Mcintosh County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hopkins, Col. Charles Harris December 12, 1886
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Savannah Morning News   12 December 1886
                          COL. CHARLES HARRIS HOPKINS
     Col. Charles Harris Hopkins, who died at Hudson, McIntosh County, last week
was born at Belleville, in the same county, July 6, 1812. General Francis
Hopkins, his father moved to this state from Hilton Head, S.C. in 1805, and
purchased the Belleville plantation on the Sapelo river. In 1834 the late col.
Hopkins married Miss Mary Givens, a wealthy young lady of Beaufort, S. C.  This
union gave them ten children, seven of whom survive him--ones son and six
daughters. These are Col. C. H. Hopkins, Jr., of Darien; Mrs. Hill. of
Nashville, Tenn; Mrs. Holland of Jacksonville, Fla.; Mrs. Mrs. Hopkins, of
Brooklyn, N. Y.,; Mrs. Hoppoldt, a widow of the same city, and two unmarried
daughtes, who resided with him at the time of his death.Gen. Edward Hopkins, of
Jacksonville, Fla. and Dr. T. S. Hopkins of Thomasville, Ga.; are brothers, and
Judge John L. Hopkins, of Atlanta, a nephew of the deceased. Col. Hopkins had
been Alderman and Mayor of the city of Darien, and represented his native county
in both branches of the Legislature. He was a member of three constitutional 
conventions, representing many counties, viz,anterior to the war, Pierce in 1805
and Chatham in 1877. At the time he represented Chatham he resided in Savannah,
holding the position of Assessor of United States revenue for the first
collection district. In the convention of 1877, he was the author of several
important measures, notably "No imprisonment for debt," and a resolution
petitioning Congress to remove the disabilities of all Southerners who
participated in the late war. For a number of years he was Colonel of the First
Regiment Georgia Militia. In 1852 he was the Whig candidate for Congress in the
First district and was only defeated by 65 votes. He was a delegate to the
Baltimore Convention in 1860that nominated Bell and Everett for the Presidency
and Vice-Presidency, respectively. He advocated the nomination of Senator Sam
Houston, Texas' favorite son, so eloquently as to excite the most flattering
comments of the Texas press, and it has been said that Hopkins county, in that
State was named in honor of him. He was delegate from the State at large to the
Republican Convention of 1868 at Chicago, when he voted for Grant. It seems that
Col.Hopkins always voted the Republican ticket for President, while the
Congressional and local positions he supported the best man, regardless of
political creed.   

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