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Descendant of Mayflower Pilgrim Constance Hopkins Shares Her Heritage

Painting: "Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor," by William Halsall, 1882. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

It’s that time of year when families reflect on their Pilgrim heritage.

Source: GenealogyBank.com, State (Columbia, South Carolina) 26 November 1992, page 1

Kathy Handel likes to do just that. In fact – she regularly shares her heritage with others. Dressed as her ancestor, Mayflower passenger Constance Hopkins (1606-1677), Handel is seen in this newspaper photo speaking at the Wilson Vocational School in South Carolina.

Constance Hopkins was the daughter of Stephen Hopkins, also a Mayflower passenger. Her stepbrother Oceanus Hopkins (1620-1626) was born on the Mayflower during the voyage to America.

This newspaper article also reports that Marylen Smith Jackson of Williston, South Carolina, “is related to a dozen” Mayflower passengers. She told the State newspaper that “she has had fun as a Mayflower descendant. Last summer she visited Plimoth Plantation, where she talked to actors portraying life as her ancestors knew it.”

Source: GenealogyBank.com, State (Columbia, South Carolina) 26 November 1992, page 18A

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