Judith Hooper, daughter of Thomas of Hanover

Having just now posted a similar message at the Thurman genforum, I'll add the info here too. I today came across a newspaper article that actually states what I and Deborah Parks and Deanna Baumgardner have thought to be true:
Judith Hooper, the wife of John Thurman of Cumberland County, Kentucky, was indeed the daughter of Thomas Hooper of Hanover County, Virginia. [see also message 4220 in this Hooper message forum]-Judith Hooper, the wife of John Thurman of Cumberland County, Kentucky, was indeed the daughter of Thomas Hooper of Hanover County, Virginia.

Source: The Hickman Courier. (Hickman, Ky.), 14 Aug. 1869. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of
Congress. Page 1, Column 6 about halfway down the page. As accessed 3/12/2014. The page with this article is torn and many words missing, especially in the first few lines.


"Albany KY, July 2_ ________
"____ is Lu[cy?]___________
table family records p________
119 years old, she ha____
Hanover county, Va, in ____setts
the slave of Thos. Hooper she b[ecame]
at his death the property of his da[ugh]
ter, who married John Thurman.[The]
latter lived many years in Cumberla[nd]
county, Kentucky and died there. I[n]
1812, Mr. John Irvine purchased Lucy,
her thirteenth and last child being then
two years old.
"She converses about incidents which
came under observation during the Rev-
olutionary war with as much familiarity
as we do about the late war and remem-
bers the battle of Yorktown with special
distinctness. While it was progressing
she was plowing in a field within hearing
of the guns and remembers seeing bod-
ies of troops passing and repassing for
many days. Some of them, she says,
entered the field and took away the horse
she was working to her plow.
"She is at present able to walk about,
and looks fleshy and healthy, though her
hair is very white. Until about a year
ago she could thread a needle and swe
without spectacles, but her eye-sight has
since been failing.Her children are
scattered, and she does not know how
many are living. Mr. Irvine, who pur-
chased her in 1812, is satisfied that she
is 119 years old."