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HOOPER of Lunenburg County, Virginia, Greenville County, South Carolina & Franklin County, Georgia


Obediah Hooper was born ca 1720, probably Hanover Co., Va., d. 4/6/1803 in Franklin Co., Ga. m. Massalva Brooks of Virginia. He was an early settler to northwest Franklin County, Georgia, and served in the Revolutionary War, along with his son, Richard B. Hooper.

Issue:
  1. Mary Hooper b. Lunenburg Co., Va., d. In Ga. m. William White, a Rev. War Soldier whose LWT was dated 2/12/1817, proved 1818 in Clarke Co., Ga. Mary's LWT was dated 1861.
  2. James Hooper, d. Ga., m. Elizabeth. He drew in the Ga Lottery of 1827, land in DeKalb Co., Ga.
  3. Thomas Hooper b. 1747 Va., d. 7/18/1826 Greenville Co., S. C. m. Jincy.
  4. William Hooper, his LWT dated 8/20/1815, probated 5/1816 Franklin Co., Ga. m. Joicy. He was a Rev. War Soldier.
  5. Obediah Hooper, Jr. b. 12/15/1755 Lunenburg Co., Va., d. 5/31/1839 Pickens Co., Alabama m. (1) Sally Gates and (2) Elizabeth Carter, and (3) Sarah Sanders on 3/24/1805.
  6. Richard Brooks Hooper b. 5/1756 Lunenburg Co., Va., Rev. War Soldier, his pension application dated 1/28/1833 in Franklin Co., Ga., stating that he enlisted at the Lunenburg Court House where he resided on 3/1776, and was in the 6th Regt. Of Va., Continental Army. Stated he was born in Lunenburg Co., Va., May of 1755 or 1758, he does not remember which. After the war, in 1782 or 1783, he removed to Surry Co., N. C. In 1790, he was listed on the Virginia census as having 3 sons under the age of 16, 4 females, which included his wife and two daughters, and 5 slaves. In 1799 he removed to Greenville Co., S. C. for two years, thence to Pendleton Dist., S. C. For three years until about 1820, thence to Franklin Co., Ga. The Hooper Genealogy stated that he was b. 1756 and m. in Halifax Co., Virginia on 1/13/1783 to Mrs. Elizabeth Adams Word, widow of Charles Word, who was killed at the Battle of Kings Mountain, and that he died after 1836, buried at his old homestead in now Banks Co., Ga., tradition saying that he had three marriages, the 2nd one to Elizabeth Word, 3rd one to Andensia Dolba Miller. Elizabeth's daughter, Millie Word, married Richard's brother, Matthew Hooper. Richard Hooper was buried in the Miller graveyard, near Prospect Church, in Banks County. Issue:
         
    1. Nancy Hooper b. 10/10/1783.    
    2. Obediah Hooper.    
    3. John Hooper b. 7/15/1786 Greenville Co., S. C.    
    4. Matthew Brooks Hooper (1788-1874) married Jincy Lane. Issue:
      1. Richard Lane Hooper.
      2. Brooks Hooper.
      3. Mary Hooper married Nathan Wikle.
      4. Elizabeth Hooper married Jesse Hanley.
      5. Nancy Hooper married Clayton Ayers.
      6. Martha (Patsy) Hooper married Matthew B. Cockeram on May 24, 1831.
      7. Millie Hooper married Joe Cash.
      8. Susan Hooper.
      9. Jane Avaline Hooper.
      10. Sarah Elizabeth Hooper.
      11. Alvin Dean Hooper born April 12, 1827, died July 29, 1909, married 1st, Christine Caroline Chambers (born February 6, 1930), on December 7, 1851, and 2nd, Nancy Edwards. Issue:
      a. Mary Hooper born September 23, 1852 married Thomas Rice.
      b. James Thomas Hooper born November 1, 1856, died February 3, 1930, married Margaret Parks.
      c. Nancy Elizabeth Hooper born December 20, 1859, died 1947, married Basil Mauldin.
         
    5. Susannah Hooper.    
    6. Jesse Carter Hooper.    
    7. James Adams Hooper.    
    8. Amelia M. Hooper b. Greenville Co., S. C. 7/17/1798, d. 1870 m. 3/13/1816 Benjamin Cleveland, bro. of Phoebe, wife of Obediah, bro. of Amelia.
      Issue:
            
      1. Arminda Cleveland.     
      2. James Monroe Cleveland.     
      3. Richard Hooper Cleveland.     
      4. Martha Cleveland.     
      5. Louisa Cleveland.     
      6. Oliver Cromwell Cleveland.     
      7. Benjamin Franklin Cleveland.     
      8. John Word Cleveland.     
      9. Harriett Amelia Cleveland.     
      10. Nancy Hooper b. 96th Dist., Greenville Co., S. C. m. James Goodlett.     
      11. Amelia Hooper b. Va., d. Barron Co., Ky. m. 12/1/1781 Johnson Monroe. Called "Milla."     
      12. John Hooper b. Va. m. Polly, dau. Of Charles Word and Elizabeth Adams Word, a Rev. War Soldier.     
      13. Matthew Brooks Hooper b. 6/16/1768 Va., d. 1845 Franklin Co., Ga.
Sources: Lunenburg Co., Va. Deed Bk 2, Franklin Co., Ga. WB 1790-1812; Hooper Genealogy, a Southern Branch by Flora Hooper; Franklin Co., Ga. Estates; Bulloch's History and Genealogy of the Habersham Family; Ga. Chapter of DAR; Virginia Militia in Rev. War by J. T. McAllister; Clarke Co. Wills; History of Franklin County by Franklin Count Historical Society.

Deed Book 2, page 457, Lunenburg Co., Va. Deeds, 1/7/1752, Abraham Cooke deeded to Obediah Hooper of Lunenburg Co., 309 acres on the southside of the north fork of the Meherrin River. He had other deed transactions in that county through 1765. His LWT dated Franklin Co., Ga., WB 1790-1812, p. 47, named issue: Mary White, James Thomas Hooper, John Hooper, Obediah Hooper, Matthew Hooper, William Hooper, Richard Hooper, Nancy Goodett, Amelia Monroe, Susannah Perry.