Brief Life History of Robert Richard
When Robert Richard Hooper was born on 3 January 1858, in Fodder Creek, Towns, Georgia, United States, his father, Jonathan Hooper, was 38 and his mother, Lucinda Barrett, was 30. He married Lou Jean Hunter in 1878, in Byers, Hall, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in District 918, Towns, Georgia, United States in 1920 and Brasstown, Towns, Georgia, United States in 1930. He died on 4 March 1936, in Young Harris, Towns, Georgia, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Towns, Georgia, United States.
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- Robert Hoopper in household of Jonathan Hoopper, "United States Census, 1860"
- Robert R Hooper, "Georgia, County Delayed Birth and Death Records, 1870-1960"
- R R Hooper, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
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1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English (southwestern): occupational name for a cooper, someone who fitted wooden or metal hoops on wooden casks and barrels, or a barrel-maker, from Middle English hoper, an agent derivative of hop ‘hoop, band’. Compare Cooper .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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