Born in Greene County, Tennessee USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Blackgrove Hopper II
and Rhoda (Kesterson) Hopper
Sister of
Joseph Hopper, William Hopper, Raleigh Hopper, Harrison H Hopper, Nancy (Hopper) VanNoy, Sarah Sally (Hopper) VanNoy, John Hopper, Jacob Hopper and Elizabeth (Hopper) Hudson
Wife of
James Neill
— married
2 Mar 1815 in Knox County, Kentucky
Descendants 
Mother of
Mary Ann (Neill) McCain and Rhoda Ann (Neill) Tetrick
Died
at age 69
in Neosho, Kansas
Profile last modified
| Created 17 Sep 2013
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Biography
Dorcas Hopper ... Entered by Brianne Rainey, Tuesday, September 17, 2013.
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Dorcas was born in 1798, the daughter of Blackgrove and Rhoda (Kesterson) Hopper, in Tennessee. On March 2, 1815, she would marry James Neill, the son of Arthur and Rhoda Neill. They initially settled in Kentucky and started a large family as follows:
Rhoda Ann O. (Neill) Tetrick (1817-1893)
Washington Blackgrove Neill (1824-1867)
Mary Ann (Neill) McCain (1816-after 1860)
Daniel Noble Neill
George Tetrick Neill
James Neill (1819- )
Torrance Neill
Minerva Neill
John Granville Neill
Arthur H. Neill
Adeline (Neill) Hill (1835-1917)
When and where Dorcas died is unclear.
Sources
- Washington/Lee County, Virginia - 1800 Neill's, by Linda Lee. Posted on Genealogy.com on August 1, 2011. [1]
- Rootsweb Profile on Dorcas (Hopper) Neill [2]
- Descendants of Blackgrove and Rhoda (Kesterson) Hopper [3]
- Geni Profile on Dorcas Neill (Hopper) [4]
- "Indiana Deaths and Burials, 1750-1993", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HP79-QPPZ : 6 February 2020), Hopper in entry for Adaline Hill, .
Acknowledgment
Thank you to Brianne Rainey for creating Hopper-756 on 17 Sep 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Brianne and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dorcas by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dorcas:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dorcas by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dorcas:
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Dena (Wang) Fosli 
:
AncestryDNA
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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~0.78%
Cindy (Ramsey) Barnett :
23andMe, GEDmatch WE6681429 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch WE6681429 [compare], yourDNAportal CIN85014fd6, Ancestry member cbarnett74
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~0.78%
Candace (Rains) Timpanelli :
23andMe
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~0.78%
David Owens :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member bsa199177
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~0.78%
Lynda (Vollmer) McCann :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch XB6871414 [compare], yourDNAportal LYN4f28f5b7, Ancestry member McCann_Lynda
+
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch MV2369517 [compare], yourDNAportal LYN4f28f5b7
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~0.78%
Nicki Scheid :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A948527 [compare], Ancestry member nickischeid
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