This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: POPE, RHODES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ya.2ADI/268.499.506.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Subj: Della Mae Date: 8/21/2002 10:04:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: dollyscrying@yahoo.com (Gloria Hayes) To: jslinkes@aol.com Hi,John! Great to hear from you!I am Gloria McDuffie Hayes,and the posting you read was one I did on my husband's sign-in. My grandmother was Donie Lee Pope,sister of Della Mae.My father has pictures of them at a family reunion in the seventies,I think there were 6or 7 sisters left then,and they posed in the churchyard together,there at Pope City Church.Daddy also has a newspaper clipping of Frances Jane Brady Pope's 100th birthday celebrations.(Her name she was called by was "Fannie",by the way.)You might want to contact Daddy.He will be 87 on Sept.15,and has a mind like a steel trap,still. I also have pictures of FrancesPope,made in the late '40's or early '50's,at another family dinner,sitting in a chair with Donie Lee and Laura,I believe it is, standing behind her.A more morbid one I have is of her in her coffin. There is also a picture of her in a little publication called "A Pictorial Glimpse into Pineview's Past",as well as pictures of Redding and Jesse Calvin Pope, I believe.Daddy has a copy of the little booklet,and I am sure he would make a copy of them for you. There is also a collection of books called "The Passing of the Pines"by Mary Lou McDonald which gives EXTENSIVE history on the Popes,and a collection of books called "The Wiregrass Chronicles"by the Hon.Folks Huxford,as well. Frances' father was the brother of the sheriff of Clinch County(Homerville)Ga.,near the Okefenokee Swamp,back around the time of the Civil War and afterwards.He was shot to death in front of Frances,on his brother the sheriff's front porch, by horse thieves who mistook him for his brother.They then shot the brother in the abdomen,and he died later.They and their father served in the C.S.A.,but the father was mustered out for being too old.Frances remembered troops marching across her family's fields. Frances' mother was the daughter of a Preacher, Owen Mulkey,who lived in Clinch County earlier on, but moved to Wilcox County later,and also served in the CSA. Frances was the second wife of Wiley,and she raised the children of his first marriage.There is still a reunion each year,usually around Douglas, Ga. Wiley died of prostate cancer.A picture used to exist in my father's possession of Wiley and several kinsmen posed, but Daddy's second wife became senile and now no one knows what she did with the picture. Turner Pope died in the war and is buried in Tenn. Aren't Della Mae and John Henry buried at Christian Hill? My mother is, too. My computer fried, so I have to go to the Library to use theirs, but write back !I'll answer! Gloria