The village of Hopkinsville was named for the Hopkins families who settled around it, and the 1882 History of Warren County sketches several of them without saying how they were related. William and Martha (Patton) Hopkins came from Virginia in 1811 and bought 211 acres on the land where the village now stands; William served as an early county commissioner and as an elder of the Associate Reformed Church alongside former governor Jeremiah Morrow, and their son James, born in 1806, still farmed there in 1882. John Hopkins, born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, in 1789, came to the Ridge south of Lebanon in 1806, served as a ranger officer in the War of 1812, and became an early merchant at Hopkinsville, county sheriff, legislator and state senator; his son Huston kept store with him for fifty years and twice served as county treasurer. David J. Hopkins, born at Hopkinsville in 1812 to a pioneer named James Hopkins, worked as a tailor at South Lebanon; his son William F. served in the 35th Ohio Infantry and died in the army at Washington in 1866. Other Hopkins daughters appear only as wives in their husbands' sketches. Every fact below is cited to the 1882 History of Warren County, Ohio.
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John Hopkins and Susan (Branstator) Hopkinsborn 1789Most recent in our records
Huston Hopkinsborn 1812Each number matches a section below. Tap a name to jump to that person.
Settled the site of Hopkinsville
Retired farmer, Hopkinsville
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Ranger officer, merchant, sheriff and state senator
Merchant at Morrow; county treasurer
HUSTON HOPKINS, merchant; Morrow, Ohio; for many inent merchant of Morrow, is the descendant of one of the pioneers
The history of his parents J'TJ years a proof the county; “ his father, John Hopkins, a native of Rockbridge Co., Va., emigrated to Ohio with his parents in the year 1806, and settled on what is known as the “Ridge,” two id life miles south of Lebanon. He was born Nov. 6, 1789, and just prior to the war of 1812, in the county of Warren, was united in marriage to Susan Branstator, a native of Maryland. On the breaking-out of that war, as did Cincinnatus of old, he left his plow and tendered his services to his country, volunteering in an organization known as the “ Mounted Rangers,” which rendezvoused for a time at Lebanon, and of which company he later was appointed Lieutenant and finally acted as Captain. He figured# extensively throughout the war, serving until peace was declared, when he again returned to the plow, and soon moved to the vicinity of Hopkinsville, which village was named for the families of that name settling in the same vicinity. Mr. Hopkins was an early merchant of that village and became a prominent and influential man of the county, serving as one of its early Sheriffs, and, for a period of nearly thirty years, a! W Justice of the Peace. He represented the people of Warren twice as Representative * in the Legislature, and served one term as State Senator. His death occurred March I; 6, 1875, near Hopkinsville, where the greater part of his life was passed. Our subject 1 was born on the “ Ridge,” in sight of Lebanon, Dec. 13, 1812, and was the eldest off0' nine children; his early life was spent on the farm and in the district schools of that vicinity, and in Lebanon received his education. Early in life, he embarked in the mercantile business with his father and has continued therein for a period of fifty years, saving the two terms of service as County Treasurer. May 24, 1840, Mr. Hopkins was married to Nancy, oldest daughter of Providence Mounts, and to them have been born four children, namely: Mary L., Marshall M., Winfield S. and George. The wife died Jan. 29, 1853.
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Tailor at South Lebanon and Hopkinsville
DAVID J. HOPKINS (deceased), late of South Lebanon; was born in Hopkinsville, Warren Co., in 1812, and was a son of James Hopkins, a pioneer of this county. In early life our subject learned the tailor’s trade, which he followed in South Lebanon for a number of years; in 1836, he was married to Tarcillia, daughter of Capt. William Snook, a sketch of whom appears in connection with the sketch of Peter Snook, of Hamilton Township; Mr. H., after being married, plied his trade in South Lebanon for several years, when he went to Hopkinsville, in which he resided fourteen years, when he returned to his former place of residence, Jan. 2, 1858; to Mr. and Mrs. H. ten children were born, five living, viz., James E., Nathan K., Charles A., Rinaldo and Susan; the deceased are William F., who was a member of the 35th
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Daughter of John and Margaret Hopkins; wife of John Plunkett
Daughter of James and Rachel Hopkins; wife of Alexander Haney
Second wife of Samuel Walker
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