Family Tree!

Okay. So this tree is actually in Mexico!

So here we are, casually browsing the internet the other night, looking up Hopkinsville, Kentucky to see who it was named for--just in case it leads us to an unknown ancestor. We know our Hopkins lived in Virginia, passed through Kentucky. Anyway, it's not named for our Hopkins, although a 8th or 10th great aunt lived in Kentucky. It was named for Samuel Hopkins, a Revolutionary War General. Now our direct descendant, John Hopkins was a Revolutionary War Lieutenant and could possibly distantly be related to Samuel. But that is not the important thing that we found. How do I know about Lieutenant Hopkins? Because in our idle searching I opened a site called "A Chapter of Hopkins Geneology 1735-1905" And lo and behold the entire 218 pages were about our Hopkins, ending with Otis Launcelot Hopkins, your greatgrandfather. The book--yes I printed out the entire book--has literally thousands of Hopkins ancestors starting in Albany New York, which we didn't know and extending all over the entire United States including now Arizona, Arkansas, New York, Washington, Oregon and beyond. Cool huh. So far I have added about 100 people to our family groups. Change just keeps on coming. Archibald Hopkins--I think he is your 9th ggrandfather--had 16 children, 10 boys and 6 girls. He moved his family to Kentucky, but was uncomfortable with slavery so went on to Red Oak, Ohio. The Hopkins children all married, raised large families of their own and settled on properties surrounding the parental homestead--none with less than 100 acres. What a deal! They were church going people. They left Scotland to escape the Church of England and left Ireland to escape the Catholics. But in Red Oak they filled up half the church.

The didn't drink whiskey and they didn't smoke tabbacky which may account for them leaving the South!! I still have a lot of book to puruse. But, you just never know where good things will turn up next! Love you all. Wish there were 8 more just like you!