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