While paging through the material I received from Sheryl the other day, I made a big discovery: There were two James Hoppers--one (b. 1859) who is buried in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery in Linn County, Iowa (wife, Lovilla), who never lived in Jasper County, MO--his father was Abraham Hopper--and the other--(b. 1862) in Jasper County, MO (wife, Mary Jane Swallom)--his father was Elias Hopper, brother of the Abraham I just mentioned and also brother of my 2nd g grandfather--William Hopper. I believe that Abraham, William and Elias had another brother named Archibald, who settled in Polk County, MO and who was there by the 1840s. His name appears in a book I have about the Slicker War and he was in Polk County when Samuel Bunch (a descendant of the Louisa County, VA Bunches) was Sheriff there. Archibald Hopper was anti-slicker--which means that he opposed the Turk mob who was trying to control the county. Elias Hopper (b. 1825) and his wife Mary Jane Swallom and their family left Ohio for Missouri and were there just before the Civil War broke out. William and Abraham went to Iowa. Elias' son, James Hopper, was born in Jasper County in 1862. These were Union people, so they fled the state in fear of their lives and joined other family member in Iowa. James later returned to Jasper County. And I think it is quite possible that he eventually settled in Humansville. The E.R. Hopper I found of record in Jasper County, was James Hopper's son, not his brother. And I mentioned two additional sons in a previous message: one in Deepwater--one in Avista. Someone has also given me the name of a Joseph Hopper, who settled in Crawford County, KS, who may have been another son. I believe James married Mary Jane Swallom in Iowa, and then they relocated to Jasper County, MO. Her sister joined them for a visit, met and married William D. Kessler, my great grandmother's brother. While leafing through these records, I see that a number of Kesslers settled around the Shellsburg/Palo, Iowa area and that they continued to intermarry with the Hopper/Van Fossen group already residing there. I have to look more into this. And, I am now looking for a Harold Inman in Kansas. I don't have my records with me at the moment to specify a place or date--but that is a new search. Barbara ===== Barbara Inman Beall, Ph.D.--Prof. Writer/Researcher Lancaster-Wormiston Press E-Mail: BIBeall@email.msn.com, BBeall43@yahoo.com Voice Mail: (303)556-5477 Snail Mail: P.O. Box 173, Broomfield, CO 80038-0173 Home Page and for access to website: http://mail.ancestry.com/ancestry/users/bibeall __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com