Elijah Harrison Hopper

Birth Date

1821

Death Date

1881

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Christian County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Son of William Hopper and Edith Harrison Hopper. Married to Harriet M. Bryan Hopper in Christian County, Kentucky, on February 2, 1848. Father of Harrison Hopper, Caroline Hopper, Edith Hopper, Susan Hopper, Bryan Hopper, Bettie Hopper, and Harriet Hopper. Merchant in Christian County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Christian County in 1850. Merchant in Christian County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Christian County 1860. Employed John Durrett as merchant's clerk in Christian County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 426A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 669.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 18.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 408B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Christian County Marriages, Film 000465562.
J. Houston Harrison, Settlers by the Long Grey Trail: Some Pioneers to Old Augusta County, Virginia, and Their Descendants, of the Family of Harrison and Allied Lines, (Dayton, VA: Joseph K. Ruebush Company, 1935), pp. 551-552.
"Elijah Harrison Hopper (1821-1888)," Find A Grave, Memorial 88959007, accessed July 13, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88959007/elijah-harrison-hopper.

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