Pickens County AlArchives Obituaries.....Hooper, Jr., Obadiah May 31, 1839
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Huntsville Democrat, Madison County, June 29, 1839
"Another Revolutionary patriot gone. Died at his residence near Pickensville, AL on
the 31st ultimo, 
Obadiah Hooper, Jr. in the 84th year of his age. Mr. Hooper was born in Lunenburg,
VA on the 15th day 
of December 1755 where he resided until the outbreak of that glorious struggle which
gave us our 
Independence. He heard the Declaration of Independence read by the immortal
Jefferson. He fought at 
the Battle of Bunker Hill. He was also, at Trenton and was one of those who crossed
the Delaware 
under the godlike eyes of the immortal Washington to attack the British and Hessians
at Princeton. 
Here, he has often been heard to say, the blood marked the grounds as it trickled
from his shoeless 
feet. He was at the Storming of stony Point, he was at Gates defeat. He was at the
memorable siege and 
battle of Yorktown and had the honor of seeing Cornwallis surrender his sword. He
was likewise at the 
Battle of Brandywine and was wounded twice in that engagement, once from a musket
ball and once 
from the stab wound of a bayonet and there is no doubt that the wound from that
occasion hastened 
his death even at this remote period. He has left an affectionate wife and a large
number of children 
and grandchildren."

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