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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  DEVEREUX HOPKINS, Register in Chancery, is by birth a North Carolinian. In
1835, at the age of twenty-two, he came into Greene County, and began farming.
He was educated at Raleigh, N. C. and there began the battle of life as a clerk.
His father, Wm. W. Hopkins, was many years a merchant at Smithfield, that State,
and there died when our subject was only five months old. The maiden name of his
mother was Sarah Boone, daughter of Joseph Boone, of North Carolina, a relative
of the famous Daniel Boone, of Kentncky.

  Ten years after her husband's death, Mrs. Hopkins married Thomas Cobbs. of
Raleigh. Chancellor Cobbs, of the Northwest Chancery Division, this State, and
James Cobbs, many years Circuit Judge of the Mobile District, are half-brothers
of Mr. D. Hopkins.

  In 1836, D. Hopkins removed from Greene County to Mobile, and there embarked
in the commission business with Hinton & Horton.

  In 1838, he married Miss Elizabeth W. Ryan, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Ryan,
of the Baptist Church, and the same year returned to Central Alabama, and
settled in Sumter County, where he resumed cotton planting upon a pretty
extensive scale.

  In 1846 he held his first public office, that of sheriff; in 1851 he was a
member of the lower house of the Legislature, as a Whig; and in 1868 removed to
California, residing some years at Stockton, serving the people part of the time
as justice of the peace and police judge. In 1880 he returned to this State, and
was soon afterward appointed Register in Chancery.

  Mrs. Hopkins died March 2, 1884. Of the ten children born to them six are now
living. The eldest son, Wm. W., was a member of Hampton's brigade during the
late war, and is now employed professionally as an expert accountant. A
daughter, Sarah E., was the wife of the brave Capt. Abner L. Gaines, who lost
his life at Shiloh. Mrs. Abner L. Gaines subsequently married Captain Lake, also
an old soldier, now of Mobile. Another daughter, Miss Kate Hopkins, is now the
efficient postmistress at Livingston. Anna married Dr. Wm. M. Bryant, of Clarke
County; Florence is now Mrs. Addison G. Smith, of Livingston. Ala., and Miss
Julia, the youngest, has not left the paternal roof.

  Mr. Hopkins is now in his seventy-fifth year. It is more than a half century
since he first came into Alabama. Here he has lived past the average years of
man, and here will his presence be more missed and mourned than average men
when, in the fulness of the Maker's own good time, he shall be gathered unto his
fathers.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
COTTON BELT.


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