| 10.MELINDA ISABELLA FLOYD born 20 March 1812 at Fairfield Plantation, CCG; married WILLIAM PROCTOR HOPKINS
on 08 September 1831 at Bellevue Plantation in CCG by Rev. Jos. C. Stiles (Marriage Bk. B 1831-1880 p. 2). No issue. William P. Hopkins was born 23 January 1805 in McIntosh Co., GA, the son of BRIG.-GEN. FRANCIS HOPKINS & REBECCA SAYRE. (His brother was Benjamin Hopkins who m. Susan Lodviski Dixon Floyd; another brother, Edward S. Hokins was in a duel with Charles R. Floyd). Col. William P. Hopkins (listed as a Major on marr. entry) was a
Representative from McIntosh Co. & was heir to some of his father's property. Melinda Floyd Hopkins died suddenly a few weeks after her marriage. Two explanations for her death were given in the Floyd Volumes compiled by Alice Collar Tonge: 1. According to Augusta Gallie Floyd's "Diary": Melinda was supposedly poisoned, for some obscure reason, by her maid named Peggy. 2. Another explanation for her mysterious death was recounted by an unidentified
Hopkins family member of McIntosh Co., GA: "Melinda 'tippled' and in trying to reach a bottle which had been put on the top shelf of a large cabinet at Baisden's Bluff [the Hopkins home-place], the cabinet tipped over and fell on top of her. That is why she had those strange black & blue marks on her neck which so puzzled the Floyd family. Apparently, the Hopkins were unwilling to admit what happened so said nothing. Her husband died the next year, so...the
incident was never investigated." Melinda Isabella Floyd Hopkins died 11 (or 14) October 1831 & is buried at the Floyd Fam. Cem. nr. the site of Fairfield Plantation, CCG. William Proctor Hopkins died 04 September 1832 at his residence in McIntosh Co. & is buried at the Hopkins Cem. in McIntosh Co., GA. |
