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Dad's cousins, Cleo and Clara Hopper

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Dad's Aunt Susie

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I am not sure how many years this lamp of Grandma Hopper's has been in our family. Grandma gave it
to Dad years ago when I was a small child. He said he did his homework with this lamp and it has traveled in a "covered wagon" belonging to his parents, Jim and Mollie Hopper. I just know this "little bit" of history that Dad told me about the lamp but I do know it is one of my most prized processions. To me this lamp is Priceless...

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This one's for you, Jim...

FACEBOOK FAMILY...

I have been putting my Family Heritage Scrapbooking pages on Scrapbook.com for a year or more and meeting a lot of new friends. The other day I got a message from a lady that had seen my pages on the web site. The pictures I had been posting of my family was her family also!!!! It turned out that her grandfather was my uncle. I was doing the "Happy Dance" all over the place. As you know I am heavy into genealogy and this just made my day!!!! She let me know that there were a bunch of "Hopper Cousin's" on facebook. I have a facebook page and it didn't take this old girl long to find them. I have been having a blast with them. What Fun!!!!!! Any of you Hopper's that are reading this....please come join us. OK.

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This is the Adams Family...Uncle Gus was my grandmother's, older brother. He was born August 28, 1867 in Paducah, KY. He married Lucy Early on June 10, 1894 in Pottawatomie Co., Territory of Oklahoma. He died in Los Angles, California on Feb. 15, 1937. Ernest and Mabel are standing in the back row. In the front is Cora Martha, Augustus, Lucy, with baby Melton, Ida Vadis and little Alvia. This picture was taken about 1913. My Aunt Ann told me she was named after Ida Vadis as her name was Ann Vadis Hopper.

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Two of my dad's sisters, Lilly and Ann Hopper in 1924. Lilly and her twin brother, Bill, was born July 31, 1910 and she was the mother of four children, living until 1999. Annie Vadis was born October 18, 1913 and was the mother of two children. We loss our lovely Aunt Ann on August 31 of 2008. She was 93.

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The "Hopper Family" about 1938.
Jake, Jim (dad), Ralph,
Maude, Ollie, Daisy, Ann
Twins; Bill and Lilly, Jim and Molly, Twins; Ethel and Eiffel.

This is two of my dad's sister's and his

brother-n-law. I am not sure when

this was taken, guessing in the 1940's. Ann Hopper on the left and the couple facing us was Everett and Eiffel Hopper Dearman. They were married in 1928 and had two daughters, Anita and Betty. Ann married Van Roberts in 1938 and they had two children, Judy and Butch. Aunt Ann passed away this year at the age of 93...

GREAT GREAT GRANDPARENTS

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                                                        Grandma's second set of twins...

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Robert and Lucinda Keck Hopper were my Great Grandparents.
Robert and Lucinda married in Johnson County Missouri and moved to the area of Jane and Caverna in McDonald County, Missouri by 1860. They resided on a farm in Section 23 of White Rock Township for some 40 years. The 1876 Special Census shows that Robert could not read or write but that Lucinda could (this is supported by the deed records that were signed by Lucinda but signed by Robert with an X.) Lucinda's father died when she was thirteen and she married Robert at fifteen. Her first child was born at age seventeen and her last at forty-four. As a housewife and mother, Lucinda's responsibilities included all areas of child rearing, food preservation and preparation, home maintenance, and clothing production.
Robert and Lucinda had been married just over fifty-seven years when she died in February of 1909 at the age of seventy-two. He died in August 1915 when he was almost eighty-two years old. Both are buried in White Rock Cemetery, Jane, Missouri.
Robert's mother, Mary "Polly" Davenport, was the daughter of Martin Davenport, a Revolutionary War hero. Martin fought at the Battle of King's Mountain in Tennessee.

The second picture is Martha Catherine Hopper Davenport and Susan Suphronia Hopper Montgomery, daughters of Robert and Lucinda.