Hopkins Co. Tx - Eli Hargrave talks about a Kentucky Tourist

From:  June E. Tuck  <jparks@neto.com>

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ELI HARGRAVE TALK ABOUT KENTUCKY TOURIST

1938

It seems that the "Echo man" has been enjoying the presence of some of
his Blue Grass neighbors from Kentucky, and is somewhat at a loss to know
whether or not they are really our kin.

Now the writer does not know positively and would not attempt to say, but
from our information from historical gatherings, it is quite likely that
Hopkins County, Kentucky, was named for the same Hopkins family that
Hopkins County, Texas, got its name.

Frank Hopkins, father of James, Elliott, Richard and Isabella, came to
Texas from Kentucky in about 1830 and settled in Red River County.
Isabella married James Clark, also of Kentucky, and it is said they built
the first house in Clarksville in 1833.

Henry Hopkins , brother of Frank, and father of Joslin, Eldridge, David
and Harry, came to Texas from Indiana, just across the river from
Kentucky, and settled in Red River County. When the Hargraves came here
from Indiana in December 1842, and February 1843, they found the Hopkins
and Clarks about Clarksville, but they went 35 miles west and made the
first settlement in what was to be Hopkins County. Eldridge Hopkins was
the first one of the name to come to this Hargrave settlement. He came in
March 1843, and some of the Clarks came here during the same spring. So
you see the Hargraves, Hopkins, and the Clarks were the first settlers in
these parts, __llie (paper torn) Barker settled a few miles further west
in the same spring.

This vicinity and country as far west as "cross-timbers" was known as the
Red River District, and was later carved into counties. Hopkins was taken
from Lamar and Nacogdoches counties and remained a part of Lamar County
for some time before its organization in 1845, and established in 1846.

It was named for the Hopkins family. Sam J. King, Mrs. W. J. Davis, and
Mrs. E. N. (Pole) Bingham are descendants.