Name: John Otey Hopkins
Service Info.: 1ST LIEUT US ARMY CIVIL WAR
Birth Date: 2 Nov 1833
Death Date: 4 Nov 1894
Cemetery: Brown Cemetery
Cemetery Address: Gainesboro, TN 38562
[U.S. Army, Co. B, 8th Tennessee Mounted Infantry. Enlisted as 1st LT. on Jan. 15, 1865, discharged Aug. 17, 1865.]
Bio info supplied by Barbara Parker (#47047423)
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John Otey Hopkins served with the 25th Tennessee Infantry, CSA, Company G, with rank of 2nd Lt.
The 25th Infantry Regiment completed its organization in August, 1861, at Camp Zollicoffer, in Overton County, Tennessee. Its members were recruited in the counties of White, Overton, Putnam, and Jackson.
This unit fought at Fishing Creek, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Knoxville and also went into Virginia and saw battles at Petersberg and ended at Appomattox Courthouse. The field officers were Colonels John M. Hughes and Sidney S. Stanton; Lieutenant Colonels Samuel Davis, George G. Dibrell, R.C. Sanders, Robert B. Snowden; and Majors Josiah H. Bilbrey, William A. Duncan, Samuel H. McCarver and Timothy H. Williams.
Bio info supplied by Jan Beattie (#47923032)
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Son of the late Otey and Anne (Simmons) Hopkins.
Elvira America Burke/Hopkins (1838-1880) was his first wife [Date of Marriage 1855]. Amanda Brown was his second wife.
Name: John Otey Hopkins
Service Info.: 1ST LIEUT US ARMY CIVIL WAR
Birth Date: 2 Nov 1833
Death Date: 4 Nov 1894
Cemetery: Brown Cemetery
Cemetery Address: Gainesboro, TN 38562
[U.S. Army, Co. B, 8th Tennessee Mounted Infantry. Enlisted as 1st LT. on Jan. 15, 1865, discharged Aug. 17, 1865.]
Bio info supplied by Barbara Parker (#47047423)
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John Otey Hopkins served with the 25th Tennessee Infantry, CSA, Company G, with rank of 2nd Lt.
The 25th Infantry Regiment completed its organization in August, 1861, at Camp Zollicoffer, in Overton County, Tennessee. Its members were recruited in the counties of White, Overton, Putnam, and Jackson.
This unit fought at Fishing Creek, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Knoxville and also went into Virginia and saw battles at Petersberg and ended at Appomattox Courthouse. The field officers were Colonels John M. Hughes and Sidney S. Stanton; Lieutenant Colonels Samuel Davis, George G. Dibrell, R.C. Sanders, Robert B. Snowden; and Majors Josiah H. Bilbrey, William A. Duncan, Samuel H. McCarver and Timothy H. Williams.
Bio info supplied by Jan Beattie (#47923032)
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Son of the late Otey and Anne (Simmons) Hopkins.
Elvira America Burke/Hopkins (1838-1880) was his first wife [Date of Marriage 1855]. Amanda Brown was his second wife.
Inscription
John O Hopkins
Husband of
Amanda E.
Born
Nov. 1, 1833
Died
Nov. 1894
(rest of stone unreadable)
Family Members
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Marion David Hopkins
1858–1916
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John Otey Hopkins
1861–1939
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Martha Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hopkins Spurlock
1864–1930
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Sidney Stanton "Hoppy" Hopkins
1865–1950
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Nannie Belle Hopkins Ellis
1870–1961
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Frank Bennett Hopkins
1876–1966
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Charlie Cleveland Hopkins
1886–1965
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Robert Lee Hopkins
1888–1979
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Jonas Clay "Shug" Hopkins
1890–1971
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Alise Lena Caroline Hopkins Carter
1892–1964
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