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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Eco

    — . Unknown [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 2. Sarah Wade  Descendancy chart to this point


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Sarah Wade Descendancy chart to this point (1.1)

    Sarah — Dr. Lemuel Washington Hooper. Lemuel was born 4 Feb 1839; died 7 Oct 1899; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 3. Gov. Bennie Walter Hooper  Descendancy chart to this point was born 13 Oct 1870, Cocke County, Tennessee; died 18 Apr 1957; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Gov. Bennie Walter HooperGov. Bennie Walter Hooper Descendancy chart to this point (2.Sarah2, 1.1) was born 13 Oct 1870, Cocke County, Tennessee; died 18 Apr 1957; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • Also Known As: Bennie Walter Wade
    • Census: 1910, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee
    • Census: 1930, District 4, Cocke County, Tennessee
    • Census: 1940, District 4, Cocke County, Tennessee

    Notes:

    Governor Ben W. Hooper was born Bennie Walter Wade in Newport, Cocke County, on October 13, 1870, the illegitimate son of Sarah Wade and Dr. Lemuel Washington Hooper. The child and his mother moved to Dandridge, Mossy Creek (now Jefferson City), New Market, and finally Knoxville, where his mother placed the boy in the care of St. John's Orphanage of the Episcopal Church. At the age of nine, he was legally adopted by his father, who changed the boy's name to Hooper and raised him in Newport.

    After graduating from Carson-Newman College in 1890, Hooper studied law under Judge Horace Nelson Cate and was admitted to the bar in 1894. From 1893 to 1897 he served two terms in the state House of Representatives and was captain of Company C, Sixth U.S. Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War. After the war, he married Anna Belle Jones and practiced law in Newport until he received an appointment as assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern Tennessee District, a position he held from 1906 to 1910.

    Prior to the 1910 gubernatorial election, prohibition and the related issue of machine politics were at the center of political strife across Tennessee. While leading Republicans supported the temperance cause, the dominant element of the Democratic Party rejected it, despite fierce objection by former U.S. senator and fiery prohibitionist Edward Ward Carmack. The breach among Tennessee Democrats grew wider when Governor Malcolm R. Patterson, an opponent of statewide prohibition, used his control of party machinery to block its adoption. The murder of Carmack in 1908 and Governor Patterson's pardoning of his killer further agitated relations among Tennessee Democrats.

    Republicans, seizing the opportunity to take control of the governor's office, nominated Hooper, a capable East Tennessean who had embraced the moral reform efforts sweeping across the state and nation. As an ardent prohibitionist, Hooper earned the endorsement of the prohibition faction of the Democratic Party. With this bipartisan support, Hooper defeated former governor Robert L. Taylor by a vote of 133,074 to 121,694 and served as Tennessee's only Republican governor between 1880 and 1920.

    Hooper dealt with an ongoing conflict over prohibition and election laws; regular Democrats wanted to amend the laws passed by the 1909 legislature, while Fusionists (Independent Democrats and Republicans) fought to keep them as enacted. Despite the turmoil, this administration enacted a child labor law, a law ensuring that the pay of working women would be given only to them, a pure food and drug law, and authorization for counties to issue bonds to buy school property and establish hospitals for treating contagious diseases.

    Hooper won reelection in 1912, defeating another former governor, Benton McMillin. During his second term, the legislature increased state revenue for education, initiated mandatory school attendance for children ages eight to fourteen, and authorized county boards of education to transport students to and from school. Other laws provided for an official examination of the state banking system, a parole system for deserving prisoners, a change in the death penalty to replace hanging with electrocution, and pensions for Civil War veterans and their widows. At Hooper's insistence the legislature passed the "Jug Bill" to prohibit intrastate shipment of liquor or the delivery of more than one gallon from outside the state, and the "Nuisance Bill," which permitted ten citizens to petition the court to close saloons and gambling houses.

    Hooper ran for a third term but lost to Thomas C. Rye in 1914. Upon leaving the governor's office, Hooper resumed his law practice in Newport. He ran for the U.S. Senate twice, in 1916 and 1934, but was defeated both times by Kenneth D. McKellar. In 1920 President Warren G. Harding appointed Hooper to the U.S. Railroad Labor Board in Chicago where he became a national figure in labor-management arbitration by averting a railroad strike scheduled for October 30, 1921. Upon returning again to Newport, Hooper served as a chief land purchasing agent for the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and served as vice-chairman for Tennessee's Limited Constitutional Convention in 1953. Hooper authored Elections in Tennessee (1946), and his autobiography, The Unwanted Boy, was published posthumously in 1963. Hooper died of pneumonia in 1957 and was buried in Newport.

