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HOPKINS, RICHARD WILLIAM (1888-1951)

HOPKINS, RICHARD WILLIAM, Baptist minister, Upper Blackville and Underhill, 1918-20; b. Glamorganshire, Wales, 12 Jun 1888, s/o Richard Hopkins; m. 1st, Ida Barton, of The Range, Queens Co., N.B., and 2nd, 1923, Lillian G. Wasson, of Cumberland Point, N.B.; d. Sussex, N.B., 24 May 1951.

Richard Hopkins was educated in Glasgow, Scotland, and came to Canada in 1913. Ordained a Baptist minister in 1915, he was the pastor at Hatfield's Point and Cumberland Bay prior to accepting an invitation to the churches at Upper Blackville and Underhill in 1918. After two years on the field he returned to Hatfield's Point, and the rest of his ministry was conducted in the Grand Lake area. During the twenty-one years prior to his death he was the pastor of the Cody's group of churches and had seven preaching places.

Hopkins was "of humble disposition, shunning the limelight," but he was one of the "finest and most devoted" country pastors of the Baptist church in the Maritimes and was "highly revered throughout Kings and Queens counties." When he died in hospital in Sussex in 1951 he left his second wife, Lillian G. Wasson, two daughters, and a son. Another son, Talfryn Hopkins, died in action in the RCAF in World War II.

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[b/d] official death records [m] Maritime Baptist 31 Oct 1923 / Acadia archives; Maritime Baptist 18 Jan 1922, 30 May 1951, 6 Jun 1951


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