JONATHAN AND LOUSINDA BARRETT HOOPER

     Jonathan Hooper, son of Andrew and Dicea Hooper, was born about 1820 in Bascombe County, NC. As a boy he moved to old Union County, GA with his parents and settled on Fodder Creek. On Feb. 9, 1854 he married Lousinda Barrett (1837-1911) Family tradition holds that Lousinda was part Cherokee Indian belonging to the Swetland Roll. They lived on Fodder Creek for a while but moved to the Alf Cove (now called the Green Cove) near Young Harris in the latter part of the nineteenth century. They made their living by farming. It is handed down that Jonathan Hooper was small in stature and was crippled. The date of his death is not known, however, he enumerated in the 1880 Census. The legend is told that Lousinda wanted to move west and they started on the journey. Along the way, a wagon wheel broke and Lousinda got someone to fix it as Jonathan was not able to make repairs. Before reaching Catoosa County, Jonathan became sick and died. He was buried along the side of the road in an unmarked grave. None of the family could remember the location.
     After the death of Jonathan, Lousinda married a Ridley. They lived on the head of Byers Creek and they made a living saw milling and farming. Then Mr. Ridley died and was sent out west for burial. "Granny Ridley" was well known for her stubborn independence and refused to live with her children, but she did live near a son on Byers Creek. A story is told (strange but true) of "Granny" killing a bear with an axe that dogs had buried in a gully near her log home. She is buried near a daughter (Mary Ollie) in the Wood Station Cemetery near Ringgold, Georgia.
     The children of Jonathan and Lousinda Hooper are: 1. Milly Ann (1855) who married Alfred Land, 2. WA (1856) who probably died in infancy, 3. Robert Richard (1858-1926) who married first Lou Gene Hunter and 2nd Alice Bryson, Jonathan "Pink"(1861) who married Lou Ivey, Dicea (1863) married James Carroll and moved out west, Green Berry (1865) who probably died in infancy, Mary Ollie (1866) who married William Burns and is buried in Wood Station Cemetery, UA (Gus) (1868) who married Hannah Lou Thomas and is buried in Ringgold, GA, Ulysses Allen (1878) who married Elizabeth Baily and moved to AL.

Relationship to Marvin Lee Burns:
Jonathan and Lousinda Barrett Hooper
Millie Ann Hooper and Alfred Land
Cintha Angeline Land and James Edd Burns
James Jefferson Burns and Ruby Lee Franks
Marvin Lee Burns

CHARLES SAMUEL DENEEN 1863-1940

I came across an interesting fact yesterday while working on my family tree. Many new documents have surfaced recently about applications for the SAR and the DAR. I just read one and was amazed at the findings about a descendant of Colonel Samuel Beall and Eleanor Brooke. Their daughter, Verlinda Beall married William Dent. Eventually the line comes to a Charles Samuel Deneen. It was then that I found out that his son had applied to be a member of the Sons of the Revolution descending from Samuel Beall. I decided to do some research on this man. I found a death record that stated he was buried in Oak Woods cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. Well nosey me goes to the web site of findagrave to see if he is listed. As it turns out, he is listed as a famous person. There is a picture of him so I checked out the google website and pulled up his name. This is the information I found:
He was born May 4, 1863, in Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois with his parents being Samuel Hedding Deneen and Mary Frances Ashley. Samuel H Deneen's mother was Verlinda Beall Moore. She was named for her grandmother. He was the 23rd governor of Illinois and the first one to serve 2 terms. While in office, from 1905 to 1913, he was a Progressive reformer who headed the respectable faction among Chicago Republicans. Charles S. Deneen's father was a Latin professor at McKendree College; he was the grandson of a Methodist minister and the great grandson of a territorial legislature who opposed slavery. His father was an Adjutant in the Civil War. The young Deneen graduated from McKendree College and taught in downstate and Chicago schools before getting a degree from Union College of Law.
In 1891 Deneed married Bina Day Maloney of Mount Carroll. They had 4 children, one of which was born in the Executive Mansion.
Deneen was a short, stocky man with a look of determination on his face. Author Robert Howard states Deneen's standards of integrity and competence were "quite superior" to those of competing politicians. He was a straight-laced Methodist who served nothing stronger than lemonade in the Executive Mansion and invited the evangelist Billy Sunday to hold a prayer meeting there.
Deneen was a hard-nosed administrator and his administration made major changes in state government. Some of the many changes included the state highway commission, started during his administration and the building of 120 miles of experimental highways. Motorists were required to register their cars and pay two dollars for identification plates, with the money going into a road fund. State school appropriations were doubled and more money was provided for the University of Illinois.
Charles Samuel Deneen played an indispensable role in shaping the future of the entire Illinois state park system. He was dedicated to protecting the state's threatened natural resources. He was instrumental in the state's purchase of Starved Rock, located near Ottawa that stands as one of the preeminent archaeological, historic and scenic landmarks in Illinois. Starved Rock was purchased during Governor Deneen's second term. During this time, a State Park Commission was established and Starved Rock was the first state park.
Among the changes made during the Deneen administration was the nation's "mother's aid" law that provided funds for dependent and neglected children. Workman's Compensation and Occupational Disease Laws were enacted; women were limited to a 10-hour workday and mining laws were modernized. The above are but a few of the industrial safety laws his administration promoted.
Robert Howard, author of "Mostly Good and Competent Men, Illinois Governors, 1818-1988", views Deneen as effective, unpopular, and durable. His honesty was never questioned. The people of Illinois benefited from Deneen's considerable accomplishments during his two terms as governor. Unfortunately biographers have overlooked him.
In 1924, the former governor was elected United States Senator. In the Senate, he supported Coolidge on the World Court and other issues. In 1930, he was defeated for renomination in a three-man field.
Deneen also served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1892. He had also been the lead prosecutor in Chicago's infamous Adolph Luetgert murder trial.

Family Tree:
Charles Samuel Deneen IL 1863-1940 m Bina Day Maloney
Samuel H. Deneen 1835-1895 IL m Mary Frances Ashley 1836-1914
William Lyon Deneen 1798-1869 m Verlinda Beall Moore 1802-1855 d IL
Hinton Moore 1760-1828 m Annie Dent 1767-1845 b MY d Illinois
William Camel Dent 1730-1805 m Verlinda Beall 1736-1815 (Maryland)
Colonel Samuel Beall (Maryland) 1713-1777 m Eleanor Brooke 1717-1800Charles S. Deneen died at age 77 on February 5, 1940, in Chicago where he was practicing law. He is buried at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago with his wife beside him.