The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testatments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues and With the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Philadelphia, Pa.: J. Towar and D.M. Hogan, 1830
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0.8 Cubic feet 1 flat box The Hopson family lived in Lexington and/or Paris, Ky., from the 1830s to the early 1900s. The collection comprises a Bible, published in Philadelphia, Pa., by J. Towar and D.M. Hogan, 1830, given to Catharine E. Hopson by her father, 1830. The middle of the Bible contains four pages detailing marriages, births, and deaths of three generations of the Hopson and Hamilton families of Lexington, Ky. One page also includes a list of 19 slaves emancipated in 1865.
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1830
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University of KentuckyKeywords
- African American History
- African Americans
- Emancipation
- Family
- Genealogy
- History
- Kentucky
- Lexington (Ky.)
- Slaver
- Slaves