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Dr. W. R. Hopkins (deceased), for some years a practicing physician of Brashear, was born in Pendleton County, Ky., in 1838, and lived there until twenty years of age. In 1859 he moved with his mother to Shelby County, Mo., and followed agricultural pursuits until 1866, when he began the study of medicine. He attended the Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons during 1866 and 1867, after which he practiced for a short time in Scotland County, Mo., but in the fall of 1867 moved to Paulville, Adair County, practicing there until 1873, after which he located at Brashear. In 1866 he married Mary F. Barnett, a native of Kentucky, by whom three sons and five daughters have been born, two of the former and three of the latter still living. He was a member of the F. & A. M. His father, Hugh, was of an old North Carolina family, born in 1807, reared and married in that State. In 1831 he moved to Kentucky, where he died in 1845. His wife, Elizabeth (Simpson) Hopkins, is still living, and was also a native of North Carolina, being born in Guilford County, in 1807. Dr. Hopkins was the fifth child of a family of three sons and four daughters, of whom two sons and one daughter are now living. Dr. W. R. Hopkins died September 29, 1887, at his residence in Brashear, Mo., of typhoid fever.