Z 2074.000 Hooper (Lottie) Genealogical Collection

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HOOPER (LOTTIE) GENEALOGICAL COLLECTION

William Roderick Hooper was born in Edinburg, Leake County, Mississippi, on September 13, 1855. His future wife, Mary Hawkins Ray, was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on June 26, 1859, and soon after her family moved to eastern Neshoba County, Mississippi. William Roderick Hooper and Mary Hawkins Ray were married in December of 1881, and they lived in Edinburg until their move in December of 1919 to Durant, Holmes County, Mississippi, where William Roderick Hooper was a planter. The Hoopers had eight children, including their first-born, Lottie Hooper. Seeking greater job opportunities, the Hoopers moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in December of 1925. William Roderick Hooper died in Memphis in April of 1938, and Mary Hawkins Ray Hooper died in Memphis on August 25, 1948.

Lottie Hooper was born in Edinburg on January 17, 1883. After graduating from Edinburg High School and receiving her teaching certificate at Carthage, Leake County, Mississippi, Hooper attended a number of schools, including Memphis State University, Mississippi University for Women, the University of Chicago, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Virginia. She taught at various schools over a career that began in 1902 and ended in 1947. Hooper taught first grade at Macon, Noxubee County, Mississippi, from 1907 to 1916. She worked briefly as a clerk in the adjutant generals office of the United States Department of War in 1918 before resigning to teach once more. After her employment as a public schools supervisor in Wichita Falls, Texas, from 1920 to 1923, Hooper moved to Memphis. She taught first grade in the public schools of Memphis from 1926 to 1947, when she resigned because of her mothers ill health. After researching the genealogy of the Hooper and allied families in her later years, Lottie Hooper died in 1981.

This collection consists of six scrapbooks of genealogical materials assembled by Lottie Hooper, and there is one published genealogy on the Hooper family. The scrapbooks contain genealogical materials on the Hooper and allied families living primarily in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Some of the families allied with the Hoopers include the Bennett, Chatham, Davis, Edinburg, Edwards, Fowler, Graves, Hamilton, Harris, Harvey, Johnson, Knudson, Lewis, Martin, Nicoll, Ray, Riddick, Russell, Smithson, Stribling, Turner, Wiggins, and Wilson families.

The contents of the six scrapbooks include certificates and diplomas; correspondence; genealogical information from family Bibles, cemetery records, and other sources; handwritten information by Lottie Hooper; newsclippings; and photographs. The majority of the contents of the six scrapbooks are sleeved in Mylar enclosures.

There is also a book entitled Hooper Genealogy: A Southern Branch, which was published by Flora Hooper Collier in 1972. It is the second volume in a multi-volume series, and it contains a few annotations concerning the family of Edith Hooper.

1. Scrapbooks. ca. 1700s-1900s. 6 boxes.
2. Hooper Genealogy: A Southern Branch. 1972. 1 volume.

• Box 1: Scrapbook (James Ray Family).

This scrapbook includes genealogical information on the families of Alice Rosa Ray Edwards; Elroy Levert Hooper; Emmett Thurman Hooper; James Leon Hooper; Sue Ella Ray Hooper; Helen Ray Knudson; T. W. Lewis; Jane Russell Martin; Kathryna Hoffman Ray Nicoll; Clarence Lamar Ray; Eugene T. Ray; Homer Lamar Ray; James William Ray; Ralph Ray; Randolph Ray; and Mabel Ray Russell.

• Box 2: Scrapbook (William Roderick Hooper Family, Volume 1).

This scrapbook includes genealogical information on the families of Eugene Hooper; Homer Marvin Hooper; Lottie Hooper; and Mary Ray Hooper.

• Box 3: Scrapbook (William Roderick Hooper Family, Volume 2).

This scrapbook includes genealogical information on the families of Mary Kathleen Hooper Harris; Walter Harris; Emma L. Hooper; Flora Christine Hooper; Irvin Miller Hooper; James Monroe Hooper; James Monroe Hooper III; and Kathryne Ruth Chipman Hooper.

• Box 4: Scrapbook (William Roderick Hooper Family, Volume 3).

This scrapbook includes genealogical information on the families of Carl E. Davis; Christine Stacy Davis; Dorothy Riddick Davis; Irene Davis; Mark Alan Davis; Edward A. Hamilton; Jennifer Irene Hamilton; Amanda Carolyn Riddick; Leroy Riddick; and Omie Olga Hooper Riddick.

• Box 5: Scrapbook (Johnson Monroe Hooper Family).

This scrapbook includes genealogical information on the families of Albert George Bennett; Becky McMillan Edinburg; Susan Berniece Hooper Graves; William Russell Graves; Wilma Thompson Harvey; Benjamin Franklin Hooper Charles Jefferson Hooper; Clara Elizabeth Hooper; Emmett Thurman Hooper; John Ward Hooper; Johnson Monroe Hooper; Luther Alexander Hooper; Matthew Brooks Hooper; Milton Monroe Hooper; Wilson Edwards Hooper; Josephine E. Johnson; Empress Gayle Smithson; Eleanor Vernon Hooper Stribling; and the Cheatham (or Chatham) family.

• Box 6: Scrapbook (Johnson Monroe Hooper Family, Supplement).

This scrapbook includes genealogical information on the families of Claud Bernard Fowler; Albert Brown Hooper; Levi Brooks Hooper; Mary Hooper; Walter B. Hooper; William Roderick Hooper; Julia Ann Hooper Turner; Harold Wiggins; Necie Wilson; and Sarah Bethany Hooper Wilson. There are also research notes on various allied families.

• Box 7: Hooper Genealogy: A Southern Branch
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