Charles Hopkins

Charles Hopkins, a man, enters the record in 1879 as the first known spouse of Eliza Margaret McNally, the woman who would later become infamous under the name Lizzie Halliday. Accounts describe him as a Greenwich, New York local who also went by the name “Ketspool” Brown, and they say the marriage produced a son. For a short time, the story reads like a rough-edged upstate marriage of the era—hard work, few certainties, and a young couple trying to make a life that never quite settles.

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