Hooper Compass Newsletter

The newsletter focuses on Hooper lineages of southern or frontier locations during the late 18th and 19th centuries. Each issue discusses several lineages or locations. The quarterly Hooper Compass should help Hooper family historians bridge the gap between electronic communications and the print world.

The normal publication and mailing cycle once was November, February, May, and August. For Volume 5, the cycle started in March and will end in December 2004. See the
Hooper order form
for subscription information to Volume 6, or to order the comb-bound booklets for Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. Click on the following links for online indexes for Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4 . Descriptions and tables of content for each volume appear below:

The first issue of Volume 5 was mailed in March 2004. Sea-faring Hoopers and lineages in the two Carolinas provided the major themes. The next issue emphasized Hoopers with connections to the Carolinas before the American Revolution. Issue 3 was mailed in September. The final issue of Volume 5 will be mailed late in November or in early December and will include the annual index. Sometime in 2005, a comprehensive index to all five volumes will become available for purchase.

Union Infantrymen from the North Carolina Coast.............375
How to Get Federal Pension Documents........................382
Hoopers on the 1850 Census - South Carolina.................383
Updates - Siblings of the Signer............................384
Angie Asks ... (Two Questions)..............................386
Traces of Other Hoopers in Carroll County...................387
Richard White Census Listings...............................388
Mary Hooper Affidavit.......................................389
Don't Overlook Masonic Records..............................391
Hatteras Hoopers............................................392
Earliest Census for Outer Banks Hoopers.....................399
Probable Sons, In-laws, and Widow of Ezekiel Hooper.........401
William Hooper, Continental Navy............................404
The King Versus ... the Hoopers.............................405
Charleston Jail.............................................414
Who Were the South Carolina Defendants?.....................417
Why Should the Surname Clemons Be Interesting?..............421
State of Tennessee Versus Simpson Hooper....................431
This Summer's Hooper Reunions...............................432
1830 Hooper Census Listings in Tennessee....................433
Hoopers on the 1850 Census, Part 3 - West Coast: 
     California and Oregon Territory........................439
Hoopers in the 1859 Nashville City and Business Directory...445
Hoopers Enumerated in the 
  City of Nashville (Davidson County, Tennessee) in 1860....448
John J. Hooper Will.........................................450
Barton Hooper, War of 1812 Veteran..........................451
Which Absalom?..............................................454
Angie Asks (about an Obadiah lineage).......................456

Major topics for Volume 4 included Nimrod Hooper (of the Natchez Absalom family), descendants of James Hooper (the Indian fighter), and so-called brick wall Hoopers who have probable descent from the Obadiah Hooper family. Also appearing in the volume were the beginnings of intended series on early Davidson County, Tennessee original records, on state-by-state listings of Hoopers in the 1850 census, and on Hooper families who passed through Caswell County, North Carolina.

War of 1812 Veteran: Nimrod Hooper..........................249
Possible Hooper Cousins near Natchez........................251
Bounty Land File, Act of 55-160-Wt-49836:
                  Veteran Nimrod Hooper.....................259
Hooper Women in Marshall County, Kentucky...................265
1811 Davidson County, Tennessee Will........................266
Who Was Hugh B. Hooper?.....................................268
Tennessee Civil War Veterans Survey: 
                  Part 1 of 3 - A. B. Hooper................273
Census Entries for A. B. Hooper.............................277
DNA: What We've Already Learned.............................280
Brief Book Reviews..........................................282
Taliaferro (Toliver) Hooper.................................283
Congressman Benjamin Taliaferro.............................283
Treaty With the Chickasaw, 20 October 1832..................285
Descendants of Toliver Hooper in Pontotoc County, 
                  Mississippi Census Records................286
Other Early Hoopers in Pontotoc County......................288
N. B. Hooper, Texas Farmer..................................289
Harkness In-laws in Shelby County, Texas....................290
Solomon Smith Family, 1860..................................293
Kinfolk of Mrs. Tishie Hooper...............................295
Map: Southwestern Shelby County Locations...................299
Confusing Information in Pension Applications 
                  Regarding N. B. Hooper....................300
Obtaining Photocopies of Texas 
                  Confederate Pension Applications..........306
Other Hoopers Who Applied for Texas Pensions................307
Mrs. Eliza Danley-Younger Sister of Napoleon B. Hooper......308
Mrs. Honoré Hooper, Latecomer to Bienville Parish...........321
Thomas Hooper, Ship's Captain...............................323
Early Davidson County, Tennessee 
                  Marriage Bonds and Licenses...............324
Death of an Old Soldier.....................................332
Hoopers on the 1850 Census - Arkansas.......................335
Why James Hooper is "the Indian Fighter"....................339
Will of James Hooper, Union County, Kentucky................341
Pioneers in Lawrence County, Arkansas.......................343
Ennis Hooper: Marion County, Tennessee 
                  Revolutionary War Pension.................349
Samuel Hooper's First Family................................351
What is a Vanity Biography?.................................351
John Jones Hooper and Mildred (Watlington) Hooper 
                  Duplicate 1850 Entries....................360
One of Martha Jones (Hooper) Fitzgerald's Illustrious Sons: 
                  O. P. Fitzgerald..........................361
Descendants of Samuel Hooper-(first family).................362
Annual Name Index...........................................365

Volume 3, #1 honored Hooper veterans of the 19th century. The second issue covered Hoopers in Tennessee, the Carolinas, Indiana, and Missouri. Because of the editor's cross-country relocation, issue #3 featured Hoopers who themselves made long moves/migrations. The final issue was mailed late in 2002.

