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Juliet Opie Hopkins
Juliet Ann Opie Hopkins ("the Florence Nightingale of the South") (1818–1890) was born on a plantation in Jefferson County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. After marriage to Arthur F. Hopkins of Mobile, Alabama, she relocated to that state. During the Civil War, the couple sold most of their real estate holdings and donated the money to the cause of the Confederate States of America. When her husband was appointed to oversee hospitals during the war, she went to work converting tobacco factories into hospitals. She made daily visits to the wounded, and received a battlefield injury in the course of her duties. Her husband died within months of the close of the war, and she spent the rest of her life in poverty. When she died, she was interred with a full military burial at Arlington National Cemetery, with the Alabama congressional delegation serving as her pallbearers. In 1991, she was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.
==Early life==
Juliet Opie Hopkins was born on her parents' Jefferson County, Virginia plantation "Woodburn", which employed the use of slave labor. Prior to the Civil War, what is now West Virginia was part of the state of Virginia. Today, Jefferson County is across the state line in West Virginia. Her father Hierome Lindsay Opie owned an estimated 2,000 slaves. She was home schooled until she was enrolled at Miss Ritchie's private institution in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother Margaret Muse Opie died when Juliet was sixteen years old, and she was called home to handle her mother's duties at the plantation.〔 Her first husband in 1837 was Alexander George Gordon. They remained married until his death which is given as both 1847 and as 1849. She married widower Arthur Francis Hopkins on November 4, 1854. Twenty-three years older than Juliet, he had been born in Virginia in October 18, 1794. His father had been a participant in the Revolutionary War. He studied law and opened a practice in Alabama. Prior to marrying Juliet, he had already served as an Alabama state senator, and as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Arthur Francis Hopkins )〕 The couple made their home in Mobile. No children resulted from either of Juliet's marriages, but she adopted her niece.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Juliet Ann Opie Hopkins )〕
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