Rebecca Ellen Heslet Hopkins

1847 - 1922  (74 years)

• Name	Rebecca Ellen Heslet Hopkins
  Nickname	Ella
  Born	1 Dec 1847	Zionsville, Boone County, Indiana
  Gender	Female
  Died	26 Jun 1922
  Buried	28 Jun 1922	Rossville Cemetery, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Person ID	I4024	Rossville
  Last Modified	24 Dec 2018

  
  

  Father	Jacob Heslet,   b. 27 Apr 1814,   d. 7 Apr 1873  (Age 58 years)
  Family ID	F2546	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Josiah Thomas Hopkins,   b. 4 Jun 1845, Phelps County, Missouri ,   d. 5 May 1921  (Age 75 years)
  Married	16 Mar 1870
  Children	+ 1. Ida May Hopkins Ayres,   b. 1 May 1874, Kansas ,   d. 17 Mar 1958, Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas  (Age 83 years) + 2. Ira Thomas Hopkins,   b. 15 Dec 1875, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas ,   d. 17 May 1950, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas  (Age 74 years) + 3. Frederich Eli Hopkins,   b. 1879,   d. 1927  (Age 48 years) + 4. William Bond Hopkins,   b. 3 Apr 1881, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas ,   d. 26 Apr 1929, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas  (Age 48 years)   5. George Hopkins,   b. 1883,   d. 1883  (Age 0 years)   6. Walter Hopkins,   b. 1886,   d. 1887  (Age 1 years)   7. Ella Hopkins,   b. 1897,   d. 1897  (Age 0 years)   8. Esther Hopkins,   b. 1897,   d. 2 Feb 1899, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas  (Age 2 years)
  Last Modified	30 Mar 2020 22:08:15
  Family ID	F2547	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

  Obituary- Hopkins, Rebecca Mrs. J.T. Hopkins Died Monday Mrs. Rebecca Ellen Hopkins, widow of the late J.T. Hopkins, died at 5 o'clock Monday evening following a long illness. Since a stroke of paralysis last February she had been practically helpless and required the assistance of a caretaker. Mrs. Hopkins had been unconscious since Friday of last week and no hope was held out for any improvement in her condition. Her death was due to a number of complications. Mrs. Hopkins had been a resident of Kansas for the past fifty-nine years. She was a native of Zionville, Indiana, where she was born, Dec. 1, 1847, coming to Rossville township while a young woman. While living at Tecumseh she was united in marriage to Joseph Hopkins, March 16, 1870. Of the seven children born to this union four survive her. She united with the Baptist church in her girlhood but later affiliated with the Methodist church here. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at 2 p.m. and was attended by a great number of lifetime friends and neighbors. The service was conducted by Rev. Basquin. The songs sung at the service were the one selected by Mrs. Hopkins herself in planning the little services she preferred should be done following her death. Members of her family who survive are her daughter, Mrs. Ida Ayers, of Magnolia, Texas, and three sons, Ira T. of Rossville, Fred and William of Topeka. She is also survived by four half-sisters, Mrs. Frank Cooper of Eskridge, Mrs. Mina Wax of Maple Hill, Mrs. M.S. McElvain and Mrs. Delia Swearingen of Rossville; three half-brothers, James Heslet, Washington, D.C., Joseph Heslet, of Rossville, and Jacob Heslet, address unknown. Interment was made in Rossville cemetery in the family lot.