Dianne, I received your email with the Hartley family chart and I really appreciate you sending it. I have a puzzle that perhaps you or Mike Gilliland or someone else can solve for me. I keep seeing references that claim that Thomas Bentley Hopkins was the son of Solomon and Mary Hartley Hopkins. I haven't seen anyone site a source for this claim though. I have a problem, however, with my great-great-grandfather Thomas Bentley Hopkins being the child of Mary Hartley Hopkins. I have seen the 1850 Census for Polk County listing a Thomas B Hopkins as a child in the Solomon Hopkins household. I have also seen the 1850 Census for Cedar County listing a Thomas B Hopkins in the household with Mary Kennedy Hopkins (widow of Hugh S Hopkins) along with his brother Hugh and sister (whose name escapes me at the moment). [NOTE: Both boys named Thomas B Hopkins are the same age -- 10 years old.] The 1860 Census for Polk Co has Mary Hartley Hopkins, widow, without a son Thomas B Hopkins in the household. The 1860 Census for Cedar County has Mary Hopkins now married to Allen Surratt. In this household are Mary and her two sons Thomas and Hugh. The daughter had married by this time. So whose son is Thomas B. Hopkins? I have always wondered if he was possibly a nephew (or other relative) of Solomon Hopkins who happened to be visiting in Polk County on the day the Censustaker came along. The fact that Thomas Bentley Hopkins married three Simrell women in Cedar County and the Simrell land adjoined the Surratt land in Cedar County, seems to me to lend weight to the fact that he lived in Cedar County instead of Polk County where Mary Hartley Hopkins lived. What do you think? Nancy Floyd Mabie >From: "Dianne Erwin" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [MOCEDAR] Re: Benton Hopkins Family >Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:24:23 -0500 > >Did you get the Hartley family chart? I'm not sure who I sent it to. > >Dianne > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of >[email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 8:01 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [MOCEDAR] Re: Benton Hopkins Family > > >thank you for the answer. we have been searching high and low. anyone we >can >contact is great. please let me know more. thank you. charles goff > > >==== MOCEDAR Mailing List ==== >When the subject changes, please change the subject line. > >Contact the listowner at: [email protected] > > >============================== >Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate >your heritage! >http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > >==== MOCEDAR Mailing List ==== >Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to better people. >Listowner: mailto:[email protected]?Subject=Cedar > > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp