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[Identification of item], in the Hooper Family Papers #5155, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Pamela Webber of Plano, Tex., in August 2003 (Acc. 99608).

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• Collier family.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 5th.
• DeBerniere family.
• Family--Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Gold mines and mining--Alabama.
• Hooper family.
• Hooper, Caroline Alice.
• Hooper, Charles Mallett, 1842-1910.
• Hooper, John DeBerniere, 1811-1886.
• Hough family.
• Lawyers--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Maclaine family.
• Mallett family.
• Nash family.
• Waddell family.
• Whitaker, Fanny DeBerniere Hooper.

• Charles Beatty Mallett Papers (#3165)
• Peter Mallett Papers (#480)
• John DeBerniere Hooper Papers (#835)
• Caroline Mallett Hooper Papers (#3478)

George DeBerniere Hooper (1809-1892) and his wife Caroline Eliza Mallett Hooper (1814-1875) were originally from North Carolina. They moved to Alabama and eventually settled in Opelika, where George Hooper practiced law. George DeBerniere Hooper was the son of Archibald Maclaine Hooper (1775-1853) and Charlotte DeBerniere Hooper of Wilmington, N.C. Caroline Eliza Mallett Hooper was the daughter of Charles Peter Mallett (1792-1874) and Sophia Sarah Beatty Mallett of Fayetteville, N.C.

George and Caroline Hooper had nine children. Sophia Betty, Charlotte, Archibald Maclaine, William, and Caroline Mallett all died during childhood. George William Hooper (1839-1883) served as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army. Charles Mallett Hooper (1842-1910) served as a captain in the 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment, where he suffered wounds to his face that plagued him for the remainder of his life. Following the war, he practiced law, eventually moving to Jacksonville, Fla., where he died in 1910. John DeBerniere was involved in mining, serving as the Chief Mine Inspector for the State of Alabama. Caroline Alice never married and maintained close ties with her family, including members of the Hooper family in North Carolina, and various members of the Waddell, Mallett, Maclaine, and Nash families.

Correspondence, genealogical research, biographical materials, pictures, and other papers relating to various members of the Hooper family of Alabama, including Caroline Alice Hooper, Charles Mallett Hooper, John DeBerniere Hooper, and their cousin Fanny DeBerniere Hooper Whitaker of North Carolina.

Correspondence between various members of the Hooper family documenting family happenings, financial affairs, and business transactions dates from 1829 through 1941, with the bulk dating from the 1890s through 1941. Numerous letters are addressed to John DeBerniere Hooper and Caroline Alice Hooper from family and acquaintances, including members of the Hooper, Waddell, Hough, and Collier families. Also included is correspondence between Charles Mallett Hooper and his cousin Fannie DeBerniere Hooper Whitaker concerning military life during his service in the 5th Alabama Infrantry Regiment during the Civil War, as well as correspondence by or about Caroline Collier, Nash Collier, John DeBerniere Hooper, Nancy R. Hooper, A. S. Hough, DeBerniere Hough, Caroline Mann, and Howard Mann.

Other papers include genealogical research materials, biographical materials, pictures, wills, writings, clippings, notes, and other materials documenting the Hooper family. Genealogical and biographical materials concern the Hooper, Mallett, Waddell, DeBerniere, Maclaine, and Nash families. Pictures include individual and group portraits of family members.

• Image Folders (PF-5155/1-15)
• Oversize papers (OP-5155/1)