave missus and the boys," and with them, in the spring of 1835, came to Henderson, then a part of Warren County. Ill., traveling in wagons, stopping at wayside inns or hospitable pioneer hearthstones, and occasionally being forced to camp out, but thinking no discomfort a hardship that brought them nearer to a state of freedom. There was no bitterness in their memories of "the old Kentucky home." They were born and bred there, and to this day they know "you're mighty lucky when you married a girl like Sue."
In 1841, after her son George Poage Rice was married, Ann Hopkins Rice made her home with him for a number of years, though her last years were with her son William Cyrus Rice, at Oquawka, Henderson County, Ill., where she died February 16, 1850, tenderly regretted by her children and friends.
Written by James Montgomery Rice, Peoria Ill.
MARRIAGE BOND GIVEN BY ANN HOPKINS AND JAMES RICE. 1804.
I do hereby certify that my son James Rice is above the age of twenty one years old this Second day of April one thousand eight hundred and four to which I set my hand.
MARY RICE
Attest John Rice A copy atteste,
S. T. LOGAN, Clerk.
Wm. Cromer,
Rockingham County.
This day came Thomas Hopkins before me a Justice of the Peace for the said county and made oath that Ann Hopkins was above the age of twenty-one years. Given under my hand this 3rd day of March, 1804.
PEACHY HARRISON.
A copy atteste, S. A. Logan, Clerk.
Know all men by these presents that we, James Rice and Thomas Hopkins are held and firmly bound unto John Page, Esquire, Governor of Virginia, and his successors for the use of the Commonwealth, in the sum of One hundred and fifty dollars, to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, Exors. and adrms. jointly and severally firmly by these presents, Sealed and dated this 3rd day of April, 1904.
The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas a marriage is shortly intended to be solemnized between the above bound James Rice and Ann Hopkins, daughter of John Hopkins of Rockingham County, if therefore there shall be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage then the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the
Presence of JAMES RICE (Seal)
G. M. Harrison ANN HOPKINS (Seal)
A true copy of bond recorded in Rockingham County, Va.
J. M. RICE.
Inscription
Daughter of John & Jane Hopkins, wife of James
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The weather has taken a toll, yet in remarkable shape, oh, these 158 years.~~Thanks Roy for a wonderful picture here~~
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