When John Otey Hopkins was born on 2 November 1833, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, his father, Otey Hopkins, was 31 and his mother, Anna Simmons, was 38. He married Elvira America Burke in 1855, in Gainesboro, Jackson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Civil District 11, Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Civil District 1, Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died on 1 November 1894, in Gainesboro, Jackson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in New Salem, Jackson, Tennessee, United States.
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The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
English and Welsh (Glamorgan): variant of Hopkin with genitival or excrescent -s. In Ireland, where the name is also frequent, it is sometimes Gaelicized as Mac Oibicín.
History: Stephen Hopkins (c. 1580–1644) was a pilgrim on the Mayflower in 1620 and one of the founders of Plymouth Colony. At his death he left seven children and eighteen grandchildren.
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