When George L. Pope was born on 3 November 1810, in Forsyth, North Carolina, United States, his father, Charles Pope, was 31 and his mother, Mary Spencer, was 29. He married Nancy Cordelia Thomas on 15 May 1834, in Davidson, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Broadbay Township, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States in 1870. In 1860, at the age of 50, his occupation is listed as farmer in Forsyth, North Carolina, United States. He died on 23 August 1877, in North Carolina, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Old Vernon Baptist Church Cemetery, Davidson, North Carolina, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English: nickname from Middle English pope (derived via Old English from Late Latin papa ‘bishop, pope’, from Greek pappas ‘father’, in origin a nursery word.) In the early Christian Church, the Latin term was at first used as a title of respect for male clergy of every rank, but in the Western Church it gradually came to be restricted to bishops, and then only to the bishop of Rome; in the Eastern Church it continued to be used of all priests (see Popov , Papas ). The nickname would have been used for a vain or pompous man, or for someone who had played the part of the pope in a pageant or play. The surname is also present in Ireland and Scotland.
North German: variant of Poppe .
German: translation of Pabst .
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