Motherless Hooper children, Louisville, KY, 1866

What a sad message this one is! Similar messages and advertisements were efforts to reunite families separated by the Civil War; such ads were not infrequent in post-bellum newspapers.

I know who the father Andrew J. Hooper is, and what happened to him in later years. He was born in Cocke County, Tennessee about 1820 to John and Margaret (Hooper) Hooper. The family later lived in Monroe County, Tennessee and thence moved to Polk County, Tennessee. He had married Mahaly or Martha in late 1849 or 1850, and by 1860 had children Sarah, John, Jane, and Dovey. One more must have been born after 1860.

What ever happened to these little Hooper girls described in this ad?

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Information Wanted.-The whereabouts of Andrew J. Hooper, who was a private in Company A. 43d Tennessee volunteers, General J. C. Vaughn's brigade, is earnestly sought for by his two little daughters, now in Louisville, Ky.
After the occupation of East Tennessee by the Federals, Mrs. Hooper, with her family of five children, went to Kentucky, since which time she and three of her children have died. The remaining two have been well cared for by some gentlemen of that city. After Mrs. H's death the only means of ascertaining her family relations were through letters addressed to her from her husband, then in the army, written from Zollicoffer, Sullivan county, East Tennessee. Full particulars can be had by addressing Wm. Reese, (engineer 31.) Jeffersonville, Ind.

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Source: Daily Union and American [Nashville, TN], April 21, 1866, Page 3, column 1
as seen 26 November 2013 and transcribed by Anne Goodwin
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