The remains of Col. S. B. Hopkins, who died yesterday morning at his home at Grand Prairie, will arrive at 1:40 this afternoon at the Interurban Depot on a special car. The funeral procession will form at the depot and proceed to St. Matthew's Cathedral, where the funeral service will be conducted by Dean Walk. Interment will be made in Oakland Cemetery.
Col. Samuel B. Hopkins, who had been a citizen of Dallas for the last twenty years, had been ill for the last year. For several years he had been out of active business, living most of the time on his ranch in Cooke County. He is survived by three children by his first wife and leaves a widow and one little girl.
The deceased was born in Washington County, Virginia in 1849. He came here from Tennessee and engaged at first in the wholesale liquor business His wife died some time after arriving in Texas and he married Mrs. Miers.
Col. Hopkins was prominent in Odd Fellow circles and was also at one time head of one of the Knights of Pythias regiments and later a brigadier general of the Texas brigade, uniform rank.
Dallas News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
03-24-1906
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Col. Samuel B. Hopkins, who had been a citizen of Dallas for the last twenty years, had been ill for the last year. For several years he had been out of active business, living most of the time on his ranch in Cooke County. He is survived by three children by his first wife and leaves a widow and one little girl.
The deceased was born in Washington County, Virginia in 1849. He came here from Tennessee and engaged at first in the wholesale liquor business His wife died some time after arriving in Texas and he married Mrs. Miers.
Col. Hopkins was prominent in Odd Fellow circles and was also at one time head of one of the Knights of Pythias regiments and later a brigadier general of the Texas brigade, uniform rank.
Dallas News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
03-24-1906
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The remains of Col. S. B. Hopkins, who died yesterday morning at his home at Grand Prairie, will arrive at 1:40 this afternoon at the Interurban Depot on a special car. The funeral procession will form at the depot and proceed to St. Matthew's Cathedral, where the funeral service will be conducted by Dean Walk. Interment will be made in Oakland Cemetery.
Col. Samuel B. Hopkins, who had been a citizen of Dallas for the last twenty years, had been ill for the last year. For several years he had been out of active business, living most of the time on his ranch in Cooke County. He is survived by three children by his first wife and leaves a widow and one little girl.
The deceased was born in Washington County, Virginia in 1849. He came here from Tennessee and engaged at first in the wholesale liquor business His wife died some time after arriving in Texas and he married Mrs. Miers.
Col. Hopkins was prominent in Odd Fellow circles and was also at one time head of one of the Knights of Pythias regiments and later a brigadier general of the Texas brigade, uniform rank.
Dallas News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
03-24-1906
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Col. Samuel B. Hopkins, who had been a citizen of Dallas for the last twenty years, had been ill for the last year. For several years he had been out of active business, living most of the time on his ranch in Cooke County. He is survived by three children by his first wife and leaves a widow and one little girl.
The deceased was born in Washington County, Virginia in 1849. He came here from Tennessee and engaged at first in the wholesale liquor business His wife died some time after arriving in Texas and he married Mrs. Miers.
Col. Hopkins was prominent in Odd Fellow circles and was also at one time head of one of the Knights of Pythias regiments and later a brigadier general of the Texas brigade, uniform rank.
Dallas News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
03-24-1906
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