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Jimmie Lee ODEN-MERCER's maternal fifth, great grand parent William HOPPER's ancestors and descendants.
Drucilla Dorman and John Hopper b.1808-9 d. 1857b. are Jimmie Lee Oden Mercer's maternal great, great, grandparents
Jimmie's maternal great grandparents are William Allen Hopper b. 11-7-1835 d. 2-21-1917 and Margaret Lou Floore b. 12-10-1843 d.4-26-1935. We have a beautiful picture of great grandmother Margaret Lou Floore Hopper in her rocking chair. In addition to raising a large family, she operated a millenary Shope in DeKalb, Kemper Co.,MS. We know she was very close with her unmarried sister Jane. The Floores lived in the Preston or Gholson Community in Kemper County, MS. See our FLOORE Surname page.
Jimmie's great grandfather William Allen Hopper was a Confederate Soldier. At the end of the Civil war he was a prisoner in an Indiana Prison and walked home to Kemper County. William Allen's brother Hugh Alexander was in the same prison and they came home together.
Jimmie's maternal grandparents are Willie Ann Hopper b. 5-16-1862 d. 4-20-1898 and James Edward Clark b. 5-7-1856 d. 2-15-1937. We have great pictures of both. Their daughter Maggie Lee Clark is Jimmie's mother.
Our grandparents other children are Joe Allen Hopper b. 1891 d. 1966; Albert who died at age 21-22; Ottie who married a Gwin(sp?) in DeKalb, MS; Walton who lived in DeKalb, MS; Calvin who moved to Talluah, LA; and R. Fred of DeKalb,MS,.
Jimmie's parents are Maggie Lee Clark b. 9-14-1889 d. 12-10-1981 and John Samuel Oden b. 6-14-1888 d. 1-11-1977. Of course we have pictures of Jimmie's parents and siblings and their descendants.
Jimmie is the eighth of ten children of Sam and Maggie Oden and was born in July 18, 1925 at the Electric Mills, MS hospital and raised in Kemper County.
The Oden Home Place which has been continuously lived in for over one hundred years is located in the Briggs Chapel Community on Hwy. 498 between Porterville, MS and Boyd AL not far from the AL Line.
Write us at j.mercersr@att.net to exchange information regarding our common Surnames (1) Hopper,(2) Dorman,(3) Floore,(4) Oden, (5) Clark,(6)McDade, (7)Townsend, and,(8)Vernon Surname information, and, to share with us your other valuable comments and suggestions about our Web Site which is constantly under construction.
Do you have your HOPPER family information in GEDCOM format? We use PAF anf Family Treemaker genealogy software; but, we do not have all of Jimmie's HOPPER family data posted. We are in the constant process of doing so. We have almost all of Jimmie's family data in hand written form and we are in the process of trying to get the data posted to our PAF and FTM genealogy program as well as to this Web Site Page.
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We have related Oden and Clark information as well as Jimmie's Hopper line of descendants; but, we have practically nothing on the Dormans or the Floores; but, we are seeking all our family lines.
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