The Hooper Clan
 in Southwestern Oklahoma
Cotton and Stephens Counties
taken from Southwestern Okla. Historical Society "Prarie Lore"
Volume 4 Number 3 Published in 1968
Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sara Rollins. SRol786334@aol.com


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Joseph Cleveland Hooper and his wife, Sarah Melinda (Brown) Hooper were pioneers and natives of Alabama. They were the parents of 16 children. Thirteen covered wagon loads of settlers, including the Hooper family, moved from Alabama to Arkansas many years ago. Later Joseph and Sarah Melinda Hooper moved from Arkansas, settling near Wynnewood, I. T. where they spent the rest of their lives.

Four sons of Joseph and Melinda Hooper came to Southwestern Oklahoma. Joseph Marion Hooper, the son of Joseph Cleveland and Sarah Melinda Hooper, was born in 1839 and died in 1926. He moved from Wynnewood to Clay County, Texas, and from there across Red River to the south part of old Comanche County, O.T. in 1901. The children of Joseph Marion Hooper were ten boys and one girl, who are listed with the number of their children as follows: George, who had five children, Will who had 14 children,, John who had 16 children, Jim ,10 children, Jack, 4 children, Charles Word, 2 children, Walter, 4 children, Robert 8, children, Thomas Jefferson, 9 children, Archie, 14 children and Lizzie the only daughter, who had 10 children.

Obadiah Hooper, born in 1844, and who died in 1939, was the son of Joseph Cleveland and Sara Melinda Hooper. He moved from Clay County, Texas, to the south Comanche County, O. T. in 1901. His children and their descendants are as follows: Lucinda, 8 children, Emma, 4 children, George, 2 children, Cleveland Obadiah, 1 child, Walter, 7 children and Thomas no descendants. Cleveland Obadiah Hooper, who (1966) still makes his home in Walters, Oklahoma, was for many years sheriff of Cotton County. He had no difficulty being elected and reelected, as he was related to a large portion of the population of the country.

John Cleveland Hooper, born in 1853 and who died in 1923, was the son of Joseph Cleveland and Sarah Melinda Hooper. He settled near Rush Springs and Marlow, Oklahoma, shortly after the opening of the Comanche-Kiowa-Apache country.  His children and their descendants are: Richard W. (Dick) 8 children, Sarah Melinda, none, Mary Frances, 3 children, Fronie, 2 children, Nora, 5 children, Cabie Celeste, 5 children, Beulah Ann, 6 children and Bina, who had no children.

William Riley Hooper, born in 1849 and who died in 1942, was the son of Joseph Cleveland and Sarah Melinda Hooper. He moved to Cotton County in 1905 or 1906.  His children are Obadiah, Frank, Rampie, Floyd, Fred, Luther, Cicero, Susie, Florence and Deana. (We do not have a record of the descendants of the children of William R. Hooper.

An early day peddler, who made the rounds of southern Oklahoma in the early days, often said that the Hoopers and the red ants were about to take the southern part of Southwestern Oklahoma.

On the second Sunday in August of each year, the Hooper Clan gather in Sultan Park, in Walters, Oklahoma for a reunion. Hoopers, related by blood and marriage, come from many parts of Oklahoma and several states, some far away.

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