[HOOPER] Article about William Cleveland Hooper

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From: "Allison, Melody" <melody@ti.com>
To: <hooper@contesting.com>,
   "Ohooper (E-mail)"
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Subject: Article about William Cleveland Hooper
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:00:08 -0600

The article below came from The Waurka News-Democrate, dated Friday, August
8, 1917
 
Pioneers of Pecan Grove Community
 
W. C. Hooper, Kiowa-Comanche homesteader and pioneer in the Pecan Grove
community, was born in Edwardsville, Alabama, Oct. 28, 1866, the son of
Joseph Marion and Susan Bennett Hooper.
At the age of 17 he left Alabama and moved to Georgia and then to Arkansas,
attending school in the two latter states.
He drew a quarter section of the land near Hastings in 1902, where the
family lived for a good many hears
He was married to Hattie McMaken in 1891. They were the parents of three
children, Lee and Edgar of Temple and Joe of Hastings.
In 1900 Mr. Hooper and Ollie Roberts were married and they had one child,
Ollie King Hooper of Dallas. (Ollie Roberts Hooper died in 1901, 10 days
after the birth of Ollie King) 
In 1903, he and Lucy Harbin married and they were the parents of 10
children, Holly Harper and Lillie Scarbrough, Deceased; Joe L., Leslie, Mrs.
Bertha Wooten and Mrs. Evelyn Hodges, living at Lubbock, Texas; Mrs. Hattie
Brown, Iowa Park, Texas; W. L. Hooper, Ducan; Mrs. Rosie Edman, Hastings;
Almon Hooper, Amarillo, Texas.
Mr. Hooper is living at Lubbock, Texas, having retired and enjoying fair
health



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