Hooper, Caroline Mallett, 1814-1875

Caroline Eliza Mallett (1814-1875) was the daughter of Charles Peter Mallett (1792-1874), a prominent manufacturer and banker of Fayetteville, North Carolina. She lived in North Carolina until her marriage in 1836 to George De Berniere Hooper (1809-1892). Hooper was the son of Archibald Maclaine Hooper (1775-1853), journalist and lawyer of Wilmington, North Carolina. He taught school in Wilmington and Charleston, studied law in Wilmington, and began practice in Alabama in 1833. The letters show that he lived successively in LaFayette, Alabama; Columbus, Georgia; and Crawford and Opelika, Alabama.

Among the correspondents in this group is Charlotte De Berniere Hooper (1775-1853), mother of George Hooper and daughter of John Antony De Berniere and Anne Jones De Berniere. The papers include references to her sisters, Margaret De Berniere, Louisa (Mrs. Robert) Lane, and Mary (Mrs. John) Johnson, all of Charleston, South Carolina, and to her Jones cousins, the children of her uncle, Edward Jones of Chatham County and Pittsboro, North Carolina. The Jones family was also related to Caroline Mallett because Edward Jones married Mary Elizabeth Mallett, sister of Charles Peter Mallett.

Other children of Archibald Maclaine Hooper are also mentioned in the papers. His son John De Berniere Hooper (called De Berniere or D. B.) was a tutor and professor at the University of North Carolina and married his cousin Mary Elizabeth Hooper. She was the daughter of William Hooper, professor at UNC and South Carolina College, president of Wake Forest, and teacher, with his son-in-law at a private school in Littleton, North Carolina. Johnson Jones Hooper, a journalist, lived in Alabama. Louisa Hooper first married Rev. Daniel Cobia of Charleston and then Rev. John J. Roberts.

Children of Caroline and George Hooper were Sophia Betty, Archibald Maclaine, and William, all of whom died young. George William (whose son George Beatty was the father of Mrs. Bennett, the owner of the papers), Charles Mallett, John De Berniere, and Caroline Alice.

From the guide to the Caroline Mallett Hooper Papers, 1835-1880, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)