Hoopers in Tennessee in 1850-Robertson County

Robertson County lies due north of Davidson County (where so many other Hoopers had settled before 1800). Established in 1796 from parts of the original Tennessee County and from a piece of Sumner County, Robertson shares its northern border with Kentucky. Springfield is the county seat. Land and court records date from 1796.

The first page number is the handwritten one and the second number was the stamped number. These Hooper families, enumerated in October 1850, left the area before 1860:

page 97/48, household 1253
H. T. Hooper 32 NC Shoemaker $500 [school column marked "4"] ¹
Martha 36 TN
Almeda 15 TN [school column marked "1/1"]
Dimza 12 TN [female][school column marked "1/1"]
Susan 11 TN [school column marked "1/1"]
Delilah 8 TN [school column marked "1/1"]
Allen 6 TN
Sarah 4 TN
James 2 TN

page 103/52, household 1285
Samuel Hooper 78 VA [occupation:] none [real estate value blank] ²
Susannah 65 NC cannot read or write ³
Samuel A. 26 Farmer

Notes:

Henry Hooper married Martha Little on 6 Aug 1835 in Wilson County, Tennessee. Tax records in Greene County, Missouri show that this family had moved to Missouri by 1856. In 1860, they were listed in Christian County, MO but by 1870 were back in Greene County. By 1880, they had moved to Hays County, Texas.

Samuel Hooper's family is identified by an email dated 98-01-27 to Ron Hooper and posted on the Hooper@Contesting.com mailing list by Danya Downey, 2128 Golf Club Lane, Nashville, TN 37215:

     "My fourth great-grandfather was Samuel Hooper 
     who was said to have been born in Virginia in 1769
     and reared near Richmond.  He first married 
     Martha Jones Goode, probably of Dinwiddie County, 
     who died sometime after 1813.  By this first marriage 
     he had the following children:
       Polly Hooper          b. abt. 1794-1804 married Robert Roe
       John Jones Hooper     b.  abt. 1800     married Mildred R. Wadlington
       Martha Jones Hooper   b.  abt. 1805     married Richard Fitzgerald
       Frances Goode Hooper  b.  1806          married William Weatherford
       William Y. Hooper     b.  1811/12       married Elizabeth Harrelson
     All of  these children were born in Virginia, 
     and all married in Caswell County, North Carolina.
     Samuel Hooper married Susannah Alford in Caswell County in 
     1817, and they resided there until they moved to Robertson 
     County, Tennessee, in the early 1830's. From Tennessee they 
     moved to Greene County, Missouri, where Samuel died in 1862.
     By his second marriage, he had:  Samuel A., Pleasant, Allen, 
     Henry, and Dabner."

Further records also exist. Lois Smathers Neal, 1979, Abstracts of Vital Records from Raleigh NC Newspapers 1799-1819, Reprint Co., Spartanburg, SC (entries 2293 and 4040) has two marriages on the same day:

Married in Caswell County, Thursday, 9th, Mr. Samuel Hooper to Miss Susannah Alford. Raleigh Register Friday 17 Jan 1817 3:5. Marriage bond Caswell Co., NC dated 7 Jan 1817. Bondsman, Maj. S. Graves.
Married in Caswell County Thursday, 9th, Mr. Robert Roe to Miss Polly Hooper daughter of Samuel Hooper. Raleigh Register Friday 17 Jan 1817 3:5. Marriage bond Caswell Co., NC dated 1 Jan 1817. Bondsman, A(llen) Munn, witness Azariah Graves.

The household [#1284] immediately before Samuel and Susannah (Alford) Hooper involved probable relatives of Mrs. Hooper:
--W. D. Alford 39 TN farmer
--Grizelda Alford 19 TN
--Milton Alford 40 NC no occupation
--Mary Alford 8/12 TN

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