Elizabeth [Pope] (b. 20 May 1753, d. 12 April 1808)
Elizabeth [Pope]2 was born 20 May 1753 in NC?, and died 12 April 1808 in NC?. She married William M. Brown, Sr. on Bef. 1779 in Probably Guilford Co., NC.
Notes for Elizabeth [Pope]: SOURCE: 'Laborer's Champion,' March 3, 1881 issue [a newspaper printed in Center, Shelby Co., TX]
'Stephen Marion Hairgrove and Nancy Mary Brown were married August 29, 1805 in her native state of North Carolina. Her husband was born in North Carolina also, July 24, 1784. He was only twenty-one and she eighteen years of age when married. Both belonged to good families. Captain Hairgrove was descended from the Adams family and was related to President Adams. Mrs. Hairgrove was a niece of George Pope, a leading Baptist minister of North Carolina. The year after their marriage, in 1806, they emigrated to the Duck River Purchase in middle Tennessee, becoming a part of the most noble heroes and heroines known in our history, who under the Jacksons, Boones, Harrisons, and other brave leaders, drove back the savages and peopled the great Mississippi Valley, extending our country from a mere strip on the Atlantic to the regions beyond the "Father of Waters" and building up great communities which are destined to control our great country. They both inherited those hardy and noble qualities from the ancestors of the Revolution and those heroic ages preceding which peculiarly fitted them for the duties attending the settlement of this savage frontier. Captain Hairgrove was a soldier under General Jackson in the British and Indian Wars of 1812. On an important occasion [at the time of the desertion], he held Fort Jackson in the Heart of the Creek Nation with only seventy men, and his brave and patriotic services on that occasion were highly complimented by his Commander-in-chief, General Jackson. The subjects of this sketch spent nearly half a century in Tennessee, from its early settlement until it became one of the leading states in the South and West. They had twelve children, eleven of whom they were happy in raising to years of manhood and womanhood. Their children, like their exemplary parents, in their early years desired to move West, and in common with thousands of Tennesseeans, determined to make their future home in the great state of the Southwest, our noble Texas. So in 1853, they removed from Bedford County, Tennessee and settled in Shelby County, Texas. Mr. Hairgrove always took a great interest in politics and was always ready to serve his country, either in the field or at home. He was a well informed politician and the friend and associate of General Jackson, General Houston, President Polk, and all the leading and prominent men of his state and party of his day. He voted in every presidential election from the time of Thomas Jefferson, the great Republican leader and defender, down to President Buchanan. Mr. Hairgrove died at his residence near Buena Vista, Shelby County, Texas on December 11, 1858 in his 75th year, his devoted consort surviving him nearly 22 years.'
Subject: George POPE--Baptist Minister NC ca. 1800 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:24:52 -0700 From: Otto Burgett To: Anne Woods , Jo Gibson , Carolyn Patterson , Marilyn Moon , Joy Goodick , Jean McSperitt , Narris Braly , Anne Woods , Carolyn Patterson , Marilyn Moon , Deloris Hairgrove , Joy Goodick , Jean McSperitt , Narris Braly , Martha Clark , CC: popew@ntsb.gov
NOTE: I posted the following query on the POPE Family Forum of GenForum:
George POPE--NC Baptist Minister Posted by: Otto Burgett Date: October 13, 2001 at 20:17:16
Does anyone on the Forum know anything about George POPE, who was a well-known Baptist minister from NC ca. 1800? His sister, Elizabeth, m. William BROWN, Sr. in Guilford Co., NC ca. 1800.
NOTE: I received the following reply from William A. POPE:
Re: George POPE--NC Baptist Minister Posted by: William A. Pope Date: October 18, 2001 at 11:09:00 In Reply to: George POPE--NC Baptist Minister by Otto Burgett
George Whitefield Pope (1750-1818] was a well-known Baptist minister in the Rowan/Guilford County area of North Carolina. For more than 31 years (1783-1815) he was the pastor of the Abbott's Creek Baptist Church in Rowan County. For the last 5 years of his life he was pastor of the Flat Creek Baptist Church in Lynches Creek, Lancaster County, South Carolina. But, to my knowledge George Whitefield Pope had two brothers, and no sisters. Depending upon when in the 1800s your George Pope lived, he could be a grandson of George Whitefield Pope. Please let me know if you have any more information about the George Pope in whom you are interested.
To which I sent the following reply:
Thanks for your reply. Note the reference in the 1881 article below about Nancy Mary BROWN being a niece of George POPE. Nancy Mary BROWN was a daughter of Revolutionary War soldier, William BROWN, Sr. and Elizabeth [maiden name unknown]. Since the article indicated that she was a niece of George POPE, I assumed that her mother must have been a sister of George POPE. Obviously, it is also possible that Elizabeth could have been either a widow or a daughter of a brother of George POPE; however, assuming a one generation difference in age, I arbitrarily settled on her mother being a sister of George. Do you have information about the families of the parents and brothers of George?
