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So-named, the story goes, when Indian hunters dumped rotting hunting waste in its headwaters. |
Lavina/Melvina "Viney" Hopkins  daughter of Isaac &Nancy(Pew)Hopkins granddaughter of Nehemiah &Mahulderry(LNU)Hopkins great-granddaughter of Stephen &Catherine(Clouse)Hopkins b: 01 Feb 1846, at Mulberry Branch, Hancock Co, TN d: 27 Mar 1920 Pineville, Bell Co, KY buried: Hopkins-Taylor Cemetery, near Stinking Creek, Knox Co, KY (same cemetery as Elix) |
Amelia/Permelia Hubbard m: on 11 Aug 1885, in Knox Co, KY illeg daughter of Fannie Hubbard granddaughter of Matthew &Sarah/Winy(LNU)Hubbard great-granddaughter of Thomas &Frances(Hollingsworth)Hubbard b: 08 Nov 1857 Clay Co, KY d: Aft 1910 prob in Bell Co, KY |
 William Edward "Bill" Smith, Sr., great-grandson of Pierce &Nannie(Bailey)Smith, Bill was greatly assisted by Ralph Mills, Elix's & Viney's gg-grandson; and, by Joyce (Taylor) Collins THANKS TO CUZS BILL, RALPH, JOYCE, FOR SHARING! To email Bill, CLICK HERE |
the youngest son of Cornelius and Sally Walker Taylor, was married to Lavinia Hopkins by a minister of the gospel in 1862. Family records indicate she was about 16 years of age. He would have been about 24 years. There was no license nor was there an official record of this marriage, however, owing to the times, and Lavinia's relating of the circumstances in the letter of record written by her granddaughter, Rosa, there is little doubt this marriage occurred. |
as written to Ralph Mills by Lavinia’s granddaughter, Rosa (Hopkins) Napier daughter of John &Martha(Warren)Taylor-Hopkins lived on stinking creek, in Knox Co I don't know the dates when my grand mother, my father mother-Elix Taylor - Melvina Hopkins-Walker Ky Knox Co- They got married by the bible because the court house wasent built. All people came in on the covered wagons got married by the bible. She said she were 16teen when she got married to Elix Taylor. One Sunday he were to come to church house, he were late. The service were over, all went home. Elix Taylor came on up to the people where she stayed, a family named Clouses, I think she said. Well Elix insisted for them to go down git the preacher git married, so the people Mrs. Clouses told her to go with him git married if she wanted to marry Elix Taylor, so she went with him this preacher married them, said the sermonia over. Laid the bible down on this well big rock, on top, both placed their hands on the bible pronounced them Husband and Wife- To their reunion were borned 6 children John Thomas Taylor 3 girls Sarah Taylor Jim Taylor Nancy Taylor Isaac Leonard Taylor Martha Taylor Then when they built the court house they took cencus to see who married by the bible or Licens. Then after they had took the census they didn't find no record in court house of them gitting married, that were where they got licens in a few years after they had built the Barboursville court house. Grand maw Hopkins told me she and Elix Taylor had been separated 2 years - but the distance between their marriage and when the license came in to court of Barboursville she never told me. Still all six of their children were in school age, then the court orded grand mother Melvina or Vinnia Elix Taylor come in court get lecins git married, they both met to court house. He had fell in love with nother women, she didn't say who she were but she were a cook down to his saw mill, in flat lick out from Barboursville Ky. He had bought several acers of timber there for his saw mill-trand mother couldent take those children cook for his work hands- she said we stayed all day in court after grand father Elix Taylor refused to remarrie her with lecins, so the court desided then to let all the children names go in by her name Hopkins. Elix or her didn't want them children to come in to Hopkins name. Then when school begined that Summer the teacher he told that the way the court told him to do had to let it go that way. She said to me, Rosa Hopkins, look over to grave yeard. he were burried over there still he call for me before he pass away or died. She and my father John Hopkins went to him and stayed till he died, put up there that is the Hopkins-Taylor grave yard now up on stinking creek Knox Co post office Mills Ky. While grand mother Hopkins told me this she cried till tears rolled down her cheeks. And she told me Elix got licens some time later on married this woman his cook - later on I could have been ........[missing line at top of page, due to bad copying effort]........ ere married L-hanon Sizemore. To Elix Taylor his wife to their reunion were borned 3 children Mary Taylor, George Taylor, Dannial Taylor - I never met either one of these men still I thought by the way my Father talked about them, how pleased he were every time he met them. When they would come back to Pineville Ky to visit I.L. Hopkins - I new he liked them both vary mutch. George Taylor said to me one of my brothers I have met every on of John Hopkins children except his daughter Rosa I want to meet her before I die for I have come back to Pineville to die. Well we never met. Then I never new he had bought 2 grave sight in Pineville Ky simetary till after I had went up there bought 2 grave sight Oct 4, 1967. On up from where your Father Jim Matt were put away - then when uncle George were burried his grave will be next to me, beside me next row. I pray may God Bless both of us to rise out of our graves to meet our savor Jesus Christ in Peace, in the first resurrection of those times, then we will know each other. Maybe this is the way it is - That the way it is - That way it was in 18, hundreds -Your Aunt Rosa H. Napier I don't deny the name of Taylor never did nor my father but in those days didn't speak about it. |
The information regarding the marriage of "a" Mary Taylor to Elhanon Sizemore comes the mention in Rosa'a letter and from David Gambrel, a "cousin" from Lincoln Co., KY who says, "Elhanon Sizemore m. Mary Taylor and two of their children were George an Shafter Sizemore . . . When I was about 6 years old, Shafter told me my family was kin to his mother's family. I have never been able to make this connection . . . |
"The Pineville Sun" Mrs. Melvina Hopkins, mother of our fellow townsman, J.L. Hopkins, died last Friday evening about 7 o'clock, at her home in the Morris & Jones Addition, after an illness of several weeks of Bright's Disease. She was 74 years of age. Mrs. Hopkins moved to Pineville about 15 months ago from near Mills, in Knox County, where she had lived since a girl. She was born in Claiborne County, Tenn., February 1, 1846. She is survived by six children, three boys and three girls. The remains were taken to her old home in Knox County on Saturday, and on Sunday, were laid to rest in the family burying ground, on the home farm. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Rice Wagoner. Mrs. Hopkins had been a member of the Baptist Church for nearly 40 years, and had lived a consistent, Christian life. She was much beloved by those who knew her. |
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March 31, 2003 London, Kentucky March 20, 2003 Roy Brock, 88, of Slate Lick Road, London, Kentucky, died Thursday, March 20, 2003, at the Marymount Medical Center in London. He was the son of the late Rosa and Eli Brock; and was preceded in death by his wife, Ellen Brock. Funeral services were conducted Sunday, March 23, at the Bowling Funeral Home Chapel, with burial following in the Pittsburg Cemetery in Pittsburg, Kentucky. |
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(Bobbie Sue) from crops of an illustration in "Voyage Dans L'Amerique Septentrionale," by Victor Collot. Full llustration found online at "Images of the West" | |
