M. L. HOPSON, was born August 10, 1820, near Hopkinsville, Christian Co., Ky. His parents, Henry and Elizabeth (Gude) Hopson, were natives of South Carolina. The former came to Kentucky as early as 1814, and settled originally in Todd County, but later moved to Christian County, where he died in 1869, at the age of eighty years. Mrs. Hopson survived her husband one year, and died in October, 1870, aged seventy-six years. Their family consisted of twelve children, subject being the ninth. He lived at the paternal home until his thirtieth year, in the meantime farming and trading for himself. In 1853 he came to Caldwell County, and engaged in the livery business at Princeton, which he continued for five years, and at the end of that time started a blacksmith shop, which he operated for about two years. In 1859, he moved to the country, and engaged in farming, one and a half miles from Princeton, purchasing a good tract of land on which he resided until 1867, when he moved back to the city, and opened a mercantile house, with which he was connected for a short time. He purchased the farm on which he at present resides, two and a half miles east of Princeton, in 1870. March 25, 1851, Mr. Hopson was married to Ann Hammond, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Halloway) Hammond. Mrs. Hopson was born December 11, 1834, and came to Kentucky in 1851. The following children have been born to this marriage: Helen (deceased), Edwin, Mack, Willie and Junius (deceased). Mr. and Mrs. Hopson are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Page 701.