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Johnny Carson

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Cynthia Saphronia Hopkins

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• • Great-grandmother of Johnny Carson — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13 
  • Father:
  • George W. Hopkins 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Looney   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Jun 1835 
  • Birth Location:
  • Kentucky 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Jan 1912 
  • Death Location:
  • New Hope, Lorimor, Union, Iowa 
  • Burial Date:
  • 6 Jan 1912 
  • Burial Location:
  • Clearfield, Iowa 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Hook
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT Jun 1870 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  George William Hook (Ahnentafel No:6 )

  • Notes: 

  • Cynthia Saphronia Hopkins's maiden name is also seen as Barnett. This may have been a married name from an earlier marriage.

• Sources for Cynthia Saphronia Hopkins

  • ¹ Federal Census, IA, Taylor County, 1900, Bedford, E.D. 115, Sheet 7B, Image 18 of 58.
  • ² Iowa, U.S., Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990, Death record for Cynthia S Hook.
  • ³ Hook, James William, James Hook and Virginia Eller: A Family History and Genealogy, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1925), 80, 90.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 126.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 625.