Gillium Monroe Hopper
- Gillium Monroe Hopper is my 4th
great-grandfather,
Gillum
Monroe Hopper was born in Warren County,
TN on the 26th of
November 1827, and he is a son of
Absolom C. Hopper and Ollie B (Moore)
Hopper. Absolom Hopper died in 1851 and
upon his death Gillum M. Hopper
inherited from him a farm of fifty
acres.
In 1872 Gillum
Hopper decided to try his fortunes in
Missouri and went
to Clarkton, where he purchased a farm
of one hundred and thirty-seven acres
and where he also built a mill and a
gin, continuing to operate the same
until 1881, at which time he moved to
Malden. In the latter place he
conducted a gin for the ensuing 18 years
during which time a great deal of
cotton raised in this section of the
state passed through his hands. In 1889
Mr. Hopper's mill and gin at Malden were
destroyed by fire and from that time he
lived in virtual retirement on a farm
located two miles south of Malden until
1906 and since then he has lived with
his daughter, Mrs.Samuel DuVal Dunscomb.
In his political affiliations Mr. Hopper
is aligned as a staunch supporter of the
principles and policies of the
Democratic party. In fraternal channels
he is connected with the local lodge of
the Independent Order of Oddfellows. In
this religious faith he is a devout
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South in Malden and in the same is an
active and zealous worker.
Mr. Hopper and
his first wife Elizabeth Jane Daniels
were the parents of five daughters and
one son which included William Clark
Hopper, Mary Elizabeth Hopper Dunscomb,
Ollie B. Hopper Vinson and Julia Ann
Hopper Peck. Two daughters died in
infancy. Gillum Monroe Hopper died on
August 15, 1912 and both he and
Elizabeth as
well as several of their children are
buried in the Park Cemetery in Malden,
Dunklin County, MO. Note: Mary Elizabeth
Hopper Dunscomb was my
great-grandmother. My grandmother,
Lillie B Dunscombe married William
Reuben Anderson in 1905, My father,
George Henry Anderson, was born in 1908.
I was born in Malden in 1937 Gillum and
Elizabeth Hopper were two of the five
founders of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South in Malden in 1885.
Information
furnished by Judy Anderson Hamby,
Lenoir, North Carolina via the Missouri
Bootheel.
Thanks
Judy Anderson Hamby
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