Ida Jane Snodgrass was born on 5 Dec 1870 in Cooper Co, MO, daughter of William H. & Catherine C. Snodgrass. Her grandpa, Andrew J. Snodgrass, had settled in Cooper Co, MO, before 1839. In 1850, his family is located in Cedar County. In the 1870 census, however, William and "Catharine," are living in Cooper Co, listed with five children: Robert E. (7), Mary A. (4), James (2), and Ida (5m). In 1880, Ida's family is living in Cedar Co. At that time, there are seven children in the home, Mary (14), James (11), Ida (8), Belle (6), Nellie (3), Dollie (1). From 1870 to 1880, Ida's ages do not match. The 1900 census has her birth listed as Dec 1879, 29 years old, and her gravestone also records 1870 as her year of birth. Either she was born in 1869 and her family miscounted her age when she was still young, or the family lost an infant daughter named Ida, born in 1869, then named their next child born in 1870 by the same name.
One interesting note about Sam and Ida's hometown was the presence of one fellow resident, Kate Austin. Austin, who due to the brevity of her life, was a less well known ultra-feminist and anarchist. Sam and Kate Cooper Austin lived in Caplinger Mills from 1890 until her death in 1902. While she was less well known, she attracted her friend, the more famous (or infamous) Emma Goldman to visit Caplinger Mills and offer feminist and anarchist lectures in the town in 1897 and 1899, which were well attended. Austin and Goldman's views on free love, contraception, abortion, pacifism, and proletariat solidarity had to make quite a stir in the rural Missouri village. Goldman made such a stir that her citizenship was eventually revoked and she was deported back to Russia in the middle of the Bolshevik revolution. Of course, there is no way to know now, whether any of the Hopkins family attended Goldman's lectures, or how they received such extremist radical ideology in the 1890s, but Ida Hopkins, who lived on a farm, raising a large family, would have represented an opposite ideal to that of Emma Goldman.
Ida was married to Sam Hopkins in 1891 and bore eight children, two dying in infancy. Ida Hopkins died on 9 Aug 1908 in Farlington, KS, not long after moving there from Cedar Co. She was pregnant and died of blood poisoning, leaving her widower six children at home. She was laid to rest with the infant in Farlington, Cemetery.
One interesting note about Sam and Ida's hometown was the presence of one fellow resident, Kate Austin. Austin, who due to the brevity of her life, was a less well known ultra-feminist and anarchist. Sam and Kate Cooper Austin lived in Caplinger Mills from 1890 until her death in 1902. While she was less well known, she attracted her friend, the more famous (or infamous) Emma Goldman to visit Caplinger Mills and offer feminist and anarchist lectures in the town in 1897 and 1899, which were well attended. Austin and Goldman's views on free love, contraception, abortion, pacifism, and proletariat solidarity had to make quite a stir in the rural Missouri village. Goldman made such a stir that her citizenship was eventually revoked and she was deported back to Russia in the middle of the Bolshevik revolution. Of course, there is no way to know now, whether any of the Hopkins family attended Goldman's lectures, or how they received such extremist radical ideology in the 1890s, but Ida Hopkins, who lived on a farm, raising a large family, would have represented an opposite ideal to that of Emma Goldman.
Ida was married to Sam Hopkins in 1891 and bore eight children, two dying in infancy. Ida Hopkins died on 9 Aug 1908 in Farlington, KS, not long after moving there from Cedar Co. She was pregnant and died of blood poisoning, leaving her widower six children at home. She was laid to rest with the infant in Farlington, Cemetery.
Ida Jane Snodgrass was born on 5 Dec 1870 in Cooper Co, MO, daughter of William H. & Catherine C. Snodgrass. Her grandpa, Andrew J. Snodgrass, had settled in Cooper Co, MO, before 1839. In 1850, his family is located in Cedar County. In the 1870 census, however, William and "Catharine," are living in Cooper Co, listed with five children: Robert E. (7), Mary A. (4), James (2), and Ida (5m). In 1880, Ida's family is living in Cedar Co. At that time, there are seven children in the home, Mary (14), James (11), Ida (8), Belle (6), Nellie (3), Dollie (1). From 1870 to 1880, Ida's ages do not match. The 1900 census has her birth listed as Dec 1879, 29 years old, and her gravestone also records 1870 as her year of birth. Either she was born in 1869 and her family miscounted her age when she was still young, or the family lost an infant daughter named Ida, born in 1869, then named their next child born in 1870 by the same name.
One interesting note about Sam and Ida's hometown was the presence of one fellow resident, Kate Austin. Austin, who due to the brevity of her life, was a less well known ultra-feminist and anarchist. Sam and Kate Cooper Austin lived in Caplinger Mills from 1890 until her death in 1902. While she was less well known, she attracted her friend, the more famous (or infamous) Emma Goldman to visit Caplinger Mills and offer feminist and anarchist lectures in the town in 1897 and 1899, which were well attended. Austin and Goldman's views on free love, contraception, abortion, pacifism, and proletariat solidarity had to make quite a stir in the rural Missouri village. Goldman made such a stir that her citizenship was eventually revoked and she was deported back to Russia in the middle of the Bolshevik revolution. Of course, there is no way to know now, whether any of the Hopkins family attended Goldman's lectures, or how they received such extremist radical ideology in the 1890s, but Ida Hopkins, who lived on a farm, raising a large family, would have represented an opposite ideal to that of Emma Goldman.
Ida was married to Sam Hopkins in 1891 and bore eight children, two dying in infancy. Ida Hopkins died on 9 Aug 1908 in Farlington, KS, not long after moving there from Cedar Co. She was pregnant and died of blood poisoning, leaving her widower six children at home. She was laid to rest with the infant in Farlington, Cemetery.
One interesting note about Sam and Ida's hometown was the presence of one fellow resident, Kate Austin. Austin, who due to the brevity of her life, was a less well known ultra-feminist and anarchist. Sam and Kate Cooper Austin lived in Caplinger Mills from 1890 until her death in 1902. While she was less well known, she attracted her friend, the more famous (or infamous) Emma Goldman to visit Caplinger Mills and offer feminist and anarchist lectures in the town in 1897 and 1899, which were well attended. Austin and Goldman's views on free love, contraception, abortion, pacifism, and proletariat solidarity had to make quite a stir in the rural Missouri village. Goldman made such a stir that her citizenship was eventually revoked and she was deported back to Russia in the middle of the Bolshevik revolution. Of course, there is no way to know now, whether any of the Hopkins family attended Goldman's lectures, or how they received such extremist radical ideology in the 1890s, but Ida Hopkins, who lived on a farm, raising a large family, would have represented an opposite ideal to that of Emma Goldman.
Ida was married to Sam Hopkins in 1891 and bore eight children, two dying in infancy. Ida Hopkins died on 9 Aug 1908 in Farlington, KS, not long after moving there from Cedar Co. She was pregnant and died of blood poisoning, leaving her widower six children at home. She was laid to rest with the infant in Farlington, Cemetery.
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