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This is a new site for the history of Dock Brown Kentucky Outlaw. His real name was Gillum Hopper, Jr. and this site will be to establish family links, photos, and family history in connection with the Hopper name. Any information connected to this family should be emailed to Additional information can be obtained from: The following will be an example of information supplied for this site. I will categorize and add photos as info is available. Thanks for your support. Handwritten "Dock Brown" Letter to Emily Ross _________________________________________________ I am a descendant of Dock Brown's brother, Moses Hopper. Gillum Hopper(aka Dock Brown) and Moses Hopper were sons of Gillum Hopper senior. According to family history, Moses was married to Nancy Campbell but had a long running relationship with Frances "Fannie" Keef. When the Hopper family moved to Arkansas, Fannie traveled with them. As far as I can tell Fannie never married but gave birth to several children by Moses Hopper. One of them was my great-great grandfather, James Toles Keef. During the Civil War the Arkansas community where the Hoppers and Keefs lived was pro-Union. Moses Hopper was murdered by Confederate Guerrillas in 1862 and many of the men from the community traveled up to Missouri to join the Union Army. Some of the above is based on family recollection by my grandfather, but I've looked into as much as I could and it all checks out. Thanks, Kevin Hagen I may be wrong about Nancy Campbell being Moses' wife. I think I have a typo in my notes as I have the same name down as the wife of Gillum (Gillium) Hopper. This is a really fun and interesting history. It was a very complicated and dynamic community. There were battles with the Indians and intermarriage at the same time. Some of those families were real frontier heros and some where intruders and trespassers on the Indian lands. In looking at the genealogical records it looks like they moved around more than you would at first think too. All the best, Kevin Furnished by: Judy Anderson Hamby, Lenoir, North Carolina Gillum Monroe Hopper was born in Warren County, TN on the 26th of November 1827, and he is a son of Absolom C. Hopper and Ollie B (Moore) Hopper. Absolom Hopper died in 1851 and upon his death Gillum M. Hopper inherited from him a farm of fifty acres. In 1872 Gillum Hopper decided to try his fortunes in Missouri and went to Clarkton, where he purchased a farm of one hundred and thirty-seven acres and where he also built a mill and a gin, continuing to operate the same until 1881, at which time he moved to Malden. In the latter place he conducted a gin for the ensuing 18 years during which time a great deal of cotton raised in this section of the state passed through his hands. In 1889 Mr. Hopper's mill and gin at Malden were destroyed by fire and from that time he lived in virtual retirement on a farm located two miles south of Malden until 1906 and since then he has lived with his daughter, Mrs.Samuel DuVal Dunscomb. In his political affiliations Mr. Hopper is aligned as a staunch supporter of the principles and policies of the Democratic party. In fraternal channels he is connected with the local lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows. In this religious faith he is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Malden and in the same is an active and zealous worker. Mr. Hopper and his first wife Elizabeth Jane Daniels were the parents of five daughters and one son which included William Clark Hopper, Mary Elizabeth Hopper Dunscomb, Ollie B. Hopper Vinson and Julia Ann Hopper Peck. Two daughters died in infancy. Gillum Monroe Hopper died on August 15, 1912 and both he and Elizabeth as well as several of their children are buried in the Park Cemetery in Malden, Dunklin County, MO. Note: Mary Elizabeth Hopper Dunscomb was my great-grandmother. My grandmother, Lillie B Dunscombe married William Reuben Anderson in 1905, My father, George Henry Anderson, was born in 1908. I was born in Malden in 1937 Gillum and Elizabeth Hopper were two of the five founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Malden in 1885. Honus, I do hope you will be able to use the pictures I sent to you last fall. Please let me know if you need any additional information. Information furnished by Judy Anderson Hamby, Lenoir, North Carolina via the Missouri Bootheel. email to: dhamby@twave.net I wonder if my Anna Hopper b abt 1820 is the same one as in the list of children of Gillum Sr Hopper. I have a real mystery. In Weakley Co Tn, my Milton N Mcgehee b 1810 VA lost his wife in Dec 1845. He then remarried to a Anna Hopper in July 1846. His own backround is a little shady and his parents have never been found. But for some unknown reason Milton died in Oct 1846 and it has all been covered up and no one would ever speak of it. Milton had one son John who was only a baby and his maternal grandmother raised him. But no one would ever tell him anything other then a tree supposedly fell on Milton which John never believed. Milton did have some KY connections and also had some problems in Wilson co Tn before 1839. Have you ever heard of these people or do you know what became of Anna? The name was also spelled McGhee /McGee /Michie and etc. Thanks Pat Furnished by: Linda Hopper Echternacht James T. Hopper was my g-g-grandfather through his last child Grant Hopper. I would be very interested in sharing what information I have but was not sure which Gillum descendents you were interested in. James T. died in Shelby Co. I was raised on his farm. It stayed in the family almost 150 years. My mother sold it about 2 years ago. Also the Hopper Cemetery has been surveyed and I plan to get a copy. Would you like it to post on the web page. Let me know what I can do to help and what information you would like about my family. Thanks, Linda Hopper Echternacht. email to: jechtern@marktwain.net Furnished by: Lorna Mayfield
My great-great grandfather was William Mayfield
Hopper, brother to Dock Brown and Absalom Hopper,
son of Gillum Hopper/ alias John Brown.
My family and I had the pleasure of seeing the
play several years ago in Pineknob, KY. We met
Honus Shain and shared our relationship to Dock
Brown.
The book states that they assume William Mayfield
Hopper was killed, too, as they never heard from
him again. However, my family is living proof
that he was not killed. He dropped his last name
and went by William Mayfield for the rest of his
life. He married and fathered 14 children. They
were raised in Lewis County, KY. He was buried
there in the family cemetery on their farm. We
are descendants of his son, David Monroe
Mayfield. David had a son John Mayfield, my
grandfather. He came to Missouri when he was 12
and raised his family here.
I will be happy to share any information needed
about our family.
Lorna Mayfield From
Maryville, MO
lornaron@asde.net
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