SOURCE: 'Laborer's Champion,' March 3, 1881 issue [a newspaper printed in Center, Shelby Co., TX] 'Stephen Marion Hairgrove and Nancy Mary Brown were married August 29, 1805 in her native state of North Carolina. Her husband was born in North Carolina also, July 24, 1784. He was only twenty-one and she eighteen years of age when married. Both belonged to good families. Captain Hairgrove was descended from the Adams family and was related to President Adams. Mrs. Hairgrove was a niece of George Pope, a leading Baptist minister of North Carolina. The year after their marriage, in 1806, they emigrated to the Duck River Purchase in middle Tennessee, becoming a part of the most noble heroes and heroines known in our history, who under the Jacksons, Boones, Harrisons, and other brave leaders, drove back the savages and peopled the great Mississippi Valley, extending our country from a mere strip on the Atlantic to the regions beyond the "Father of Waters" and building up great communities which are destined to control our great country. They both inherited those hardy and noble qualities from the ancestors of the Revolution and those heroic ages preceding which peculiarly fitted them for the duties attending the settlement of this savage frontier. Captain Hairgrove was a soldier under General Jackson in the British and Indian Wars of 1812. On an important occasion [at the time of the desertion], he held Fort Jackson in the Heart of the Creek Nation with only seventy men, and his brave and patriotic services on that occasion were highly complimented by his Commander-in-chief, General Jackson. The subjects of this sketch spent nearly half a century in Tennessee, from its early settlement until it became one of the leading states in the South and West. They had twelve children, eleven of whom they were happy in raising to years of manhood and womanhood. Their children, like their exemplary parents, in their early years desired to move West, and in common with thousands of Tennesseeans, determined to make their future home in the great state of the Southwest, our noble Texas. So in 1853, they removed from Bedford County, Tennessee and settled in Shelby County, Texas. Mr. Hairgrove always took a great interest in politics and was always ready to serve his country, either in the field or at home. He was a well informed politician and the friend and associate of General Jackson, General Houston, President Polk, and all the leading and prominent men of his state and party of his day. He voted in every presidential election from the time of Thomas Jefferson, the great Republican leader and defender, down to President Buchanan. Mr. Hairgrove died at his residence near Buene Vista, Shelby County, Texas on December 11, 1858 in his 75th year, his devoted consort surviving him nearly 22 years.'
NOTE: I received the following reply from William A. POPE:
Re: George POPE--NC Baptist Minister Posted by: William A. Pope Date: October 18, 2001 at 11:09:00 In Reply to: George POPE--NC Baptist Minister by Otto Burgett
George Whitefield Pope (1750-1818) was a well-known Baptist minister in the Rowan/Guilford County area of North Carolina. For more than 31 years (1783-1815) he was the pastor of the Abbott's Creek Baptist Church in Rowan County. For the last 5 years of his life he was pastor of the Flat Creek Baptist Church in Lynches Creek, Lancaster County, South Carolina.
But, to my knowledge, George Whitefield Pope had two brothers, and no sisters. Depending upon when in the 1800s your George Pope lived, he could have been a grandson of George Whitefield Pope. Please let me know if you have any more information about the George Pope in whom you are interested.
NOTE: I received an additional reply from William A. POPE:
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It would appear from your e-mail with the attachment concerning the Brown/Hairgrove family that Elizabeth Pope could have been the daughter of one of George Whitefield Pope's brothers, either Richard or Charles. Unfortunately, Richard and Charles seem to have been swallowed up by time, and I have no solid information concerning their families or what became of them, other than one indication I saw that George Whitefield's brothers also settled in North Carolina. That would be consistent with the migration of George Whitefield, his wife, Mary Hiett, whom he married in Frederick County, Virginia, in 1775, her two brothers, and George Whitefield's mother from Frederick County, Virginia, to Guilford Countiy about 1775-1776. George Whitefield was reportedly born in England 1850, and at age 6 years came to the United States with his father, James Pope, and mother, Mary (maiden name unknown), and two brothers, Richard and Charles. That would have put Richard and Charles at least in an age range consistent with having a daughter who married in 1779. By that time, George Whitefield his wife, Mary Hiett, together with George Whitefield's mother, Mary, had settled in Guilford County, North Carolina, which is where Elizabeth Pope married William Brown, Sr., in 1779. George Whitefield's oldest child, William (who is my direct ancestor) was born in Guilford County in 1776.
More About Elizabeth [Pope] and William M. Brown, Sr.: Marriage: Bef. 1779, Probably Guilford Co., NC.
Children of Elizabeth [Pope] and William M. Brown, Sr. are:
+Nancy Mary Brown, b. 08 August 1787, Probably Guilford Co., NC, d. 08 October 1880, Shelby Co., TX.
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Elizabeth [Pope] (b. 20 May 1753, d. 12 April 1808)
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