[Hooper] Searching for Obadiah Hooper's Father #5 Last Thomas Hooper

[Deanna Baumgardner]

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> http://www.hooperconnections.com/
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> You will note from our Hooper DNA site that there are 6 matches for Obadiah Hooper to the Locus/Marker #23  of 25 for Kit #37479 Thomas Hooper. The DNA laboratory cannot tell us what generation that marker represents.
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> EXPLANATION: 
>  There are also, 2 matches  for Obadiah Hooper and  JAMES HOOPER born Abt. 1776 in Georgia (according to census records) and died Aft. 1850 in Logan, Scott County, Arkansas. He married JEMIMA BANKSON. She was born Abt. 1785 in North Carolina or Georgia. 
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> We have been unable to determine which son of Obadiah Hooper1 is his father. 1850 Scott County, AR Census listed James, Louisa, Claiborn, Mary Ann and their children and next to the name was O.C. Hooper 50, and Clayton Hooper 18 indicating visitors in the home. OC Hooper is Obadiah Carter Hooper (William, Obadiah1).   Clayton Hooper is Venable Clayton Wales Hooper, his son.
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> Hooper Genealogy, A Southern Branch by Flora Hooper Collier,Vol. 11, 1972 Pg. 81 "Venable Clayton Wales Hooper  states when Mr. Hooper was 19 years of age, he crossed the plains to California as Captain of a large company.  In 1853 he returned to Arkansas and there bought 1,000 head of cattle, which he drove to California."
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> We have been unable to contact a male descendant of William Hooper (Obadiah1) to participate in the Hooper DNA Project.
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> Deanna (Hooper)  Baumgardner