Miles F. Hopkins died at his home on eat State street last Wednesday from the effects of a paralytic stroke received the day previous. The funeral was held at the Baptist church at 10 o’clock Saturday morning, Rev. G. L. Conley officiating. “Captain” Hopkins, as he was familiar called, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich. on Nov. 26th, 1844 and when 18 years of age enlisted in the 29th Iowa regiment, serving faithful until mustered out at New Orleans on the 10th of August, 1865 at the close of the war. June 17th, 1868 he was married to Miss Sarah Waltenspiel at Council Bluffs, Ia. and came to this county in 1885. He ran the ferry boat across the Missouri river down by the Blair bridge for 9 years and had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. He was a member of John A. Dix Post and the funeral was conducted under the auspices of that body. Besides the widow, Mr. Hopkins leaves four children: George, Benjamin, Oscar and Mrs. Oscar Schrider.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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