Brief Life History of Martha Elizabeth
When Martha Elizabeth Hopkins was born on 10 June 1864, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, her father, John Otey Hopkins, was 30 and her mother, Elvira America Burke, was 26. She married James Stanton Spurlock on 6 April 1882, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Allen, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Gainesboro, Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1931. She died on 16 March 1931, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Allen City, Floyd, Kentucky, United States.
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- Martha E Hopkins in household of John O Hopkins, "United States Census, 1870"
- Lizzie Hopkins, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Liza Hopkins, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · Sultana Tragedy
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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