Re: Deford Hopwood VA>PA connections
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Re: Deford Hopwood VA>PA connections
Barbara Castner 1/06/08
Barbara -
Thanks for your reply, I'll look into that particular errant spelling.
Since my original query, I have made quite a bit of progress on three of the five siblings - Moses E Hopwood (aka "Moses Senior", who married Hannah Rice Gaddis), Lucinda Hopwood Farr (who married John Farr) and Nancy Hopwood Deford (who married John Deford and was one of two Hopwood sisters who married Deford brothers).
Actually, Nancy & her husband John Deford owned quite a bit of land in Ohio, but they did not permamently live there.They ran and owned a tavern in Hopwood PA (originally Woodstock, then Monroe and finally Hopwood).John did not permanently move to Ohio until sometime after the death of his second wife Lydia.(By the way, John Deford lived to be over 100 years old.)
Charlotte Hopwood Sutton and Elizabeth Hopwood Deford are the two siblings that remain somewhat problematic for me, especially Elizabeth, wife of Merchant/Marchand Deford.I have traced that particular Deford branch to West Virginia & then Merchant back to PA, but have no knowledge of where Elizabeth's grave is.I also do not have very many sourced details about their lives together.
My original query was in the hopes that someone somewhere might have an old family Bible, perhaps some old letters or a diary or newspaper clippings with the names Deford, Hopwood, Sutton, Farr and Humphries intertwined along with the places Woodstock/Monroe in Pennsylvania and early Ohio settlements.My branch has none of the older documents, the farthest back we go might be the mid-1860s.
It would be a wonderful thing to find some primary sources that could clear up some of the enigmas in the extended family including the years of John & Hannah's marriage (between John's marriage to Hannah Bearcroft Humphries in Virginia in 1770 and his death in Pennsylvania in 1802) and more details on the lives of Charlotte Hopwood Sutton, Elizabeth Hopwood Deford and Lucinda Hopwood's husband, John Farr.
Thanks again!
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Re: Deford Hopwood VA>PA connections
Walter Moser 1/03/09