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Tombstone pictures I picked up: Sweet Water Baptist Church Pleasant Hill Road This one could be Solomon JR's because next to it was a smaller
grave that was the exact same. It was covered with rock and black goo.
From "Early Deaths":
MADISON COUNTY CEMETERY BOOK Bonnie A. Parker [email protected]
HOPKINS FAMILY CEMETERY Belleville Plantation McIntosh Co. GA
This walled cemetery is appx. 40 ft. x 40 ft. And 7 ft. high. Inside this wall is another wall appx. 18 ft. x 12 ft and 4 ft. high, made of one foot thick hand made bricks. There are 5 concrete steps 5 ft. wide leading up over the wall. Embedded in the front of the top steps, a granite stone reading: ********************************************** GENERAL FRANCIS HOPKINS GAVE THE SURROUNDING FIVE ACRES FOR BURIAL PURPOSES ABOUT THE YEAR 1804 A.D.
Inside the large wall Slab reads:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. ELIZABETH AURELIA HOPKINS. WIFE OF CAPTAIN OCTAVIUS C. HOPKINS SEPTEMBER 2, 1825 NOVEMBER 20, 1892
God shall wipe away all tears. ******************************** Beside this grave is another, with a small marker. It reads: MISS DOVER ********************************* Slab reads:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF ALBERT H. HOPKINS SECOND SON OF OCTAVIUS AND ELIZABETH HOPKINS FEBRUARY 23, 1867 OCTOBER 9, 1890
When thou passeth through The waters I will be with thee." ********************************* Slab reads:
TO OUR BROTHER OCTAVIUS C. HOPKINS JR. ELDEST SON OF OCTAVIUS & ELIZABETH HOPKINS JUNE 24, 1863 NOV. 9, 1909
Now the hour of rest hath Come to thee. Sleep, dearest, it is best. ********************************* Slab reads:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF REUBEN KING HOPKINS 3rd SON OF OCTAVIUS C. AND ELIZABETH A. KING HOPKINS OCTOBER 21st 1872 NOVEMBER 11th, 1939
"Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you." "For I was anhungered and ye gave me meat, I was thirsty and ye gave me Drink; I was a stranger and ye Took me in. Naked and ye clothed Me; I was sick and ye visited me, I was in prison and ye came unto me." "Verily I say unto you, inasmuchas ye have done it, unto one of the least of these my brethern , ye have done it unto me." ************************************************* Slab reads:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF OUR SISTER ABBIE REBECCA HOPKINS DAUGHTER OF OCTAVIUS C. AND ELIZABETH
JANUARY 25th 1862 DECEMBER 27th 1939
"Well done good and faithful servent." "Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep, from which none ever wakes to weep! Unbroken by the last of foes. Asleep in Jesus’ peaceful rest, Whose waking is supremely blest! Securely shall my ashes lie Waiting the summons from on high." ************************************** Small head and foot stone with initials: DHH ************************************* Several more small head and foot stones With no initials or names
Inside the large wall is another smaller brick wall with Several graves/some marked with small head & foot stones With no names or initials. Large headstone with slab/headstone reads:
IN MEMORIAM GENERAL FRANCIS HOPKINS OBIIT MDCCCXXI AGED 49 YEARS ************************** Next to this is a slab reading: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN OCTAVIUS HOPKINS EIGHT SON OF FRANCIS AND REBECCA HOPKINS JULY 9, 1819 MARCH 12, 1881
"Through the valley of the shadow of Death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me."
At the foot of this slab is a tomb stone reading: CONFEDERATE VETRAN
********************************* There are at least 6 other graves. They are marked with Small head and foot stones with initials only They read: ******************* M M H
***************** E H
**************** W P H
**************** C H H (no dates) *************** M G H (no dates) **************** F H J
According to the book "Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater" By Buddy Sullivan One of the sons of Francis and Rebecca Hopkins was Charles Horrie Hopkins/born 1812-died 1886 Another son, Octavius C. Hopkins married Elizabeth Aurelia King, daughter of Reuben and Abigail King of Mallow Plantation. The book also says, that a deed concluded immediately after the Civil War dated July 17, 1865, provides an indication of the Hopkins Family’s activities in the Baisden’s Bluff-Belleville region of McIntosh Co. "The petition of Thomas Spalding Hopkins and Charles H. Hopkins, Sr., Trustees, and Elizabeth Hopkins, wife of Octavius C Hopkins, Sr. and (father of) Abigail R. Hopkins, Octavius C Hopkins, Jr., Helen King Hopkins, Albert W. Hopkins and Reuben King Hopkins, minors, ‘Sheweth’ that…Octavius C. Hopkins, in consideration of the natural love and affection for his wife Elizabeth and children, has conveyed unto Thomas S. Hopkins and Charles H. Hopkins, for their use in trust, all that lot of land containing 35 acres known as the Baisden’s Bluff tract, also 1,000 acres of land known as the Johnston and Sikies Field tract, also 1,000 acres known as the Philson and Brainard tract…also one hundred acres of land purchased from W.H. Cannon…" (Deed Record Book A, folio 229 (1865), Superior Court, M.C.C.H.)
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