James Monroe Hooper was born 15 December 1818, in Bedford County, Tennessee and came to Texas in February 1836 with his father.

James had land grants in Shelby and Van Zandt Counties.  He married Susan Ann Buckner on 7 January 1884.

James Hooper enlisted for six months in the Confederate Army on March 18, 1864, at Buena Vista, Texas as a Private Third Class in Captain J. P. Renfro’s Cavalry stationed at Buena Vista.

Susan Ann Hooper died in 1860.  James married his second wife, Louisa Franklin Reeves, in 1863 in Shelby County, Texas.  They had eight children.

James died July 7, 1893 and is buried in Pleasant Grove Cemetery near Huber in Shelby County.  Louise Franklin Hooper died March 17, 1925.

Marion Jo Decker Jones, Descendant