Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1908 — AUSTIN HOPKINS DEAD. [ARTICLE]

AUSTIN HOPKINS DEAD.

|>ies Suddenly Wednesday Morning «- From H «*iu*t Disease. SlAustin Hopkins died at His home fnTUver street between :i and 4 a. in., Wednesday morning. His case seemed to be one of acute heart failure, as he had been in his usual health when he went to bed Tuesday night, about 20 minutes before the rest of the family retired at 9:30. He had been digging potatoes Tuesday and had assisted in moving a sidewalk in the afternoon, with every appearance of enjoying his usual good health, and for some reason stayed up later than usual for him. When his wife retired he was wakened from his sleep and nothing unusual was noticed at that time, but between three and four o'clock in the morning she was aroused by a noise that indicated that he had an attack of nightmare, but at the same time she noticed that he breathed heavily. She immediately went to call her daughter, Miss Gertrude Hopkins, who was upstairs. but before she' got back he was dead. V , Willian/ Austin Hopkins was the youngest* of five sons of Matthew and Martha Meade Hopkins, and was born at Homer. Ohio,-August 2, 1830. In 1841 he went to Hancock county, Ohio, with his *viren6i and resided there until 1863, krhen he removed to Rensselaer, then a small town. On Mtwh 1, 1854, he was united in marriage to Francis E. Coates, and to this union there were born five children, of whom two died in infancy while the family resided in Ohio, and a third died at Goodland in 1885, Flora Leuella Cooke. The wife and two daughters. Mrs. Will A. Thompson of Sullivan and Miss Gertrude of this city survive him. : After a few years residence here Mr. Hopkins moved to Goodland

where he resided until the fall of 1886, when he moved to Garden City, Kan., where he resided until 1896, when longing to return to the scenes of his early manhood, the family came back to this city and have resided here since. He had been a member of the Methodist church since his boyhood days, and was also a member in good standing of the Masonic order, dating from 1860, which order had charge of the funeral, after short services had been held at his late residence by Rev. H. L. Kendig. The funeral was held yesterday at the family residence on South River street at 4 o’clock p. m., and interment made in Weston cemetery.