Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1905 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Mrs. Lovina Hopkins was born in 1834,’in the state of New York. She came to Jasper county, Indiana, over fifty years ago, and came with her sister and family, Mrs. J. B. Spangle, so well known by all residents of Rensselaer at that early date. She was soon after married to Wm. S. Hopkins, son of Jeduthan Hopkins, and was one of the first attorneys at law in the then town of Rensselaer. To this union was born two children, a daughter and a son— Mrs. Eva D. French of Seattle, Wash., and Frank Hopkins, of Chicago, 111. She died at her home in Chicago, October 1, 1905, after an illness of only six days, at the age of 71 years and 9 months. She had never been a member of any church. Her funeral was held here in the house of worship of the Church of God, on October 5, 1905, being largely attended by the friends and numerous relatives of the deceased, among whom were both of her ohildren. She was interred in the Weston cemetery. She now rests beside her husband in undisturbed reg>se, awaiting the final call of im, “to whom every knee shall bow and every tongue confess.” For Sale— Three good work horses and a cow. Enquire at the John Makeever farm,lour miles west of Rensselaer — Reece Robey. Tires, rims, spokes, frames, and everything in the bicycle supply line at Gwin’s.