The Brunswick times-call. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1900-1902, 1901-08-20
JAKE HOPKINS DEAD.
Laid to Rest by Loving Hands ond Mourned
for by Many Friends.

WVAsuS VA ehO hiHA EcRoEu leAt IOr tulu
By many friends, both white and
black, Jake Hopkins died on Friday
at his home at Fancy Bluff
Before the war, as q slave, he was
owned by the family of Mr.. snd Mrs
George Scarlet, when the time Of
freedom cams, he noted 1t but lite re-
naming where he was. and as the
yesri went by he bought home on
the land which he had always known,
and loved. Ito that home, g wife and
ten children came, all OF whom survive
him, and while mourning through the
desolate days that come without him
they are comfortable, surrounded by
fifty or sky acres Of fins farm land
horses and impliments for working 1t,
a large number Of cattle, many hogs,
and all that goes towards making q
prosperous home. unencumbered by
debts. For thirty two years Jake has
been the faithful ferry man who made
the trips, two or three day, some
times, between Fancy Bluff and
Brunswick, and in all of that time,
no life has been lost by him and those
whom know the trechel ously danger
GUS stretch OF water from shore to shore
and how many brave boatmen have
left one side and never reached the
other, know what this means. No
night was ever two dark and stormy
fof Jake to leave his home and battle
with the waves, coming to Brunswick
for doctor, no call was ever refused
BY him, and from the most prominent
G 'ntlemen to the humblest of his race,
all felt sure that when Jake went for
the doctor on the widest night, that
he would return with him, speedily aud
safely. And when the sunny days and
blue skies came, the e>datntiest ladies Of
the Bluff aud Brunswick were trusted
to Jake's care, to carry from de to
side. For six or eight years Jake
carried the mail between Fancy
Bluff and Brunswick, and In every
r .spect was found reliable and trustu
worthy.
For thirty one years he was faith
full member Of the Baptist church and
a deacon, and never in that time, was
there one fault to be found With his
God fearing. there was
never any trouble, or any cell for him
before 9 an earthly administer of the
law. Well educated himself, be had
his children educated to the best of hi.
ability, and did what he oou' d to make |
them honest men and women. The old |
mother who survives him, is a typical
ante-bellum slave, who was owned by
the Scarlets and Tisons, and has re-
NAMED identified with the families.
ALI that medical tkill could do when
the illness, intense in its severity
from the many years of exposure came,
was quickly done by ready hands, but
ano her ferryman had come to Fancy |
Bluff that evening, and Jake, after
quietly resting on his oars for awhile,
drew them Willingly in, ard wert
over that other river. He WIS laid to
rest on the Soarlett land, and over the
lowly mound, there was wealth OF |
flowers, some placed by hands as fair
and white ami delicate as the lilies |
themselves, eome by honest rough |
black hands. and many tears fell for
him who had g1ne.
Mr.. q. 8. ScaIlet Jr.. who told this
story, was one of the many who mourn
ed for JAKE, and at whom the old man
would look lovingly as he would say
Yes sirs dis boy one dem chilun what
l help ole missus raise"
Brunswick Rihamen,S ey-