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Welcome You'all
Researching our Family's History
ABBOTT, MILLER, MOORE, GORE, MADDOX, LEWIS, HOWELL, HALL, WEST, POPHAM, ADDELHOLT, HENDRICKS, SMITH, CAIN, NICHOLS, BENEFIELD, ROGERS, BANKSTON, HOPKINS.
Our families are from Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia.
Hopkins Family of Roswell Cobb County Georgia,
George W. Hopkins and Edith Maddox Hopkins family all lived in the Roswell Village Cobb County area. George "Thomas" Hopkins married Martha Juanita Voss and later married Ida L. Hightower. Thomas moved to Habersham County Georgia. "Daniel" D. Hopkins married Susannah "Annie" Owens and stayed in Roswell. William "Billy" Charles Hopkins moved to Palestine Cleburne County Alabama in 1878. The two sisters stayed in Roswell. Telitha "Jane" Hopkins married James Madison Kelley and "Wilda" Hopkins married Daniel Torbush.
William "Billy" Charles Marion Hopkins and his father George W. Hopkins joined Co. A., Cobb County, Roswell Battalion, Georgia Cavalry of Confederate States of American on 15 May 1863. Billy was only 15 and George was 51. On 22 July 1864 in the Battle of Atlanta, near Decatur Georgia in a cavalry charge, Billy was shot in the forehead by the invading Yankees. He continued to fight in the battle. The Roswell battalion merged with the 24th Alabama Cavalry Battalion Co. B., Co. A, Georgia on 31 December 1864 and later merged with the 53th Alabama Cavalry Regiment, Partisan Rangers. All three cavalry units served in the Confederate States of America, Army of Tennessee under General Joseph Wheeler's Cavalry Corps. They were paroled 8 May 1865 in Augusta Georgia by order from Col. Moses Wright Hannon.
George W. Hopkins other two sons fought with Co. H, 7th Regiment, Cobb County, "Roswell Guards", Army of Northern Virgina, Confederate States of America, George Thomas Hopkins and Daniel D. Hopkins. They served from 4 March 1862 until they were paroled in April 1865 at the Appomattox Court House with Robert E. Lee.
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