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Hopkins County...
Hopkins
County, the forty-ninth in order of formation,
is located in western Kentucky. It has an area
of 552 square miles. The county was created on
May 1, 1807 from a portion of Henderson County and was
named for Gen. Samuel Hopkins, a Revolutionary
War veteran and early settler of the region. The
county seat is Madisonville.
Some of the early settlers were veterans of the
Revolutionary War who received land grants from
Virginia in the area southwest of the Green
River. Among these was Frederick Wilhelm, Baron
Von Steuben, the Prussian general who had
instructed the Revolutionary army at Valley
Forge in the winter of 1776-77. According to
tradition, the baron was wounded during an
Indian attack while on his first visit and
subsequently quit-claimed his property. On his
grant of several thousand acres in the northwest
part of the county, a salt spring came to be
known as Steuben's Lick. By the 1880s, the
community there was called Manitou.
On January 3, 1829, Ashbyburg in the
northeastern part of the county was
incorporated. Located on the Green River, it
thrived as a steamboat landing during the
nineteenth century. Other antebellum communities
included Nebo, northwest of Madisonville, and
Charleston, named after "Free Charles," a black
freedman who operated a tavern in the southwest
part of the county.
*Above information from:
http://www.mykentuckygenealogy.com/ky_county/ho.htm
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Hopkins County Pages |
HOPKINS COUNTY QUERIES
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LOOKUPS
Hopkins Co Lookups
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HOPKINS COUNTY SURNAMES
Hopkins County Researchers
~ with their surnames, links to their homepages, etc.
Browse Surname Notes and Files
CEMETERIES
Cemeteries
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CENSUS
1850 Hopkins Co Census - Annotated
Orphans found in the 1850 census
1860 Hopkins Co Census - Annotated
1870 Mortality Schedule
1920, Partial
1930, Veterans
Census Online - Kentucky
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BIRTHS
1911
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1912
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1913
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1914
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1915
1916
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1917
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1918
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1921
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1922
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1923
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1924
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1925
1926
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1927
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1928
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1929
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1930
Search RootsWeb userdb,
1911-1912, Kentucky
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DEATHS
Browse Hopkins Co Deaths, 1911-1999
Search KY Deaths 1911-2000
Death Certificates
Funeral Homes
Search Social Security Death Index
Estate Administrations, 1826-1829
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MARRIAGES
Marriages, 1807-1949
Marriages, 1869-1949
(white only) Microsoft Excel files
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CHURCHES
Hopkins Co Churches
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CITY DIRECTORIES
Madisonville City Directory, 1907-8
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HOPKINS CO. FILE CABINET
Origins of Hopkins Co
Hopkins County Legislature, 1815-1875
Madisonville, 1879
Kentucky Citizens, January 31, 1863;
List of fines assessed and
collected by military authorities; endorsed by Lincoln, January 31,
1863; ~
More info on this subject
Hopkins County Bibles
Hopkins County Deeds
Boy Scouts
Elections
Registered Physicians, 1893 - 1897
Gleanings from The Messenger, May 1935
Hopkins Co. Order Bk. 1824 - 31, Index
Hopkins Co. Order Bk. Aug. 1831 - Dec. 1839, Index
Guardianship Accts, 1840-46, Index
Hopkins Co. Order Bk. 10, 1852-54, Index
Physicians, 1893-1897
Some County Businesses:
2001 ~
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2003 ~
2004
1924 Coal Mines
Valentine Sweethearts, 1996
Hopkins Co Folk Lore
Days Gone By
Slide Shows
KY Biographies
1807 Tax List
Property sold for unpaid taxes, 1930
List of Unclaimed Property, Nov 9, 2003
Hopkins County Mail List
James Madison Days ~ Madisonville, 2002. Includes bios of
James and Dollye Madison.
Compute the day of week for an event
Moore-Hammack Bed & Breakfast
The Innkeepers, Joe and Shirley Thomas, purchased this
magnificent 1892 Victorian home from J. B. Moore in 2000. Up
until her death, J. B.'s wife had lived in this wonderful old home
from the time her father, Dr. Wm. M. Hammack, purchased the
house in 1916.
Western Kentucky Journal
Subscribers to Brenda Joyce Jerome's Western Kentucky
Journal are aware that the final issue of her quarterly was
the October 2007 issue. Brenda just can't get away from
researching and sharing though, so she has established a blog
where she can post western Kentucky info several times a week.
Click here to visit the blog. Click here for an automatic Hopkins
County search.
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NEWSPAPERS
Dawson Springs Progress
Madisonville Messenger
Thousands of Newspapers Online
Another List of Newspapers Online
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MILITARY
War of 1812, Wm McGary's KY Mounted Vol. Militia
WWII Casualties ~ NAIL
WWII Memorial, Hopkins Co
Vietnam Memorial Wall, D.C.
1930 Veterans, Earlington
1897 Confederate Veterans Assn, Camp 528
1898 KY State Guards, Co E
1892 KY State Guard 3rd Regiment
Soldiers of the Great War
Secretary of State - Database Searches Home Page -
"This page provides instant access to all Kentucky Land Office
databases. To learn more of the structure and history of the
databases included on this site, we encourage researchers to
visit the individual pages for each database."
Rev. War Pensioners
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SCHOOLS, STUDENTS, etc
Photos, Yearbooks, etc.
Tons of files and photos on Earlington schools, students,
graduates, etc. here
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SPORTS
Sports Menu
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TOWNS
Hopkins Co. Confederate Monument
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KY-FOOTSTEPS
Indexes to data posted for Hopkins Co
KY-Footsteps Archives ~ Kentucky
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