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Rebecca Ellen Heslet Hopkins

Female 1847 - 1922  (74 years)


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  • Name Rebecca Ellen Heslet Hopkins 
    Nickname Ella 
    Born 1 Dec 1847  Zionsville, Boone County, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 26 Jun 1922 
    Buried 28 Jun 1922  Rossville Cemetery, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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 Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 May 1921  (Age 75 years) 
    Married 16 Mar 1870 
    Children 
    +1. Ida May Hopkins Ayres,   b. 1 May 1874, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Mar 1958, Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
    +2. Ira Thomas Hopkins,   b. 15 Dec 1875, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 May 1950, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (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 Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Apr 1929, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (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 Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 2 years)
    Last Modified 30 Mar 2020 22:08:15 
    Family ID F2547  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Obituary- Hopkins, Rebecca
    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.