Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1920 — MRS. FRANCES HOPKINS DEAD [ARTICLE]

MRS. FRANCES HOPKINS DEAD

Aged Rensselaer Lady Died Suddenly Yesterday Morning. Mrs. Frances Hopkins, aged widow of W. A. Hopkins, deceased, died quite suddenly at 4 a. m. yesterday at 'her home on Park avenue after perhaps an hour’s illness from indigestion and heart trouble, from which latter she had suffered several attacks at different times. She retired attacks for a long time. She retired in her usual health Monday evening, but about 3 o’clock Tuesday morning called to her daughter, Miss Gertrude Hopkins, and she lived perhaps an hour after the latter was called. Mrs. Hopkins was born in Portage county, 0., Oct. 19, 1836, and would have been 84 years of age the 19th ’ of the present montlf. was mar-| ried to William A. Hopkins Meh.. 1, 1854, and to this union five children, one son and four daughters, were born. The son and one daughter died in infancy, and another, daughter, Flo, who was married to John L. Cooke of Goodland, died at that place some 34 years ago. Mrs. Hopkins and her husband,, who died Aug. 26, 1908, had resided — in the vicinity of Rensselaer for many' years, residing on a farm north of town for some time, then near Julian, in Newton county, then in Goodland ahd later coming back to Rensselaer, which had since been their home. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. W. A. Thompson of Sullivan, Ind , and Miss Gertrude Hopkins of Rensselaer, also by one sister, Mrs. H. M. Purcupile, of this city, and by a host of warm and life-long friends. At this writing the funeral arrangements had not been completed.