William Howard HOOPER
SOURCE William Howard Hooper according to the Ancestral File, is buried at
St. John, Toole, Utah. He was a hard working man. He died in a mine cave-in at
Ophir, Tooela, UT., as he was eating his lunch. His first born was in the mine
when the accident happend. His son was Clifford William, and he was 12 years
and 10 months old at the time of the accident. He left a widow with 3
children, ages 12, 10,, & 8. He also left 2 step-children ages 14 & 16. He
had raised the 14 year old since he was 3 months old. This information is
found in the family records, Manti Temple records and research in England.
SOURCE Harriet Elizabeth Nay marries 1st, Joseph Young Hansen, and 3 children
by him. He is said to have died in a logging camp accident, somewhere in
Oregon. She married 2nd, William Howard Hooper when her 3rd born was 3 months
old. They had 8 children during the 14 years of their marriage. I do not know
the reason that they were not married in the Temple, as William Howard Hooper
also raised her 3 children from her prior marriage. William was killed in a
mine cave-in the 13 Nov. 1903 leaving her with 5 living children to raise. It
had always been the desire of Harriett's heart to be married in the Temple so
on the 6 Mar. 1912, she was married to the husband of her deceased cousin.
Simeon Cook Drollinger, in the Salt Lake Temple. They had no issue.
SOURCE Ordinances Originally baptized 5 Nov 1899, endowed 22 April 1914.
Excommunicated 12 June 1958. Rebaptized and endowed 27 Feb 1981. He was
married 3 times, but is now sealed to his first wife. He was my father, and he
loved we childred very deeply. He had a good humor. I never in my lifetime
knew him to go to CHURCH though.
SOURCE Aza Hooper died when she was 16 days old. At that time she weighed
only 2 pounds and 2 ounces. She and her twin brother were kept alive in shoe
boxes of cotton, on top of the warming oven of the old wood cook stove.
SOURCE Asa Hooper was a twin. He was too small to weigh at birth, and was not
weighed until his twin sister died at 16 days of age. At that time he was
weighed, and the weight was 1 pound 6 ounces. He was kept alive in a shoe box
of cotton, which was placed on top of the warming-oven of the old wood stove.
He grew slowly and gained in weight the same way, but he grew to manhood and
was approximately 5'8" in stature and weighed about 170 pounds. He loved the
LORD and served HIM well. He raised a fine family, that stayed close to the
CHURCH .
He married Harriet Elizabeth Nay 1 Aug 1889 at Huntington, Emery, Utah . Harriet Elizabeth Nay was born at Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah 5 Feb 1864 daughter of Alonzo Putnam Nay and Hannah Potter Huggins .
They were the parents of 8
children:
Clifford William Hooper, Sr
born 14 Jan 1891.
Aza (twin) Hooper
born 7 Mar 1893.
Asa (twin) Hooper
born 7 Mar 1893.
Albert Alonzo Hooper
born 11 Mar 1895.
Hooper
born 21 Mar 1897.
Claude Samuel Hooper
born 20 Mar 1898.
Lester Hooper
born 18 Apr 1899.
Hooper
born 13 Jul 1900.
William Howard Hooper died 13 Nov 1903 at Ophir, Tooele, Utah .
Harriet Elizabeth Nay died 19 Nov 1920 at Marysville, Fremont, Idaho .