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[These were transcribed from photographs of unidentified newpaper clippings.]
After a long and useful life of 82 years, J. O. Hopkins came to his eternal end at 9 o'clock yesterday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. C. Burdick, 111 Pearl street, death being caused by heart and kidney trouble. A wife, three daughters, Mrs. Ella Wagner and Mrs. Myra Burdick of Janesville and Mrs. Jennie Perkins of Plainville, Kas., one son, John Hopkins of Grainfield, Kas., two brothers, Chas. and Nelson Hopkins, and one sister, Mrs. Jennie Garret of Topeka, Kas., survive the deceased. The funeral will be held from the Pearl street residence tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, the interment to be made in the cemetery at Afton.
John O. Hopkins, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. C. Burdick, on Monday and whose funeral took place on the following Wednesday, was born in Erie county, New York, Dec. 17, 1824. His early life was spent on his father's farm. In 1849 he removed to Ohio where he was employed in a saw-mill He was married in 1851 to Miss Susanna Carn [Kaighin] of Painesville, Ohio, and both moved in 1854 to Buffalo where the deceased served for many years as police constable. In 1866 Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins moved to Rockton, Ill., where the first named was for some time employed in a paper mill. From 1870 to 1879 the subject of this sketch was engaged in farming in Rock county. In the spring of 1879 he started with his family for the far west, driving overland to western Kansas, where he took up a homestead which he worked for eight years. He was justice of the peace for three terms at Halcyon, Kas. In 1887 he moved to Gray [Guy, a.k.a. Tasco, 8 miles east of Hoxie, Sheridan County, Kansas], Kas., where he kept a general store and served as postmaster for several years. During the past eight years he and his wife had made their home with their daughter, Mrs. E. C. Burdick, 111 Pearl street. Nine children, two of whom died in infancy, were born to them. One son, J. W. Hopkins of Plainfield [Grainfield], Kas., and three--daughters--Mrs. Burdick and Mrs. J. T. Waggoner of Janesville and Mrs. Charles Perkins of Plainville, Kas., and his aged wife survive him: also three brothers--W. W. Hopkins of
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NOTE: The paper mill in Rockton, Illinois was the Winnebago Paper Mills owned by Bradner, Smith & Co. which was established in Chicago in 1852 and is still run by descendants of the founders.
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