Cabarrus County NcArchives Biographies.....Hopkins, Phenice Nixon 
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Phenice Nixon Hopkins

His full name was Phenice Nixon Hopkins, and I have seen his first name 
spelled about six ways, usually variations of Phineas but also have seen 
Phenix. Evidently he didn't like the name Nixon, and I am told that he 
sometimes went by P. Nicholas Hopkins. His daughter, Regina Loretta always 
referred to him in her writing as Phenice Nixon, in spite of his self-
appointed nickname. 

Phenice was born Aug 24, 1831 to James Edward Hopkins and Mary Ellis. He first 
married Margaret Elvira Beaver on July 17, 1855 in Cabarrus County (daughter 
of Isaac Beaver and Elizabeth Eagle). They had a daughter named Alice. 
Margaret died July 19, 1856 and is buried at St. John's Lutheran Church in 
Concord. 

Then he married Margaret's sister, Mary "Mattie" Sapphire Beaver on Oct 27, 
1856 in Cabarrus County. Phenice and Mattie had 13 children. 

Phenice died in January 1892 of a broken neck resulting from being thrown from 
his horse while riding to church in a driving snow-storm. (I guess the moral 
of this story is to stay home from church when the winter storms hit.) Both he 
and Mattie are buried at the Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, just a few miles from 
St. John's Church. 


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