Reuben Hopkins (1824 - 1911)

Born 12 May 1824 in Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy (Farley) Hopkins — married 12 May 1848 in Giles County Virginia

Descendants

Died 19 May 1911 at age 87 in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States

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Biography

Reuben Hopkins served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: Aug 1861
Mustered out: Dec 1864
Side: CSA
Regiment(s): Company I, Sixtieth Regiment of of Virginia Infantry

Reuben was a soldier in the Confederate Army, in the Civil War. He joined Captain White G. Ryons Company I Sixtieth Regiment of of Virginia Infantry in August 1861 at the age of 37 years with a family of a wife and seven children. He volunteered at Princeton Mercer County, Virginia now West Virginia. He served in the Confederate Army from August 1861 until the Christmas Holidays, December 1864. At that time he was given a furlough to visit his home and family including his eighth child, a young son. John C. Brackenridge, his Colonel, and Buehring H. Jones told him he need not report to his command unless he was called back to the service.

He rests by the side of his wife in the Rocky Mount Cemetery near his home on the Shockley's Hill Road near Pipestem Church of which Church he was a faithful member for fifty-nine years and the Clerk for fifty-four years.

Known Children:

• 1.Lewis Madison Hopkins b: 16 MAR 1849 in West Virginia
• 2.William R. Hopkins b: 20 OCT 1850 in Franklin Co., VA
• 3.Martha E. Hopkins b: 14 AUG 1852 in Franklin Co., VA
• 4.Henry MacDonald H. Hopkins b: 6 MAY 1854 in West Virginia
• 5.Mary A. Hopkins b: 6 APR 1856 in Mercer Co., VA
• 6.George W. Hopkins b: 29 JUN 1858 in Mercer Co., VA
• 7.Juliana Hopkins b: 6 OCT 1860 in Mercer Co., VA
• 8.John C. Breckenridge Hopkins b: JAN 1864 in Mercer Co., VA
• 9.Judith V. "Juda" Hopkins b: 2 FEB 1868 in Mercer Co., VA
• 10.James R. Hopkins b: 1870 in Mercer Co., VA
• 11.Robert Lee Hopkins b: 8 MAY 1870 in Mercer Co., WV

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #20361814
• Burial: Rocky Mount Cemetery - Pipestem. Summers County West Virginia, USA

• Farley, Bible,Sherrill, Speegle and relations - http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=farleyfile&id=I36003

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:377N-WQM : accessed 2017-08-16), entry for Reuben /Hopkins/.

"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ45-RR6 : 12 April 2016), Reuben Hopkins, West Virginia, United States; citing p. 31, family 218, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 553,193.

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6T4-228 : 15 July 2017), Rueben Hopkins, Pipe Stem, Summers, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district ED 137, sheet 213C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1413; FHL microfilm 1,255,413.

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9Z6-3ML : accessed 22 August 2017), Ruben Hopkins, Pipestem district, Summers, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 131, sheet 5A, family 79, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,773.

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPJ8-HGH : accessed 16 August 2017), Reubin Hopkins in household of Robert L Hopkins, Pipestem, Summers, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 137, sheet 9A, family 126, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1694; FHL microfilm 1,375,707.

"United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHZZ-8S4 : 17 May 2016), Reuben Or Ruben Hopkins, .