Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1898 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

William P. Hopkins. •William P. Hopkins was born in Dayton, Ohio, Opt. 19th, 1830. He was educated at an institution for deaf mutes at Columbus. Ohio. In 1800 he came to Jasper Co., and married Minerva Yeoman, also a deaf mute They went to Kansas and remained* a year and then back to Ohio, for another year. In 1865 they come t 6 Rensselaer and made this their ‘home ever since excapt for a period of 9 months, in 1893, when they lived in Benton Harbor, Mich.

Only one child was born to them, Stephen Hopkins, who died in October 1881, at the age of 20 years. He was an excellent and dutiful young man and his death was a life long grief to his parents. He was hurt in a runaway in May *lBBl, and an abscess resulting from the injury was the final cause of his death.

Mr. Hopkins leaves a widow and adopted daughter, now Mrs. Emma Romack. He also leaves a sister in Indianapolis. In life he followed the vocation of a carpenter, and was an industrious and honorable workman, and in all respects a strictly honest man and a good citizen. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon, at the F. W. Baptist church. Rev. D. A. Tucker conducting the religious services. Interment was in Weston oemetery.