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While doing my genealogy for my Hopper line I discovered something my great grandmother and grandmother wrote an had published in 1940 about two of the people. I examined the website for Boone County, KY and found that ferries to Boone County operated as late as 1890. Also the poplulation for the county in 1810 was only about 5,0000. two hundred deaths was a sustantial percentage.
I would like to know what was written about the event, What cemeterys were available back then in Boone County?
Is there any record or grave of the two?
What my relatives wrote about the event is as follows:
Zachariah Taylor Hopper, his wife Tabitha Killian Hopper, and children Acquilla, Anson, Tabitha, Annie, Alvira, and John Hopper came to a place called Boone in extreme northern Kentucky. Here they stopped, having to be ferried across the Ohio River to Boone,Kentucky. It was 1823.
While being ferried across, they beckoned to a colored boy who was selling tropical fruit from a boat he was towing on the river. Cholera and Yellow Fever were raging here but it was unknown to them. They bought some fruit and being hungry ate freely of it. The fruit was infected with Cholera and they became violently ill. It took quite a while to load the ferry boat with teams, animals, and some loose cattle.
The parents were indeed very ill and both passed away before the ferry boat reached the Kentucky side of the Ohio River. People were dying by the hundreds. The children got better and lived. Acquilla Hopper was left an orphan at the age of nine.
They were met in Boone, Kentucky, by their uncle Daniel Hopper, who had gone to Kentucky but a short time before. The parents, Zachariah Taylor Hopper and Tabitha Killian Hopper, were buried here at Boone.
Daniel lived outside Lexington, Fayette County, KY. He took the children there and raised them until 1840.Daniel was an old bachelor of wealth. He had vast lands and many tow boats. He bought cotton and molasses and sold them up and down the Ohio and Missouri Rivers from 1820 to 1840.
In 1841 Daniel sold his plantations and tow boats and with the children moved to Upstate NY near Palmyra, NY. He raised the children to adulthood and eventually died in the Palmyra NY area.
I would like to know more about the cholera outbreak, the burial, and about Daniel Hopper.
Erv Jensen
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