Samuel Holt HOPKINS & Emma FAY

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Samuel Holt HOPKINS
Emma FAY

Husband: Samuel Holt HOPKINS
Birth: 17 May 1841, Unadilla, Livingston Co., MI
Death: 21 Feb 1929, Wenatchee, Chelan Co., WA
Military Service: Civil War: Pvt., Co. B, 5th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry (wounded)
Occupation: farmer, merchant
Office: Postmaster, Macedonia, Pottawattamie Co., IA
Religion: Methodist
Politics: Republican
Father: Samuel Lucas HOPKINS
Mother: Philancia M. HOLT

Marriage: 7 Dec 1865, Pottawattamie Co., IA

Wife: Emma FAY
Birth: 15 Oct 1847, Plain Twp., Wood Co., OH
Death: 20 Sep 1928, Wenatchee, Chelan Co., WA
Father: Wooster FAY
Mother: Charlotte McMILLAN

Children — born in Pottawattamie Co., IA:

1. Flora HOPKINS, b. 7 May 1867, Silver Creek [now Keg Creek] Twp.
2. Herbert Loren HOPKINS, b. 12 Apr 1870; d. 1872
3. Edith HOPKINS, b. 21 Nov 1872, Grove Twp.
4. Ione Jane HOPKINS, b. 28 Apr 1878, Wheeler's Grove, Grove Twp.
5. Leona Fay HOPKINS, b. 20 Sep 1882, Macedonia, Macedonia Twp.

Keywords for search engines: USA, US, United States, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Washington

Sources (n.b., Rockford and Macedonia Twps. were formed de novo in 1855; Grove Twp. was formed de novo in 1858; Silver Creek Twp. was formed de novo in 1860; Keg Creek Twp. was formed from Silver Creek Twp. in 1874):

1. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service: IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).

SAMUEL HOPKINS
Spouse: EMMA FAY
Marriage: 6 Dec 1865, Pottawattamie, Iowa
Source: patron submission

2. 1860 Census Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #109 of 136): Council Bluffs & Macedonia P.O., Silver Creek [now Keg Creek] Twp., Pottawattamie Co., IA, p. 409, PN 107, 495/726, enumerated 12 Jul 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Joseph D Craven 37 M Farmer 1600 600 N Carolina

[Joseph's wife and children]

Samuel H Hopkins 19 M Farm Hand Michigan

Listed four households from his future father-in-law, Wooster FAY.

3a. AIS (Accelerated Index System) 1870 Census Index (online at Ancestry.com):

1870 Hopkins, Smith H. IA Pottawattamie Co. Grove Twp. p. 162

It's beyond me how the indexer could have read this as "Smith" (see next source).

3b. 1870 Census Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #323 of 438): Wheelers Grove P.O., Grove Twp., Pottawattamie Co., IA, p. 162A, PN 9, 55/57, enumerated 18 Jul 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Hopkins Saml H 39 M W Farmer 2000 500 Mich

_______ Emma 22 F W House Keeping Ohio

_______ Flora G 3 F W Ia

_______ Loura? H 1 F W Ia

Does "Loura H." = Herbert Loren? Is this census-taker error, or error on the part of Timothy Hopkins (see below)?

4. 1880 Census Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #21 of 22): Grove Twp., Pottawattamie Co., IA, Roll T9_361 (Book 1), p. 129A, SD 3, ED 186, enumerated 1 Jul 1880 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1880: for an explanation of the column headings, please see What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).

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185 190 Hopkins S. H. W M 39 / Merchant MI NY NY

_______ Emma W F 32 Wife / Keeping House OH VT OH

_______ Flora W F 13 Daughter / At Home IA MI OH

_______ Edith W F 7 Daughter / IA MI OH

_______ Ione W F 2 Daughter / IA MI OH

Samuel's father was from New York, but he was born in Vermont (see 1900).

5. 1890 Census: was destroyed.

6. 1900 Census Index/Microfilm (online at Ancestry.com, Image #3 of 13 — indexed "Dawud Hopkins" [indexed "Samuel S. Hopkins" at Genealogy.com]): Chelan Pct., Chelan Co., WA, Roll T623_1742, p. 33A, SN 7A, SD 2, ED 44, enumerated 15 Jun 1900 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1900: for an explanation of the column headings, please see What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).

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145 146 Hopkins Samuel Head W M May 1841 59 M 34 MI VT OH None Y Y Y O F H

_______ Emma Wife W F Oct 1847 52 M 34 5 3 OH VT OH Y Y Y

_______ Leona Daughter W F Sep 1882 17 S IA MI OH Y Y Y

Samuel's mother was born in New York, not Ohio (see 1880).

7. 1910 Census.

8. 1920 Census.

9. Timothy Hopkins. 1932. John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, CA (available as a facsimile reprint from Higginson Books and online at GenealogyLibrary.com).

p. 518 [SAMUEL HOLT HOPKINS]... b. in Livingston County, Michigan, 17 May 1841; m. in Kegcreek Township, Iowa, 7 December 1865, Emma Fay, b. at Bowling Green, Ohio, 15 October 1847, daughter of Wooster and Charlotte (MacMillan) Fay. She d. at Wenatchee, Washington, 20 September 1928; he d. there 21 February 1929.

p. 519 A farmer of Wheeler Grove, Iowa; of Macedonia, Iowa, where he was postmaster; of Chelan, Washington, and in 1928 of Sandpoint, Idaho. A Methodist and a Republican. A soldier in the Civil War; enlisted 21 September 1861, in Company B, Fifth Iowa Cavalry; honorably discharged on account of wounds 26 August 1862.
   Children:
   FLORA,⁹ b. 7 May 1867, in Kegcreek Township, Iowa...
   HERBERT LOREN,⁹ b. 12 April 1870, in Iowa; d. 1872.
   EDITH,⁹ b. 21 November 1872, in Pottawattamie County, Iowa...
   IONE JANE,⁹ b. 28 April 1878, at Wheelers Grove, Iowa...
   LEONA FAY,⁹ b. 20 September 1882, at Macedonia, Iowa...

See childrens' family group sheets for additional information. Sandpoint is in Bonner Co., ID.

10. Private Samuel Hopkins, Fifth Iowa Volunteer Cavalry (online at the Scriptorum.org web site). [link died] For a description of the battle where Samuel was wounded, see this page [link died].

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