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From: History of the Hooker Family, by Nancy Ridley Hooker Evans, 1889, copied and added to by Ruth Eddins Shelton, 1924

"My grandfather, who was Benjamin Hooker, was a native of Orange County, North Carolina. He had the misfortune, when a little boy, to lose both parents. He married a french woman in Norfolk, Virginia, Anne Frizelle, who was born in 1769, and who was endowed with intelligence and wealth. (Here I shall say I met, once, in Nashville, Tenn., a Mr. Frizelle, who told me that the Frizelles had kept a genealogy since the time of King Charles, and that my grandmother - Anne Frizelle Hooker, belonged to the Frizelles who came to America from England. She lived 93 years, and died the day the battle was fought at Shiloh. She had grandsons and greatgrandsons in that battle. There were two dozen or more of her descendants engaged in the Confederate War.)
Shortly before her death, she was visited by several of the leading men of the country and by lawyers on legal business, who pronounced her wonderfully alert; her intellect and memory were as fresh and keen as in younger days. She had abandoned the use of eyeglasses; read the Testament a great deal each day; and knitting was her favorite pastime. "
-Nancy Ridley Hooker Evans
(published for Donna Waler Eddins, 05 January 1999 by Nancy P. Goodman)