Hopkins County Justices of the Peace, Ronnie Glossup and Yvonne Miller King, left, look through some of the JP Record
Books that they have donated to the Hopkins County Genealogical Society, with members Pam White and Rita Adams.

 

Historic Books Donated to Hopkins
County Genealogical Society

 

by: Bobby McDonald

 

It was two truckloads of books that found their way to the Hopkins County Genealogical Society, on Thursday morning, as Justices of the Peace, Ronnie Glossup and Yvonne Miller King, donated JP Records to the society. "Our staff doesn't have the funds to scan all of the information in these books, thus they were sitting in a non-climate-controlled storage building and would have eventually deteriorated," explained King. "The Genealogical Society has the proper place to store these records and they will be available for use by the public, which they belong to. It's a win-win situation for us!"

 

Inmates from the Hopkins County Jail aided Sheriff Butch Adams in
delivering the records to the Genealogical Society, on Thursday morning.

 

"We're excited about the donation to the library," stated Society President Rita Adams and Archivist Pam White. "The records now can be used by the public for research and will allow the public access to them."

 

 

The Hopkins County Genealogical Society, located on Main Street, already has quite a collection of Hopkins County Records, many dating back to the formation of the county. The records include county school records, brands and marks, court dockets, and other materials, so this addition will add even more to the researcher's information.

 

King, Adams, and White examine some of the records included in the donation to the library.

 

"We try hard to preserve all the records of Hopkins County and look forward to making some more of those records available," expressed Adams.

Meanwhile, while the records were being unloaded, a writer was in the Hopkins County Genealogical Library, doing research on an upcoming book. The author was from Arizona and is making connections with a Hopkins County man who once lived in Southeastern Utah. Justice of the Peace Ronnie Glossup and local historian, John Sellers were helping him find the information that he needed and giving him information that they knew about the man. Look forward to an upcoming book about the noted "outlaw" from Hopkins County.

 

Scott Thybony, of Flagstaff, AZ, visits with John Sellers and Ronnie Glossup about a Hopkins County
Citizen that was involved in a 1934 arrest, that had fled here from Southeastern Utah.

 

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