MRS. MARY A WILLIAMS, of Bideford, Prince county, widow of the late Albert Wil-
liams, who died in 1902, at the age of fifty-nine years, is a daughter of William and
Amelia (Watson) Hopgood. William Hop-good was born in Bideford, Devonshire,
England, and came to Prince Edward Island in 1838, at the age of sixteen years, locating
at Port Hill, Prince county. He attained to a leading position in local public affairs,
being collector of customs, clerk of the county court and a magistrate for the county.
He died in February, 1905, at the age of eighty-three years. Amelia Watson was the
daughter of Dixon Watson, who came from Dumfries, Scotland, to Pugwash, Nova
Scotia. William and Amelia Hopgood were the parents of the following children: Wil-
liam Henry, deceased, who was a member of the firm of Reuben Tuplin & Company, at
Kensington; Mary A., subject of this sketch; Priscilla, the wife of Abram Raynor, of
Travelers Rest, this Island; Josephine, the. wife of Percy Ellis, of Port Hill,John D., of Dorchester, Massa-
chusetts; Leonora, wife of J. W. Brown, merchant, of Tyne Valley; James, a farmer
at Cape Wolfe; Hume, in the employ of P. McNutt & Son, of Malpeque; Jennie, wife of
Fred Young, of Concord, New Hampshire. The subject's paternal grandparents, Thomas
and Mary (Yeo) Hopgood, came to Prince Edward Island in 1838. To Albert and
Mary A. Williams were born the following children: H. W. Beecher, in the employ of
Hon. William Richards, of Bideford; Ar- thur E., manager of the Bank of New Bruns-
wick at Charlottetown; E. Bayfield, barrister at Summerside; R. Clifford, accountant in
the Bank of Nova Scotia, at Boston, Massa-chusetts: Daisy, who is a graduate nurse of the Prince Edward Island Hospital and is
now at Bideford; Rebie, at home, and
Claude, who operates the homestead farm.