Walter(6) Hopkirk was the second yougest son of William(5) Hopkirk and Isabella Home
Walter wrote many letters from his home in Missouri to his brothers John and William in Iowa. Please check the olde letters section, we will eventually be adding his letters there.
We know that Walter travelled to California for a brief period of time to try and make his fortune in the gold fields, and that he was in Sutter Creek.in the early 1850's. He returned to his wife and her family in Missouri and lived out his life there. He wrote many letters during the US Civil War.
Click here to see a Chest of Drawers built by Walter Hopkirk. The picture was supplied by Martha Hamil of San Antonio, Texas. The Chest of Drawers used to be in the possession of Florence Feaster in Birminham, Alabama. We do not know the current location of the Chest of Drawers.
Walter(6) Hopkirk married Mary Ellen Moffatt
They had the following children:
Jessie(7) HOPKIRK was born in 1850 and died in 1941. She married Frank CRANDALL. on 12 Jan 1870.
David(7) HOPKIRK was born 27 Jan 1852 in Iowa and died 11 May 1925, Teller County, Colorado
Mary(7) Ellen HOPKIRK was born 1 Apr 1858. She married James Fowler FEASTER on 15 July 1875.
Frank(7) HOPKIRK was born about 1867.
Lucy(7) HOPKIRK was born 12 July 1871 in Missouri. She married Bart COPELAND, and they had sons named Ray and Fred COPELAND.
The 1860 Census had the following information from the Missouri Census page #97, sheet # 323, Township # 43, Range 23:
Walter Hopkirk, age 37, born in Scotland
Mary Hopkirk, age 31, born in Kentucky
Jessie Hopkirk, age 10, born in Iowa
David Hopkirk, age 8, born in Iowa
Mary Hopkirk, age 2, born in Missouri
None of the family appears in the 1880 census
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This page was last updated June 29, 2008
