Worden Pope was the son of Ensign
Benjamin Pope (Po7) and Bahethelind
Foote (Fo7)
Born, about 1776 Pope’s Creek, Virginia.
Married, 1804, September 11, to Elizabeth
Taylor Thruston (Th6) in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
Died, 20 Apr 1838 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Children:
(Po5) Patrick Henry Pope
(1806 - 1841)
(Po5-2) Edmund Pendleton Pope
(?)**
(Po5-3) Curran Pope (1813
¬- ?)*
(Po5-4) Hamilton Pope
(Po5-5) Paul Pope (died in infancy)
(Po5-6) Moses Pope (died in infancy)
(Po5-7) Edmonia Pope (died in early womanhood)
Sources:
Birth - Unpublished family records of R. C. B. Thruston. Filson Club,
Louisville, Kentucky.
Marriage - Jefferson County Marriages, Copy Filson Club
Death - Thruston Records at Filson Club.
Worden Pope (Po6) the third son of Benjamin Pope (Po7) was a life appointee in the Jefferson County Court of Kentucky.
He was the second Postmaster of Louisvil1e, Kentucky in 1797, appointed October 1.
Doctor Nathaniel Field, his kinsman and warm personal friend, wrote: "The name of Worden Pope, the old popular and primeval clerk, was a household word in Jefferson and the adjoining counties.
His name was a synonym of honesty and benevolence.
He died at a good old age, laden with honor and the esteem of all who
knew him.
His funeral in May, 1837, was the largest which had been seen in Louisville. It was an out-pouring of all classes of people to do honor to a good and great man."
Appendix to Page Po6
An account of some of the sons of Worden Pope (Po6)
**Edmund Pendleton Pope
(Po5-2) son of Worden Pope (Po6) married Nancy Johnson, and was the father
of Alfred Thruston Pope. (Po5-2-1), who married his first cousin, Mary
Tyler Pope (Po5-3-1) only daughter of his uncle, Colonel Curran Pope (Po5-3).
. .
Alfred Thruston Pope (Po5-2-1)and Mary Tyler Pope (Po5-3-1) were
the parents of Doctor Curran Pope (Po5-2-1-3) physician of Louisville,
Kentucky, who died unmarried; and of Thruston Pope (5-2-1-?) and Pendleton
Pope (Po5-2-1-?) both of whom died unmarried.
*Colonel Curran Pope (Po5-3)
graduated at West Point, the U. S. Military Academy.
He married Matilda Jacob, daughter of John Jeremiah Jacob and (Fo6-12)
Ann Overton Fontaine.
He served with distinction with the Union Army during the Civil War.
He was Colonel of the 15th Regiment of Volunteers, which he was mainly
instrumental in raising and organizing.
He died at Richmond, Kentucky, of wounds received at the Battle of
Perryville.
There is a tablet to his memory in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts.