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my power to do any thing in the matter for you - nlore Especially as it would be for
the interest of my Cousin Jane." He continued:
You are no* old as you Say, and blessed with !,!any years which Should
make your Sons and daughter proud of such a Father, whose grey Hairs
,are going vi th Honour to you and them ta the grave. You have done
well for thm and placed thee!! in position R prospects beyond lllany rho
had Equal opportunity and they should be very thankful. (45)
Yet the year before, on May 2, 1868, his wife Anna had died at the age of 83, and
Artt#u~, now 85, was feeling the weight of his years, although hir health of late
had been relatively good. He wrote his cousin Arthur in England lamenting that he
had not done well and that the family was in hard circumstanies.(46) He suffered
a paralytic stroke the next year, and although his confidence in Canada and the
opportunities it had provided returned,(47) he remained anxious to sell his lrish
property for the benefit of his children, even writing in I871 ahout a property
near Poscrea to which he had not previously laid claim. His nephew Thomas Hayes,
who had for years been patiently answering queries about the unprofitable Oeelpark
esti.te, replied in some irritation that "the Raheens" must have been a town field
Hopper had rented over fifty years before, but that it had been the property of
Lortl Fortarlingtan and had long since been sold as such. "You having Sons I think
it <treat nonsense f- to go to the Expense of the Power of Attorney far Such
ima~linarry property L more So for your Sons. Should be glad to correspond acca-
siooally but i will not answer any more Correspondence respecting yacr-"rjlG
p~gw. "(48)
Arthur Hopper died November 14, 1872 at the great age af 88 years. The news-
paper noted that he was "one of the oldest, if not the very oldest mevber of the
Oranoe Association in the Dominion, havino been for seventy Years in connection

Arthur Hopper II and Anna Sparling had eight children:
a. .lane Hopper b. 27 Jan. 1809.(50) Jane war twelve when the family left Ireland
;and therefore the child that the lrish relatives remembered best and ayked about
trlost often in letters. Her cousin Thamar aayes wrote from Roscrea in 1869 'of
my Cousin Jane of Whom I heard my brother armstrong often Speak about he Says
he used to Say that his pcwc Cow used to give mare milk than Jane Hoppers
prooney caw, days of our Childhood."lSl) Jane was married 8 Oct. 1831 uhile
the family was still resident in Montreal(52) to Robert Auchmuty Sproule (1199-
1845). a native of Cu. Tyrone uhase family lived near Richmond. Robert was
educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a B.A. in 1821. He
received his H.A. in 1832, though he had been in Canada for some years by that
date. He painted nliniatures an ivory, and alra did watercalour sketches of
Montreal and Ouebec. Six of his views of kntreal were engraved by W. 5. Lrney
and published locally by Adolphus Bourne in 1830, and four sketches of Quebec
:ity were lithographed for Bourne in 1832 by C. Hullrnandel of London. His wark
alra illustrated Hawkins' i;cluri guebec, published in 1836.1531
Spraule's wark as an artist arld miniature-painter occasioned a life of fre-
quent roves, and like most artists he was unable to make a full 1 iuing from his
talent. In 1832 he was a drawing master in Montreal.(54) The fallily lived in
the 1830% in Cornwall and Williamstarn, then from 1840 on two acres in March