I just received the death certificates for four of the children of James and Ann above - Maria J.T. Hooper Kemp, James Hooper, Samuel E. Hooper, and Charles Henry Hooper. The death certificate for Charles was especially interesting. It said that he was living at the Mount Hope Retreat in Baltimore and that he was a laborer there. This retreat was a mental institution with a succession of names. The death information was also given by the personnel at the Retreat, not any of his remaining brothers and sisters. It would certainly be interesting to find out more information on the life of poor Charles.
Another tidbit turned up in the death certificate of Samuel. It said that he was a widower. We had never turned up any family information for him. So we might want to look for a marriage for him if we are going to try to locate all of the descendants of James and Ann.
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I'm a Hooper descendant! My late mother's maiden name was Hooper. Her great-grandfather was Wm Brannan Hooper, one of the 16 children of James Hooper Jr and Ann Elizabeth Brannan Hooper. I am currently trying to find any military service of Samuel E. Hooper (a son of James Hooper, Jr) so we might mark his grave in Baltimore, Maryland's Greenmount Cemetery (where his parents are also interred in Hooper family plot) properly. You say he was a widower, eh? mwdaley@earthlink.net
Hi Mary! It's Joanne and you found me! I started this blog some time ago and, as you can see, don't regularly update it. I'm not doing too much genealogy research at the moment.
In regard to your question, I have a copy of the death certificate for Samuel E. Hooper (certificate # B536614). It states that he died at age 61 with no current occupation and died of carcinoma of the larynx. It also quite clearly states that he was a widower. However, I seem to recall that some of the siblings lived together in later years. If he was living with his sister, perhaps is possible that she was mistaken for his wife. Have you got any research that says he was married.
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