Scypio Allen Hopwood, known as Allen, was born September 13, 1929, in Marlin Falls, Texas, the son of Wilbur Allen and Thelma (Stiles) Hopwood. He had an older brother, Wilbur Allen Hopwood Jr., born in 1927, and a sister, Essie, born around 1940.
In 1940 the children and their mother were living with their grandmother, Essie Stiles Anderson, in McGregor, Texas. Their mother, Thelma, was listed as "widowed", and was working as a teacher.
Allen served in the U.S. Army at some point. He died on July 1, 1982, and was buried on Hart Island.
Sources: U.S. Social Security Death Index; U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007; U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010.