Person:Benjamin Hooper (5)

At 33, "Colonel George Hooper's son, Benjamin, inherited the main house and a good quantity of land. His first marriage was to a Miss Morris, and to this union four children were born: Elizabeth (Bettie), who died young; Mrs. Ann King of Texas; Mrs. Mary (Robert) Hocker of Sherman, Texas; and James Hooper. The latter was a resident of Richmond and the father of Alex Hooper, father of Lelia May, James and Miss Helen Hooper - all of Richmond.

Benjamin married a second time to Permelia Moseley (1803-1884), the daughter of Spotsford Lewis (Spottswood) and Mary Marshall Moseley, formerly of Powhatan County, Virginia".....etc. ( Few First Families of Virginia, The Lineage of William P. Holman_ by Harry Stuart Holman, 1969, a typescript )

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The Hooper's had a plantation of nearly 900 acres in Buckingham County, Virginia and owned about 2,500 acres in Tennessee and a large family of slaves. Benjamin died about 1838 leaving Permelia with five small children. Shortly afterwards their lovely home burned and most of the land was sold for a division with Parmelia's step-children. So, the family was left with a tract of 350 acres. The War soon came and left Permelia there with no men around: George and Will had recently died (they were merchants at New Store); Powell and John joined the Confederate Army. Dollie died about 1860, she was about seventeen years old; she had Tuberculosis. John A. Hooper had moved to Holly Spring, Mississippi, where he had met Miss Irene Hicks. During the Civil War, Permelia lived at Esq. John M. Hooper's, known as "Oak Grove" and with Aunt Fanny Ford (#5349) at "Newstead" on the James River- one mile from Cartersville, VA. ( A Moseley line of Norfolk VA. area -- arrived about autumn 1649, by Warren Forsythe )