This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Campbell-Pope-Oakes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BgB.2ACE/2567.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Chris, I did find a little more information on Louis Pope. His birth name was Lawrence William Campbell, 2-14-1884/87, in TN. His father was W. G. Campbell. I found this on his military record, see below. Name: CAMPBELL, LAWRENCE WILLIAM Father: W. G. Campbell. Regimental number: 2500521 Rank: SPR Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 1447 - 33 10th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops (formerly the 256th Overseas Railway Construction Battalion, C.E.F) Canadian Overseas Railway Construction Corps (C.O.R.C.C.) Formed in Canada as the 256th Overseas Railway Construction Battalion, C.E.F. He enlisted on 5-7-1918, at Toronto, Ontario. He served in France with the C.O.R.C.C. from 9-29-1918, and returned to England 1-17-1919. He was discharged from the C.E.F. on Demobilization at London, Ontario, on 4-2-1919. I have no other information on his Father or who his Mother was. I would love to know! As I stated in my post of August 25, 2005, Louis was given to a neighbor, Jenny, after the death of his mother. He was 9 months old. Jenny raised him as Louis Pope. You asked about his sons. Do you have any information? I know he had 3 sons with a lady named Beulah. I have Beulah Floyd, but I was also told that the boys were raised as Merricks. They dropped the name of Merrick and used Pope when they married. Their names were Fredrick O’Neal (Ted) Pope, born 5/31/1913 and passed away 1-16-90 in Memphis TN, Eugene, I have no dates on him, and James Louis, born 7/10/1907 and passed away 7-1985 in Batesville, MS. Ted married Patty Lucille Travis. James married Emmy Weiss. Louis later married my Grandmother Opal Ora Oakes, 2/24/1925, in Holcomb, MO. Opal was the daughter of Henry Keller Oakes and Kate Louellen Lain. Kate was born 2/16/1872 in TN and that is all the information I have on her. Louis and Opal had a son named Bobby Neal Pope, 4/15/1925, my father. He passed away 9/28/2005. He was 3 years old when his father passed away. Louis and Opal also had a daughter, Helen Doris Pope, 2/16/1927. This is all I found in the census records: Name: Louis Pope Home in 1900: Civil District 4, Carroll, Tennessee Age: 15 Estimated birth year: 1885 Birthplace: Tennessee Race: White Relationship to head-of-house: Lodger; Image source: Year: 1900; Census Place: Civil District 4, Carroll, Tennessee; Roll: T623 1560; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 125. Census shows Jennie Scates, widowed, head of household, and Ann Pate, mother, also living in the household. 1910 TN census shows Lewis, Beulah, son James, and a servant named Mary Tharp, age 17. Name: Lewis B Pope Age in 1910: 23 Estimated birth year: abt 1887 Birthplace: Tennessee Home in 1910: Paris, Henry, Tennessee, Race: White Gender: Male Series: T624 Roll: 1505 Part: 2 Page: 22A Year: 1910 Name: Mary Tharp Age in 1910: 17 Estimated birth year: abt 1893 Birthplace: Tennessee Home in 1910: Paris, Henry, Tennessee, Race: Colored Gender: Female Series: T624 Roll: 1505 Part: 2 Page: 22A Year: 1910