James Thomas Hoops

       James Thomas Hoops, son of Charles Hoops and Sarah Ann Strother, was born 29 Apr 1829 in Barren County.  James moved with his parents to Ohio County; his father died in Cromwell in 1870 and his mother died in Ohio County in 1875.  James married Mary A. Brown 12 Sep 1852, in Ohio County.  Mary was born about 1834, Ohio County.  James and Mary had five children: William Haydon Hoops (1854-1935), Letitia Anna Hoops (1855-1941),  Charles A. Hoops (1858-  ), Nancy Jane Hoops (1859-  ), and Henry N. Hoops (1861-1936). 

       Note: It is reported that Mary died in 1864 in Ohio County at the age of thirty. Note that, if Mary A. (Brown) Hoops died in 1864, James might have remarried because the 1870 census for Ohio County shows James living with Mary C. Hoops, age 24 (probably a second wife) and also shows several children born after 1864, (the reported year of Mary A. (Brown) Hoops' death), i. e. James S. Hoops, age 4 (born abt 1866), Martha C., age 3 (born abt 1867), and Lee, age four months.  I did not find James Thomas in the 1880 or 1890 census and I do not know when he moved to Texas.

      James T. Hoops died on December 9, 1896, in Lancaster, Dallas County, Texas, at the age of 67, and was buried there. 

Note:  Some researchers spell the surname Hoopes.