My great great great grandfather was Thomas Hopkins, born in Patrick County, Virginia in 1813. He was the son of Richard Hopkins, Jr. and a woman that tradition has called Nancy Burnett, but who was identified in an 1840 affidavit as Polly Burnett. Thomas's mother died shortly after his birth and he was raised by his grandfather, Obediah Burnett. Richard Hopkins was married secondly in 1816 to his late wife's sister, Elizabeth Burnett. Arround 1830 Richard and Elizabeth moved to Washington County, Tennessee and by the mid-1830's settled in the Hickory Tree section of Sullivan County. In addition to Thomas there were three children born in Virginia and six in Tennessee: William H. Hopkins Sarah Hopkins, married a Rains and lived in Carter County, Tennessee. Betsy Hopkins, married John White Peggy Hopkins Ruth Hopkins Mary Hopkins, married Hugh Bowling James E. Hopkins, married (1) Jane Britt and (2) Sarah Muskgrave Obediah Hopkins Moses Hopkins Thomas Hopkins joined his family in Tennessee in the 1830's and married one Mary Webb there about 1835. Mary was born in Tennessee in 1811. Their eldest child, my great great grandmother, Mariah Jane Hopkins, was born in Sullivan County, Tennessee in 1836. Following her birth Thomas, Mary their daughter moved back to Patrick County, Virginia upon the death of Obediah Burnett. Richard and Elizabeth appear in the 1850 and 1860 census in Sullivan County. Richard is said to have died in 1864, at the age of 84. He operated a grist mill on a creek that feeds into the Holston River. Mary Webb died in Patrick County, Virginia in 1876 from "a nervous condition". In her death record her husband listed her parents only as "Webbs". I have never been able to connect her with any of the Webb families in the area, there were two living adjecent to the Hopkins in one census and I feel like she may belong to the Jacob Webb family. Thomas died in 1884 of "gall blatter disease". If anyone has done any research on them I would love to talk with you. Truman Adkins Fieldale, Henry County, Virginia