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From: Deanna Baumgardner <>
Subject: Re: [Hooper] Elections
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:59:39 -0800
References: <4187F299.6040501@bellsouth.net>
In-Reply-To: <4187F299.6040501@bellsouth.net>


Anne: That is such great information. How could we find the same
information regarding our Hoopers in Georgia? Deanna Baumgardner
On Nov 2, 2004, at 12:48 PM, anng wrote:

> So, have you voted today?
>
> Voting leaves behind a possible genealogical record, even if it is
> only a checkmark beside your name of a voting list. And voting lists
> can provide data for future researchers.
>
> Consider the disputed 12th Congressional District election in North
> Carolina, for which voting occurred on 13 August 1835. The district
> covered the counties of Burke, Haywood, Yancey, Macon, Rutherford and
> Buncomb. Voting irregularities were alleged. Some men - of course, no
> women could vote back then - voted in a county other than where they
> lived. A few of them voted more than once, at different precincts near
> their own communities. And, according to the Congressional
> investigation [24th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives
> Report #378], more than one voter was paid for his vote.
>
> But for us genealogists, the significance is that we can exactly place
> where several Hoopers and Hooper kinsmen of NC were living halfway
> between the 1830 and 1840 census. A LOT of these people moved to
> Georgia before 1840. A voter had to be at least 21 years old. Absentee
> ballots were not available, so someone very old and enfeebled probably
> did not vote. Thus, the names below largely represent males born
> between 1755 and 1814.
> I give below some of these people. Spelling is as recorded from the
> poll books.
>
> "Cany Fork, in the county of Haywood" included
> 7. Henry Brown [son-in-law of Absalom Hooper]
> 17. Clemmons Hooper [the son of Clemmons, Sr.]
> 18. William Hooper [son of Absalom]
> 21. Isaac Hooper [son of Absalom]
> 22. Absalom Hooper [Junior]
> 23. Clemmons Hooper, Sr.
> 26. Watson Picklesimer [grandson of Absalom Hooper]
> 27. Benjamin Hooper [grandson of Absalom]
>
> "Vandyke's Store Election Precinct" in Macon County included
> 24. Clements Hooper [b. 1796-1805 SC, moved to AL about 1836]
>
> "Culliwhee Election Precinct" in Macon County included
> 1. Abraham Picklesemer [son-in-law of Absalom]
> 15. John Hooper [adopted son of Absalom]
> 23. James Hooper [son of Absalom]
> 44. Enos Hooper [son of Absalom]
> 57. Absalom Hooper
>
> Remember, go vote today. Make sure you get on the records!
>
> Regards,
> Anne Goodwin
>
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