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From: Mary Jo Neyer <>
Subject: Re: Fw: HOOPER in Knox County
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:07:51 -0500


Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman wrote:

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> FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 8-Feb-99 14:14
> Subject: Query for Knox Co., Ohio
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> NAME: Donald G. Hooper
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> DATE:1999-2-8
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> QRYTEXT: HOOPER surname
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> Isaac HOOPER born 1785
> James HOOPER born 1805 - entered land in OH
> John Henry HOOPER born 1831 died 1906 Muskingum, Ohio
> married Pleasant CALKINS, born in OH 1829, died
> 1911 in Homer, OH
> Perry HOOPER, born 1871 (my grandfather)
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> I am trying to find this line in Ohio. I understand that James HOOPER, son
> of Isaac HOOPER was born in Virginia.
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Dear Donald, I saw your query about the Hoopers. They have may have originated in Dorchester Co., Maryland, as there was a
very prominent family there with that surname. Hooper's Island is named after them. It is an island in the Chesapeake,
part of Dorchester Co. Mary Jo

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