Eunice Hooper Hooper

Eunice Hopper (1771 - 1866) married her cousin John Hooper. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has her wedding dress:

[https://collections.mfa.org/objects/581014]

Gift of Mrs. Ward Thoron, to MFA, 1948.

Eunice stiched a beautiful sampler when she was nine years old, now at the Huntington in Pasadena, California:

[https://huntington.org/educators/learning-resources/spotlight/objec...]

The Huntington believes that Eunice very likely attended Martha Tar Barber's school to learn to sew, that the sampler bears the "very distinctive embroidery" Martha Tar Barber taught. Needlework scholar Betty Ring praised Marblehead sam­plers as “incomparable,” adding that they had “no foreign counterparts and represent American girlhood embroidery at its best.” (The Magazine Antiques, May 30, 2013; Betty Ring, Girlhood Embroidery: American Sam­plers and Pictorial Needlework, 1650-1850 (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1993), vol. 1, p. 131.)

Eunice and husband John were the paternal grandparents of photographer Marian 'Clover' Hooper Adams, who had the bad luck to marry historian Henry Adams.