David Davenport HOPPER

12 Sep 1825 - 4 Dec 1907

Father: John David HOPPER
Mother: Mary Gray DAVENPORT

Family 1 : Deodicea YOUNG

  1.  Mary Catherine HOPPER
  2.  Sarah Evaline HOPPER
  3.  Ida Jane HOPPER 
 
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                         _Charles HOPPER ___|
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 _John David HOPPER ____|
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|--David Davenport HOPPER 
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|_Mary Gray DAVENPORT _|
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Notes:

Believed to have been part of the Hagans-Cockrill 1853 immigration..

From 1850 Census, Bates County, MO, dwelling #537: David Hopper (a. 25, bp. Tenn), Clarissa (a. 24, bp. MO), Catharine (a. 4, bp. MO), and Sarah (a. 2, bp. MO).
From 1860 Census, Mendocino Twp, Sonoma County, CA, page 88: David Hopper (a. 34, bp Tenn), Dicey (a. 35, bp. MO), Mary C. (a. 14, bp. MO), and Sarah E. (a. 12, bp. MO).
From 1900 Census, Mendocino Twp, Sonoma Co., Ed 162; Sh1; Ln 97 in dwelling #22, David Hopper(a. 74, b. Sep 1825, bp. TN, father b. NC, mother b. - ), farmer.
From a biography in Jeanne Miller's papers:
  David Hopper born in 1825 near Chatanooga, Tennessee. Was the son of John Hopper and Mary Gray. Married Dicie Young who was born in Lafayette County, Missouri in 1825, a relative of the voluminous Hopper clan. Dicie was the daughter of John Young who died on the plains and was buried on the Green River while coming with an earlier party. Some of the Hoppers and Youngs were probably members of the Hudspeth/Myers party. David, Dicie, and their two daughters, Sarah who was four and Mary who was six, came out with the Hagans-Cockrill party in 1853. From 1853 to 1854, Hopper settled in Pengrove. From 1854 to 1856, he settled in New Town near Petaluma, which was a development of his cousin, Thomas Hopper. Thomas Hopper was one of the first to make money in the mines. He could not read or write, but became president-owner of three banks in Sonoma County. His son uged him to learn how to read and write, but he replied that he would do so as soon as his son could sign his name to as big a check as he could. In 1856, David Hopper moved to Healdsburg where he took up land for his family, but spent most of his time raising sheep on the Gualala River, which is on the northern border of Sonoma County. David Hopper continued to live in the Healdsburg area for the rest of his life.  

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