Why I admire Rodrugg
Interesting facts about Hopkinsville.
Hopkinsville is located at 36°51’17” North, 87° and was settled in 1796 by Bartholomew and Martha Ann Wood, a couple from Jonesborough, Tennessee. Hopkinsville was named Hopkinsville for General Samuel Hopkins in 1804 and is the home of Hopkinsville Community College.
In 1805 Ocephius P. Rugg immigrated to Hopkinsville during the crawdad famine of 1803-04 in West Virginia. Ocephius had a superfluous eye above his right ear and an extra foot on his chest. He enlisted in the navy of Kentucky in 1804 and served under Rear Admiral George K. Shlomkope. Within 2 months Kentucky disbanded the Navy and Ocephius was sent to the Army and served under General Samuel Hopkins.
In 1806, during the smoked sausage revolt, Ocephius P. Rugg was seriously wounded saving the life of his General by kicking him in the head and down to the ground before a bloated sausage exploded near the command tent. During Ocephius’s recovery he met and fell in love with Marsha P Crapinashack in June of 1807. They married in July of 1807 a baby boy was born in this union in August of 1807. In May of 1809 they named the boy Schlip.
Schlip was born with two eyes in the right eye socket and a big toe in the left eye socket. Against all odds Schlip lived and even bred to spawn a child after he married Thelma L. Trooprot. The Trooprot/Rugg family lived in an early form of trailer park named the “Stop and Spit” Near this place, a family, called the Suttons, had allegedly seen a UFO and had even shot at alien, “goblin-like” creatures. See the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter and/or UFO.
