So today I decided to do a little family history. I am pretty lucky that I had a great-uncle that did a lot of genealogy already. Today I happened to be looking at the approximate arrival of some of my ancestors to what would later be called The United States. I compared some of my ancestors names with names on the Mayflower, but none of them matched up. However, there was a Hopkins on the Mayflower and my great-great-grandmother was a Hopkins (Emma Grant Hopkins). Unfortunately the information I have on the Hopkins stops at her father (Samuel Wilson Hopkins). In a desperate plea to find the connection between the Hopkins on the Mayflower and my Samuel W. Hopkins, I put "Samuel Wilson Hopkins" into the google search bar. The information I found was completely surprising. According to the forum (http://www.pibburns.com/samhopki.htm):
- Samuel and Nancy moved to Warren County, Missouri in 1858. During the Civil War, Samuel served as a lieutenant in the Union army. Samuel's brother Charles, who lived on a neighboring farm in Missouri, fought in the Confederate Army. The U. S. Civil War was quite literally "brother against brother." Before going away to war, Samuel and Charles built a house in town near the railroad depot. They placed a partition in the middle, and their wives (who were sisters) lived on each side with their children. After returning from war service, Samuel and Charles never again discussed the war.
Wild Wild Stuff. I do not know how true this story is, but I'll take it as an oral tradition.
This is a picture of Samuel's and Nancy's children. My great-great-grandmother is on the far right (Emma Grant Hopkins). She appears to be a very fashionable lady, but I really would not know.
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