Smyrna times., 1907-07-31
DEATH RECORD OF THE PAST WEEK
Dr. Benjamin COOmbe Hopkins Former Della
waaean and Well Known in Smyrna Dies
at ScrantOn-Other Deaths of the Week

Wilmington and Brandywine cemetery
Rev. Alfred 7. Scott, a friend of the
deceased, conducted brief services at
the grave. Benjamin Combe Hopkins
M. D., since June 1870, had been one
of the leading physicians of Dunmore.
The Hopkins family was originally |
from Waterloo Point, England, and |
was founded in Delaware at a very
early day in its history. Deceased !
was son of James and Mary Combe |
Hopkins. The doctor was the third
in the family of seven children, the
others being as follows: Elizabeth
who died in Delaware; Mrs. Susan
Wilson, who also died in this state,
leaving one son; James H., a physician
of Dover: Mary E the wife of Rev.
William M. Warner, of Millington,
Md. Samuel, who died in 1862 at the
age of % years, and Mrs. Deborah
Lobstein, a resident of Greensboro,
Md. Near the present town of FELTON,,
Kent county, DIR. Hopkins was born
in November, 1929, and in private
schools of this State he obtained his
literary education. He began his
study of medicine with DR.. Cahall, of
Frederick, Kent county, and also en-
tered the office of DIR. DeCosta, of
Philadelphia, and the Jefferson Medi-
cal College, from which he graduated
in 1855 with the degree of NJ. d. After
short time engaged in practice in
BridSeville, Sussex county, he located
in FELTON,, near his old home, but for
eighteen months during the war he
practiced in Philadelphia, after which
he removed to FELTON, and in 1870 to
Dunmore, where he soon secured an
excellent pratice. DIR. Hopkins mar
ried Miss Sallie B., daughter of
Thomas E. Sudler, who was for some
years professor of mathematics in
Dickinson College, but spent his last
years in retirement at Wilmington.
After short married life Mrs. Hop
kins died and the doctor later married
her sister, Miss Annie E. Sudler, who
is now deceased, Her mother belonged
to the Emery family of the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, of which Bishop
John Emery, of the M. E. Church is
also a member. DR.. Hopkins had two
children, Thomas, who is employed in
the officeof the Pennsylvania Coal Co.,
and James, who is studying architec
I ture in Scranton and New York. Will
the Methodist Episcopal Church o
| Dunmore, the father held membership
and in politics he was pronounced Re
; publican since the formation of th'
party and previously was a Whig. H,
J. was one of the two delegates from
Delaware who voted for the nomina
9 tion of Lincoln in the Republican Ma
= tional Convention of 1860.
= Edmund L. Stats Former Citizen Dead.
}. Edmund L. Stats aged 80 years
'. father of Ralph E. Stats manager {
D, the Smyrna Shirt Factory, who hs
s. been making his home with Josep
/. Donoho in Wilmington, died earl
ct yesterday morning after an illness
to three or four months. Deceased hs
at many friends in Smyrna who will
3. sorry to hear of his death. He was
to son of James Stats and was born ar
T. raised in Thoroughfare Neck. Twent
ne five or thirty years ago he moved
nix Smyrna and for many years was Il
ire trusted engineer for the large fertiliz
G. works of the John E. Tygert Co., th,
a thriving industry of Smyrna.
early life he was married to Miss Ma
Ann Donoho of near Blackiston's WI
.bo died eleven years ago. SIX childr
- survive them as follows: Mrs. John
~ Wise, New Castle; Mrs. William
~ao Garden, Philadelphia; Mrs d.
80 Ford, Williamsburg, Pa; Miss. I
T. Stats, Philadelphia; Mr.. Ralph
T. Stats, Smyrna; and Mr.. Edmund
tho Stats, Jr., of Philadelphia. The
nd mains were brought to Smyrna vest
- day and funeral services will take pll
- at the residence OF Ralph E. Sta
toa corner of Union and North streets
.ta. morrow Thursday afternoon at
10 O'Clock. Interment will be made
t;or Odd Fellows Cemetery.
IT, Death Of J. Herbert MasIlu of Massey.
eier James Herbert Maslin, youngest
ract of VIM, and Margaret Maslin, died
one six O'Clock Tuesday morning, July
at the resident of his.parents, Mass
Md. His sudden death was not on
shock to his family, but to the c'
the muuity at large He was sick G
rs of two days, the immediate cause of
the death being peritonitis. The decei
ven was born at Massey, Md, Noven
more 5th, 1887, and had large circl