Geneva Lou Calhoun was born on June 15, 1925 in Trigg County, Kentucky. She was the oldest of six children born to James Jefferson Calhoun and Ruth Alida Cunningham Calhoun. James Jefferson was a farmer and both he and Ruth were natives of Trigg County. Geneva was a descendant of Simco Bridges.
Geneva’s siblings were James Lacy Calhoun, born in 1927 and married Marlene (last name unknown) and then married Mittie Louise Brueggemeyer; Ernest Dilton Calhoun, born in 1928 and married Naomi Lee Thomas; Rachel Calhoun, born in 1929 and married Jewel Smith Humphries; Sylvia Pearl Calhoun, born in 1933 and married Charles Wilford Marlow and then married John Copp and later married James Myrtle; and Patricia Ann Calhoun, born in 1935 and married Thomas Junior Cameron.
Geneva or Nemie as she was known grew up in Trigg County and attended the rural Trigg County schools. As a teenager, she and her family lived in the Gracey community.
On July 11, 1942, Nemie married Kenneth Barkley Hopson in Charleston, Missouri. Kenneth was born on February 19, 1924 in Trigg County, the son of Lee Carlisle Hopson and Bessie Susan Sizemore Hopson. Lee was a prominent farmer and had served as Trigg County Judge for 13 years. Both he and Bessie were natives of Trigg County.
Kenneth grew up in the Cerulean community of Trigg County and attended the local rural schools. During World War II he worked at the Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Nashville, Tennessee. He went on to operate the family farm in Cerulean and in 1978 he and Nemie moved to Cadiz. Kenneth became a heavy equipment operator, a job he worked for over 20 years before retiring in 1984. Nemie worked in retail sales which included a position with Marcia Anne Shoppe.
Nemie and Kenneth were the parents of two children, Lee Roy Hopson, born in 1943 and married Linda Dean Dunn and later married Edith Louise Whitman. Their daughter,Wanda Sue Hopson, was born in 1947 and married Jeffery Louis Stea, and then married Robert Allison Higgins and later married David Lynn Toms.
Kenneth died on April 2, 1993 at the age of 69 at the Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Kentucky. He was buried in the Cerulean Cemetery in Trigg County. Nemie died on May 18, 2004 at the age of 78 at the Shady Lawn Nursing Center in Cadiz. She was buried in the Cerulean Cemetery next to her husband.
Geneva tombstone
Kenneth tombstone
LINEAGE: (Geneva Lou “Nemie” Calhoun was the daughter of James Jefferson and Ruth Alida Cunningham Calhoun. James was the second child of William Archibald “Bill” and Peachie Bridges Calhoun. Peachie was the seventh child of Simco N. and Emeline Martin Bridges. Simco was the third child of William and Mary Thomas Bridges. William was the fourth child of Drury and Charity Cohoon Bridges.)
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