[Hooper] Searching for Obadiah's Father #1

[Deanna Baumgardner]

Thomas Williamson Hooper-4(Joseph Henry-3,Edmund-2, Thomas-1) was born on 2 Nov 1832 in Bedford, Virginia, Beaverdam Farm. He died on 26 Nov 1915 in Culpepper, Virginia.
Notes for Thomas Williamson Hooper
Richmond Dispatch 3 February 1895
"About Beaver Dam" - Interesting Recollections and Notable Natives of the Place, Memories of Dr. Thomas W. Hooper.
"Near Cold Harbor stands the house where my father was born and not far from the house there is graveyard, surrounded by a brick wall, with a half circle-brick along the top. There sleep the generations of my forefathers. In that enclosure is buried Mr. James Hooper and at his funeral Rec. Samuel (blank) 
officiated in 1754
(The Minister was Dr. Samuel Davies and the date was August 21, 1756), Proof at this address:

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and preached a most powerful sermon on the text selected by the good man before his death 1 Peter IV:18." 
The Cemetery referred to by Dr. Hooper is now termed the Garthright Cemetery and sits on the grounds of the
 house identified by the National Park Service as the Garthright House.

http://www.usa-civil-war.com/Cold_Harbor/cold_harbor_2.html

Descendants of Thomas-1 Hooper and Obadiah Hooper are a 25/24 DNA Match.

Deanna (Hooper) Baumgardner