Jane Wilson Hopkins

Jane Willis, wife of William Hopkins, was a large woman, with dark hair, probably blue eyes, deliberate in her movements, and of good judgment. Her son Joel said, "After she had had nine children, she beat Amaziah Baird, a seventeen-year-old lad, in a foot-race." The children inherited their mother's physique, were unusually large, finely built, strong, and of good carriage. They always had family prayers twice a day at William's home, as they had had in their father's home.

A letter written to Joel Hopkins, March 13, 1898, by Adeline Melinda (Willis) Weed, Berkeley, Cal., says: "I remember I was quite impressed by the stately dignity of your mother, my Aunt Jane. I told my mother I would like to live to be old if I could have the fine bearing of Aunt Jane. I think she was sixty-three, but that seemed like old age to me then." Of their children, Joel and John were sandy, all the rest had brown hair and gray eyes.

Bibliographic Information: Harrison, Ella W. A., Chapter of Hopkins Genealogy. Hopkins, Granville, Illinois 1905. 1735—1905. This book contains the genealogy of the Hopkins family who settled in Virginia. p. 68-9.