James Yewell Pope

Birth Date

1817-05-08

Death Date

1912-05-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bullitt County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Pope and Margaret Yewell Pope. Married to Martha B. Pope. Father of Susan S. Pope, Benjamin Pope, Patsey Pope, Hamilton Pope, Margaret Pope, Joseph Pope, and Henry Pope. Farmer in Bullitt County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Bullitt County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Bullitt County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bullitt County, p. 241.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bullitt County, District 3, p. 796.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bullitt County, District 3, p. 15.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bullitt County, Shepherdsville, p. 252.
Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7016143, Bullitt County Deaths, Film #11911.
Find A Grave, "James Yewell Pope (1817-1912)," Memorial #39658921, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39658921/james-yewell-pope (accessed August 22, 2018).

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