Emma Ewers Taylor Hopkins was responsible for my start in genealogy, even though it didn’t happen until 24 years after she died. Becoming a genealogist was the last thing on my mind when I picked up my maternal grandmother’s fill-in-the-blanks family tree book in 2002. I hadn’t seen it since I looked at it around […]
Wolfenbarger
Surname Saturday – Wolfenbarger
Stephen Wolfenbarger and Eliza Hopkins Let me start by saying I have absolutely no proof that Stephen Wolfenbarger was the father of Eliza Hopkins’ children but that’s the family story. I do know for sure is that the story doesn’t exactly match what can be proven. The story passed down through the family is that […]
Madness Monday: The Father of James Arton Hopkins
Oral family history tells us that James Arton “Jim” Hopkins and his brother, William Columbus “Lum” Hopkins, were the sons of Stephen Wolfenbarger and Eliza Hopkins. “The story” passed down through the family is that Eliza and Stephen got married and had two boys, Stephen went off to fight for the Confederacy in the Civil […]
