Excerpt from History of Lawrence County, Indiana:

Some parts of Guthrie Township were among the earliest settled localities in the county, although the record of land entries made up to and including the year 1820 shows but a small number. Some of the land in this township is very good, but it is generally rough and broken.

Land entires to the above date were as follows: Israel Hind, 1819; Ambrose Carlton, 1817; Edward Johnston, 1820; William Barnhill, 1819; John Kerns, 1820; Robert Millsap, 1820; Solomon Bowers, 1817; Conrad Hoopingarner, 1818; Daniel Guthrie, 1816; Thomas Butler, 1820; J. Edwards, 1820; Preston Beck, 1820; Elisha Simpson, 1820; George W. Mullis, 1817; Cuthbert and Thomas Bullitt, 1820. Some of the other and principal early settlers were: William Shadrach and Thomas Dixon, John Allen, William Holland, Sr., Robert Millsap and his sons James and William, Abner Walters, William and Samuel Foster, Isaac and Benjamin Newkirk, John Dowland and Jacob Mullis.

By Harold E. Brewer, Sr.
Hoopingarners lived in Tunnelton, Ft. Ritner, Leesville, Bono and Scottville (Rivervale), Indiana and on farms which joined the villages for over 100 years. All were descendants of Conrad and Elizabeth Hoopingarner and their seven children, Jacob, George, John, Daniel, Polly, Susanna, and Catherine, who moved in 1818 from Northern Kentucky to Southeastern Lawrence County along the White River. Son John moved to Vigo County in Western Indiana.

Conrad and Elizabeth had lived on a large farm along the Salt River near Mt. Washington in Bullitt County, KY for about 25 years. All of their children were born there except Jacob, who was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It was through the Port of Philadelphia, in about 1752, that Conrad Hoopingarner's father, George Hoopingarner, came to America as an indentured servant from a region in Europr on the Rhine River Called then "Palatinate" and now Germany.

HOOPENGARDNER, Connor (Conard) - 120 acres of 3rd rate land in Bullitt Co. on Salt River originally entered in the name of "JOHNSTON" - 1 white male over 21. Bullitt County KY TAX LIST for 1803.

3 February 1789, Listed on militia list for Bedford Co. PA.
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Revolutionary War soldier (See Events data for details). 3
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