Hoopers in Tennessee in 1850

This page of links is dedicated to a survey of every Hooper (and some Hoppers) I can find who was living in Tennessee in 1850. In the mid nineteenth century, Tennessee's navigable rivers and mountain passes made the state a gateway, opening the way to points west. Many of these antebellum Tennessee families left little kin and scant record behind when they settled more western territories. The federal census sometimes can be one of the few available sources proving where a family once resided in Tennessee. In those places where I have been able to discern additional information about families, I have added notes supplying more data than was available on the 1850 census itself.

A note about the several page numbers on the 1850 census: Usually, the enumerator himself wrote a page number by hand, starting with page 1 on the front of a form, and page 2 on the backside of the form. Such numbers were in the same ink and handwriting as the rest of the page. Since there might have been several enumerators within the larger counties, there may be several pages beginning at number 1. So, when all the pages within a supervisor’s district were collected, another page number might have been added. Often, such later additions were crudely made with a wax pencil, in obviously different writing from the names on the page. Finally, when the pages reached Washington and were bound into books, stamped page numbers were added. The stamped numbers usually went only on the upper right corner of the front of each form. Differences in the condition of the pages, and differences in practices by the census takers mean that one set of numbers may be the best location finder for one county while another set of numbers works better for another area. Most of these linked web pages describe what I consider to be the best numbers to use in locating the cited households.