----- Original Message ----- From: DFox To: PAINDIAN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 6:57 PM Subject: obit Hopkins-Gazette Sept 18, 1936 Indiana Evening Gazette, September 18, 1936 ----------------------------------------- A. Murray HOPKINS Alexander Murray Hopkins, son of John and Miriam (WORK) HOPKINS was born February 4, 1857, and died September 13, 1936. Death was caused by complications following pneumonia. His life was practically all spent in East Mahoning township. He was married (first) to Rosetta HAMILTON, on March 12, 1891, and her death occurred February 14, 1904. To this union were born three children: Mark of Portland, Ore., Mary, wife of Lester STEELE of East Mahoning township and Grace, who died in infancy. In December, 1909, he was married (second) to Amanda Margaretta THOMPSON, who survives. Also surviving is a sister, Mrs Myra COLE of Fort Morgan, Colo., and three grandchildren: Horace, Donald, and Marjorie STEELE. Mr Hopkins was a member of the Mahoning United Presbyterian Church. From childhood he was a faithful attendant and in later years served as superintendent of the Sabbath School or teacher and for many years a ruling elder. He was interested in music, being a song leader before the adoption of instrumental music in the church. As a citizen he stood for that which makes a true man--temperance, honesty and education--serving as school director for many years. His unswerving fidelity to his Bible and the truths contained therein marked him as a man of the faith, who, with the Psalmist, could say: "I delight to do Thy will." Funeral services were conducted in Mahoning Church Tuesday afternoon, in charge of his pastor, the Rev Samuel W Shane and interment was in the church cemetery.