In Tribute..................................................143
A Widow's Claim: Elly Hooper Matlock........................143
Researching Female Ancestry.................................144
William Hooper, a "True Confederate?".......................148
Other William Hoopers.......................................151
Conscription Was A Novelty for the North Georgia Farmer.....153
Hooper Kin and Neighbors in Company G, 
                  65th Georgia Infantry Regiment............155
Websites and Addresses for Veterans Information.............161
Lineage Descriptors.........................................162
Thomas Hooper, Louisiana Veteran............................164
Charles H. Hooper, Mexican War Veteran......................168
Jeptha Hooper and the Creek War of 1813.....................170
Brief Notes.................................................173
Credits and Glossary........................................174
Correction, Update for Tennessee Confederate William Hooper 175
Seeking Elijah Hooper.......................................179
Ask Angie...................................................184
Just How Reliable Are Death Certificates?...................195
Brief Note: Clemmons Hooper.................................196
Syntha M. Hooper Pension Application........................197
Joseph Hooper, Hardeman County Tennessee - Part 1...........198
Cocke County, Tennessee Land Patents........................201
South Carolina Land Patents, 1800 census....................204
Cluck, Cluck................................................208
Editor's Notes..............................................210
On the Move!................................................211
William F. Hooper: from Tennessee to California.............212
Bidwell/Bartleson...........................................215
Who Was Cluck Hooper?.......................................218
I Remember the Evening Tales................................219
Hooper Family Reunion.......................................220
This and That...............................................221
Migration within Tennessee: William and Elizabeth Hooper....223
Joseph Hooper, Hardeman County, Tennessee - 
                  Part II Children and Grandchildren........228
Richard Hooper Estate.......................................240
Annual Name Index...........................................241

Volume 2 began at page 59 and ended on page 142. The ancestry and descendants of William Hooper, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence were the primary focus of the November 2000 issue. The next issue dealt mostly with Hoopers who had Georgia links before 1800. The May issue covered Hooper links in Virginia and Georgia, and included an update on a member of the family of the Signer. The final issue in this volume included reunion reports, discussed a Hooper woman in western NC, and included the annual name index.

William Hooper, Rector of Trinity Church, and William Hooper, 
        Signer of the Declaration of Independence............59
Old Style/New Style..........................................60
Other Hoopers in Boston......................................61
Family of Anne Clark Hooper..................................62
Siblings of the Signer.......................................68
Descendants of Reverend William Hooper, Boston [chart].......76 
Direct Descendants of William Hooper, Signer.................78 
Watters Ancestry in North Carolina...........................78
James Hogg, Friend of the Signer.............................79 
Another Professor Hooper.....................................81 
William Hooper Family record.................................84
Mislaid Documents............................................86
Savannah Merchant - Thomas Hooper............................87
Jesse Hooper, Pioneer of Georgia.............................88
Obadiah Hooper...............................................95
Virginia Deeds..............................................100
Clemmons S. Hooper and Samuel Queen, 
                      Both Georgia Soldiers - But When?.....101
Battle of Stono.............................................101
Broad River Thomas Hooper...................................106
St. Paul Signers............................................108
Tryon Connections...........................................109
Brown's Enmity..............................................110
Why So Much Genealogy 
    Gets into Some Revolutionary Pension Applications.......111
Mislaid Documents...........................................112
Why Didn't You Tell Me?.....................................113
Hanover Hoopers Part 1, Thomas Hooper.......................115
Broad River Thomas Hooper (Part 2)..........................120
Learning from Georgia's Land Records........................126
Update: Savannah's Thomas Hooper............................128
Update: Mary Hooper, Wilmington, NC.........................129
Reunions....................................................130
Time to Resubscribe!........................................131
Reunion Report..............................................132
Hooperfest Preliminary Report...............................133
Salena of Many Names........................................133
Annual Name Index...........................................136

Volume 1 included 58 pages of information and index. A continuing series in the volume was the discussion of the Jackson County, NC case involving heirs of Absalom Hooper. Other articles featured Hoopers in Alabama, Tennessee, Kansas, and Missouri, and included pension and bounty land information.

Hooper vs. Hooper..........................................1, 7
Confederate Pensions - Virginia...............................5
Whatever Happened to ... Burrell Hooper.......................5
Mexican War Pension Claim....................................10
Whatever Happened to ...  the District 14 Hoopers............13
Gossip, 2+2, and the Stephens Family.........................16
Update on Burrell Hooper.....................................19
More Lessons from Hooper vs. Hooper..........................21
Making Sense of the Census...................................22
Missouri Migration...........................................22
Kansas Connections...........................................28
Updates and Corrections......................................32
TN/MO/KS Hooper: Current guess...............................35
Ask Angie................................................38, 44
An Alabama Hooper with Caswell Contacts......................38
Two McMinn County, Tennessee Hoopers.........................39
Problems in Hooper vs. Hooper................................41
Further Information about 
      Margaret Hooper Hooper Bell, and Descendants...........45
Updates: Abraham Hooper, Sr.; Jacob Hooper...................50
Annual Name Index............................................54