    Bennie married Anna Belle Jones 1901, Elm Hill. Anna (daughter of Benjamin Dickinson Jones and Townszella Jane Randolph) was born 3 Aug 1875, Tennessee; died 7 Sep 1967; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 4. Anna B. Hooper  Descendancy chart to this point was born 6 Oct 1902, Tennessee; died Bef 12 Feb 2003.
    2. 5. Ben Jones Hooper  Descendancy chart to this point was born 20 Jun 1904, Tennessee; died 4 May 1931; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.
    3. 6. James Randolph Hooper  Descendancy chart to this point was born 23 Sep 1906, Tennessee; died 2 Jun 1935; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.
    4. 7. Margaret Janella Randolph Hooper  Descendancy chart to this point was born 4 May 1909, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee; died 3 Aug 2014; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.
    5. 8. Lemuel Washington "Tige" Hooper  Descendancy chart to this point was born 6 Aug 1911, Tennessee; died 12 Feb 2003; was buried 14 Feb 2003, Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.
    6. 9. Newell Sanders Hooper  Descendancy chart to this point was born 9 Nov 1916, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee; died 6 Jun 2010, Cocke County Convalescent Center; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.


Generation: 4

  1. 4.  Anna B. Hooper Descendancy chart to this point (3.Bennie3, 2.Sarah2, 1.1) was born 6 Oct 1902, Tennessee; died Bef 12 Feb 2003.

    Other Events:

    • Census: 1910, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee

    Anna — William Burnett Stokely, Jr.. William (son of William Burnett Stokely and Edith Estes) was born 9 Mar 1900; died 17 Oct 1966; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 10. William Burnett Stokely, III  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 11. Ann Stokely  Descendancy chart to this point
    3. 12. Jane Randolph Stokely  Descendancy chart to this point

    Anna — Phillips. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Ben Jones Hooper Descendancy chart to this point (3.Bennie3, 2.Sarah2, 1.1) was born 20 Jun 1904, Tennessee; died 4 May 1931; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • Census: 1910, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee
    • Census: 1930, District 4, Cocke County, Tennessee

    Ben — Juanita Francisco. [Group Sheet]


  3. 6.  James Randolph Hooper Descendancy chart to this point (3.Bennie3, 2.Sarah2, 1.1) was born 23 Sep 1906, Tennessee; died 2 Jun 1935; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • Census: 1910, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee

    James — Isabella Thomas. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 13. James Randolph Hooper, Jr.  Descendancy chart to this point

  4. 7.  Margaret Janella Randolph HooperMargaret Janella Randolph Hooper Descendancy chart to this point (3.Bennie3, 2.Sarah2, 1.1) was born 4 May 1909, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee; died 3 Aug 2014; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • Census: 1910, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee
    • Census: 1940, District 6, Cocke County, Tennessee

    Margaret married John Earl Burton Abt 1929. John died Abt 1929. [Group Sheet]

    Margaret married Jesse Beecher Carpenter 23 Dec 1935. Jesse (son of Samuel Patrick Carpenter and Rutha Jane Galloway) was born 28 May 1907, Jefferson County; died 12 Jan 1986. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 14. Janella Ann Carpenter  Descendancy chart to this point was born 20 Sep 1936, Tennessee.
    2. 15. Sara Kay Carpenter  Descendancy chart to this point was born 28 Dec 1942.

  5. 8.  Lemuel Washington "Tige" Hooper Descendancy chart to this point (3.Bennie3, 2.Sarah2, 1.1) was born 6 Aug 1911, Tennessee; died 12 Feb 2003; was buried 14 Feb 2003, Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • Census: 1930, District 4, Cocke County, Tennessee
    • Census: 1940, District 4, Cocke County, Tennessee

    Lemuel — Esther Holt. Esther (daughter of Bruce Alexander Holt and Gladys Mamie Henry) was born 23 Oct 1914, Wachula, Florida; died 20 Jan 2000, Mariner Nursing Home, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee; was buried 22 Jan 2000, Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 16. Dorothy Jo Hooper  Descendancy chart to this point was born Abt 1936, Indiana.
    2. 17. Judge Ben W. Hooper, II  Descendancy chart to this point was born Abt 1940, Tennessee.

  6. 9.  Newell Sanders HooperNewell Sanders Hooper Descendancy chart to this point (3.Bennie3, 2.Sarah2, 1.1) was born 9 Nov 1916, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee; died 6 Jun 2010, Cocke County Convalescent Center; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee.

    Other Events:

    • Census: 1930, District 4, Cocke County, Tennessee
    • Census: 1940, District 4, Cocke County, Tennessee

    Newell married Edward Floyd Hurd 11 Mar 1935. Edward (son of Raymond Edward Hurd and Lillian Bankston) was born 29 Mar 1908, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee; died 5 Dec 1982; was buried Union Cemetery, Newport, Cocke County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 18. Jane Randolph Hurd  Descendancy chart to this point was born 8 Aug 1936, Knox County, Tennessee; died 8 Jul 2013, Glendale Springs, North Carolina.
    2. 19. Frances Mae Hurd  Descendancy chart to this point was born 24 Sep 1938, Tennessee.
    3. 20. Newell Sandra Hurd  Descendancy chart to this point was born 18 Mar 1940, Tennessee.
    4. 21. Annabell Hooper Hurd  Descendancy chart to this point


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