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AFTER EIGHTY YEARS, VISITS MOP HOLLOW.Mr*. Julia Kennedy, who Mad Not Seen Childhood Playground Por Many Year*, Revisit* Old Seen**.Mr*. Julia Kennedy, a ninety year old resident of Bethalto, and a native of Alton, was out yesterday to revisit her childhood play ground*, at Hop Hollow. She had not Ween there in eighty year* Her imprelsion wun that the road leading to Hop Hollow was a mighty rough road to travel, and it seemed much more difficult than the last time she went over it, a child of about ten.years, eight# year* ago.Mrs. Kennedy, on revisiting Hop Hollow, recalled how the place got its name. She said that there waa a family named Hopkisson living in the vaHey, consisting of his wife and two children. It was during the year lt;*’ the cholera epidemic that wip out the village of Milton, east of Alton Hopkisson, who was given to strong drink, sometimes came down to the taverns at Alton and got very drunk. While in Alton one morning he heard n man died from cholera. In his Intoxicated state nothing seemed so important in the world to him as his desire to ascertain whether it was true that when a person died from cholera he turned black. He went to the house
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Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Mon, Sep 25, 1916
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